Mercedes S. Giuffre is currently a researcher at Dr. Carlos S. Nino Research Institute at Mar del Plata National University, Argentina. She is a member of CARI: Argentine Council of International Relations (www.cari.org.ar); where she is chairman of the Korea Committee and also a member of the China Committee. Her main fields of research, essays and course offerings deal with issues of Multiculturalism and Culture; Influence of Chinese and Oriental cultures in Latin America, and also Orientalism in Argentina through the eyes of travelers, painters and writers. She has supervised more than 19th M. A thesis of scholars. Mercedes Giuffre has also designed various university courses related to Chinese Culture and Protocol; Korean Hallyu; Middle Class in Asia, and Chinese historical development in the XXth. century. She is author of 3 books and over 30 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and her work has appeared in leading academic journals. Since 1999, Prof. Giuffre has been the featured speaker at over ten universities and cultural institutions throughout the world, she has been and still is invited regularly as Visiting Professor at the Chinese Universities of Nanjing, Fudan, Nankai, Tianjin, and at ILAS Institute of Latin American Studies – CASS, Beijing, at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), and also at Hankuk University, Korea; Kebangsaan University, Malaysia, and several other foreign universities. Prof. Giuffre is part of expert committees at various universities and academic institutions. Presently, she is the Director of the Office of Foreign and Institutional Relations at Mar del Plata Municipality. Her last published papers are “Jorge L. Borges and Oriental literature”; “Influence of Chinese traditional painting in Argentina’s painters: Juan Carlos Castagnino.”, “Argentine Travelers to the Chinese Revolution (1952- 1968): Maria R. Oliver, Juan C. Castagnino and Bernardo Kordon.”
