eliZabeth chin |
Elizabeth Chin is a Professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA teaching in the MFA program Media Design Practices. Her work spans a variety of topics--race, consumption, Barbie--but nearly always engages marginalized youth in collaboratively taking on the complexities of the world around them. She has current projects in Los Angeles, and Haiti and has engaged partners including the Los Angeles Police Department, numerous public schools, Jovenes, Inc. in Boyle Heights, and Lekòl Kominotè Matènwa in Haiti. A specialist in Haitian Folkloric dance, she has performed professionally and still occasionally teaches dance. Taking writing very, very seriously, her work increasingly investigates the ethnographic voice with an eye toward decolonizing anthropological knowledge as it appears on the page. She is also Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist. She lives and works on the ancestral and unceded land of the Gabrielino and Tongva people. elizabethjchin.com
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Gastón Gordillo |
Gastón Gordillo is Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. A Guggenheim Fellow, his most recent book is Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction (2014, Duke University Press; Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing). He is also the author of Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco (2004, Duke University Press; winner of the Sharon Stephens Book Prize by the American Ethnological Society) and En el Gran Chaco: Antropologías e historias (2006, Prometeo), among other books. He’s currently completing a book entitled Here Comes the Horde: Racial Geographies of the Argentine Multitude.
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PAMILA GUPTA |
Pamila Gupta is Professor at WiSER at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University. Her research explores Lusophone (post)colonial links and legacies in India and East Africa. She has written on such varied topics as monuments, azulejo tiles and the colour blue for the Portuguese diaspora in South Africa; monsoons, wetness and islandness in the Indian Ocean; tourism, heritage and design in Goa (India); Goan fishermen and urban renovation in Mozambique; tailoring, photography and visual cultures in Zanzibar; and Art Deco and swimming pools in Johannesburg.
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Gene Ray |
Gene Ray is Associate Professor in the CCC Research-based Master Program at HEAD-Genève/Geneva School of Art and Design. He writes about critical theory and the aesthetics of post-1945 and contemporary memory politics. Author of Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 2011), he led the collective research projects The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva (2016-18) and All Monuments Must Fall (2021). He is currently organizing the new project Mutations of the Sublime, Endings of the Holocene. His writings can be accessed online at: https://head.academia.edu/generay .
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Margaret Gibson |
Margaret Gibson is a cultural sociologist and senior lecturer at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on objects of memory and grief, public mourning and social media intimacies of grieving, death scenes in film, and most recently, forms of disruptive and contested memorialisation in publics of space. She is author of several books to include Objects of the Dead: Mourning and Memory in Everyday Life (MUP, 2008), and (with Dr Clarissa Carden) Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Digital Kinship, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life (Palgrave, 2018) and a recently co-edited The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror (2020, Palgrave).
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Susan Lepselter |
Susan Lepselter is Associate Professor of American Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Folklore, at Indiana University, Bloomington. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to narrative and poetics in the United States, and has written on UFO abduction stories, captivity narratives, conspiracy theories and hoarding shows, as well as writing poetry and short fiction. She is currently completing a multimedia project about shifting encounters between human and nonhuman animals at a time of environmental urgency. Her book The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity and UFOs in the American Uncanny, (University of Michigan Press, 2016) won the Society for Cultural Anthropology Bateson Prize of 2017.
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A. Sayeeda Moreno |
A. Sayeeda Moreno is a director, screenwriter, and proud native New Yorker. Her films are character driven, utilizing genre, infused with black and brown bodies of the diaspora illuminating our (human) experiences; how we survive, what is in opposition to us, what our mind grapples with, and how we love. Sayeeda is developing her feature film Out in the Dunes, a coming-of-age lesbian romance set in the artist dune shacks of Provincetown, MA in the 1990’s, and the feature script White. White, a SFFS Hearst screenwriting award and Athena List winner is a dystopian thriller set in a burning hot near-future where the commodification of black/brown people and counter-narratives of resistance spark revolution. Sayeeda is an Assistant Professor in Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College.
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Tom Western |
Tom Western is a Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography at UCL. His teaching and research centre on movements and migrations, cities and citizenships, relations and imaginations, activisms and anticolonialisms – usually working with methods that foreground sound and voice. He works primarily in Athens, Greece, where he is a member of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum, who together run the Active Citizens Sound Archive – a space for
amplifying citizenship work, youth activism, community mobilising, and collective research and knowledge production. Tom is writing his first book, titled Circular Movements: Migratory Activisms and Creative Citizenships in Athens. |
Özge Serin |
Özge Serin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Politics at Whitman College, and received her doctorate in Anthropology from Columbia University. Her research and writing are principally concerned with formations of violence, carceral regimes, and corporeal forms of resistance with a particular focus on the practice of hunger striking, its temporal structure, modes of strategic functioning, communicative force and ethical vicissitudes. She has published articles and chapters in boundary 2, Kampfplatz, and Re-enactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory. Her book manuscript, Writing of Death: Ethics and Politics of the Hunger Strike, explores the ambiguity of the right to death—an ambiguity that has been ignored by performance theories of violence—by reinscribing the relation of this other scene to the scene of politics in the mode of an opening between the invisible and the visible, non-meaning and meaning, the impolitical and the political. As a companion to her book project, she has also completed an experimental documentary Death/Fast which premiered at Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco.
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Alice von Bieberstein |
Alice von Bieberstein is a research assistant at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, and a fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (Carmah). She completed her Ph.D. and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge as well as a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin. Her work focuses on questions of the state and governance, histories of political violence, political economy, and materiality with a regional focus on Turkey. She has co-edited the book ‘Reverberations: Violence across Time and Space’ (UPenn Press, 2021) and her articles have appeared in various journals, including Subjectivity, Social Research, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. For more information, see www.carmah.berlin/people/von-bieberstein-alice/.
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KRISTA CABALLERO |
Krista Caballero is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the messy and often surprising encounters between human, ecological, and technological landscapes. Caballero was awarded a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and is now a Smithsonian Research Associate looking at the cultural implications of bird species decline. She has been awarded residencies at places such as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Caballero received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and is currently Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities and Artist in Residence at Bard College in N.Y.
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Dominique Townsend |
Dominique Townsend is a researcher, teacher, writer, and translator whose work focuses on Tibetan Buddhist cultural production, poetics, and aesthetics. She is a co-leader of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network and Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Bard College, in New York State. She is the author of A Buddhist Sensibility (Columbia University Press, 2021), Shantideva (Wisdom Publications, 2015), and The Weather & Our Tempers (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013).
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Gwyneira Isaac |
Gwyneira Isaac (DPhil Oxford University) is Curator of North American Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. Her research focuses on the dynamics between culturally different knowledge systems, especially where Native American and non-Native knowledge systems intersect. Central to this is her fieldwork and ethnography of a tribal museum in the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, and her exploration of the challenges faced by Zunis operating between Zuni and Euro-American approaches to knowledge. Her research into different knowledges (either culturally or disciplinarily distinct) also include how technology and media are used within the discipline of anthropology via the reproduction of knowledge through replicas, face casts, models and 3D printing. She is director for the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices program, which supports Indigenous communities in their efforts to revitalize endangered languages and knowledge.
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Olga Cielemęcka |
Olga Cielemecka is a philosopher with a penchant for interdisciplinary research in feminist environmental humanities and critical theory of society. Olga’s research is driven by a sense of curiosity about how we, humans, make sense of the rapidly shifting environments around us and their impact on various bodies and communities. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from University of Warsaw, Poland and currently is the Institute for Advanced Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland. Olga’s work has been published in Somatechnics, Theory, Culture, & Society and Journal of Gender Studies, among others.
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Jenny Marketou |
Jenny Marketou is a visual artist based in New York where she teaches at the New School for Social Research. Her research and community-embedded art projects such as Undoing Monuments (2008), How Assemblies Matter (2014) and Serious Games (2021) question art’s autonomy by combining performative actions, discussions, video interviews, forms of organizing and pedagogy as well as decolonial strategies. and aesthetics. Her work has been featured in biennials, museum and galleries such as the Biennial de Mediterranean 19, San Marino; Parliament of Bodies, Documenta 14; Manifesta, European Biennial; Biennial of Seville; Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil,; ZKM Center for Media Arts, Karlsruhe; Museum Tinguely, Basel; Kumu Art Museum, Estonia; Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid; Queens Museum, New York; Krannert Art Museum, Illinois; Apex Art, New York; The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST).
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M Acuff |
M Acuff’s practice ranges from object making to installation to video and performance, and makes legible the specific agents that have made, erased and perpetuated specific kinds of knowledge, structure and perception over other possible formations. Acuff’s work re-fashions dominant ideas about nature, gender, race and class that organize and enact omnicidal, world-ending violence, venturing instead to seed alternative, biophilic imagination and radicality. Acuff is a Professor of Art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.
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PENELOPE PAPAILIAS |
Penelope Papailias teaches anthropology at the University of Thessaly, where she directs the Laboratory of Social Anthropology. She has written on the politics of cultural memory, historical culture and the witnessing of media events. Her current work focuses on the public appearance of the dead body(-image) from memes and YouTube memorials to bone rooms and archaeological excavations. She is committed to reimagining anthropological pedagogy and research through experimentation with multimodal genres (data-stories) and building publics through collaborations with artists and activists. Penelope is on the steering committee of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, associate editor of World Anthropologies for American Anthropology and co-founder of dëcoloиıze hellάş.
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GEORGE MANTZIOS |
George Mantzios is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and an associate program coordinator for the Pelion Summer Lab. His doctoral research investigates the political aesthetics of historical redress in Athens, Greece, through a series of speculative engagements with the defacement and ruination of iconic public monuments and infrastructure.
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