Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape Caio Simões de Araújo is a postdoctoral curatorial fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Before joining the CHR, he held postdoctoral research positions at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) and the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), of the University of the Witwatersrand. He is currently the research officer at the Other Foundation, an African trust that advances equality and freedom in southern Africa with a particular focus on sexual orientation and gender identity. In collaboration with the Gay and Lesbian Archives for Action (GALA) of South Africa, he is currently heading an oral history project, Archives of the Intimate: Queer Histories of Mozambique, which intends to produce an archive of life histories and queer identities in Mozambique. His research interests involve the history of Afro-Asian decolonisation, transnational histories of race and anti-racism, and gender and sexuality in the global south.
Associate Professor in French Studies (cultural studies), head of the Centre for Canadian Studies, Stockholm University My expertise spans diverse domains, encompassing discourse analysis, French postmodern thought, and cultural studies, particularly within French-speaking regions, with a focus on contemporary francophone literature. I am deeply engaged in exploring the global dissemination of French Theory, utilizing postmodern and postcolonial theories to dissect the circulation of myths. As the leader of the Centre for Canadian Studies since 2017, my emphasis extends to native studies with a focus on the emergence of the Indigenous literature in French. Within my research on political discourses, I investigate the intricate relationship between participation procedures and political lobbying. I propose a hypothesis suggesting a transformative shift in political culture, where representative systems grapple with a clash of opinions. The vanishing public scene is characterized by desynchronized opinions, as citizens, lobbies, and politicians respond to comments posted on various platforms. This phenomenon highlights how new technologies have reshaped the public sphere. A parallel trend emerges in memory debates, where social groups challenge classical principles of representation. In this context, I scrutinize the contours of populist and panafricanist discourses in the French-speaking world. Since 2018, my pedagogical endeavors have included research on academic integrity to address plagiarism issues at the university level. I regularly organize workshops on academic integrity and, more recently, co-edited a handbook on plagiarism prevention tailored for teachers at Stockholm University.
Principal Scientist, National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), University of Otago Cliff is the Co-Director of the Research Centre for Oceanography, leader of NIWA's Ocean-Climate Interaction Programme and a Professor in the Department of Marine Chemistry, University of Otago. He is also a member of the Coastal People: Southern Skies collaboration that connects communities with world-leading, cross-discipline research to rebuild coastal ecosystems. His research focuses on the interaction between the ocean and atmosphere; how biogeochemical cycling in the surface ocean influences atmospheric composition, and feedbacks between ocean biogeochemistry and climate. Specific research includes marine production and exchange of trace gases, controls of phytoplankton productivity and biodiversity and the impact of ocean acidification and climate variability on the structure and functioning of pelagic ecosystems. He was a formerly Chair and a Steering Committee member of International SOLAS and also the NZ delegate on the IMO Working Group on Ocean Fertilization for the London Convention. Awards include the 2011 Prime Ministers Science Team Award, the Hutchinson Medal by the Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2013, the University of Otago Science Division Research Group of the Year in 2015 and the ASLO John H. Martin Award in 2018.
International Relations, Cold War, nationalism, Russian propaganda, IE University Chris Kostov is Associate Professor of History and International Relations at IE University and at Schiller International University, Madrid, Spain. He earned his PhD in History and Canadian Studies from the University of Ottawa, Canada, where he focused on nationalism, nation-building, North American immigration trends, and Native American Studies. Prior to coming to Spain, Dr. Kostov taught history at the University of Ottawa. He was also an invited lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and a historical researcher in the federal government of Canada, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Dr. Kostov edited in 2020 the volume Regionalism and Separatism in Modern Europe (Logos Verlag, 2020) and he is the author as well of three books: The Communist Century: From Revolution to Decay, 1917-2000. Explaining History, 2014, Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Canadians in Toronto, 1900-1996 (Peter Lang, 2010) and Terror and Fear: British and American Perceptions of the French-Indian Alliances during the Seven Years' War (Publish America, 2005), as well as book chapters, academic and encyclopedia articles and book reviews. Currently, his main research interest is the Cold War, the impact of the communist secret services on the daily lives of common people in Eastern Europe and Russian propaganda.
Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension, University of California, Berkeley Carly Hyland is an Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in Environmental Health Sciences and UC ANR whose work focuses on mitigating the health effects of climate change among agricultural and food systems workers.
Honorary Professor, Department of Geology, University of Leicester I am currently Chair of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) of the ICS Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy and Secretary of the Geological Society Stratigraphy Commission. I have a central role in coordinating activities of the AWG as part of the formalization process for recognizing the Anthropocene as a new geological time unit. I also have specific interests in characterizing the nature and scale of human modification of the landscape particularly through the accumulation of novel materials (e.g. plastic and concrete) and artificial deposits. I also have published widely on UK Carboniferous stratigraphy and sedimentology. I was awarded an honorary professor in the Department of Geology in 2016. I retired in 2017 as a Principal Mapping Geologist at the British Geological Survey where over nearly 30 years’ service I specialized in geological mapping of the UK (mainly northern and central England) and parts of the Sahara Desert.
