On Alterities 1968 Newsreels

Dr. Danae Gallo González is research associate in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures and Literatures at the Institut für Romanistik (JLU Giessen). Her work has focused on gender and queer studies and exilic life writing in contemporary Spain, and on cultural memory on the Spanish Civil War, Franco’s dictatorship, and the Spanish transition to democracy in various media. Her book, ¡Recuerda! Scribo ergo sum(-us): La escritura del yo de los exiliados politicos de la Guerra Civil en la Argelia colonial, is forthcoming from Iberoamericana Vervuert. She has also lead interdisciplinary research groups working on the concepts of identity and alterity at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture. She is currently interested in the politics of (auto-)representation of colored bodies in contemporary audiovisual products of Brazil and the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean.

Lyubomir Pozharliev is a research associate at the Department of History of Eastern Europe at Justus Liebig University Giessen in the DFG-funded project Transotto­ma­nica, and was until recently a scholarship holder at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. His work is focused on cultural history of technology, transport, and infrastructure, and visual representations of/in Southeastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century. His latest research and publications cover highway construction in Southeastern Europe, nationalism and imagined geographies, communist and socialist studies, and newsreels research.