Associate Professor of Film Studies, Miami University Kerry Hegarty received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2006, with a focus on Latin American culture and film studies. She teaches courses in film history, film theory and Latin American cinema, among others. Her work has appeared in Journal of Film and Video, Studies in Hispanic Cinema, South Atlantic Review, Journal of Latin American Popular Culture, Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, and FlowTV.org. She is currently working on a manuscript that examines visual language in its global & digital contexts.
Director of Indigenous Leadership and Engagement and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and IT and Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney Kris Wilson is the Director of Indigenous Leadership and Engagement and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney. He has a joint appointment with the Faculty of Law. His research interests are in cybersecurity, computer-related crime, Indigenous traditional knowledge in a digital context, Indigenous legal relations and cultural and intellectual property protection. He is consistently rated by students as one of the top teachers and subject coordinators across both core law subjects and electives. Kris currently teaches Real Property Law and Criminal Law.
Professor and Director of Environmental Science, Oklahoma State University Karen Hickman, Ph.D., is a grassland ecologist and professor of natural resource ecology and management at Oklahoma State University. She serves as the director of the environmental science program in the Ferguson College of Agriculture. Her research focuses on invasive forages and grassland/rangeland ecology in the Central and Southern Great Plains. Hickman is president of the Society for Range Management. She also is owner/operator of her family's farm and ranch in northwest Oklahoma.
Lecturer in Art History, The University of Queensland Katherine Guinness is a theorist and historian of contemporary art and visual culture. She is the author of Schizogenesis: The Art of Rosemarie Trockel (Minnesota, 2019), the co-author of The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube (Stanford, 2024). Katherine has taught in a wide range of departments and programs across the globe, including the University of Sydney (in their Digital Cultures program), the University of New South Wales (where she taught Architectural History within their school of the Built Environment), North Carolina State University (Women’s and Gender Studies programs), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Art History). Her research spans a variety of topics within visual culture, all of which she approaches with a Marxist-feminist lens.
Senior Researcher in Environmental and Climate Change Psychology, Universität Wien I am currently a senior researcher at the University of Vienna in the Social Cognitive and Affective Sciences Unit. With more than seven years of experience, my research broadly combines elements of neuroscience, environmental and social psychology, big team science and the behavioural sciences to investigate various societal issues. This includes encouraging COVID-19 compliance behaviours, battling the spread of misinformation, combating (political) polarisation, and, most importantly, understanding and promoting climate change mitigation. This line of research is highly interdisciplinary, combining techniques and methodologies from many disciplines, and includes many collaborations with academics from all over the planet.
