Introduction

Mª Asunción Díaz Zamorano (Email: madiaz@uhu.es ). PhD by the University of Huelva (1997). Professor of Art History at the University of Huelva. Lead Researcher of the R&D&i project "Practices, scenarios and representations of public corruption in Spain and Latin America, 19th and 20th centuries (PID2020-119433RB-I00) and the Research Group "History of Art and Heritage" of the Government of Andalusia (HUM-591).  Member of the Research Center on Historical, Cultural and Natural Heritage of the University of Huelva. Her research career has revolved around studies on contemporary architecture and urbanism, conservation and restoration of monuments, festivals and ephemeral architecture, public spaces in the contemporary city and history of urban thought in the 20th Century. Currently, she researches the phenomenon of urban corruption and the representation of corruption in visual culture, from a comparative perspective. And develops a line of work framed in the most recent currents of Public and Digital History, focused on the use of the image as a historical document, didactic resource and element of heritage interpretation (http://www.vistoynovisto.org/). Research profiles: Academia.edu and Dialnet.es.

Stephan Ruderer is Professor of Chilean and Latin American History at the Catholic University of Chile (PUC) in Santiago. He was awarded his PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 2008. He has been working as a researcher at the University of Münster on the Catholic Church and military dictatorships in Argentina and Chile, on memory politics in Chile and on corruption in Latin America.