Julio E. RubioJulio Ernesto Rubio Barrios is a Mexican researcher and administrator at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Rubio is a Level I member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI). In 2009, Rubio was accepted as a member of the National Thematic Research Network on Science, Complexity and Society, Mexico. Rubio received his PhD from the University of Valencia in 1999.
Carlos TaiboCarlos Taibo Arias (born in Madrid, 12 May 1956) is a writer, editor, and retired professor of political science at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Carlos Taibo is a staunch advocate of the anti-globalization movement, the degrowth movement, direct democracy and of anarchism. Taibo coined the phrase La globalización avanza hacia un caos que escapa a todo control. He has harshly criticized the idea that because economic growth impacts all spheres (social, economic, and political), it is associated with progress and welfare.
Aldo MieliAldo Mieli (4 December 1879 – 16 February 1950) was an influential historian of science, and a pioneer of gay rights. Born in 1879 in Livorno, Italy to a wealthy Jewish family, Mieli was raised on Chianciano, a small spa town in Tuscany, to which his family moved in 1880. In 1904 he obtained a degree in chemistry, followed by six months of study at the University of Leipzig, attending the lectures of the chemist Wilhelm Ostwald. His chemistry career continued, and in 1908 he moved to the Sapienza University of Rome to work with Emanuele Paterno.
Universidad de Ciencias MédicasThe University of Medical Sciences (Spanish: Universidad de Ciencias Médicas, UCIMED) is a private medical university in San José, Costa Rica. It is the largest and oldest private medical school in Costa Rica and one of the most prestigious in Latin America. Currently the main campus is located in the country's capital with the latest technology in medical education and one of the best simulated hospitals in the region.
Andalusian Center for Marine Science and TechnologyThe Andalusian Center for Marine Science and Technology (Centro Andaluz de Ciencia y Tecnología Marina, CACYTMAR) is a joint institute of investigation sponsored by the University of Cádiz and the Andalusian Council for Education and Science (Consejería de Educación y Ciencia de la Junta de Andalucía). It was created as an outcome of the II Plan Andaluz de Investigación, as one of several thematic regional investigative centers.
La Salle University, ColombiaThe Universidad de La Salle is a private, Catholic and Lasallian institution of higher education run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Bogotá, D.C., Cundinamarca, Colombia. It was founded by the Christian Brothers in 1964. It has 4 locations: 3 in Bogotá DC- one in the downtown area, in Chapinero, and in the northern section of city. There is also a campus in El Yopal, Casanare in the East of the Country.
Rafael Arráiz LuccaRafael Arráiz Lucca (born 3 January 1959, Caracas) is a Venezuelan essayist, poet, historian and professor. Arraiz Lucca is professor in the Metropolitan University of Caracas (UNIMET). Since 2001, has been in charge of the "Fundación Para la Cultura Urbana" (Foundation for Urban Culture), in Caracas. Became a lawyer in 1983 at the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), specialist in integrated communications in 2002 (UNIMET), in 2005 finished a mastership in History at the UCAB.
Néstor García CancliniNéstor García Canclini (born 1939) is an Argentine-born academic and anthropologist known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity." García Canclini was born December 1, 1939 in La Plata, Argentina. Three years after receiving his PhD in philosophy at the University of La Plata in 1975, thanks to a scholarship awarded from CONICET (The National Scientific and Technical Research Council), García Canclini also received another PhD in philosophy from the Paris Nanterre University.
Juan Mauricio RenoldJuan Mauricio Renold (born 1953) is an Argentine social anthropologist. He is a research scientist in the Scientific Council of Research of the National University of Rosario, professor (Titular) in the School of Anthropology of the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the National University of Rosario, in the city of Rosario (Argentina). He has specialized in an original application of the anthropological structural analysis (referred the proposals of Claude Lévi-Strauss) in institutional organizations, analyzing them like systems of representations, in complex societies.
Metropolitan University of Educational SciencesThe Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE), is a public and traditional university located in the commune of Ñuñoa, Chile. It is the fourth oldest university in the country, founded in 1889 as college of the University of Chile. Ignacio Domeyko, scientist and professor of the National Institute José Miguel Carrera, manifests for the first time -during one year of 1842- the need to change the education system in Chile, inspired by the models that are being implemented in Europe where it was starting to develop a new science: pedagogy.
