Edmundo Murray

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Edmundo Murray (born 1955 in Buenos Aires), is an Argentine author, born in a family with mixed Colombian, Irish and Swiss roots. He has published widely on Irish-Latin American relations, art and diplomacy, and links between food and music.

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Edmundo Murray studied in Argentina, Switzerland and the United States. He obtained a PhD in Latin American literature from University of Zurich (Romanisches Seminar), and a M.A. from University of Geneva. He is a lecturer and frequent contributor of articles in cultural history, regional cultural integration and Irish and Latin American studies. He is a Founding Member of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies, and member of the Swiss Society of Americanists. Founder and first editor of Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, a journal focusing on relations between Ireland and Latin America. His focus on immigrants's identity considered as "a problem, an open question", [1] led him to analyze other aspects of cultural history in international relations, links between food and music, and literary identities.

Visiting professor at University of Cape Verde. Research consultant of the West Africa Institute. Advisory Board member and contributor to Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008). Poet and a short-story writer, he published Poemas Nómades (1999) and Taxonomía Fantástica de los Árboles de Buenos Aires (2000). From 2001 to 2020, Murray worked as publishing officer at WTO Publications, the in-house publisher of the World Trade Organization. He is a travel writer and bikepacker, and he contributes articles to his blog Bikes and Cultures. [2]

Murray's book about the WTO building Art Discovery and Censorship in the Centre William Rappard of Geneva: Building the Future (2023) has been described as "an important contribution to the knowledge of significant heritage aspects of the international public buildings and their artistic collections", [3] and a "fascinating account [that] provides intriguing insights into the artworks that were commissioned or gifted to the prestigious occupants of the Rue de Lausanne, 154". [3] The chapter dedicated to the removal of Claude Namy's caricature In GATT We Trust in 2019 has been disapproved by the WTO, resulting on 14 percent of the original text deleted. [4]

Edmundo Murray is married to Estelle Varanguien de Villepin and father of five. He currently lives in Granada, Spain.

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  1. Mariano Galazzi, "'Dublin Traitors' or 'Gallants of Dublin' The Argentine Newspapers and the Easter Rising" in Estudios Irlandeses 11 (2016), 58-68) url=https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mariano-Galazzi_EI11.pdf
  2. Bikes and Cultures (url=https://bikesandcultures.blogspot.com/)
  3. 1 2 "Art Discovery and Censorship in the Centre William Rappard of Geneva". SpringerLink. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-27160-1|.
  4. "Art Discovery and Censorship in the Centre William Rappard of Geneva", p. 147