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Dr. Juliana Robles de la Pava

Profile

Dr. Juliana Robles de la Pava Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Contact

Links

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Bern Academy of the Arts
    Forschung
    Fellerstrasse 11
    3027 Bern

Activities

  • Design and conduct independent and collaborative research within a Critical Conservation framework
    Contribute to theoretical and methodological development across conservation, art practice, and critical social inquiry
    Undertake qualitative and/or practice-based research (e.g., fieldwork, ethnography, artistic research)
    Produce research outputs, including publications and/or artistic works and exhibitions
    Collaborate with interdisciplinary partners across academic, artistic, and community contexts
    Support project coordination and implementation in line with Swiss National Science Foundation requirements
    Organize and participate in workshops, symposia, exhibitions, and public engagement activities
    Disseminate research to academic and non-academic audiences
    Ensure ethical research practices, including engagement with Indigenous communities and environmental justice
    Assist with project reporting, administration, and future grant development

Research

  • Environmental aesthetics and art theory
    Conservation theory
    Political ecology
    Multispecies studies
    Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies
    Material and infrastructural systems
    Critical posthumanism
    Photographic theory
    Latin American art

CV

  • Researcher, lecturer, and curator working at the intersection of contemporary art, aesthetics, environmental humanities, and critical heritage studies. She holds a PhD in Theory and History of the Arts from the University of Buenos Aires and has pursued further studies in curatorial practice, philosophy, and climate change. Her research draws on posthumanist and neomaterialist theory, science and technology studies, and Latin American art, with a focus on material infrastructures, situated ecologies, and alternative epistemologies.

    She has received research funding and fellowships from CONICET, the Getty Research Institute, the Bunge y Born Foundation, and the Max Weber Foundation. She has held teaching positions at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the University of Buenos Aires, and has curated collaborative, research-based exhibitions in Europe and Latin America. She was a research fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg «inherit. heritage in transformation» at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Within the SNSF-funded research project «Critical Conservation (2026–30)», her research examines counter-narratives of conservation in South America, with particular attention to the Amazon, exploring how community-based and artistic practices reframe care, responsibility, and heritage beyond extractivist paradigms.

Projects

Memberships

  • Latin American Studies Association

Awards

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR).

Awarded by the German Center for Art History (DFK Paris, Max Weber Foundation), the
Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (BHMPI) to be held at the Museo
de Arte de Lima (MALI) in May 2024.

Fellowship from Fundación Bunge y Born, Fundación Espigas / Centro de Estudios Espigas, TAREA-IIPC, UNSAM

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • English - Professional working proficiency
  • Spanish - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German - Elementary proficiency
  • Portuguese - Limited working proficiency
  • Colombia
  • Argentina
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • Brazil