Lía Castillo Meneses

President of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC) since 2023. She holds a degree in Business Administration with postgraduate studies in Marketing and Commercialization. Since 2007, she has coordinated the Marketing and Sales area at UPC Press of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. She is the founder of the chapter for university presses and research or documentation centers in Peru (EUPerú) and served as president during its first two terms.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

María Isabel Cabrera

President of the Spanish Union of University Publishers (UNE). Director of the University of Granada Press. Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Granada. Her research focuses on 20th-century Spanish thought and artistic creation, with particular interest in the relationships between art and ideology, art and totalitarian powers in Europe, as well as the exchange and circulation of ideas and creators between these contexts.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America
Discussion: Projects and Contributions of Spanish University Publishing

Sayri Karp

Director of the University of Guadalajara Press and a member of the Advisory Council of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC), of which she served as president from 2015 to 2023. She is also a member of the Altexto Network of University and Academic Publishers in Mexico and its Advisory Council. Additionally, she is part of the organizing committee for the International Forum on University and Academic Publishing, held at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In 2018, she received the "Rubén Bonifaz Nuño" Recognition for University Editors awarded by UNAM.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Alejandra González Barranco

Directora de la Editorial Digital del Tecnológico de Monterrey. Integrante de la Mesa Directiva de la Asociación de Editoriales Universitarias de América Latina (EULAC) y Secretaria Técnica en la Red Nacional de Editoriales Universitarias, Altexto. Licenciada en Periodismo y Medios de Información y maestra en Humanidades con especialidad en Literatura por el Tecnológico de Monterrey. Profesora de cátedra en los Departamentos de Estudios Humanísticos, Lenguas e Industrias Creativas, y colabora como tutora en el Centro de Escritura del Campus Monterrey.

Other activities involving the participant:

Conversation 2: Science in Spanish, Back and Forth

Guillermo Escribano Manzano

Director general del Español en el Mundo desde 2021, un órgano del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación, responsable de ejecutar las políticas de fomento del idioma español en el mundo. Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas. Ingresó en la Carrera Diplomática de España en 2002. Se ha desempeñado en diversos cargos en las embajadas de España en Alemania, Marruecos, Filipinas y Polonia, además de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America
Conversation 2: Science in Spanish, Back and Forth

Claudia Dias Sampaio

Coordinadora general del Instituto Guimarães Rosa (IGR), de la Embajada de Brasil en México. Ensayista, investigadora, traductora y gestora en el área de la diplomacia cultural. Profesora en el Colegio de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CELA), de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM, desde 2014. Doctora en Letras por la Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) y Maestra en Literatura brasileña por la Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Ha escrito diversos ensayos y artículos sobre la teoría literaria y el lenguaje poético en la contemporaneidad en el ámbito de la literatura latinoamericana. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Mexicanos (SIN-Conahcyt).

Margarita Cuéllar Barona

Director of the Regional Center for the Promotion of the Book in Latin America and the Caribbean (Cerlalc), an intergovernmental organization sponsored by UNESCO that works to create the necessary conditions for the development of reading and writing societies. She was the co-creator, editor, and director (2009-2024) of the cultural agitation magazine Papel de colgadura and led the Feminist Pedagogies Seminar and the textile seminar El Costurero, a space for studying, reading, sewing, embroidering, and weaving. Her research interests include feminist pedagogies, textile crafts, and literature written by women. She has published the novels Geografía doméstica and De viento y de sal.

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The prescribers

Pura Fernández

Director of the CSIC Publishing House (Spanish National Research Council), responsible for 40 diamond access scientific journals and over 50 academic collections across various disciplines, and serves as the Deputy Vice President for Scientific Culture and Citizen Science. She is the founder and director of EDI-RED, Ibero-American Publishers and Publishing Houses (19th-21st centuries), the first open-access portal dedicated to publishing in Spanish, co-official languages, and Portuguese. She is part of the Advisory and Editorial Board of 27 scientific and academic publications and collections in Spain, France, the U.S., Argentina, and Mexico. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Sarah Corona Berkin

PhD in Communication from the Catholic University of Louvain and Director of the Advanced Latin American Studies Center (CALAS). She is the first emeritus SNII researcher at the University of Guadalajara. Currently, she leads the Network for Horizontal Knowledge Production at CALAS and researches the transformation of indigenous visual cultures. For 25 years, she has worked alongside Wixárika indigenous communities using horizontal methodologies. Her work advocates for dialogue as the foundation for knowledge production.

Delfim Leao

Vice-Rector for Culture and Open Science and a professor at the University of Coimbra. He is currently a member of the CoARA Multilingualism Working Group, a member of the Executive Assembly of OPERAS, and involved in European projects such as OPERAS-P, TRIPLE, OPERAS-PLUS, PALOMERA, and ATRIUM. He leads the team responsible for the development of the Mondaecus platform. He is also a designated member of the Scientific Council of CNRS-Humanities & Social Sciences (2023-2028). His main areas of interest include ancient history, law, and political theory; he has published approximately 200 works.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Juan Felipe Córdoba Restrepo

Director of the University Press of Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of SciELO Livros and the Advisory Council of the Open Book Futures project. He previously served as president of the Association of University Publishers of Colombia (ASEUC) and the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC). He holds a PhD in History and is part of the Research Group on Religion, Culture, and Society at the University of Antioquia, as well as the Research Group on Academic Books at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). In 2019, he received the "Rubén Bonifaz Nuño" Recognition for University Editors awarded by UNAM.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Rita Argollo

Director of Editus, the Publishing House of the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC). She is the Vice President of the Brazilian Association of University Publishers (ABEU), having served as president from 2019 to 2023 and as the regional director for the Northeast from 2015 to 2019. A journalist and PhD in Education, she is a professor at UESC. Her main areas of interest include the interface of communication, education, and technology, with a particular focus on the study of digital culture.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Belmar Gándara

Director of the University Press of Cantabria and Secretary of the Editorial Council. She is the coordinator for the Group of Nine Universities in the interuniversity publishing initiative “genueve ediciones” and the founder of ECH–Ediciones, dedicated to the literary world for the Foundation for the Arts, Literary Creation, and the Senses at the Contemporary School of Humanities in Madrid, as well as the Tira y Retira Publishing House. She holds a Master's degree in Publishing from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in Strategic Knowledge and Information Management from the Open University of Catalonia.

Malena Romero

Executive President of the Editorial Fund at the University of the Pacific. Holds a degree in Economics from the University of the Pacific. She has over 30 years of experience in academic and university publishing.

Antonio Ramos Revillas

Director of the University Press of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) since 2016. He holds a degree in Spanish Literature from UANL, which awarded him the Arts Prize in 2015 for his literary career. He was part of the Mexico 20 selection, organized by the British Council, Conaculta, and the Hay Festival, recognizing him as one of the 20 most important writers under 40 in the country. His most recent novel is Playa Bagdad. He is a member of the National System of Creators of Art.

Other activities involving the participant:

Literature with eggs and machaca
Panel 3: Get studying. Bookstores and publishers at the desk

Édgar García Valencia

Editor y académico. Estuvo al frente de las editoriales del CIESAS y la de la Universidad Veracruzana; fue miembro fundador y coordinador nacional de la red Altexto. Está adscrito al Centro de Estudios de la Cultura y la Comunicación en la Universidad Veracruzana, donde trabaja en temas sobre la cultura novohispana, así como también prácticas literarias y editoriales pasadas y presentes, además de ser miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

Amanda Ramalho

Bibliotecaria y representante de América Latina en Thoth Open Metadata. Es miembro del Consejo de Curadores del Open Book Collective (OBC) de 2022 a 2026. También coordina la colección SciELO Libros como parte de la coordinación del Programa SciELO. Durante 15 años, ha trabajado con editoriales universitarias y académicas en la producción y difusión de libros digitales, la creación y gestión de metadatos, la indexación, la interoperabilidad y la promoción del acceso abierto.

Belén Recio

Directora de Publicaciones de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas desde 2011. Licenciada en Geografía e Historia por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Desde 2008 es responsable del Área de Comercialización e Internacionalización de la Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas (UNE).

Remedios Pérez

Vice President of the Spanish Union of University Publishers (UNE). Director of the University Press at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Holds degrees in Art History and in Library and Information Science. At UNE, she coordinates the open access initiative and relations with libraries. For the past two years, she has been collaborating with FECYT to develop the criteria for the quality seal for journals.

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel 3: Open Science and Its Implications for University Publishing

María Isabel Cabrera

President of the Spanish Union of University Publishers (UNE). Director of the University of Granada Press. Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Granada. Her research focuses on 20th-century Spanish thought and artistic creation, with particular interest in the relationships between art and ideology, art and totalitarian powers in Europe, as well as the exchange and circulation of ideas and creators between these contexts.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Ceremony
Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Lizbeth Alvarado

Head of the Editorial Fund at the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia and Editor-in-Chief of Spirat, an academic journal focused on university teaching and management. She is also the director of the feminist publishing house Gafas Moradas. An editorial consultant, she specializes in book positioning and marketing strategies, as well as promoting reading. She teaches academic communication and research methodologies. She holds a Master's degree in Communication with a specialization in Content from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Mirian Galante

Director of the Publishing Service at the Autonomous University of Madrid since 2021. Member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Union of University Publishers (UNE), with special responsibility for strengthening the development of an Ibero-American space for university publishing. Specialist in Latin American History, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (UAM), and Secretary General of the European Association of Latin Americanists (AHILA).

Jacobo Sanz

Director of Publications at the University of Salamanca. He is a professor of Spanish literature, specializing in humanism and literature of the Golden Age at the same institution. He has authored over a hundred publications on various topics, including the history of printing, sociology of reading, spiritual literature, and scientific literature.

Guillermo Escribano Manzano

Director general del Español en el Mundo desde 2021, un órgano del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación, responsable de ejecutar las políticas de fomento del idioma español en el mundo. Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas. Ingresó en la Carrera Diplomática de España en 2002. Se ha desempeñado en diversos cargos en las embajadas de España en Alemania, Marruecos, Filipinas y Polonia, además de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Dialogue: Acknowledging Multilingualism in Science
Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Alejandra González Barranco

Directora de la Editorial Digital del Tecnológico de Monterrey. Integrante de la Mesa Directiva de la Asociación de Editoriales Universitarias de América Latina (EULAC) y Secretaria Técnica en la Red Nacional de Editoriales Universitarias, Altexto. Licenciada en Periodismo y Medios de Información y maestra en Humanidades con especialidad en Literatura por el Tecnológico de Monterrey. Profesora de cátedra en los Departamentos de Estudios Humanísticos, Lenguas e Industrias Creativas, y colabora como tutora en el Centro de Escritura del Campus Monterrey.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Ceremony

Remedios Pérez

Vice President of the Spanish Union of University Publishers (UNE). Director of the University Press at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Holds degrees in Art History and in Library and Information Science. At UNE, she coordinates the open access initiative and relations with libraries. For the past two years, she has been collaborating with FECYT to develop the criteria for the quality seal for journals.

Other activities involving the participant:

Discussion: Projects and Contributions of Spanish University Publishing

Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro

Director of the University Press of the State University at a Distance (EUNED) since 2022. He is a writer, editor, critic, translator, and professor. He won the National Aquileo J. Echeverría Poetry Award in 2023. He holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from the University of Costa Rica, where he also pursued a PhD in Cultural Studies. He is the author of 12 books, including Nadie que esté feliz escribe (2017) and La culpa (2023).

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Marco Giraldo

Executive President of the Colombian Association of University Publishers (Aseúc). Editorial Head at the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Academic Editor. Holds a degree in Modern Languages from the Universidad de Caldas, a specialization in Intellectual Property Law from the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, and a Master's in Cultural Management and Production from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

María Fernanda Pampín

Director of Publications at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (Clacso). She holds a PhD in Literature and a degree in Linguistics from the University of Buenos Aires. She directs several collections, including Archipiélago Caribe and Narrativas al Sur del Río Bravo at Corregidor. She compiled the anthology of José Martí: Selected Poems, the essay volume Modernity and Latin Americanism by Ángel Rama, with Julio Ramos Martí, and the book Caribbean Literatures: Debates, Rewritings, and Traditions, with Guadalupe Silva.

Paco Calvo

Invitado de Honor

Professor of Philosophy of Science and the principal investigator at the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory (MINT Lab) at the Universidad de  Murcia (Spain). He specialized in the philosophy of cognitive science through a Fulbright scholarship in the late 90s (University of California, San Diego) and earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 2000.

His research interests broadly encompass cognitive sciences, with a special focus on plant intelligence, ecological psychology, and embodied cognitive science. His papers have appeared in Annals of Botany, Biology & Philosophy; The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Cognitive Science; Journal of the Royal Society, Plant, Cell & Environment; Plant Signaling & Behavior, and Trends in Plant Science, among other journals. He also co-edited the Handbook of Cognitive Science:An Embodied Approach (2008, Elsevier), the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology (2009, Routledge) and The Architecture of Cognition (2014, MIT Press).

At MINT Lab, his research relies on time-lapse photography to observe plants’ navigational abilities and explore the theoretical foundations of various interpretations of adaptive plant behavior. Currently, Paco Calvo is funded by the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation to investigate how to mitigate plant jet lag in common beans with phytomelatonin and to gather behavioral evidence of plant sentience. His research has also been funded by the Office of Naval Research-Global.

In 2016, he received funding from Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports for a sabbatical stay at the EIDYN Research Centre and the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he began work on his book Planta Sapiens with Natalie Lawrence (2023, Seix Barral).

Other activities involving the participant:

Plants are also sapiens

Andrés Cota Hiriart

He is a zoologist, writer and science communicator. He studied biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master's degree in a scientific documentary at the Imperial College London. He is the author of the books Fieras familiares (finalist I Libros del Asteroide Nonfiction Prize, 2022), El ajolote (Elefanta 3ed., 2024), Faunologías (Festina 2ed., 2024), Cabeza ajena (Moho, 2017) and from the children's book Madam Cuc, la dueña del paraíso (Elefanta, 2023). His texts are found in anthologies and media such as Revista de la Universidad, Gatopardo, Vice, Nexos, Letras Libres, Este_País, Wiered, among others. He has been a member of the National System of Art Creators (2018-2021), a speaker at TEDx and is the founder of the Society of Anonymous Scientists. He is currently the host of the podcast Masaje cerebral; he is a professor of literature at the Higher School of Cinema, and conducts the program Revista de la Universidad, on TV UNAM.

Other activities involving the participant:

The "other people": animals and nature in literature
Psychedelic biology. Secret colors of nature
Axolotl, traces of the little water monster in literature
Kamazootra, the most extravagant modes of reproduction in the animal kingdom

Carlos Ortega Ibarra

PhD in History with a focus on the history of technology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is currently a collaborator on the Conversus Radio program, which airs on Radio IPN. He is responsible for the Training Program for the Development of Science and Technology Communication Skills at the Directorate for Science and Technology Dissemination of the National Polytechnic Institute. He has authored over 80 chapters and articles on the history of technology and science communication. In 2016, he received the National Journalism Award in the area of scientific and cultural dissemination.

Guillermo Escribano Manzano

Director general del Español en el Mundo desde 2021, un órgano del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación, responsable de ejecutar las políticas de fomento del idioma español en el mundo. Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas. Ingresó en la Carrera Diplomática de España en 2002. Se ha desempeñado en diversos cargos en las embajadas de España en Alemania, Marruecos, Filipinas y Polonia, además de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Dialogue: Acknowledging Multilingualism in Science
Conversation 2: Science in Spanish, Back and Forth

María Isabel Cabrera

President of the Spanish Union of University Publishers (UNE). Director of the University of Granada Press. Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Granada. Her research focuses on 20th-century Spanish thought and artistic creation, with particular interest in the relationships between art and ideology, art and totalitarian powers in Europe, as well as the exchange and circulation of ideas and creators between these contexts.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Ceremony
Discussion: Projects and Contributions of Spanish University Publishing

Delfim Leao

Vice-Rector for Culture and Open Science and a professor at the University of Coimbra. He is currently a member of the CoARA Multilingualism Working Group, a member of the Executive Assembly of OPERAS, and involved in European projects such as OPERAS-P, TRIPLE, OPERAS-PLUS, PALOMERA, and ATRIUM. He leads the team responsible for the development of the Mondaecus platform. He is also a designated member of the Scientific Council of CNRS-Humanities & Social Sciences (2023-2028). His main areas of interest include ancient history, law, and political theory; he has published approximately 200 works.

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel 1: Building a Science for Everyone

Lía Castillo Meneses

President of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC) since 2023. She holds a degree in Business Administration with postgraduate studies in Marketing and Commercialization. Since 2007, she has coordinated the Marketing and Sales area at UPC Press of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. She is the founder of the chapter for university presses and research or documentation centers in Peru (EUPerú) and served as president during its first two terms.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Ceremony

Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro

Director of the University Press of the State University at a Distance (EUNED) since 2022. He is a writer, editor, critic, translator, and professor. He won the National Aquileo J. Echeverría Poetry Award in 2023. He holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from the University of Costa Rica, where he also pursued a PhD in Cultural Studies. He is the author of 12 books, including Nadie que esté feliz escribe (2017) and La culpa (2023).

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel 3: Open Science and Its Implications for University Publishing

Lizbeth Alvarado

Head of the Editorial Fund at the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia and Editor-in-Chief of Spirat, an academic journal focused on university teaching and management. She is also the director of the feminist publishing house Gafas Moradas. An editorial consultant, she specializes in book positioning and marketing strategies, as well as promoting reading. She teaches academic communication and research methodologies. She holds a Master's degree in Communication with a specialization in Content from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Other activities involving the participant:

Discussion: Projects and Contributions of Spanish University Publishing

Rita Argollo

Director of Editus, the Publishing House of the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC). She is the Vice President of the Brazilian Association of University Publishers (ABEU), having served as president from 2019 to 2023 and as the regional director for the Northeast from 2015 to 2019. A journalist and PhD in Education, she is a professor at UESC. Her main areas of interest include the interface of communication, education, and technology, with a particular focus on the study of digital culture.

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel 2: The Role of Publishers and Their Commitment to Knowledge Dissemination

Marco Giraldo

Executive President of the Colombian Association of University Publishers (Aseúc). Editorial Head at the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Academic Editor. Holds a degree in Modern Languages from the Universidad de Caldas, a specialization in Intellectual Property Law from the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, and a Master's in Cultural Management and Production from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano.

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel 3: Open Science and Its Implications for University Publishing

Sayri Karp

Director of the University of Guadalajara Press and a member of the Advisory Council of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC), of which she served as president from 2015 to 2023. She is also a member of the Altexto Network of University and Academic Publishers in Mexico and its Advisory Council. Additionally, she is part of the organizing committee for the International Forum on University and Academic Publishing, held at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In 2018, she received the "Rubén Bonifaz Nuño" Recognition for University Editors awarded by UNAM.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening Ceremony

Juan Felipe Córdoba Restrepo

Director of the University Press of Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of SciELO Livros and the Advisory Council of the Open Book Futures project. He previously served as president of the Association of University Publishers of Colombia (ASEUC) and the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC). He holds a PhD in History and is part of the Research Group on Religion, Culture, and Society at the University of Antioquia, as well as the Research Group on Academic Books at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). In 2019, he received the "Rubén Bonifaz Nuño" Recognition for University Editors awarded by UNAM.

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel 1: Building a Science for Everyone