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Brasil

Roberto Abdala Júnior

Roberto Abdala Júnior

Roberto Abdala Júnior is professor at the Faculty of History of the Universidad Federal de Goiás – UFG (Goiânia - Brazil). His research focuses on the relationship between audiovisual narratives and history/reality.

In this field, he is especially interested in the possibilities of teaching and learning history through audiovisual narratives. He is currently one of the coordinators of the Núcleo de Estudios de Usos Públicos da História - NUH.

His favourite miniseries is Anos rebeldes (Brazil, 1992).

Thiago Lima Nicodemo

Thiago Lima Nicodemo

Thiago Lima Nicodemo is General Director of the Archive of the State of São Paulo, professor of Theory of History at the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP (Campinas, Brazil) and is responsible for the Center for Digital Humanities of the same institution. He studies new forms of archiving and analyzing digital historical information, as well as digital historical documents. Further, he investigates problems of intellectual history and Latin American historiography.

He likes Breaking Bad (USA, 2008-2013) and sci-fi series like The X-Files (USA, 1993-2002)..

Alesson Rota

Alesson Rota

Alesson R. Rota is a PhD student in History at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) funded by FAPESP and was a visiting researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin/GUMELAB in 2022/2023. He works with data sciences applied to historiography histories and intellectual networks and supports the GUMELAB project in the E-research field.

His favorite television series is The Twilight Zone (USA, CBS – 1959-1964)

Chile

Lorena Antezana Barrios

Lorena Antezana Barrios

Dr. Lorena Antezana Barrios is associate professor at the Institute of Communication and Image at the University of Chile in Santiago. She researches reception and critical media consumption, education, and memory on television from a gender perspective.

The first telenovela she saw was Baila conmigo (Brazil, 1981).

Juan Pablo Sánchez Sepúlveda

Juan Pablo Sánchez Sepúlveda

Juan Pablo Sánchez Sepúlveda is PhD student in Communication Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, research associate at the Institute of Communication and Image at the University of Chile in Santiago. He is a fellow at the Centre for Studies on Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES). He is currently researching representations of violence in Chilean fictions set during the dictatorship and in the present

His favorite series are Sorjonen (Finland, 2016-2019) and Peaky Blinders (UK, 2013-present).

Claudia Bossay

Claudia Bossay

Claudia Bossay works as historian at the University Diego Portales (Chile), holds a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and a PhD in Film Studies from the Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chile in Santiago.

She loves the bicentenary series Cartas de mujer (Chile, Chilevisión, 2010).

Claudia Lagos Lira

Claudia Lagos Lira

Claudia Lagos Lira holds a PhD in Media and Communication (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), a master’s degree in Gender Studies and Social Sciences. She is a journalist, graduate in Social Communication and has a diploma in Communication and Public Policy. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chile in Santiago.

Her favourite telenovela is Tieta de Agreste (Brazil, 1989).

Consuelo Ábalos

Consuelo Ábalos

Consuelo Ábalos is a journalist at the University of Chile, has a master's degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies from the University Lumière Lyon 2, and a master's in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She's an academic at the Central University Central of Chile in Santiago.

Her favourite series is The Killing (Denmark, 2007).

Eduardo Santa Cruz Achurra

Eduardo Santa Cruz Achurra

Eduardo Santa Cruz Achurra is a journalist, has a degree in Social Sciences and a diploma in Social Communication research. He is the author of several books and articles on the relationship between communication, mass culture and popular culture.  (History of Chilean journalism, cinema and TV, football, and sports). He is a professor at the University of Chile in Santiago.

His favourite telenovela is La Tormenta (Mexico, 1967)

Germany

Karen Genschow

Karen Genschow

Dr. Karen Genschow is a lecturer in Romance literature, Latin American studies and didactics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. She researches telenovelas and series in connection with collective memory (especially in the Cono Sur).

The series that has most recently made a lasting impression on her is L’Effondrement (France, 2019).

Stephanie Schütze

Stephanie Schütze

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze is the Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Latin America Institute of Freie Universität Berlin. She currently teaches and researches mainly in the field of migration and gender studies, sports anthropology, and critical heritage studies.

Her current favorite series is Lupin (France, 2021).

Martin Lücke

Martin Lücke

Prof. Dr. Martin Lücke is Professor of History Didactics and Scientific Director of the Margherita von Brentano Centre for Gender Studies at the FU Berlin. He works in the field of empirical historical culture research and in gender and sexuality history - and he is particularly interested in how individuals and groups obstinately appropriate history.

His favourite series are Pose (USA, 2018-2021) and Mindhunter (USA, 2017-2019).

Colombia

Leonardo A. Pachón Contreras

Leonardo A. Pachón Contreras

Leonardo A. Pachón Contreras is professor and director of the Institute of Physics and of the Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics Group (GTFyMA) at the University of Antioquia (Medellín). Among his many research topics are the design and development of statistical analyses in the human and social sciences, the use of complex systems tools, and the development of models for Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Although he does not watch television, his favourite series is Sliders (USA, 1995).

Gicela Andrea Aguirre García

Gicela Andrea Aguirre García

Gicela Andrea Aguirre García is a PhD student in History at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Her research and teaching focuses on the areas of violence and armed conflict, nonviolent conflict transformation, political culture, and peacebuilding pedagogy with civil society organisations. She has experience in social research through data analysis and digital methods.

One of her favourite telenovelas is Cuando quiero llorar no lloro (better known as The Victorinos, Colombia, 1991).

Heisman Arcila

Heisman Arcila

Heisman Arcila is a master’s student in Physics at the University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia) and works as a data science team leader in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Guane Enterprises. His main interest is the application of NLP techniques, and physics in general to socio-economic problems.

He does not usually watch telenovelas but loves historical series such as Da Vinci’s Demons (USA, 2013-2015) or Rome (USA, 2005-2007).

Bryan Munoz

Bryan Munoz

Brayan Alexander Muñoz Barrera is a physicist graduated from the University of Antioquia, with two specializations, in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing. He currently works at guane Enterprises as a data scientist and is studying data science at Correlation One. He is passionate about doing everything and learning everything. He has special interest in areas such as mathematics, computer science, data science, deep learning, front and back end.

He finds it difficult to pick a favorite series but would highlight Breaking Bad (USA, 2008-2013), Vikings (Canada, Ireland, 2013-2020) and Chernobyl (USA, 2019).

Joseph F. Vergel-Becerra

Joseph F. Vergel-Becerra

Joseph F. Vergel-Becerra is physicist and co-director of the Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics Group (GTFyMA) at the University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia). Joseph is a software developer, specifically in the areas of data engineering, machine learning and backend development.
He is co-founder and leader of the Data Science & Machine Learning team at Guane Enterprises, a technology-based company dedicated to human-centric artificial intelligence.

His favourite series are Breaking Bad (USA, 2008) and Dark (Germany 2017).

Julián Andrés Montoya Carvajal

Julián Andrés Montoya Carvajal

Julián Andrés Montoya Carvajal is a physics student at the Universidad de Antioquia. He is very passionate about topics related to machine learning, data science and their applications to address social and industrial problems.

His favorite series is Game of Thrones (USA, 2011-2019).

Carolina Galindo Hernández

Carolina Galindo Hernández

Carolina Galindo Hernández is professor at the School of Human Sciences of the University of Rosario in Bogotá (Colombia). Her research and teaching interests focus on the areas of democratization processes, comparative politics in Latin America (especially in the Andean Region), state-civil society relations, citizenship, political sociology, and political philosophy.

One of her favourite telenovelas is Tiempos Difíciles (Colombia, 1997).

Tatjana Louis

Tatjana Louis

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Louis is associate professor and director of the Department of Languages and Culture.  She is a historian, and her research focuses on the development of historical consciousness, the creation of historical meaning, and the teaching and learning of history.

Her favourite series is Weißensee (Germany, 2010).

Edward Goyeneche

Edward Goyeneche

Edward Goyeneche-Gómez has a doctorate in History and a master's degree in Sociology. Is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication of the University of La Sabana and Head of the Department of Audiovisual Communication. Director of the Audiovisual Culture research group. He works in the lines of research on visual epistemology, communication and visual and audiovisual culture, mainly photography and cinema with an emphasis on documentary, memory and visual anthropology and history and sociology of art and image.

His favorite series are: Twin Peaks (USA, 1990–1991, 2017) and Leche (Colombia, 1996).

Enrique Uribe

Enrique Uribe

Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed is a research profesor and member of the Recasens Communication Research Group (GRIC) at the Faculty of Social Communication and Journalism of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. His research combines concepts of identity, culture and linguistics with media productions (comics, TV, cinema, video games). He is currently one of the coordinators of the Creative Communication and New Media Master's programme.

His favourite telenovela is San Tropel (Colombia, 1987).

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Patricia Nieto_bearbeiten

Patricia Nieto, journalist and Master in Political Science from the University of Antioquia. Doctor in Communication from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, (Argentina). Author of the books Llanto en el paraíso, Los escogidos, Crónicas del paraíso, among others; and scriptwriter of documentaries such as No hubo tiempo para la tristeza, produced by the Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica de Colombia. She is a professor at the Universidad de Antioquia, director of the Editorial Universidad de Antioquia and director of the project Hacemos Memoria.

She watches little television. The last series that excited her was The Handmaid's Tale (USA, 2017 - present).

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Víctor Casas is a journalist from the University of Antioquia and holds a master's degree in Communication from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research topics are related to political violence and the construction of memories from journalism and cultural products. He currently works as a professor and researcher at the University of Antioquia, where he coordinates the project Hacemos Memoria.

His favorite series: The Americans (USA, 2013 - 2018), Borgen (Denmark, 2010 - present), Black Mirror (UK, 2011 - present).

Carlos Gutierrez

Carlos Gutierrez

Carlos Gutiérrez-González is a lecturer in the Faculty of Communication at the University de La Sabana. Associate researcher at Minciencias. He helds a PhD in Communication from the University del Norte. His research interests are oriented towards the analysis of film and television content and its cultural representations on the screen. He has also worked as a television producer in different public channels in Colombia.

 His favourite telenovela is Pecados capitales (Colombia, 2002) and the US-American TV-series that could be repeated several times, The Wire (2002).

USA

Simone Lässig

Simone Lässig

Prof. Dr. Simone Lässig is the Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C./USA. She is a cultural and social historian and works on educational media, memory cultures and memory politics. She is particularly interested in digital history.

Her favourite series is Shitsel (Israel, 3 seasons, 2013-2021).

Mario Peters

Mario Peters

Dr. Mario Peters is a research fellow in American and Transatlantic History at the German Historical Institute in Washington. He is particularly interested in the history of mobility and transport infrastructures, the Americas in a global context, and environmental history.

His current favourite series is TURN - Washington's Spies (USA, 2014-2017).