Faculty of Communication and Culture
In the School of Communication and Information we are committed to the study and postgraduate training of what has been called the backbone of today's world. We are interested in training high-level professionals who are able to articulate social dialogue and add value to contribute to a more humane and just community life. The Faculty is made up of a group of professors with professional experience and academic solvency, convinced that masters and postgraduate programs are a fundamental tool to update knowledge and to grow professionally. Study with us. On the shoulders of giants.
Vice Decano
Paula Andrea Parada
Nuestra Vice-Decana posee una Licenciatura en Historia del Arte con mención en Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales de la Universidad Internacional SEK, donde además recibió el Premio a la Excelencia Académica, además posee estudios de Licenciatura en Estética, (mención artes plásticas) y el Diplomado en Administración Cultural en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
PROFESSORS
He is a Senior Specialist in Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
He is a full member of ADACRE (Asociación de Amigos del Cementerio de la Recoleta), of the Centro Cultural Salamone de Balcarce, and of the Ibero-American and Argentine Networks of Valuation and Heritage Management of Cemeteries.
Since 2017, he has been managing the group Patrimonio Funerario Mundial on Facebook, which currently has more than 9,500 members, residents in nearly 80 countries.
During 2020, she compiled and published the First Guide to Cemeteries of the Argentine Republic, which consists of 80 articles contributed by 70 collaborators; she is currently working on a second expanded edition of this work.
In 2022, together with Carlos María Nessi, she published Funerary Heritage of the Argentine Republic, declared historical at the national level, with photographic contributions from 60 collaborators, and 8 reviewers specialized in funerary history and sculpture.
As a lecturer, she presented papers on funerary heritage in various national and international meetings. During the pandemic, he managed more than 30 virtual meetings, where Argentine and foreign experts and exhibitors offered their knowledge to the attendees.
He is a conservator/restorer of works of art from the Universidad Nacional Diego Quispe Tito in Cusco, and is a master's candidate in the master's program in university teaching at the Universidad Andina del Cusco, whose work focuses on the diagnosis of easel painting and the importance of the use of science.
He has worked in the network of museums of the Franciscan Province of the XII Apostles of Peru, in the Convent Museum of San Francisco in Cusco and in the Museum and Catacombs of San Francisco in Lima, in the latter as head of the easel painting workshop.
He has collaborated in the preservation and conservation of private collections in Lima and in different museums in Lima. He was in charge of the coordination of the registry and cataloging area of the Archbishopric of Cusco.
He has participated as a speaker in several meetings on management and valuation of heritage cemeteries, as well as meetings on conservation of movable heritage in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador.
He is currently director of Wiñay, Institute for Research in Andean Art and Visual Culture.
He is permanent curator of the Francisco Yabar Collection: Marian Devotions in the Viceroyalty of Peru and consultant on conservation and preservation project management for the Prelature of Juli in the Puno-Peru region.
PhD in Tourism (heritage cemeteries). Degree in Art History.
Master University Specialist in Archival and Libraries.
Specialization courses related to the funerary field.
- "Archaeology in Practice" University Oxford.
- "Funerary cultural heritage and cemetery tourism for professional practice as a tourist guide", University of Malaga.
- "Curatorship" University of Burgos.
- Field work in archaeological excavations in the San Rafael Cemetery in Malaga. - "Archaeological excavations in the English Cemetery of Malaga, recovery and dissemination.Field work in archaeological excavations of the San Rafael Cemetery in Malaga.
-Volunteer of the English Cemetery of Malaga, recovery and dissemination.
-Co-founder of the Spanish Network of Heritage Cemeteries.
-Member of The Association for Gravestone Studies. Massachusetts.
-Collaborator in the meetings Cemetery Research Group University of York.
-Founder and organizer of virtual meetings "Grupo de Investigación y Difusión del Patrimonio Funerario".
-Collaborator and Organizer- XX Encuentro de Cementerios Patrimoniales.
Cemeteries as a cultural, touristic and educational resource. 11 to 16 Nov. Malaga.
-Co-Commissioner- Exhibition Documents in stone: tombstones and lapidaries in Malaga.
-Community manager in social networks (Facebook, Instagram). Spanish Network of Heritage Cemeteries.
-Member of the editorial board "Isla de Arriarán. Revista Cultural y Científica".
-Dictaminator "Sexto Coloquio Internacional, Historia, Arquitectura, Esculturas, Urbanismos y Costumbres Funerarias".
-Publications in scientific journals, congresses, of specialization in culture, architecture and funerary heritage.
Ongoing research: - Cataloging and inventorying of cemeteries in Mexico "Grupo de Investigaciones Arquitectura de Cultura Funeraria" coordinated by Dr. Ethel Herrera Moreno.
- Inventorying for the "Grupo de Museología y gestión del patrimonio de la Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón".
Teaching:
- Cátedra de Historia UPB - Ciclo: "Muerte, rituales y patrimonio funerario" 2021.
- Workshops in English Cemetery of Málaga. Open House Málaga 2022 and 2023
Mi nombre es Ana maría Almeida y desde 1990 soy arquitecta de profesión y docente universitaria tanto en docencia directa de aula como en talleres especializados de la carrera de arquitectura. Además, cuento con vasta experiencia docente y profesional como tutora de práctica profesionales supervisadas las cuales me han brindado con la experiencia y conocimiento suficiente como para proveer a uds de las herramientas y estrategias que les permitan apreciar y valorar el patrimonio funeraria de manera integrada y experta.
Integro la docencia con la investigación a través de mi rol activo dentro del grupo interdisciplinario, especialmente liderando trabajo de campo en el Cementerio Municipal de Concepción del Uruguay con la finalidad de relevar su patrimonio material e inmaterial. Tal proceso profesional se plasma en el libro titulado Cementerio de Concepción del Uruguay: Mitos, Leyendas y Verdades Construidas.
Master in Cultural Management, MBA in Project Management, Commercial Engineer & Journalist. Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Indiana Institute of Technology (USA) with postgraduate certificate in Project Management from the same university. Master in Applied Cultural Management, mention in Policies and Management of Cultural Institutions, Universidad del Desarrollo de Santiago. B.A. in Social Communication and Journalist with Highest Distinction from Universidad Austral de Chile. Commercial Engineer with Highest Distinction and Bachelor of Science in Administration, Universidad San Sebastián. Author of academic papers for universities in Spain and Mexico on communication and teleworking. Performed 8 academic mentorships at Universidad Austral. Fifteen years of work experience in the private and public sector. Ministries and Municipalities in the regions of Los Ríos and Los Lagos; and Governorate of Valdivia. Collaborator of the Jaime Guzmán Foundation and served as Editor and Author of Realidad Magazine in Santiago. Coordinator of the Ibero-American Art & Culture Magazine "Avanzada". Director of RSC Consulting on Corporate Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship www.rsc-marketing.com; Director and Creator of Culture & Heritage www.culturapatrimonio.com; Creator and manager of several projects submitted to Ministries and Regional Government. Manager and executor of Mobile Cinema Project for remote places. Winner and executor of national and regional FONDART on music, cinema and heritage. He is in the process of executing a Municipal Associativity Project on diverse artistic manifestations. He is author and researcher of the biography of the first civilian commercial and military aviator of Chile, Margoth Duhalde Sotomayor, who contributed to liberate France from Germany in World War II.
D. in Administration (UBA). From 1990 to 2018, he was a member of the Argentine Corps of Government Administrators and, in that capacity, he was Director of Cultural Industries and Director of INCAA Spaces. He is a member of the group of experts in cultural policies of UNESCO, having carried out consultancies in Central American and African countries. Founder and current director of the Cultural Observatory of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, and Director of the Master and Specialization in management of organizations in the cultural and creative sector at the same faculty. He regularly teaches courses in his specialty at different universities in Argentina, Latin America and Europe. He regularly publishes articles on different aspects of cultural management in specialized magazines. Some of his books are Políticas para la creatividad. Guía para Directores de industrias culturales y creativas, co-authored with Guiomar Alonso, Lluis Bonet and Alvaro Garzón (UNESCO, 2011); La gestión de festivales escénicos coord. with Lluís Bonet (Gescènic, 2013); La gestión de teatros (Gescènic, 2017) with Lluís Bonet and Retos de las relaciones culturales entre la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe, edited with Lluís Bonet in the framework of the EULAC-Focus project (2019); ObservaCultura. Dimensions, contributions and challenges of research in cultural management with Bruno Maccari, (Ed. RGC, 2021.).