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Speakers

Dora Maria Téllez

Dora Maria Téllez (1955–) was a commander of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. After the fall of the Somoza dictatorship, she became Minister of Health in the Sandinista government (1979–1990). Her work leading this ministry earned a special UN award (education, science, culture) for the remarkable progress achieved in an extremely poor country. During this period, she also actively advocated for women's rights. When the Sandinistas lost power in 1990, Dora Maria Téllez participated in the foundation of the MRS (Sandinista Renovation Movement) in opposition to Daniel Ortega's authoritarian practices, and later the UNAMOS party (Union for Democratic Renewal). Meanwhile, she became a historian and conducted extensive research on Nicaraguan history. Imprisoned from June 2021 to February 2023 in her country, she now lives in exile in the United States. She is currently a visiting professor at Harvard University (2024–2025)

Astrid Ulloa

Astrid Ulloa is an anthropologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with a Master and PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine. Full Professor in the Department of Geography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. With a long history of research on environmental movements and indigenous peoples, gender and indigenous feminisms, territorial feminisms, environmental justice, feminist political ecology, indigenous territories and extractivisms. Her current research focus on: gender and extractivisms, indigenous women, territorial-environmental demands and medialities, just transitions and indigenous territories

Franck Poupeau

Franck Poupeau is a research director at CNRS and the director of CREDA (UMR CNRS 7227 / UMR IRD 280). He has represented the Bolivian branch of the Institut français d’études andines from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2019 to 2022. Between 2012 and 2017, he has directed the international joint research unit iGLOBES (Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies, UMI 3157) based at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on inequalities and environmental policies in South America and the United States. He has published numerous articles and books, the most recent of which are The Field of Water Policy. Power and Scarcity in the American West [Routledge, 2019] and Altiplano. Fragments d’une révolution (Bolivie, 1999-2019) [Raison d’agir, 2021]. Since the 2000s, he has been managing the Raisons d’agir publishing house, which, among other works, has published various Pierre Bourdieu’s cours au Collège de France. He has also co-edited Pierre Bourdieu’s unpublished books Microcosmes. Théorie des champs [2022] and Impérialismes. Circulation internationale des idées et luttes pour l’universel [2023]. He recently coordinated a double issue of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales in 2024-25, titled Écologie et dominations: explorer la condition écologique des classes sociales.