Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Curator and documentary filmmaker. Author of books: Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography(2012), From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947–1950 (2011), The Civil Contract of Photography(2008), Death’s Showcase(2001 – Winner of The Affinity Award, ICP), co-author (with Adi Ophir) of The One State Condition. Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, 2012), This Regime Which Is Not One: Occupation and Democracy between the Sea and The River (in Hebrew, 2008).

Professor of Literary Studies at the Leiden University. His research focuses mostly on modern and post-modern literature and its relation to visual arts. He is the author of: Art in Mind: The Contribution of Contemporary Images to Thought (2005); Caught by History. Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature and Theory (1997); Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-practices (2018) and Staging the Archive (2014).

Philosopher and art historian at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He has taught as a visiting professor around the world at universities such as the Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern, the University of Tokyo, Berkeley, The Courtauld, and the Freie Universität Berlin, among others. He has conducted research in multiple research centres including Rome (Académie de France), Florence (Villa I Tatti-Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), and London (Institute of Advanced Study, Warburg Institute). He cutrated exhibitions, including L’Empreinte at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, 1997), Atlas at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2010). As the intellectual descendant of cultural theorists such as Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin and as a student of Louis Marin, Didi-Huberman occupies a central position within the dialogue between the fields of art history, cultural studies, and image studies. His research interests include the history and theory of images, anthropology, and psychoanalysis.

Cultural and media studies scholar, affiliated with the SWPS University, where he heads the Institute of Humanities and the Center for Cultural Research of Technologies. His fields of research include media practices, cultural studies theory and media archaeology. He recently published - together with Patryk Wasiak - the book Weź Pan Rambo! Społeczna historia magnetowidów w Polsce (Take Rambo, Mister! A Social History of VCRs in Poland) (2022).

Professor of Art History, Visual and Cultural Studies. Interim Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at Rochester University, USA. Art critic, researcher, and teacher, who works on postwar and contemporary art and affiliated fields (the histories and theories of photography, performance and dance) as well as in visual and cultural studies. Her research interests include relationship between art, gender and sexuality, Eastern European Studies, Communism, Postsocialism and Cultural Semiotics.

B. 1972. Works in the Institute of Polish Culture at University of Warsaw. Main field of interests: history of Polish culture of XX century in visual perspective, anthropology of body and gender, anthropology of visual culture. Author of Twarze w tłumie (Faces in the Crowd. Views of the heroes of collective imagination in Polish culture 1955–1969; Bolesław Michałek Award for the best film studies book in 2005; Nike Literary Award: short-listed for the best book in 2005), co-author of Obyczaje polskie. Wiek XX w krótkich hasłach (Polish Everyday Culture. 20th Century in Short Entries, 2008), editor of Film i historia. Antologia (Film and History. Anthology, 2008), co-editor of readers Antropologia ciała (Anthropology of the Body, 2008) and Antropologia kultury wizualnej (Anthropology of Visual Culture, 2012).

Professor, academic teacher, historian and art critic, she is the head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Institute of Art History in Wrocław. Her recent publications focus on the relationship between art and power, the legacy of modernism, new methodologies, art of the 1970s in Poland, American art, and oral counter-histories of women. Her publications include Art and Revolution. A Multiperspective Approach to Polish Art Immediately after the War, 2023; Natalia LL (2022); Games with Places. Wrocław Galleries: Katakumby, Zakład nad Fosą, Ośrodek Działań Plastycznych (2022); Why Duchamp Didn't Comb His Hair with a Parting (2019), Handbook of Art in Wrocław. From Things to Events (2018).

Professor at the Jaggielonian University in Cracow. HIs work focuses on the polish and european theatre of the XX and XXI century, romantic tradition in polish theatre, art of direction and theatre criticism as well as the relation between theatre and history. He wrote: Sny, komedie, medytacje (2000), Sobowtór i utopia. Teatr Krystiana Lupy (1997), Warlikowski. Extra ecclesiam (2008), Ciało i słowo. Szkice o teatrze Tadeusza Różewicz i Polski Teatr Zagłady (2013). Fulbrighta Fellow at CUNY.

Former head of the Department of Aesthetics at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is currently employed by Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and supported by the PAUSE programme for exiled scholars. Her fields of interest are contemporary philosophy, visual studies, North American literature and culture. She has authored 10 books, including Vozmushchenie znaka: Kul’tura protiv transtsendentsii [Disturbance of the Sign: Culture against Transcendence] (Moscow, 2019, 2022) and Zhan-Liuk Nansi. Lektsii o Kante (po konspektam Eleny Petrovskoi) [Jean-Luc Nancy. Lectures on Kant (Based on Notes Taken by Helen Petrovsky)] (Moscow, 2023). Since 2002 she has been editor-in-chief of the philosophical and theoretical journal Sinii divan.

Studied Philosophy and German Studies at the Free University of Berlin, completed her doctorate at the University of Potsdam in 2002 and her habilitation at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2010. From 2015-2018 she was President of the German Society for Aesthetics. From October 2011 to September 2024, she was Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach; from 2014 to 2024, she was a member of the faculty at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, where she is now a Permanent Fellow. Since 2019, she has also been a Regular Visiting Professor at the German Department at Princeton University. In 2017, she was awarded the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. She took up her professorship at the HFBK Hamburg in October 2024. Rebentisch is the author of, among others, Ästhetik der Installation, Die Kunst der Freiheit, Theorien der Gegenwartskunst zur Einführung and Der Streit um Pluralität. The thematic spectrum of her other publications ranges from the varieties of negativity to the problem of progress in contemporary art, from freedom in contemporary capitalism to the paradoxes of political equality, from the philosophy of language to the epistemology of irrationality, from the question of the (anti-)discipline of aesthetics to the history of queer subcultures. In her research and teaching, she is particularly interested in the intersections between aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy.

Literary critic, literary historian, essayist, university lecturer, professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw. Since the beginning of 2012, he is leads the Literature and Culture of Late Modernity Research Group. In 1990, he was awarded the Kościelski Award. In 2006 he received the Gdynia Literary Award in the essay category. In 2009, he was again nominated for this award for the book Echo Idylli, he also received the Kazimierz Wyka Award. In 2005-2007, a member of the jury awarding the Nike Literary Award.