Laura Corcuera (1979, Zaragoza, Spain) is a journalist, researcher and performance artist whose practices are an exceptional contribution to the new ways of storytelling in XXI Century. She has a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense (Madrid) and a master’s degree in Semiotics of mass communication, with the thesis The scene as a tool of sociopolitical dynamization. She was the Press Officer at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, (MNCN/CSIC) between 2005 and 2007, founded the Periódico del MNCN and also the science news agency SINC (FECYT), where she worked as coordinator and chief editor from September 2007 to December 22, 2010. She was a co-founder and member of the newspaper DIAGONAL and a co-founder of the journal El Salto. She has collaborated with the theater magazines Primer Acto and Artez. Since 2014 she has collaborated with the international magazine Punto y Coma.
Roberto Robles-Valencia holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Michigan and is currently a Faculty of Spanish at the South Carolina Governor´s School for Sciences and Mathematics. He has taught previously at the University of South Alabama and Kalamazoo College. His main research focus is Spanish Nationalism . He has co-edited Fuera de la ley. Asedios al fenómeno quinqui en la Transición española, Comares, 2015, and has published on immigration, precariousness and the crisis, as represented in different cultural artifacts.
José Alberto Cuesta Martínez (Palencia, 1976) is a Doctor of Geography at the University of Salamanca and is part of the interdisciplinary program “The natural and human environment in the Social Sciences.” He is the author of Filosofía cínica y crítica ecosocial (Ediciones del Serbal, 2006) and Ecocinismos (Biblioteca Buridán, 2011). In addition, he is the co-founder of the degrowth group “Hasta aquí hemos llegado.” Currently, he works as a professor of Geography and History in secondary school.
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Jorge Gaupp is writing a thesis about libertarian thought and culture during the early twentieth-century in Spain through the Spanish & Portuguese Department at the University of Princeton. With a degree in Political Science and Masters in International Development and in Education from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Jorge has worked as a professor of Spanish language and culture at Carleton College, Oberlin College, and Princeton University. Simultaneously, he has collaborated on journals like CTXT, The Volunteer, La Marea, and Era Solar, contributing articles about social movements, education, and renewable energies.
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Anarchist
Holds a degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Masters in Contemporary Thought. She is an independent researcher and works on contemporary focuses such as feminisms and postmodernity, which has given rise to diverse courses about the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality in philosophical, scientific, and artistic discourse through the Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas de la UCM or courses about engagement through the Instituto crítico de Desaprendizaje. Also, she has participated in the research group “Decontra” of the Philosophy Department of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), which is about deconstruction and the thought of Jacques Derrida. Patricia works as a professor, proofreader, and editor, both in the strictly journalistic field and in cultural fields, such as art criticism. Her work has been published in different formats: in book format, she was a part of the collective work Espabilemos. Argumentos desde el 15M, coordinated by Carlos Taibo, and she has recently extended Feminismos a la contra, a compilation of interviews of decolonial feminists. She was editor and part of the collective editing team of the newspaper Diagonal for more than a decade, addressing issues such as migrations, liberties, and rights, contributions to anti-establishment thought, and feminst art. Patricia collaborates with other media outlets such as Eldiario.es, where she writes biweekly in her blog “Común por venir”, and the radio podcast Voces del Vecindario. In the last 25 years, she has accompanied all kinds of movements (pacifism, student movements, environmentalism, antiracism, feminism, LGBT movements, antiglobalization, antifascism, anarchism, the okupa movement, 15M…), which defend the back-line. Currently, she is part of the citizen work group Pasaje Seguro Cantabria.
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Assemblyism | Caring | Love
Professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Washington and Lee University, Ellen Mayock teaches, researches, and writes about issues of gender and justice in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. At her university, she founded English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), a volunteer group of students that teach Spanish and English in the community, translate documents, and serve as interpreters, and she founded Pluma, a journal of literary creation in Spanish. She wrote Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace (Palgrave, 2016). BLOG: http://gendershrapnel.org/.
Javier de Entrambasaguas Monsell, madrileño from Lavapiés, valenciano from Jávea, and mallorquín from Palma, currently lives between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and works as a lecturer at UM (University of Michigan) after having finished a PhD on social movements in contemporary Spain and their representation in cinema and literature. Lover of justice, equality, and solidarity, aficionado of astronomy, tarot cards, and poetry, this former law graduate chose to teach in the United States in order to stay in contact as much with thought as with every kind of cultural text, always with the intention of fighting for a twenty-first century world where isocracy, isonomy, and isegoria prevail for the whole community and the commons.
