María Eugenia Ulfe is a Peruvian Anthropologist, Full Professor and researcher at the department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She holds an MA in the Arts of the Americas, Oceania, and Africa at the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom, 1995), a PhD in Human Sciences/Anthropology at the George Washington University (Washington DC, 2005), and is Honorary Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga and Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia (2022-2027). She directs the Interdisciplinary Research Group Memory and Democracy at PUCP. She is the joint Program Coordinator of the Annual Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (Bogotá 2024). Among her topics of research are Anthropology of the State, politics, and arts focused on memory studies, gender, ethnicity, violence, and experimental visual ethnography. Her recent book with Ximena Málaga Sabogal, Reparando Mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos (Fondo Editorial de la PUCP, 2021) received an honorary mention by the Peru Section book award of LASA in 2022. She is an Executive Committee member of the Memory Studies Association and leading the organization of the MSA 2023 Lima Conference at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. |  |
| Carmen Ilizarbe has a PhD in Politics and an MA in Political Science from The New School for Social Research. She has a bachelors and licenciatura in Anthropology and Diploma in Gender Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Memory and Democracy at PUCP. She has a vast academic production, papers in Latin American Perspectives, Global Dialogue, Colombia Internacional, Apuntes, Revista de Ciencia Política, and numerous chapters in edited volumes. Her academic work combines empirical research and theoretical reflection, and focuses on analyzing Peruvian political practice between 1980 and the present with emphasis on the relations between State and society and the process of building democracy. Her book La democracia y la calle. Protestas y contrahegemonía en el Perú has been published by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos in 2022. |
David Sulmont is a full Professor and Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Government from PUCP and a Master's in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His current research falls within the field of political sociology, on the one hand, the comparative study of electoral behavior, and on the other, ethnic and racial inequalities in Latin America. He is a member of the Planning Committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems - CSES and of the Advisory Board of the Latin American Public Opinion Project - LAPOP. Between 2001 and 2003, he was responsible for the area of information analysis for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru and a member of the editorial committee of its final report. He has been an advisor on methodological issues and information analysis for various truth commissions and human rights projects in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. |  |
 | Iris Jave is Master in Political Science from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Bachelor in Social Communication from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. She has research on transitional justice and democracy, particularly about the agency of victims and family members in reparations policies, memory processes, the search for missing persons; as well as about education and its implications for new generations. Among her publications are: Los legados de la violencia política: El conflicto armado interno y sus vínculos con la respuesta del estado en el Perú (as co author), Revista Argumentos, 2023; La humillación y la urgencia. Políticas de reparación posconflicto en el Perú, Fondo Editorial de la PUCP, 2021, among others. She has been the Director of Communications of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru (2001-2003). She is currently a professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, a researcher at the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (IDEHPUCP) and a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group Memory and Democracy at the same university. She is a member of the Academic Committee of the Memory Studies Association Annual Conference 2024. |
María Angélica Tamayo Plazas is a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (IIH UNAM). She has a doctorate in History from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, a master 's degree in Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, and a degree in History from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her research interests are at the intersection between memory studies and the history of the present time in Latin America: human rights activism, memories and memorial struggles around political violence and human rights violations, transnational memories of forced disappearance, and truth commissions. She has worked as a professor at UNAM and at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales at UNAM. She is currently co-chair of the Recent History and Memory Section at Latin American Studies Association. |  |
 | Aline Sierp is Associate Professor in European History & Memory Studies at Maastricht University (NL). She holds a PhD in Comparative European Politics and History from the University of Siena (IT). Her research interests cover contested histories, memory politics, questions of identity and European integration. Before joining the University of Maastricht, Aline Sierp worked as researcher at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (DE). She is the author of History, Memory and Transeuropean Identity: Unifying Divisions (Routledge, 2014), co-editor (with C. Karner) of Dividing United Europe: From Crisis to Fragmentation(Routledge, 2019) and of Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (Berghahn, 2020, with J. Wüstenberg). Aline is the co-founder and co-president of the Memory Studies Association and the Council of European Studies' Research Network on Transnational Memory and Identity in Europe. For more details, see https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/aline.sierp |
Mariana Norandi has a doctorate degree in Sociology by the University of País Vasco and licenciada in Information Sciences by the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Her professional career has developed mainly in Latin America, where she has worked as a journalist in several media programs, including the Mexican newspaper La Jornada. Currently she combines her journalistic activity with academic work as a teacher and researcher. Her lines of research focus on identities, memories and exiles in Latin America, on which she has published several articles and book chapters. She is a professor in the Master of Communication and Gender at the Autonomous University of Barcelona; member of the Kontu Laborategia research group. Count on frontier research, from the University of the Basque Country and co-coordinator of the Latin American Regional Group of the Memory Studies Association (MSA). |  |
 | Róża Kochanowska is a PhD student at the University of Warsaw. Her scientific activity focuses on the history of language, urban toponymy and language corpora. In her work, she researches the vocabulary created during World War II. In 2020/2021, she participated in the organization of the Memory Studies Association 'Convergences' Conference in Warsaw (July 5-9, 2021) and co-organized the MSA Forward Postgraduate Workshop (July 1-2, 2021), in 2023 she co-organised the MSA 2023 Annual Meeting in Newcastle. She is currently employed by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences on the project '24.02.2022, 5 am: Testimonies from the War'. |
Verónica Reynaga graduated in Political Science and Government and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Gestión de los Recursos Hídricos at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She is an academic assistant in the Department of Social Sciences and a research preceptor in Academic Research at the General Studies Letters of PUCP. She has worked as an editorial assistant for the Journal of Political Science and Government at PUCP. Her research interests include subjects related to environmental policies, food security, and socio-environmental conflicts stemming from the interplay between the State, private companies, and the political organization of Andean communities . |  |