UD Project Partners

Status: < 2018


Kiel University (CAU), Germany

 

Javier Gómez-Montero (SP Coordinator)

Professor of Spanish, French and Portuguese Literature at Kiel University (Germany)

Areas of expertise (UD): Imaginaries and Memories of European Cities; Canon of European Literature; Cultures and Languages along the St James Way (from Denmark to Spain)

 

Rainer Wehrhahn (Co-Coordinator)

Professor of Human Geography at Kiel University (Germany)

Areas of expertise (UD): Geography of Cities and Populations; Urban Governance; South American Megacities

 

Victor A. Ferretti (UD Project Manager)

Associate Professor of Romance Literary and Cultural Studies at Kiel University (Germany)

Areas of expertise (UD): Cultural Urban and Space Studies; Iberian and Latin American Modernism; Urban-Rural Discourse

 

Zine-Eddine Hathat (Co-Project Manager)

Research Assistant at Working Group Urban and Population Geography at Kiel University (Germany)

Areas of expertise (UD): Transit Migration, Urban Rural Sociology

 

Corinna Hölzl-Verwiebe (Affiliated)*

Geography Researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)

Areas of expertise (UD): Urban Development and Urban Politics; Social Movements and Citizenship; Urban Conflicts; Urban Development in Latin America

 

UD Financial Administration: Paola Blatter-Chan

 

*Co-Project Manager from 10/2015—09/2017 

 

 

University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain

 

Rubén C. Lois González (UD Project Leader USC)

Professor of Geography at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Director of CEER

Areas of expertise (UD): Urban and Cultural Geography; Territorial Analysis; Urban Planning

 

Anxo Abuín González  (Co-Project Leader USC)

Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Areas of expertise (UD): Intermedial / Cultural Exchange between Literature and Other Media (Film, Theatre, New Media)

 

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza 

Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 

Areas of expertise (UD): Geoliterature and Literary Cartography

 

María José Piñeira Mantiñán
Professor of Geography at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Areas of expertise (UD): Urban Renewal and History; Sustainable Urbanism; Tourism Studies

 

Yamilé Pérez Guilarte
Geography Researcher at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Areas of expertise (UD): Cultural & Urban Tourism

  

 

University of Paris 8 (UP8), France

 

Anne-Marie Autissier (UD Project Leader UP8)

Professor of Sociology of Culture and European Cultural Policies at University of Paris 8 (France), Director of IEE

Areas of expertise (UD): Urban Strategies for Cultural Policies; Sociology of Cultural Actors in European Contexts; European Capitals of Culture

 

Alain Sinou (Co-Project Leader UP8)

Professor of Urbanism at University of Paris 8 (France), Vice President Patrimony UP8

Areas of expertise (UD): Urban Patrimony; European Social Dynamics; Colonial Cities

 

Gabriela Méndez Fernández
Political Science Researcher at University of Paris 8 (France)
Areas of expertise (UD): Urban Governance; Public and Urban Policies
 

 

University of El Salvador (USAL), Argentina

 

María Rosa Lojo (UD Project Leader USAL)

Principal Investigator CONICET and Professor of Argentine Literature at University of El Salvador, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Areas of expertise (UD): Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Anthropology (Migration, Stereotypes, Identity)

 

Marcela Crespo Buiturón (Co-Project Leader USAL)

Adjunct Investigator CONICET and Professor of Literary Theory at University of El Salvador, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Areas of expertise (UD): Cultures of Exile; Literary Expressions of Violence

 

 

Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

 

Edvânia Tôrres Aguiar Gomes (UD Project Leader UFPE)

Professor of Geography at Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife (Brazil)

Areas of expertise (UD): Production and Dynamics of Metropolitan Spaces and Intermediary Cities

 

Guilherme José Ferreira de Araújo

Geography Researcher at Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife (Brazil)

Areas of expertise (UD): Sustainability; Environmental Urban Planning 

 

Ronaldo Augusto Campos Pessoa (Affiliated/NEXUS-UFPE)
Associate Professor at Federal University of Tocantins, Tocantinópolis (Brazil)

Areas of expertise (UD): Urban Politics; Sustainability

 

Mariana Zerbone Alves de Albuquerque (Affiliated/GPSN-UFPE)

Associate Professor of Geography at Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife (Brazil)

Areas of expertise (UD): Socio-Spatial Dynamics, Public Urban Space, Urban-Rural Relationships

 

  
Expert Committee

 

Markus Baumanns / Founder and Partner of company companions, Hamburg (Germany)
 Isabel Palmtag / Head of Administration, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön (Germany)

Angelika Stargardt / Head of Cultural Service, State Capital of Kiel (Germany) 

 

 

External Partners 

 

E-Learning Partner

 

Glocal Campus / International University Network for Intercultural Learning, University of Jena (Germany)