Biographical Profile

Claudio Canaparo is Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also 'Professeur attaché a la recherche' at Université Catholique de Louvain where he research on Latin American Studies. Prior to taking up these posts in 2009 and 2006 he taught at the University of Exeter from 1995 to 2009. He made his PhD degree at King’s College London. Before that he follow postgraduate studies at the University of Bologna in Italy, at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Buenos Aires and graduated at the University of Rosario in Argentina.

For more information see Canaparo's curriculum vitae (last update July 2009) or short personal profile.

Alcides Arguedas (1879-1946)

Alcides Arguedas was born in La Paz. Arguedas remains as one of the most challenging and interesting thinkers that Latin America produced. His Pueblo enfermo, originally published in 1909, is perhaps the first attempt to produce a conceptual analysis of colonialism from a non-political perspective.

Robert Fogaretta (1927-1979)

Musician, poet and plastic artist, Fogaretta remains unknown to the great majority of critics and readers as his works were unpublished during his life time. The sense of diaspora, multilinguism and travel, developed through his works, place him at the avant garde of the authors who considered the notion of periphery as central to any artictic work.