The HDH2017 plenary speakers
Juan Luis Suárez
Director of CulturePlex Lab and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Western University (Canada). He has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Salamanca and in Hispanic Studies from the University of McGill (Canada). His research deals with cultural complexity and the theory of complexity, digital humanities, technologies of humanism, the Hispanic baroque, as well as globalization and new literatures. He investigates Big Data and its applications in the field of Humanities. He has directed large international projects and is the author of many works in which he addresses these problems.
Geoffrey Bowker
He is currently professor and director of the Values in Design Laboratory at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He obtained his PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in History and Philosophy of Science, which he extended with a postdoctoral stay at the Ecole des Mines in Paris. He has been a professor of Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh and executive director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society at the University of Santa Clara, California. His research focuses on new ways in which knowledge can be generated from the creative use of digital tools, and the connections between new information systems and the production of ethical-social values.
Ángela María Pérez Mejía
She directs the cultural work of the Bank of the Republic in Colombia, which includes 24 cultural centers with 19 public libraries. She was director of the Luís Ángel Arango Library, leading center of this cultural work. For ten years she taught Latin American literature at Brandeis University, where she also directed the Center for Latin American Studies. She holds a BA in Journalism from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York.
Her book The Geography of Difficult Times received the Casa de la Américas award in 2000. In addition to numerous publications, particularly on the subject of travel literature, buccaneers in the Caribbean and genre in Latin American literature, she is co-author of the film script Rodrigo D, winner of the Latin American Film Festival in New York and selected in the Festival of Cannes the same year.
