Selection Committee
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Alejandro Grimson holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Brasilia, he is a researcher at CONICET and a tenured professor of Contemporary Anthropological Theories at the National University of San Martín. At present, he is the Dean of the Institute of Advanced Social Studies at that same university. He has done research and published works on immigration, frontier regions and their culture, ethnic and national identifications, social movements and urban transformations, from a particular perspective that interweaves varied cultural and political processes. Some of his most notable works are: Relatos de la diferencia y la igualdad (1999), La nación en sus límites (2003), Interculturalidad y comunicación (2000) and La cultura en las crisis latinoamericanas (2004). David Oubiña holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires, he is a researcher at CONICET and he teaches at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Cinematic Arts and New York University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Bergen and a visiting researcher at the University of London. He has regularly collaborated with different magazines, like Punto de vista, El amante and Babel, among others. At present, he is a member of the editorial committee of Las ranas magazine (art, essay and translation)
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and of Cahiers du cinema (Spain). He has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, The Fulbright Commission, The British Council, Fundación Antorchas and Fondo Nacional de las Artes. His latest books are: Filmología. Ensayos con el cine (2000), El cine de Hugo Santiago (2002), Jean-Luc Godard: el pensamiento del cine (2003), Estudio crítico sobre La ciénaga, de Lucrecia Martel (2007), Una juguetería filosófica. Cine, cronofotografía y arte digital (2009) and El silencio y sus bordes. Discursos extremos en la literatura y el cine argentinos (forthcoming). Beatriz Sarlo studied and taught Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She has published several books on literature, intellectual history and the history of ideas, and cultural and urban critique. Some of her most notable books are: El imperio de los sentimientos (1985), Una modernidad periférica: Buenos Aires 1920 y 1930 (1988), La imaginación técnica (1992), Borges, un escritor en las orillas (1993), Escenas de la vida posmoderna (1994), La máquina cultural (1998), La pasión y la excepción (2002), Tiempo pasado. Cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo (2004), Escritos de literatura argentina (2006) and La ciudad vista; mercancías y cultura urbana (2009). From 1978 to 2008 she was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Punto de Vista, which was founded to facilitate intellectual resistance against the military government. She currently writes for La Nación and Perfil newspapers (Buenos Aires).
Damián Tabarovsky graduated from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris). He directed Ciudad Abierta, a cultural television channel of the city of Buenos Aires. He was editor-in-chief of the publishing house Interzona, and of the culture section of Perfil newspaper. He has published his essay Literatura de Izquierda (2004), and the novels Fotos movidas (1992), Coney Island (1996), Bingo (1997), Kafka de vacaciones (1998), Las hernias (2004), La expectativa (2006) and Autobiografía médica (2007). Several of his works have been published in Spain and in different countries within Latin America; and they have been translated into French, Russian, Greek and Portuguese. Horacio Tarcus holds a Ph.D. in History from the National University of La Plata. He is a Professor and researcher of Social Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1998 he was co-founder of CeDInCI (a Research Centre of Social Issues). He is the author of El marxismo olvidado en la Argentina (1996), Mariátegui en la Argentina (2002), Diccionario biográfico de la izquierda argentina (2007), Marx en la Argentina (2007) and Cartas de una hermandad (2009). He is a member of the editorial committee of the magazines Políticas de la Memoria (CeDInCI) and Crítica y Emancipación (Clacso).