Visit of the guest scientist Carolina Galindo, 03.05.2022-03.06.2022

Prof. Dr. Carolina Galindo is professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá - Colombia). Her research interests include democracy, civic education, civil society, peace, security, violence, and state-society relations in Latin America. Her research stay in the GUMELAB project helped in the theoretical conceptualization of civic education. Together, different categories could be elaborated to work out the influence of series and telenovelas on the political education of the audience. Furthermore, Carolina Galindo presented her first research results on the Colombian productions "Hombres de Honor" and "La Niña". In doing so, we discussed the portrayal of the actors of the Colombian armed conflict in both Colombian and North American television series and telenovelas. The focus was on the transmission of political values and civic culture through these representations.