{"id":60,"date":"2020-05-29T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/postmigrantaesthetics\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2020-06-18T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T19:19:36","slug":"bios","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/postmigrantaesthetics\/bios\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00c1lvaro Luna<\/strong> earned his doctoral degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2019 and is currently a Postdoc at the\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de Limoges and the Institut d\u2019\u00e9tudes politiques de Paris (France). He teaches Postmigration Studies and American minority literatures at l\u2019Institut d\u2019\u00e9tudes politiques de Paris. He is currently preparing a monograph that compares Maghrebi-French and Chicana\/o literature and visual narratives. More information about his research can be found on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Azadeh Sharifi\u00a0<\/strong>is Postdoc at the Institute for Theatre Studies at the Ludwigs-Maximilian University<\/a>, Munich (Germany) and currently works on the\u00a0DFG-Project on “(Post)migrantisches Theater in der deutschen Theatergeschichte – (Dis)Kontinuit\u00e4t von \u00c4sthetiken und Narrativen.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dorothee Leesing<\/strong> is a PhD Candidate at the CENES Department<\/a> at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada). Her research revolves around the post-war perception of restructured cityscapes. She is interested in the representation of urban environments and mass dwellings in early digital gaming, children\u2019s and post-migrant literature, and 1950s press photography, with a focus on developments in West Germany. She can be contacted at Dorothee.Leesing@ubc.ca<\/a> for any technical questions before and during the conference<\/p>\n

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Francesca Pegorer<\/strong> is a PhD Candidate in Socio-cultural Anthropology<\/a> at the University of British Columbia,\u00a0Vancouver (Canada). Her doctoral research investigates everyday place-making practices among refugees of Syrian heritage in the city of Berlin (Germany), between senses of belonging and exclusion, right to the city and discrimination, grassroots understandings and EU framings of migration, integration and refuge. She focuses on affect, emotions and the body and takes a multidisciplinary approach that includes anthropology, urban studies, phenomenology, dance and performative arts, and postcolonial studies. Her previous research in Berlin was also centered on questions of belonging. She holds a master\u2019s degree in Sociocultural Anthropology from the Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venezia and another in Architecture and Architectural Engineering from the University of Pavia.<\/p>\n

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Katrin Sieg\u00a0<\/strong>is Professor of German<\/a> jointly affiliated with the BMW Center for German and European Studies and the German Department at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (USA). She is \u00a0also a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of European Studies, CES<\/a>. Her research focuses on German and European culture, postcolonial and critical race studies, as well as feminist studies.<\/p>\n

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Markus Hallensleben<\/strong> is Associate Professor in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies,<\/a>\u00a0Affiliated Faculty Member of the Institute for European Studies<\/a>, and Steering Committee member of \u00a0the Research\u00a0Excellence\u00a0Cluster on Migration<\/a>\u00a0at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada). The conference is part of one of his current research projects,\u00a0Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(funded by SSHRC). Forthcoming are \u201cTowards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Narratives: Moving beyond the Politics of Territorial Belonging.\u201d Postmigration: Art, Culture and Politics in Contemporary Europe<\/a>. <\/em>Eds. Anna Meera Gaonkar et al. transcript: Bielefeld, 2020; \u201cPortraying the Refugee as a Transitional Figure of Plurality: The Performance of Gender and Ethnicity in the Post-Migrant Narratives of Abbas Khider\u2019s Der falsche Inder\u00a0<\/em>and Ohrfeige<\/em>.\u201d Abbas Khider<\/em>. Eds. David Coury and Karolin Machtans. Peter Lang Oxford, 2020. Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers<\/em>, vol. 5; \u201cNach der Flucht ist vor der Flucht: Postkoloniale und postmigrantische Diskurse in Jenny Erpenbeck\u2019s Gehen, ging, gegangen<\/em>.\u201c\u00a0Der Fl\u00fcchtling im globalen Nomadismus. Literatur-, medien- und kulturwissenschaftliche Ann\u00e4herungen<\/em>.\u201c Eds. Michael Hoffmann, Jean-Bertrand Miguou\u00e9 and Miriam Esau. K\u00f6nigshausen und Neumann, 2020. Deutsch-Afrikanische Studien zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Moritz Schramm <\/strong>is Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Culture<\/a> at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (SDU). From 2016-18, he has been head<\/a> of the collaborative, inter-disciplinary research project Art, Culture and Politics in the Postmigrant Condition<\/a> funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark<\/span>.<\/span> He is a member of the independent German Council on Migration<\/a>\u00a0and collaborator of the\u00a0SSHRC Insight Development project on Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature.<\/a>\u00a0Among his recent publications are Postmigration: Art, Culture and Politics in Contemporary Europe<\/a>. <\/em>Eds. Anna Meera Gaonkar et al. transcript: Bielefeld, 2020 (forthcoming),\u00a0Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts: the Postmigrant Condition<\/i>, NY\/London: Routledge 2019 (together with S. Moslund and A.R. Petersen et al.), and The Culture of Migration: Politics, Aesthetics and Histories<\/i>. London: IB Tauris 2015 (edited with S. Moslund and A.R. Petersen). A complete list of his publications can be found here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Regina R\u00f6mhild <\/strong>is a cultural anthropologist and professor at the Institute for European Ethnology<\/a>, Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin. Her main fields of teaching and research are critical migration and border regime studies, Europe in postcolonial, globally entangled perspective, Mediterranean & political anthropology. She established and runs the \u201cCritical Europeanization Studies Lab<\/a>\u201d at the Institute and has, more recently, written about postcolonial and \u201cpostmigrant Europe\u201d (in Postmigrantische Perspektiven<\/em><\/a>). Her most recent book is edited together with several colleagues affiliated with the lab, entitled <\/span> Europa dezentrieren. Globale Verflechtungen neu denken.<\/em> Frankfurt a.M., New York: Campus, 2019 (co-ed.)<\/a>. Among her current interdisciplinary engagements is the collaboration with colleagues and PhD researchers in the Research Training Group \u201cMinor Cosmopolitanisms<\/a>\u201d that aims at establishing new ways of studying and understanding the cosmopolitan project against and beyond its Eurocentric legacies. Her recent publications in English also include: \u201cGlobal Heimat. (Post)Migrant Productions of Transnational Space\u201d, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures<\/em>, 27:1, 2018, pp. 27-29; (with Anja Schwanh\u00e4u\u00dfer, G\u00f6kce Yurdakul & Birgit zur Nieden), Witnessing the Transition: Moments in the Long Summer of Migration<\/em>. E-Book, https:\/\/www.international.hu-berlin.de\/de\/internationales-profil\/refugees-welcome-an-der-hu\/dateien-und-fotos-1\/e-book-witnessing-the-transition<\/a>, 2017;\u00a0<\/strong>Beyond the bounds of the ethnic: for postmigrant cultural and social research in: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture<\/em> 9 (2), 2017, pp. 69-75, DOI: 10.1080\/20004214.1379850<\/a>; Reflexive Mediterranisation: Mobilities, Economies, and the Cultural Remittance of Imaginaries, Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe<\/em>, edited by Magdalena Nowicka et al., Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 27-47. More information about her research can be found at the Centre of Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sten Pultz Moslund<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature<\/a> at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). His research focuses on postcolonial and multicultural literature and theory, including hybridity theory, racialization, migration and postmigration. Apart from a range of articles on literature and issues of migration, his books include Migration Literature and Hybridity<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), the co-edited The Culture of Migration. Politics, Aesthetics and Histories<\/em> (I B Tauris, 2015) and the co-written Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts: the Postmigrant Condition<\/em> (Routledge, 2019). Most recently, he has published the article, \u201cPostmigrant Revisions of Hybridity, Belonging, and Race in Gautam Malkani\u2019s Londonstani\u201d (Ariel, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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