Néstor García Canclini

Born in 1939, Néstor García Canclini is a cultural anthropologist and the first international name to hold the Olavo Setubal Chair of Art, Culture and Science at the IEA, maintained in partnership with the Itaú Cultural Institute. His research project is entitled "The Institutionality of Culture in the Current Context of Sociocultural Changes," and it approaches the "de-institutionalization" of culture.

Canclini is a professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico City and holds a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of La Plata, and the University of Paris Nanterre. He has taught at USP and at universities in the United States, Spain, and Argentina.

In 2014, he received Mexico's National Prize for Sciences and Arts. Among his major works is Culturas Híbridas: Estrategias para Entrar y Salir de la Modernidad (1990), which has been awarded honors in the Iberoamerican Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association in 1992.