Ramón Grosfoguel (University of California – Berkeley, USA)

Prof. Ramón Grosfoguel is a Puerto Rican sociologist who belongs to the Modernity / Coloniality Group (Grupo M/C) who is a full Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley.

Mónica Moreno (University of Cambridge, UK)

Prof. Mónica Moreno (University of Cambridge, UK) is a Black-mestiza, woman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow in Social Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on the intersectional lived experience of ‘race’ and racism in Mexico and Latin America; antiracism and academic-based impact; feminist theory, intersectionality and racism. She is an expert in qualitative research methods, visual methodologies and thrives in interdisciplinary collaborations. Mónica is currently leading the development of a new research institute on Global Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in the University of Cambridge. Mónica also co-leads the Decolonise Sociology Working Group in the University of Cambridge and with Dr Ella McPherson she runs the End Everyday Racism project, a web-based platform to report and monitor racism in higher education. From 2019-2022 Mónica was a member of the University of Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Advisory Board, which launched in Sept 2022 the Legacies of Enslavement Enquiry.Since 2010, alongside Emiko Saldívar and Judith Bautista, Mónica has co-led the Collective for the Elimination of Racism in Mexico, COPERA, dedicated to making racism public. She has recently-completed large ESRC-funded research project, which she directed (together with Prof Peter Wade), Latin American Anti-racism in a Post-Racial Age, LAPORA, on antiracist practices and discourses in Latin America, comparing experiences in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. It includes a book edited with Peter Wade, Against racism: organizing for social change in Latin America (Pittsburgh University Press) that was published in March 2022, Portuguese and Spanish translations have been published in 2023.

Breno Bringel (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brasil)

Prof. Breno Bringel is an activist-scholar. Professor of Political Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies, State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) and Senior Fellow (Talento Investigador Programme) at the University Complutense de Madrid. He is the director of the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS). Editor of Global Dialogue – ISA Magazine, published in 15 languages. His current research addresses three main topics: i) contemporary activism and social movements; ii) socioecological transitions; iii) the geopolitical and theoretical construction of Latin American thought. He is a member of the Permanent Working Group Beyond Development and the Pacto Ecosocial del Sur. He is editor of the book The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions with an open access version in Spanish.

Charlotte Lemanski (University of Cambridge, UK)

Prof. Charlotte Lemanski is an Urban Geographer interested in everyday urban inequality in the global south, primarily through the lens of infrastructure (housing, land, services), urban governance and citizenship. She has conducted extensive qualitative fieldwork in South Africa (and to a lesser extent, India). As an overarching research ethos, she is committed to supporting and promoting voices and practices from the global South as valid sources of knowledge production.

Muna Dajani (London School of Economics, UK)

Dr. Muna Dajani is an action researcher with a background in critical political ecology. Her work aims to understand environmental and water governance through decolonial and critical lenses. Her doctoral research focused on examining community struggles for rights to water and land resources in settler colonial contexts in Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, with special attention to how farming practices acquire political subjectivity. Dajani is currently a Fellow in Environment at the Geography and Environment Department at LSE. She is the lead editor of The Untold Story of the Golan Heights (I.B. Tauris, 2021), which resulted from her co-development and management of a collaboration project entitled Mapping Memories of Resistance between the LSE Middle East Centre, Birzeit University and Golan Heights based Al-Marsad.

Dr. Kumud Ranjan (Jindal Global University, India)

Dr. Kumud Ranjan completed his Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His Ph.D. engaged with the writing of W.E.B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt and B.R. Ambedkar. He initiated the Ambedkar Reading Group at Cambridge (ARC) during a visiting position in the University of Cambridge He is actually Assisstant Professor at Jindal Global University in Dehli and visiting research fellow in the Unviersity of Sussex working with Professor Gurminder Bhambra. He is researching in Social and Political Theory, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, Classical Pragmatism, Sociology of Race and caste, Decolonial Theory, Postcolonial Theory, History of Ideas, Intellectual History, Modernity, Secularization, and Emancipation.

Dr. Alberto Matarán Ruiz (University of Granada, Spain)

Dr Alberto Matarán Ruiz is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Granada. BsC and PhD in Environmental Science (University of Granada). He is currently working on the conflicts related to energy colonialism, green colonialism  and on local self-sustainability. According to this his methodological approach is based on decolonial, bioregional and agroecological perspectives always considering the importance of participation for the transition processes in Europe and Latinamerica. He is co-author of the book Energy Colonialism (Ona Ediciones, 2024)

Dra. Roser Manzanera (University of Granada, Spain)

Professor in the Department of Sociology and researcher at the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, both at the University of Granada. Leader of the group AfricaInes. She is currently researching on gender, economics, development, globalization and social change with special interest in and from the African region south of the Sahara. Roser Manzanera works under a decolonial approach developing numerous publicaciont such as Agenda 2030 in the Spanish Universities (Ed. UGR, 2024). She is organising the I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES that will be held in Granada 17 and 18 October 2024.

Dra. Josefa Sánchez Contreras (University of Granada, Spain)

She belongs to the Zoque people of San Miguel Chimalapa, Oaxaca, Mexico. Researcher, activist and essayist, she holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Granada, Spain. Josefa Sánchez Contreras researches and writes about energy colonialism, racist dispossession, and the history of anti-colonial struggles of indigenous peoples. She is co-author of the book Energy Colonialism (Ona Ediciones, 2024) and coordinator of the book More and More Mökayas, Thoughts and Feelings of Contemporary Zoques (Ce-Acatl, 2022).

Dra. Katya Colmenares (University of Granada, Spain)

Katya Colmenares, Mexican philosopher. She is the Coordinator of the Virtual Training Program at the National Institute of Political Training of the National Regeneration Movement Party (MORENA). She has published several works in relation to epistemological decolonization, dialectical logic, critical political philosophy and the method of critical science in the line of the Philosophy of Liberation. She is the author of the book Hacia una ciencia de la lógica de la liberación. Elementos para una crítica de la razón trans-ontológica (Autodeterminación/La muela del Diablo, Bolivia, 2015), editor of the Antología de Filosofía de la liberación del filósofofo Enrique Dussel (Akal, 2021) and co-author with Ramón Grosfoguel of the book Hacia una comunidad de vida (Ministerio del poder popular para las comunas y los movimientos sociales, Venezuela, 2023).