Paul Goodwinis a curator, researcher and educator based in London. Goodwin’s research focuses on Black British Art and African diaspora art since 1980 and transnationalism in contemporary art production. His multidisciplinary research and curatorial practice revolves around exploring the creative potential of both cities and exhibitions as sites of aesthetic, socio-cultural and political intervention. Within the urban field this has been framed around understanding how the black and migrant presence in cities have shaped and in turn been shaped by formations of urban aesthetic and socio-cultural modernity. Within the field of contemporary art Goodwin has focused on the dynamics of how processes of migration, globalisation and transnationalism are yielding new forms of innovative artistic and curatorial practices in both a European and broader international context. He is the Co-Lead Investigator (with Prof Ming Tiampo) of a new Trans-Atlantic Platform funded international research project: Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation as well as co-founder of the Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange network (TRACE). Goodwin’s current and future curatorial projects include: W.E.B. DuBois: Charting Black Lives (House of Illustration, London, UK, 2019, Illustration Embassy, Amsterdam, NL 2021),We Will Walk: Art and Resistance from the American South (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2020) and Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, Chapter 2 (Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, 2021). Goodwin is a professor and Director of TrAIN Research Centre (Transnational Art, Identity & Nation) at University of the Arts London where he also teaches on the MA Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Arts.

Hegemonies to the south of the south. Decolonizing the museum from Mapuche spirituality and wisdom

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Carolina Castro Jorquera is an independent curator and researcher. She has a doctorate in Art History from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has completed an MA in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofıá in Spain (2010) and participated in the Fourth International Curators Course at the Gwangju Biennial (GBICC), South Korea (2012). Her writings have been published in magazines such as Artishock, Latinxspaces, The Miami Rail, Terremoto and on the online platform of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Her doctoral research is published under the title ‘The Way of Consciousness: Mira Schendel, Víctor Grippo and Cecilia Vicuña’ in editions UFT (2020), Santiago de Chile, 2020. She is currently a professor of the MA in creation / studies of the image of the Finis Terrae University.

The critical imagination. The first contemporary art museums in three cities in Latin America: the cases of LiMAC (Lima), La Ene (Buenos Aires) and NuMu (Guatemala City).

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Pamela Desjardins is a contemporary art curator and researcher based in Mexico City. She was an Associate Curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City (2017-2020) and a curator at FLORA ars+natura in Bogotá, where she coordinated the exhibition ‘Public and Artist Residency Programs’ (2014-2016). In 2018, she held the curatorial research residency at Felipa Manuela, Madrid, and in 2013 the Résidence des Amériques at the Fonderie Darling, Montreal. Between 2012 and 2013, she attended the Independent Study Program (PEI) at MACBA, Barcelona. Between March and June 2021, she coordinated online courses in curatorial practices focusing on Latin American. She was recently admitted to the PhD programme in Art History at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).

Narratives and Facts from Argentina: The Buenos Aires instances of the “Museum Global” initiative from Germany’s Kulturstiftung (2017) and of “Art Basel Cities” (2018)

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Clara Masnatta (PhD Harvard/Humboldt U. of Berlin) is an independent curator and scholar based in Berlin and Buenos Aires. She is the author of Gisèle Freund: Photography on the Stage (Diaphanes, forthcoming) and several book chapters in: Disassembled Images: Allan Sekula and Contemporary Art (Leuven U. P., 2019); La cámara como método. La fotografía moderna de Grete Stern y Horacio Coppola (Eterna Cadencia, 2021); ERRANS (ICI Berlin Press, 2021, in press); About Raymond Williams (Routledge, 2010;); and the publication for Rinko Kawauchi’s retrospective at the Kunst Haus Wien in 2015. She curated the exhibition ‘Gisèle Freund: Exposición-Espectáculo’ (2019) at the Museo Sívori in Buenos Aires, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires, in cooperation with IMEC, Institut Français, and INA in France. Masnatta was a Fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute of Cultural Inquiry (2014-16, Affiliated 2016-18). She was an external curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Buenos Aires (2014-2017).

Reflecting on museums acquisitions from a decolonial perspective: the case of Brazilian art in public collections in the UK

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Eloisa Rodrigues is a final-year PhD candidate at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, funded by AHRC Midlands4Cities DTP. Her research focuses on analysing acquisitions of Brazilian art by public museums in the UK. She is also currently Research Associate at the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum. She is interested in acquisitions practices, history of collections, transnational history, decoloniality, and Latin American art. She is also Committee Member of the Doctoral and Earlier Career Research (DECR) Network of the Association for Art History. She was a co-Editor-in-Chief of issue 24 of the peer-reviewed journal Museological Review. She has worked in collection-based projects at the V&A Museum of Childhood, British Library, Royal London Hospital Archives and Museums, and LR Foundation.