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Susan Moffat is a curator, urban planner and writer who works at the intersection of culture, nature and place, with a special interest in race, parks, and public space. As Creative Director of Future Histories Lab and Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, she leads the development of community partnerships, courses, and workshops and teaches humanities studios. A former journalist, she has a deep belief in the power of stories to make change. She worked in affordable housing, environmental advocacy and shoreline planning. Moffat is the...

Andrew Weiner is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work aims to theorize and historicize relations between aesthetics, politics, and media. His dissertation tracked the increasing convergence of these spheres in West Germany and Austria during the 1960s, focusing on "events"—new modes of public action that combined experimental art with radical demonstration. It considers the practices of artists such as Joseph Beuys, Jörg Immendorff, VALIE EXPORT, and Peter Weibel alongside those of activists on the emergent New Left. The project argues that this "aesthetico-political...

Imanuel Schipper holds MAs in theatre and dance studies and in acting. He has been working as a dramaturg for many years with the well-known German Performance group, Rimini Protokoll with whom, he has developed a contemporary way of documentary theatre as intervention, as political think tanks.

He has been a deputy professor, senior lecturer, senior researcher at different universities and art academies in Germany, Switzerland and other countries in the field of performance studies, cultural theory and art theory. He works and publishes widley on the interface...

As a professor, Linda Haverty Rugg's research has long focused on issues related to self-construction and self-representation, particularly in textual autobiography and visual media. Authorship is another strong allied research interest, with special attention to the authorships and authorial personae of August Strindberg, Mark Twain, Ingmar Bergman, and a range of art cinema directors who perform as authors. In addition to her interest in autobiographical studies, Rugg has drawn inspiration for her research from two of the courses she teaches: “Ecology and Culture in...