Gilberto Giménez Montiel
“Debates sociológicos sobre el cambio global”
Doctor en Sociología, Universidad de la Sorbona, París III, Licenciado en Ciencias Sociales por el Instituto de Scienze Sociali en la Universidad Gregoriana de Roma y Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Comillas, España. Actualmente es Investigador Titular C de tiempo completo en el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM y Profesor de Asignatura en la División de Estudios de Posgrado de las Facultades de Filosofía y Letras y de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM. Sus temas de Investigación incluyen: Cultura, cambio cultural y región; Sociocrítica de la literatura; y Teoría y análisis del discurso político. Es miembro de la Asociación Mexicana de Semiótica y de la International Communication Association (ICA). Es director y fundador del Seminario Permanente de Cultura y Representaciones Sociales desde 1999 así como director de la Revista electrónica Cultura y Representaciones Sociales. Es autor de varios libros entre los que destacan Teoría y análisis de la cultura (en dos tomos) y Estudios sobre la cultura y las identidades sociales, publicados por el CONACULTA, y El debate político en México publicado por la UNAM.
Will Straw
“Degraded Edges: Shame and Irony in North American Cultural Studies”
Dr. Will Straw recieved his BA in Film Studies from Carleton University, his MA and Ph.D in Communications from McGill University. He is currently the Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, as well as a professor in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University. Two of his current scholarly projects (“Crime, Visuality and Print Media” and “Media and urban life in Montreal”) had led him to develop the web site: Print Culture and Urban Visuality. Past scholarly projects of his include: “Documentation and Conservation of Media Arts Heritage ” and “Culture of Cities.” He is the co-editor of the Canadian Cinema, Music and Meanings , and Culture of Cities book series. He has also co-edited the volumes: Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Frameworks, Aprehendiendo al delincuente: Crimen y medios en América del norte, Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture and The Cambridge Companion to Rock and Pop. He is the author of the book: Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America.
John Carlos Rowe
“Post-Nationalist American Studies: The Return of the Repressed”
John Carlos Rowe received his BA from The Johns Hopkins University on 1967 and his Ph.D. from State University of New York, Buffalo on 1972. He is an Associate Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He was the Vice President of the Henry James Society from 2010-2011 and he has received the Mellon Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring on 2010. His current scholarly projects are: Culture and U.S. Imperialism since World War II, The Rediscovery of America: Multicultural Literature and the New Democracy, and Blackwell’s Companion to American Studies. He is the editor of: The Vietnam War and American Culture, “Culture” and the Problem of the Disciplines and Post-Nationalist American Studies. He was a member of the Managing Board for the American Quarterly and a member of the Editorial Board for the academic journals: Comparative American Studies, Novel and The Henry James Review He is the author of At Emerson’s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II and The New American Studies.
