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Sudeep Dasgupta is Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. His
publications focus on the aesthetics and politics of displacement in visual culture,
from the disciplinary perspectives of aesthetics, postcolonial and globalization
studies, political philosophy, and feminist and queer theory. Book publications
include the co-edited volume (with Mireille Rosello) What’s Queer about
Europe? (New York, Fordham University Press, 2014), and Constellations of the
Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique (New York and Amsterdam, Rodopi,
2007). He is organizer of the 2017 ACGS conference “Postcolonial Mediations:
Globalization and Displacement”.

Ilaria A. De Pascalis is Assistant Professor at Università degli Studi Roma
Tre. Her research focuses on European cinema in a transnational perspective,
Feminist Film Theory and Gender Studies in the global scenario, and narrative
genres and ecosystems in cinema and television series. She has been postdoc at
the University of Bologna and visiting professor at the University of Cassino and
at ‘La Sapienza’ University. She authored Commedia nell’Italia contemporanea
(Il Castoro, 2012) and Il cinema europeo contemporaneo: scenari transnazionali,
immaginari globali (Bulzoni, 2015).

Maja Figge, PhD, is postdoctoral researcher at the Research Training Group
‘The Knowledge of the Arts’, at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Her research
interests include gender, race and media, film and history, postcolonial (media)
theory and political feelings. She is co-curator of the exhibition MOV!NG ON.
Border Activism — Strategies for Anti-Racist Actions (2005), co-editor of Scham
und Schuld. Geschlechter(sub)texte der Shoah (2010) and author of Deutschsein
(wieder-)herstellen. Weißsein und Männlichkeit im bundesdeutschen Kino der
1950er Jahre (2015).

Judith Keilbach is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Media and Culture
Studies Department of Utrecht University. Her research interests include
television theory and history, the relation of media technology and historiography,
memory studies, media and the transnational. She is author of Geschichtsbilder
und Zeitzeugen. Zur Darstellung des Nationalsozialismus im bundesdeutschen
Fernsehen (2008).

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Renato Loriga graduated from Roma Tre’s DAMS in 2015, with a dissertation
on New Philippine Cinema, major ‘Postcolonial theories and practices of
cinema’. Since 2013 he has written for the website of the film magazine ‘Sentieri
Selvaggi’. In 2016 he published the book Autohystoria. Visioni postcoloniali
del nuovo cinema filippino (Aracne). He currently works as a researcher at
MiBACT (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism), and for
the production/distribution company Zomia.

Claudia Minchilli is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, on the project ‘Digital
Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and Belonging (CONNECTINGEUROPE)’.
Her research focuses specifically on the use that Romanian, Somali and Turkish
migrant women living in Rome make of digital technologies, applying a postcolonial
and post-socialist conceptual framework to her analysis of transnational digital
practices. Her interests include migration and diaspora studies, gender theory, queer
theory, postcolonial studies and transnational feminism.

Ulrike Mothes is a filmmaker and film researcher. She held teaching positions
at the SAE institute, Leipzig (Germany) and Srishti School of Art, Design &
Technology, Bangalore (India). In 2010, she became faculty member at Bauhaus
University Weimar (Germany). Her critical engagement with local film practice
and socio-political matters inspired her PhD research on ‘Open Narrative in
Contemporary Indian Documentary Film’. She successfully completed the
dissertation at Bauhaus University in 2015.

Wouter Oomen is a PhD candidate in media studies at Utrecht University. For
his project he received a fellowship from the Netherlands Institute for Cultural
Analysis, in 2015. In 2016 understood a study period at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. Before beginning his PhD, Wouter was lecturer
in media and culture studies at the University of Amsterdam for four years, and
was nominated as UvA Lecturer of the Year in 2012.

Maria Francesca Piredda is Adjunct professor of Film History and Director of
Master’s Degree in Communication and Marketing of the Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore, Milan. Her research topics concern visual anthropology,
Postcolonial and Migration Studies, film and Sound Studies. Her main works
are Film and Mission. Per una storia del cinema missionario (2005) and Sguardi
sull’Altrove. Cinema missionario e antropologia visuale (2012).

Farah Polato is Lecturer at the University of Padova, where she teaches Filmology.
Since 2013 she has been taking part in the Postcolonialitalia project, a platform
for research on postcolonial studies in Italy, that brings together scholars in the
humanities and the social sciences. She is also member of the editorial board of
the related journal From the European South. Her recent work on these topics
includes ‘Il cinema, il postcoloniale e il nuovo millennio nel panorama italiano’

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(Aut Aut, 2014) and ‘Rachid, Theo, Dagmawi e gli altri. Voci e forme di un
nuovo cinema’, in L. De Franceschi (ed.), L’Africa in Italia. Per una controstoria
postcoloniale del cinema italiano (2013).

Michaela Quadraro obtained a PhD in ‘Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of
the Anglophone World’ from the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, where
she is currently a researcher and a member of the Centre for Postcolonial and
Gender Studies. Her interests focus on contemporary cultural productions
that emerge from an English-speaking context of migration and hybridity. She
wrote L’arte digitale postcoloniale. Uno studio sull’opera di Isaac Julien e Trinh T.
Minh-ha (2012), co-edited The Postcolonial Museum. The Arts of Memory and
the Pressures of History (2014), and co-authored Memorie Transculturali. Estetica
contemporanea e critica postcoloniale (2015).

Angela Bianca Saponari works as a researcher at the University of Bari, where she
teaches on cinema studies and the cultural industries. Her research has primarily
focused on the relationship between cinema and the other arts, and specifically,
her interests include intertextuality, adaptation and the transformations of film
culture. More broadly she studies the media industries, Italian film history,
audiovisual archives and paratextuality. She has published many essays in
journals and edited volumes, and is the author of Il cinema di Leonardo Sciascia.
Luci e immagini di una vita (2010) and Il desiderio del cinema. Ferdinando Maria
Poggioli (2017).

Anu Thapa is a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa’s Cinematic Arts
Department. Her areas of interests are the intersections of digital technology and
national cinema, postcolonial theory, transnationalism, and South Asian cinema.




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