Intellectual impact of Alexander von Humboldt
Transdisciplinary studies on Mexico City at its geolandscapes
UNAM-Germany
Speakers:
Dr. Ottmar Ette, (professor of Romance Literatures at the University of Potsdam)
Dr. Peter Krieger, (researcher at the Institute for Aesthetic Research and a professor in the Postgraduate Programs in Architecture and Art History at UNAM)
Dr. Javier Delgado, (head of the University Program of Studies on the City (PUEC) of the UNAM)
Dr. Alejandro Velázquez (director of UNAM-Germany)
Moderator:
Mtra. Aurora Vital (deputy manager)
Photograph: Dirección General de Divulgación de la Ciencia UNAM
This chapter is part of the project entitled: Footprints: The world and Mexico City. It will be more contributions from other UNAM headquarters abroad. The UNAM headquarters in Germany posed core questions so that academics could give a constructive and complementary direction around the project. The central question was: How can we understand Alexander von Humboldt's perception of Mexico City? The present contribution recapitulates on the subject of: "The intellectual impact of Alexander von Humboldt - transdisciplinary studies on Mexico City and its geo-landscapes". Professor Ottmar Ette, professor of Romance Literatures at the Universität Potsdman, presented the historical vision in the transdisciplinary concept in the study of city and landscape in Mexico. Professor Peter Krieger, researcher at the Institute for Aesthetic Research at UNAM, alluded to the research line on the geo-aesthetics of the city and landscape, concepts and projects from the motivation of Humboldt's legacy. Professor Javier Delgado, researcher at the Institute of Geography of UNAM, offered a vision on the University Program of Studies on the City as a platform for transdisciplinary studies on Mexico City.
Ottmar Ette
Dr. Ottmar Ette received his PhD in 1990 from the University of Freiburg (Germany) with a dissertation on José Martí. In 1995 he concluded his habilitation at the Catholic University of Eichstätt with an investigation on Roland Barthes. Since October 1995 he has been Professor of Romance Literatures at the University of Potsdam. His venia legendi includes Romance and Comparative literatures. In 2014 Ottmar Ette was elected Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). Since 2013 he is a Full Member in the Humanities Category of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) and since 2015 he is a Member of the „Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. In 2010 he became a member of the Academia Europaea and, among others, an Honorary Member of the Modern Languages Research Institute of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London. Between 2004 and 2005 Ottmar Ette was a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin); in 2013 Member of the Bayreuth Academy for Advanced African Studies and in 2010, fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).
Dr. Ottmar Ette, (professor of Romance Literatures at the University of Potsdam)
Dr. Javier Delgado, (head of the University Program of Studies on the City, PUEC, of the UNAM)
Javier Delgado
Dr. Javier Delgado has a PhD in Urban Planning from UNAM. His research deals with the effects of transport in the urban structure of cities, as well as in its regional scope, its effects on the environment and the long-term formation of its socio-spatial structure.
He has coordinated, co-coordinated and participated as a researcher in around 20 research projects on expansion and reconfiguration of the urban structure, socio-spatial inequality, peri urbanization, social vulnerability, mobility and accessibility and environmental effects of transport on air quality and recently, on land market.
These projects have been carried out in the Center for Ecodesarrollo (CECODES, 1982-1986), in the Metropolitan Research Program of UAM-Xochimilco (PIM, 1992-1995) and since 1997, in the Institute of Geography of UNAM. As a result of his research work, he has published 28 articles and 33 book chapters, national as well as international, seven books, one as author and six as coordinator.
His administrative work includes the coordination of the Master in Regional Studies of the Mora Institute (1994-1996) and the Graduate Program in Geography of the UNAM (2006-2014). Currently he is the head of the University Program of Studies on the City (PUEC) of the UNAM (2017-2021). He is full time researcher and currently level III of the SNI program, a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2010 and of the Young Scholars Committee of the Urban Commission of the International Union of Geography (IGU) from 1997 to 2019 and Vice President of the Urban Commission of the International Geographic Union since 2020.
Peter Krieger
Dr. Peter Krieger got his PhD in Art History from University of Hamburg, 1996. From 1998 he became a researcher at the Institute for Aesthetic Research and a professor in the Postgraduate Programs in Architecture and Art History at UNAM. From 2004 to 2012 he served as vice president of the International Committee for the History of Art (CIHA / UNESCO). Between 2007 and 2014 he was a visiting researcher at the Transcultural and Transhistoric Efficiencies of the Baroque Paradigm project, University of Western Ontario, London / ON. From 2010 to 2018 he was a member of the Outdoor Advertising Commission, Seduvi / GDF, CDMX.
He was an advisor to the Kyoto Prize der Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan. In 2016 he became Aby-Warburg Professor, Warburg Haus, University of Hamburg, Germany. From April to June 2017 he has been Visiting Fellow, Literary Cultures of the Global South “at the University of Tübingen, Germany / DAAD. In July 2017 he participated as a visiting professor at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His publications (in Spanish, English, German, French and Chinese) deal with the image and history of the city and landscape in the 20th century, aesthetics and ecology of megacities, political iconography of the landscape, art and science, neo-baroque of the XXI century. His most recent book is entitled: Transparencies / Transitions.
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Dr. Peter Krieger, (researcher at the Institute for Aesthetic Research and a professor in the Postgraduate Programs in Architecture and Art History at UNAM)
Dr. Alejandro Velázquez (director of UNAM-Germany)
Dr. José Alejandro Velázquez Montes
José Alejandro Velázquez Montes graduated from UNAM as a Biologist in 1984 and in 1993 he completed his PhD in Landscape Ecology at the University of Amsterdam, Holland. Until 1999 he was a full-time professor and head of the Biogeography Laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM; From 2000 he has been a researcher at the Center for Research in Environmental Geography. He has served as academic secretary of UNAM-Canada, director of Academic Cooperation of UNAM. In 2019, he was the Executive Director of the University Coordination for Sustainability at UNAM. He is currently the director of the UNAM Headquarters in Berlin Germany.