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Born in 1948 in San Sebastián, obtained her Masters degree in 1970 in Classical Philology in  Salamanca, she made her PhD: “History and Theory of the cases” in 1976, also in Salamanca, under the direction of E. Coseriu. Since  1978 she is a professor of Indoeuropean Linguistics in Salamanca University.  In 1989-90 she obtainde a grant of the Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, and, lately she has been working mainly on Indology and  Cultural Comparison. Her main publications are: Historia y teoría de los casos, Madrid 1981; Manual de lengua gótica, Publ. de la Univ. de Salamanca, 1982, reed. 1988, 263 p., L.; Pensamiento y cultura en la antigua India, Akal, Madrid 1996; La ciencia del Brahman: Once Upanishad antiguas. Traducción comentada. Madrid 2000 y Das Wissen des Brahman, eine Auswahl der indischen Upanischaden, Colonia 2008. She has written articles on linguistics and philosophy of the language; Indology (mainly vedic and classical literature, and philosophy and theory of Indian language), Indoeuropean, theory of translation, aesthetics and theory of literature, launguage and music, and comparative studies of cultures. Nowadays she teaches Indoeuropean, Indology, theory of language, and science s of culture. She is the Director of  the “Experto universitario en lenguas y culturas de India e Irán” programme at Salamanca University.

Doctor in Philosophy by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität de Munich (Germany, 1993). Her educational work started in Mexico (Universidad Panamericana, D.F) where she also collaborated with other institutions like the Pan-American University of Guadalajara, the Pan-American Center of Humanities (CPH, Monterrey), the Training center and Investigations of Bioethics (CEIB, Guadalajara), the Pontifical University of Mexico (Mexico DF), or the Pan-American Institute of High Business Management (IPADE, Mexico DF). At the moment is engaged professor of philosophy of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Between her publications are essentially works of philosophical Anthropology: Kierkegaards Begriff der Ausnahme. Der Geist als Liebe (the kierkegaardian concept of exception. The spirit like love), Akademie Verlag, Munich, 1992. The freedom in “the concept of Angustia”, Seville, 1995 and of aesthetic: Alhambra´s rithm, Granada, 1998; The man is a being who lives, Community of Madrid, Madrid, 2003, sometimes in collaboration with Marta González (preservative of the MNACRS until 2006), Quelques you limit du langage artistique: d'après unites analyse l'oeuvre of J. Beuys, Tunisia, 2001.

A historian and anthropologist formed at the universities in the Czech Republic, the USA, Spain, Mexico and the Great Britain. She is researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the Charles University in Prague, and visiting scholar of the universities of Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA, and Colegio de Mexico, Mexico. Her work has been concerned with politics of identity, multiculturalism and migration as reflected through the arts and culture, with a special focus on the regions of Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. Her award winning Ph.D. thesis on political iconography of the Chicano Movement in the United States of America is forthcoming from the Charles University Press. Her recent concern is with the nature and role of the unauthorized “unofficial” artistic expressions in the authoritarian regimes, and their relationship with the “official” arts. As an academic, columnist, and an NGO activist, her interests have always combined research and practice. She is a founding director of the Multicultural Center Prague (www.mkc.cz), a think-tank dedicated to applied social research in an increasingly culturally diverse region of Central and Eastern Europe. She is currently serving a member of the Board of Directors of the European Cultural Foundation (www.eurocult.org) dedicated to enhancing the role of culture and arts in the context of multicultural European societies. Regularly collaborates with diverse EU institutions in the capacity of an expert and trainer both within the EU and in a number of non-industrialized countries. She currently lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Is a Profesor of History of Contemporary and Eastern Art at the “Department of History of Art, III (Contemporary)” in the Faculty o  Geography and History at the Complutense University in Madrid. Se did her Phd on Indian Art, and she was living in India for 3 years, thanks to several schoolarships granted by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the  Indian Council for Cultural Relations, the Complutense University and the  UNESCO.  She has published about Asian Art and Contemporary Western Art, including her monograph on the Ajanta Paintings: Las pinturas de Ajanta. Teatro indio de la naturaleza (Madrid, Abada, 2007). She has also published: Anish Kapoor (Hondarribia, Nerea, 2006), Miralda. Sabores y Lenguas: 15 platos capitales. ( Madrid, Fundación ICO), Diccionario de  la mitología universal (Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 2000), and several colaborations in books on Asian Art: Asia (Barcelona, Océano, 1996),  El árbol de la vida. La naturaleza en el arte y las tradiciones de la India  (ed. de Chantal Maillard en Barcelona ,Kairós, 2001). She has translated into Spanish The Dance of Shiva, by Coomaraswamy: La danza de Siva (Madrid, Siruela, 1996 y 2006). At the moment she is working on transculturality, hybridations and globalization in  Contemporary Art in  East and West and she directs the Research Projects: “The Canons of Indian and Chinese Art” (Santander/Complutense, PR41/06 nº1615) and “Transculturality, hybridations and globalization in  Contemporary Art. East-West.”(Complutense 2007- EJE A, PR1/08-15921-A).

Doctor and Assistant Professor of  Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Malaga (Spain), conducting courses on “Oriental Thought and Aesthetics” and “Comparative Aesthetics” since 2003. She has benefited from two long research stays, one at the Banaras Hindu University (1997/1999), where she pursued research on Kashmir Shaivism’s aesthetics, and a Fulbright research scholarship at the University of Hawai’ i (2002/2003) with a research program on “Aesthetics and Art Multiculturalism”. Her actual lines of research are focused on Transcultural Aesthetics, with special attention to the relationship between the Indian tradition and the Western one. Amongst her recent publications, the following ones can be mentioned: 1.“‘The size of a thumb’: anthropocentrism and the aesthetic thread of upanishadic philosophy” in: R. Wilkinson (ed.), New Essays in Comparative Aesthetics,Cambridge: Cambridge Readers Press, 2007, pp. 42-52,  2.“The Rasa Theory: a Challenge for Intercultural Aesthetics”, in: A. Van den Braembussche, H. Kimmerle y N. Note  (eds.), Intercultural Aesthetics. A World View Perspective,  Springer Verlag: Bruselas, 2008. 3.“Theatrum mundi, Fiction and Metaesthetics from a Comparative Perspective”, in: Nishimura, K., Iwaki, K. y otros (Eds.): Selected Papers of the 15th  International Congress of Aesthetics. Tokio (Japón): Organizing Committee of the 15fth International Congress of Aesthetics, 2003, pp. 62-69.v. 4.“Arte globalizado y nuevas tendencias estéticas en las sociedades multiétnicas”, in: L. Puelles Romero y R. Fernández Gómez (eds.), Estetización y nuevas artes. Suplemento 13 de Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Málaga (en prensa). ISSN: 1136-9922. 5. “Transculturalidad y arte contemporáneo: hacia una no-dualidad estética”, in: L. Puelles y R. Fernández (eds.), Estéticas: Occidente y otras culturas,  Suplemento 9 (2004) de Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Málaga, pp. 103-122.

A Professor of the Complutense University in Madrid de la UCM, where she has been teaching History of Indian and South Eastern Art for more than three decades. She is the Director of the Complutense Asia Research Group (Grupo de Investigación Complutense Asia), and she has directed ten doctoral thesis on Asiatic Art. Some of her publications are: Historia del Arte Indio (Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1996), Arte oriental: India, Himalaya y Sudeste Asiático, (Alianza, Madrid, 1996) Diccionario de términos de arte indio (El Serbal, Barcelona, 1998), El arte indio (Historia 16, Madrid, 1989), India inmortal (Historia 16, Madrid, 1988). She has directed the research projects: ¨La presencia de India y Asia Oriental en el arte español de la segunda mitad del siglo XX¨ (“The presence of India and Eastern Asia in Spanish art of the second half of the 20th century”). Financiado por el plan I+D, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (entre 2002 y 2005) y ¨La presencia de India y Asia Oriental en el arte español de la segunda mitad del siglo XX¨ (“The presence of India and Eastern Asia in Spanish art of the second half of the 20th century”). Financiado por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (entre 2000 y 2001).

Researcher of Universidad Veracruzana, in Xalapa, México, and Works mainly on “Aesthetics and interculturality: East and West”, with an historical, cultural and artistic perspectiva of the subject; covering from the Silk Route to the XXth Century. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México SNI – CONACYT (Mexican Nacional Programme of Reserchers), and she obteined the grant of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes FONCA. She is working also on Aesthetics and she directs an research project financed by the “Programa para el Mejoramiento del Profesorado 2008”,titled “Aesthetics and interculturality: East and West” that includes an academical Website, publications, and other results of the researching done with her team. Her main publications are: Instituto de artes plásticas 1977 – 2007. 30 Años de Vanguardia. Catálogo de los artistas del Instituto de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Veracruzana, FONCA – UV 2006, La pintura de paisaje: del taoísmo chino al romanticismo europeo. Paralelismos plásticos y estéticos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2005, and “Goro Nagano. El mundo de los contrarios en el arte del Japón actual” revista QADRO de Arte y Literatura del Instituto de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Veracruzana, nº 3, marzo de 2005. She has taken part in different nacional and internacional conferences, she has been lecturing about her subjects and about Chinese Culture, colaborates with several research groups and has given a Phd course on the subject of this project.

Obtained the Degree in Art History, with “Extraordinary Prize of End Degree”  at the Complutense University in Madrid and she is DAAD’s scholar (German Academic Exchange Service) within the program for doctoral candidates and young academics and scientists. She has performed research about the group Zaj, one of the first artistic initiatives which connected the Spain of Franco with the international Avant-garde in Europe and the US. Currently she is preparing the PhDThesis about the avant-gardistic phenomenon Fluxus, shaped at the beginning of the 1960s as an international  network between artists of the most diverse provenances. She works and lives between Madrid and Berlin. She is assistant in the Dpt of Art History III (Contemporary) of the Complutense University in Madrid and she performs her research under a shared guidance with the “Kunsthistorisches Institut” (Institut for Art History) of the Berlin’s Free University.She has published The Art of the 20th Century, in Collection of Art History. Madrid, Editorial Cultural, 2008; “Arpocrate seduto sul loto”, in DIAZ-BERTRANA, Carlos (Ed.). Walter Marchetti. Visible Music. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Atlantic Center of Modern Art-CAAM (also in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Fuerteventura), 2004, pp. 19-31 and "Quicksilver Souls. About À Rebours by J-K. Huysmans, with voices of Pedro Casariego Córdoba", in The Selfdestruction. Exhibitional Experimental Dialog.  Madrid, Fac. of Geography and History, Complutense University, 2004. Aditionally she had translated from German to Spanish the text by Peter Dittmar „Einleitung. Zur Zeichnung von Hernández Pijuan“ – „Sobre el dibujo de Hernández Pijuan“, published in DITTMAR, Peter (Ed.) Joan Hernández Pijuan, Zeichnungen 1989-2004. Berlin, Edition Dittmar, 2007 as well as in Joan Hernández Pijuan. La distancia del dibujo. Madrid, Fundación Juan March, 2008

Graduated with a degree in Art History from the Geography and History Faculty (Facultad de Geografía e Historia) at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 2004; she obtained the Extraordinary award in the academic year 2003-2004 for the degree in Art History; Predoctoral scholarship FPI (Formación Personal Investigador, Research Staff Education) at UCM (2005-2009). Research Staff Education at UCM from 2007; she graduated with a degree course in East Asian Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in 2008 and she is a member of the Asia Research Group (Grupo de Investigación Asia-Complutense) at the Departament of Art History III, Geography and History Faculty, UCM.

She has published:“Devorando la ciudad. Transformaciones arquitectónicas y urbanísticas de Beijing” (“Devouring the City. Architectural and Urbanistic Transformations in the City of Beijing”) in Anales de Historia del arte (2005), journal of the departments of Art History in the Geography and History Faculty at UCM, vol. 15, p. 327-347, ISSN: 0214-6452; and the catalogue: Chen Chieh-jen. Tribunal militar y prisión, (Chen Chieh-jen. Military Court and Prison), Reina Sofía National Museum of Art, Spanish Ministery of Culture, Madrid, 2008. She has been a visiting student at I’NALCO in Paris, 2006-2007 and a visiting researcher at National Taipei Education University (Department of Art), Taiwan, from Octuber 2007 to January 2008/ from June 25 to August 23 2008.

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. He received his Ph.D. for work on the aesthetics of George Santayana in 1974, and thereafter worked for some years in the area of mainstream western anglophone philosophy. Publications in this area include Theories of Art and Beauty (1991) and Minds and Bodies (2000), together with essays on the concept of aesthetic expression; the sublime; early German Romantic aesthetics; Lessing; Voltaire and Kant. He began to develop an interest in comparative aesthetics and philosophy in the 1980’s, and has published a number of essays in that area, e.g. on the reception of Indian aesthetics in the West; the concept of the profound, East and West; two essays on the aesthetics of Nishida Kitar? and has edited or co-edited two anthologies of essays on comparative aesthetics. He has also written introductions to the works of Confucius, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu and The Book of Lord Shang, as well as a reference work, Fifty Eastern Thinkers (2000) together with two colleagues from the Open University. He has recently completed a monograph, Nishida and Western Philosophy, currently in press. A theme which recurs in his work is the exploration of the differences which develop between those cultures which pursue nirvana or moksha (or sagehood, in Taoist terms), and those which (like the main tradition of the West) deriving from Aristotle, regard individuals as ultimately real and individualism as valuable. Such differences are systematic, and manifest themselves in every area of life, including aesthetics.