Autor: Julio Velasco

Julio Velasco, artist-researcher, works in the fields of art and of the intersection of life sciences, humanities and social sciences, and holds a Ph D in Art and Art Sciences from the Sorbonne Université, Paris. He was a DAAD scholarship holder and is member and co-organizer of the research group Art and Research at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. His current projects are about the Memory of the Plants and the Aestheticization of Immigration. Klaus Weber, historian, is professor of economic and social history at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He researches the impact of early modern and modern globalization on labor regimes and patterns of consumption. Holding a Ph D from Universität Hamburg, he worked at the National University of Ireland in Galway, at The Rothschild Archive in London, and at the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg.