Daniela Jara is Associate Professor in the Sociology School at the Universidad de Valparaíso, where she teaches Sociology of Culture and courses on Social Theory. She received her Ph.D from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is interested in transitional justice, cultural memory and the sociology of human rights.

Daniela Jara es Profesora Adjunta en el Departamento de Sociología de la Universidad de Valparaíso, donde enseña Sociología de la Cultura y otras materias en Teorías Sociales. Obtuvo su doctorado en Goldsmights College, Universidad de Londres. Su interés está en temas de justicia transicional, memoria cultural y la sociología de derechos humanos.

Valentina Salvi received her PhD in Social Sciences from Universidad Estadual de Campinas (Brazil). She is currently an independent researcher at CONICET and Director of CIS-CONICET/IDES’s Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria. She is also Associated Professor in the Department of Art and Culture at Universidad de Tres Febrero. She has recently edited Las voces de la represión. Declaraciones de perpetradores de la dictadura argentina (together with Claudia Feld, 2019, Miño y Dávila) and published De vencedores a víctimas. Memorias militares sobre el pasado reciente en la Argentina (2012, Biblos).

Valentina Salvi es doctora en Ciencias sociales por la Universidad Estadual de Campinas (Brasil). Actualmente es investigadora independiente del CONICET y Directora del Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria del CIS-CONICET/IDES, así como profesora adjunta del Departamento de Arte y Cultura de la Universidad de Tres Febrero. Es editora de Las voces de la represión. Declaraciones de perpetradores de la dictadura argentina (junto con Claudia Feld, 2019, Miño y Dávila) y autora de De vencedores a víctimas. Memorias militares sobre el pasado reciente en la Argentina (2012, Biblos).

Samantha Quadrat received her PhD in History from Universidade Federal Fluminense, and is now Associated Professor in the Department of History at la Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro. She is also a researcher at Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem (LABHOI) and at CNPq. She has worked on topics of memory, political violence and human rights in Latinamerica, particularly the Southern Cone. She has published and edited various books, including História e memória das ditaduras do seculo XX (2015), A construção social dos regimes autoritários (2010) and Não foi tempo perdido: os anos 80 em debate (2014).

Samantha Quadrat es doctora en Historia por Universidade Federal Fluminense, profesora en el Departamento de História de la Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro. Es también investigadora del Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem (LABHOI) y becaria del CNPq. Ha trabajado sobre temas de memoria, violencia politica y derechos humanos en América Latina, especialmente del Cono Sur. Es autora y compiladora de varios libros incluyendo História e memória das ditaduras do seculo XX (2015), A construção social dos regimes autoritários (2010) y Não foi tempo perdido: os anos 80 em debate (2014).

Michael J. Lazzara (Ph.D. Princeton University) is professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Davis. He also serves as associate vice provost for academic programs in Global Affairs and is one of the founding faculty of the Program in Human Rights Studies. His research and writing focus on the intersections among culture, memory, history, and human rights in Latin America, especially in the Southern Cone. He is the author of various books, including Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory (2006), Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence (2011), and Civil Obedience: Complicity and Complacency in Chile since Pinochet (2018).

Michael J. Lazzara es Doctor en Literatura y Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos por Princeton University y profesor en el Depatamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de California, Davis. Es también Associate Vice Provost de Programas Académicos en Global Affairs y uno de los profesores fundadores del Programa de Derechos Humanos en UC Davis. Ha trabajado sobre temas de memoria y derechos humanos en América Latina, especialmente en Chile. Es autor de varios libros incluyendo Prismas de la memoria: narración y trauma en la transición chilena (2007), Luz Arce: después del infierno (2008) y Obediencia Civil: complicidad y complacencia en Chile desde Pinochet (2018).

Alicia Salomone is Full Professor at the Department of Literature, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Universidad de Chile. A cultural historian and a literary critic, her research and teaching have focused on identities, memories, and cultural production in Latin America. Alicia is a founding member of RIEMS-Red Interdisciplinaria de Estudios sobre Memoria Social [Interdisciplinary Networks on Social Memories Studies]. She also heads the Diploma ‘Memories, social movements, and artistic and cultural production in Chile and the Southern Cone of America’ at Universidad de Chile. Her recent publications include a dossier in commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile for Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos 2 (2014), and the volumes Memory and poetic imagination in the Southern Cone, 1960-2010 (Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2015); and Cultural memories and urgencies of the present time. Aesthetic and political practices in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia (Buenos Aires: Corregidor, forthcoming).