Project Coordinator

Luise Malmaceda

Luise Malmaceda is a PhD candidate in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. She holds an M.A. in Aesthetics and Art History from the University of São Paulo,  a postgraduate degree in Art History from FAAP, and a B.A. in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Her scholarship crosses the fields of visual culture, memory studies and archival critique in Latin America, with an emphasis on community archival practices and dissident memories in contemporary art. She is also an independent curator and has collaborated with museums, non-profit institutions and art galleries since 2010. Luise was an Associate Curator at the Tomie Ohtake Institute for four years, working on numerous exhibitions dedicated to international modern and contemporary art. Her writings have been published in several catalogs and magazines, such as Harper's Bazaar, Select, Bravo!, and she received Brazil's most prestigious literary award, the Jabuti, as co-author of the book AI-5 50 anos - ainda não acabou de acabar (Tomie Ohtake Institute, 2019). She is the co-coordinator of the public humanities project Counter-Memories: Dismantling the Legacies of Repression in Latin America, documenting anti-monument initiatives, alternative archives and visual arts projects engaging with the legacy of the military regimes in Latin America. 

Project Coordinator

Iuri Bauler Pereira

Iuri Bauler Pereira is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Future Faculty Fellow in History & Global Languages and Cultures at Northern Arizona University. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University (2023) with a certificate in Comparative Literature and Society. His dissertation, "Latin American Countercultures and the Third World: Internationalism, Geographic Imagination and Experimental Practices (1968-1980)" analyzes alternative global discourses of the underground press, experimental film and avant-garde performance in Argentina and Brazil from a transnational perspective. He also holds an MA and a Ph.D (2016) in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, during which he was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at New York University (2014). He is the co-coordinator of the public humanities project Counter-Memories: Dismantling the Legacies of Repression in Latin America, documenting anti-monument initiatives, alternative archives and visual arts projects engaging with the legacy of the military regimes in Latin America. 

Collaborator

Ana Luiza de Abreu Claudio

Ana Luiza is a PhD student in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. With a background in journalism and social sciences, her research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American visual cultures, particularly Amazonian poetics in photography, performance, and film. She has published several articles and a book chapter on Latin American and African photography, as well as visual anthropology.

Ana Luiza has extensive experience in Brazilian context and in photography international projects, including art museums, universities, consultancies, and NGOs. She has managed sociocultural and environmental projects, such as curatorial initiatives, media studies, and urban and rural territories, including favelas and indigenous communities.

Furthermore, she served as a Social Action Coordinator at the Moreira Salles Institute in Brazil for nine years.

Collaborator

Flor Barceló

Flor is a PhD student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. She/They hold a Licenciatura in Letras (BA) by the University of Buenos Aires, where she concentrated on Literary Theory. They specialize in Education as well and received a Certificate in Didactics and Pedagogy from the University of Buenos Aires. Before coming to Columbia University, she was also a student at University of Tres de Febrero’s postgraduate program on Gender Studies and Policies. Since 2015, Flor has worked as a high school teacher and a community college professor. They also worked as an educator at the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity in Argentina, where they provided training on intersectionality and diversity policies for the Secretary for Prevention of Violence Against Women and LGTB+ people. Her research interests include the construction of queer archives, DIY publications (magazines and fanzines) produced by LGBT+ activists from Latin America and Catalonia, subjectivity and grievable lives under neoliberalism, and literature written during the AIDS epidemics. Flor is also a graduate assistant at Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Collaborator

Eduardo Vergara Torres

Eduardo is a PhD candidate in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. He holds a B.A. in Literature and an M.A. in Latin American Cultural Studies from the Universidad de Chile. He was awarded a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship in 2018-2022. He has published several articles and book chapters on Latin American literature, film, and theory. He is currently preparing the translation into Spanish of a collection of essays by the Brazilian thinker and literary critic Roberto Schwarz, as well as an essay on the massification of high literature and culture in Chile under right wing authoritarianism and neoliberalism, or “Plebeian Enlightenment”. His current research includes literature, thought, cinema, and music in Latin America since the 1960s, focusing on the entanglements between the aesthetic languages and political horizons of experimental and leftist militant art.