Research Project: “What if I Told You I Never Left This City?” Exploring Becoming in the Films of the Early Chilean Exile

This project proposes to examine this cinema of exile on the basis of its earliest productions, through a series of twelve short and feature-length films made between 1974 and 1983: the very first decade of exile. My main hypothesis is that these films can be conceived in terms of what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze has called a ‘modern political cinema’, id est, a cinema that is less predicated on the question of authenticity or meticulous depiction –be it of real or offictional characters– than on that of ‘becoming’.

Publications: 

Edited volumes

1. (2024): Ruiz de lejos. 27 artefactos críticos, Ed. Albornoz, I. (Santiago: Bastante editores), 253 p.
2. (2023): Raúl Ruiz. Potencias de lo multiple, Eds. Albornoz, I. Pinto, I. (Santiago: Metales Pesados), 377 p.

A) Publications with peer review process

1. García F., Albornoz I. (2025): La película-coreografía: transposiciones del cine y la danza contemporánea en Detrás del muro (1989) de Raúl Ruiz, 452°F. Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada (in press)
2. Albornoz I., Hatzikidi K. (2025): ‘Now Where Am I?’: Endurance in Peter Loizos’s Sophia And Her People (1985): In: Resilient Humanities: Critical Perspectives, Eds. Lema, N., Stephen Hart et Camila Gatica (London: Tamesis), in press. 

B) Publications without peer review process

1. Albornoz I. (2024): Palabras preliminares. In: Ruiz de lejos. 27 artefactos críticos, Eds. Albornoz, I. (Santiago: Bastante editores), 11-14.
2. Albornoz I., Pinto I. (2023): Introducción. Presentación de los editores. In: Raúl Ruiz. Potencias de lo múltiple, Eds. Albornoz, I., Pinto, I. (Santiago: Metales Pesados), 9-14.

Works translated:

A) Books

1. Blümlinger C. (2025): Horizones documentales. Escritos selectos sobre cine. Santiago, Metales Pesados (in press)
2. Tortajada M., Albera F (2025): El dispositivo no existe. Por una epistemología de los dispositivos, Santiago, Metales pesados, ISBN 978-956-6426-02-8

Publications: 

1. [Forthcoming] Anstatt, A., ‘Cunigunde of Luxembourg’, in M. M. Sauer and J. C. Bledsoe (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Medieval European Women and Christianity
2. Anstatt, A., ‘Delphine of Glandèves / Countess Delphine de Puimichel’, in M. M. Sauer, D. Watt, and L. H. McAvoy (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages (Cham, 2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_266-1
3. Anstatt, A., ‘Zwischen Politik und Glauben: Das heilige Kaiserpaar‘, in K. Knebel, C. von Heßberg, and A. Schönfeld (eds), Vor 1000 Jahren: Leben am Hof von Kunigunde und Heinrich II. (Regensburg, 2024), pp. 106-113
4. Anstatt, A., ‘Empress and Virgin: St Cunigunde and Female Sainthood in the Early Thirteenth Century’, in German History 41 (2023), pp. 153-169. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad023

Research Project: “Natural Purposiveness in Islamic Thought: Mullā Ṣadrā on Nature’s Agency”

This project explores how an Islamic vision of a conscious, purpose-driven natural world is articulated in the Islamic philosophical tradition. It focuses in particular on an interpretation of Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1640), whose philosophical system elaborates on rethinking nature as a purposive, intelligent order in which all beings participate actively in their own movement toward perfection. The guiding question is: How does Ṣadrā explain a philosophical system which allows us to imagine nature not as a passive arena for human action, but as a living, dynamic whole, animated by inner awareness and directed toward its own ends? And what ethical implications for our understanding of the human–nature relationship might this reconfiguration carry, especially when contrasted with more anthropocentric models rooted in Islamic theology?

Publications: 

Monograph 

Azadani, Z. (2023) Āzādī va roḫdād dar andīše-ye Heidegger [Martin Heidegger on Freedom and Event]. Tehran: Nashr-e Ney.

Articles 

1. Azadani, Z. (2025) “Seeking a Middle Path: A Journey Through Islamic Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Human Agency”. In Reittier oder Schiedsrichter? Die »Willensfreiheit« im interdisziplinären Gespräch. Edited by Athina Lexutt and Volkmar Ortmann. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH.

2. Azadani, Z. (2025) “An early attempt at a theological justification of the modern concepts of freedom and justice: Tanbīh al-umma wa tanzīh al-milla”. In Mobilität des Denkens. Eine Festschrift für Ulrich Rudolph. Edited by Urs Gösken, Patric Schaerer, Roman Seidel, James Weaver, Thomas Würtz. Brill. 

3. Azadani, Z. (2024) “Delegation of Authority to Human Being: A Late Safavid Theologian’s Account on the Legislative Meaning of Tafwīḍ”. In Der Islam, vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 469-487. 

4. Azadani, Z. (2023) “Divine Causality and Human Free Will: Ṭūsī’s Solution and Its Historical Background”. In Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, vol. 77, no. 3-4, pp. 509-527. 

5. Azadani, Z. (2022) “Mullā Ṣadrā on Free Will and Freedom”. In Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 355-370.

Translation 

1. Azadani, Z. (2020) Dar ǧahān būdan. Persian translation of Being in the World by Hubert Dreyfus. Tehran: Nashr-e Ney. 

2. Co-translator of the Persian translation of A History of Contemporary Women Philosophers (Originally edited by Mary Ellen Waithe), together with Maryam Nasr, Zahra Moballegh, etc. Tehran: Kargadan, 2022. 

About: I am an early career social scientist from Cyprus. I recently completed my PhD in Government

and International Relations at Durham University, where I was an A.G. Leventis Scholar in the School of Government and International Affairs. My doctoral research examined the intersection between vulnerability, austerity and refugee resettlement, focusing on the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme in the North East of England. I am now in the process of adapting this research into publications, as well as look into ways I can offer insight into the practice of resettlement contributing to the support and improvement of the everyday living experiences of refugee communities.

Research Project: “Vital Stones Across Cultures: Materiality, Nature, and the Human Body between China and Europe (1550–1800)”

This research explores how stones mediated cross-cultural understandings of nature and the human body.

Publications:

1. ‘The Culture of Tincture: Experiencing Colour in Medicine, Art, and Chymistry in Early Modern Britain (1650–1750)’, Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal on the History of Science 20250036 (2026), pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2025.0036.
2. ‘Experimenting with New Ingredients for Health: Asian Plants in Women's Recipe Books in Early Modern Britain’, Galilæana XXII: 2 (2025), pp. 139-173. Doi: 10.57617/gal-79.
3. ‘Seeing, Touching, and Drinking Ink: Exploring the Culture of Collecting Ink-Cakes in Late-Ming China (1550-1644)’, in Writing Artifacts, edited by Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule (Routledge, forthcoming in 2026).
4. ‘Materiality and Sensory Knowledge: The Role of Chinese Cassia in Early Modern European Medicine and Botany’, in Localizing Global Culture in China and Beyond, edited by Jing Zhu and Kan Li (Springer, under review).

Without peer review:

1. ‘Edible Tableware in Motion: Multisensory Use of Sugar Sculpture in Renaissance England’, EPOCH History Magazine, Issue 19: Art & Architecture, March 2025.
2. ‘Understanding the Fragrance of Lacquer in Early Modern Europe’, The Wollesen: University of Toronto Art Journal 9:1 (2021), pp. 68-76.

Research Project: Making Peace with Nature: Confidence, Trust, and the Political Psychology of Climate Diplomacy. 

Climate science has made the stakes unmistakably clear. The remaining challenge is political. How can states build trust and sustain cooperation under deep uncertainty? Why do some climate negotiations collapse while others produce breakthrough agreements?

This project examines how leader confidence and trust dynamics shape cooperation in climate diplomacy. Drawing on political psychology and research on advice utilisation, I argue that miscalibrated confidence, what I call the “Confidence Trap,” distorts how leaders interpret evidence, incorporate expert advice, and signal commitment. Overconfident leaders may dismiss credible counsel and overpromise. Underconfident leaders may hesitate and signal unreliability. Both patterns weaken trust.

Through comparative case studies of major negotiations such as Copenhagen, Paris, and Glasgow, as well as analysis of China’s role in climate diplomacy, the project investigates how calibrated confidence, trusted chairs, and epistemic communities enable durable cooperation and shared norms.

By integrating in-depth case analysis with experimental design, the research offers theoretical and practical insights into how diplomacy can move beyond tactical bargaining toward sustained trust-building. Achieving peace with nature requires scientific knowledge, political will, and carefully calibrated judgment. It requires rethinking the psychological foundations of cooperation itself.

Publications: 

1. “Getting Inside the Mind of Leaders and Advisers: A Data Collection Strategy for Historical Case Studies in International Relations” (with Pascal Vennesson) International Studies Perspectives 26 (3) (2025), pp. 356-376: https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekae017

2. “Naming and Shaming China: America’s Strategy of Rhetorical Coercion in the South China Sea” (with Haridas Ramasamy) in Contemporary Southeast Asia 42, No. 3 (2020), pp.317-345; DOI: 10.1355/cs42-3a

3. “No Peace without Pause: Why Ceasefires Must Precede Negotiation in Ukraine,” Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) papers, RSIS, NTU, December 9, 2025.

4. “The Psychology of Waiting in U.S.-China Economic Statecraft: Why Washington’s Demand for Speed and Beijing’s Patience Create New Risks in the Tariff War,” China Dialogues (LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science), December 5, 2025.

About: Wendy He is an interdisciplinary scholar of international relations whose research bridges political psychology, international security, and diplomatic history. Her work examines how leaders and advisers assess credibility, escalation risk, and restraint under conditions of uncertainty, developing a psychological framework that explains how confidence calibration and trust dynamics shape foreign policy decision-making. She is currently developing a book project, The Confidence Trap, which advances this framework to explain how miscalibrated confidence distorts advice utilisation, trust, and cooperation in high-stakes negotiations.

She is a Global Encounters Fellow at the University of Tübingen, where she applies this framework to climate diplomacy, examining how confidence distortions and advice utilisation shape trust, cooperation, and norm formation in climate negotiations. She was a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow in Grand Strategy at the Notre Dame International Security Center from 2024 to 2025 and was awarded the prestigious Singapore Social Science Research Council Graduate Research Fellowship in support of her postdoctoral research at Tübingen. 

In 2026, she received the Carl Beck Award at the International Studies Association, an annual award presented for an outstanding graduate student paper in International Studies, with special recognition for originality and innovation in engaging traditional concerns or emerging international problems. She was also the recipient of the 2025 Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society Graduate Paper Award for her paper on leader-adviser dynamics, confidence, and the assessment of threat credibility in foreign policy decision-making.

Her broader research agenda explores how cognitive and relational dynamics shape cooperation across both traditional security crises and global challenges such as climate change.

Publications: 

1. Digital transformation, entrepreneurship and total factor productivity of enterprises——empirical evidence from listed companies. Int Entrep Manag J 21, 102 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-025-01113-5
2. Authentic leadership: bridging the gap between perception of organizational politics and employee attitudes in public sector museums. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 47 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04310-9
3. Intangible cultural heritage research in China from the perspective of intellectual property rights based on bibliometrics and knowledge mapping. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 825 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03314-9
4. Beyond bookshelves: How 5/6G technology will reshape libraries through a two-stage SEM and SF-AHP analysis. Technology in Society 78, 102629 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102629
5. Efficiency measurement and heterogeneity analysis of Chinese cultural and creative industries: a three-stage DEA approach modified by stochastic frontier analysis. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 823499 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.823499

Publications: 

1. Jiang Zhouwei. Ontological Difference or Ontological Identity?: On Heidegger and Rombach’ Interpretations of Chapter 11 of Laozi. In: Thought and Culture, 2023. (in Chinese)
2. Jiang Zhouwei. From inflexible “play” to flexible “structure”: on the surpassing of Rombach over Fink. in: Thought and Time, 2025. (in Chinese)
3. Jiang Zhouwei. From the worldlization of mathematics to the mathematicization of world: on the transmutation of the concept of mathesis in the renaissance. in: Research of Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2025. (in Chinese)
4. Jiang Zhouwei. Way and home: on the placement of elements in Heidegger's Daoism. in: German Philosophy, 2025. (in Chinese)

Publications: 

1. Johnson, D.  (2025, Feb 6). Blast Pressure Injuries May Affect More Than the Brain of Troops, New Data Shows. Military.Com. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/06/blast-pressure-injuries-may-affect-more-brain-of-troops-new-data-shows.html
2. Johnson, D.  (2024, March 16). The Maine shooter’s traumatic brain injury didn’t have to happen. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/opinion/maine-shooter-traumatic-brain-injury.html
3. Freelon, D., Pruden, M. L., Malmer, D., Qunfang, W., Xia, Y., Johnson, D., Chen, E., & Crist, A. (2024). What's in your PIE? Understanding the contents of personalized information environments with PIEGraph. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1–15. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24869
4. Johnson, D.  (2023). Traumatic injuries among service members and veterans in North Carolina: A pressing public health problem. North Carolina Medical Journal, 84(6). https://doi.org/10.18043/001c.89220
5. Phillips, D., Callahan, M., & Johnson, D. (2023, November 5). A secret war, strange new wounds, and silence from the Pentagon. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/us-army-marines-artillery-isis-pentagon.html
           Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting
6. Johnson, D. (2022, Feb. 24). Ukraine could be the most documented war in human history. Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2022/02/ukraine-russia-livestream-google-maps.html

Publications: 

1. Curioni, A., Voinov, P., Allritz, M., Wolf, T., Call, J., & Knoblich, G. (2022). Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly. Proceeding of the Royal Society B, 289, doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0128
2. Lewis, P. A., Knoblich, G., & Poe, G. (2018). How memory replay in sleep boosts creative problem solving. Trends in Cognitive Science, 22, 491-503.
3. Marschner, M., Dignath, D., & Knoblich, G. (2024). Me or We? Action-Outcome Learning in Synchronous Joint Action. Cognition, 247.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105785
4. Schweinfurth, M. K., Baldrige, D. B., Finnerty, K., Call, J., & Knoblich, G. (2022). Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.059
5. Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2021). Progress in Joint-Action Research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30, 138-143. doi:10.1177/0963721420984425
6. Vesper, C., Schmitz, L., & Knoblich, G. (2017). Modulating action duration to establish non-conventional communication. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1722-1737.

For a full list of publications visit: https://somby.ceu.edu/gunther-knoblich-0

Research Project: Law and Fiction (grant doi: 10.55776/J4887)

Fictions within legal theory and practice have populated the law from Pretorian legal practice to today. They are particular frequent in tax law and international tax treaties, but encompass all areas of the law, from contract law to public international law. Though deriving from Roman civil law, legal fictions were important tools in the history of human rights, from the inception of a ius gentium to the age of colonization. Unsurprisingly, both legal scholars and literary authors have discussed legal fictions, their merits and their discontents. Despite the long history of a theorization and practice of legal fictions, the understanding of these fictions is not up to date anymore. The project sees the cause of this development in a stagnation of knowledge between law, philosophy and the humanities during the second half of the 20^th century. This stagnation has a double consequence:  First, the consciousness of the law of the nature of these fictions has ceased, including the dangers of legal fictions, leading to highly problematic laws and court decisions that range from asylum law to tax law. Second, this stagnation has led to problems of jurisprudence when dealing with works of fictional literature as object of their rulings. The project aims at countering the latter development by reviving the transfer of knowledge between the three disciplines.

Publications: His most recent book “Legal Fictions” is to appear with Routledge. 

For a complete list of publications see: 

https://fwf.academia.edu/HansJochenLind

Publications: 

1. Pym, A. & Macreadie, R. (2026). Risk in translation and interpreting. In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Languages and Linguistics. 3^rd edition. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01368-5
2. Pym, A. & Macreadie, R. (2026). Translator employment and the risk of market collapse. News from Australia. Translation & Interpreting. 18(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.12807/ti.118201.2026.a01
3. Macreadie, R., Bouyzourn, K., Pym, A. & Meylaerts, R. (2025). Thick and thin trust in cross-cultural vaccination messaging. What code of ethics do we need? Translation Studies, 18(2), 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2025.2516000.
4. Meylaerts, R., Macreadie, R., Bouyzourn, K. & Pym, A. (2024). How should we study interactions between translation policies, practices, and beliefs? Comparing case studies from a time of crisis. Perspectives, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2024.2408590
5. Bouyzourn, K., Macreadie, R., Zhou, S., Meylaerts, R. & Pym, A. (2023). Translation policies in times of a pandemic. Language Problems and Language Planning. https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.22053.bou
6. Fung, P. & Macreadie, R. (2018). Engaging culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in parliamentary inquiries. Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Victoria. https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2018-12/apo-nid211056.pdf 

Publications: 

1. “When Less is More: Low Voter Turnout and Electoral Politics in Kashmir” India Review 24, No.1, (2025): 108-129.
2. “Integrating Kashmir: Modernity, Development and Sedimented Narratives”, American Journal of Islam and Society 41, No. 3-4, (2024): 86-100.
3. “Violence and Insurgency in Kashmir: Understanding the Micropolitics”, India Review 21, No. 4-5, (2022): 576-598.
4. “Confronting the Indian State: Islamism, Secularism, and the Kashmiri Muslim Question”, International Journal of Asian Studies 19, No.1, (2022): 67-80.
5. “A Theseus Paradox: Interrogating the Shift in Islamism in Indian-administered Kashmir”, Politics, Religion & Ideology 21, No. 3, (2020): 353-373
6. “Politicizing the Street: Graffiti in Kashmir”, Economic and Political Weekly 53, No. 14, (2018): 61-66. (co-authored) 

Publications: 

1. Mennuti, Maria Cristina, ‘Recasting Zoroastrian Dualism within the Greek Philosophical Imagination’. In The Zoroastrian World. Edited by Albert de Jong, Jenny Rose, and Sarah Stewart. London: Routledge. (In press).
2. Mennuti, Maria Cristina, ‘From Homer to Platonism: The Reception and Role of Daimons in Ancient Philosophy’. Collection de l'Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité 2026. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. (In press).
3. Mennuti, Maria Cristina, 2022. La notion de daïmôn dans le pythagorisme ancien: de la pensée religieuse à la pensée philosophique by Detienne, Marcel, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

A full list of publications can be found here

Publications: 

Recent books: 

1. Forthcoming in 2026: Dashtgard, Pasha and Cynthia Miller-Idriss. A School Without Hate: Evidence from Education Interventions. Under contract at Harvard Education Press, fall 2026 pub date.
2. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2025. Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. Princeton University Press. 

3. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2020. Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right. Revised paperback edition with new preface and reader's guide, 2022. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 

4. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2018. The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Recent peer-reviewed articles:  

1. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2025. “Misogyny Incubators: How Gaming Helps Channel Everyday Sexism into Violent Extremism.” Frontiers in Psychology. Volume 16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1537477

2. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2024. “What We Miss When We Overlook the Gendered Aspects of Nationalist Mobilization.” Nations and Nationalism 30(3): 404-409. doi: 10.1111/nana.13031

3. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2023. “Extremist Recruitment and Extremist Sentiment Normalization.” Conference briefing note from keynote, Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) 2022 conference. Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare 5(3): 164-168.

Recent popular and public-facing media: 

1. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. “How Misogyny and Gendered Grievances Fuel Authoritarianism.” Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (in production, Oct 2025).  

2. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. “How Tradwives Use Sexism, Racism, and Transphobia to Police Other Women.” Teen Vogue, September 17, 2025.

Activities at the College of Fellows: During my time in Tübingen, I will be a part of the focus groups in IRex called “Far Right Threats” and “Everyday Extremism”. I will be part of regular discussions and work across these units and will also be working on the analysis and writing for my book-in-progress on gendered social divides among Gen Z and Gen Alpha, to be published in both English and German. I will also participate in and/or lead several workshops and shorter events, including public talks, interactive sessions and research insights with local practitioners, policy roundtables, and two workshops (in summer 2026 and in fall 2026):

• Workshop on Everyday Extremism and Normalization (June or July 2026): Uniting scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to examine the cultural dimensions of the rise and normalization of far-right ideologies beyond formal (electoral) politics. During this workshop, participants present and discuss their own research on everyday life extremism. They develop a joint perspective for further collaborative research. As one outcome, a joint publication, e.g. a research note, is envisioned. As a second step, joint efforts to apply for research grants can be based on the results of the workshop.
• Workshop on Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues on Democratic Resilience (October 2026): Bringing together scholars, activists, and public officials to discuss strategies for strengthening social cohesion. Strengthening democracy requires transforming knowledge into action. Building on the results of the first workshop, which focused on bringing together academic researchers, this second workshop will explore innovative formats and social interventions by fostering collaboration between scholars, activists, and public officials to discuss ways to enhance social cohesion. 

There will be substantial other outcomes during my stay, including short essays that I will publish in mainstream media publications and additional meetings with faculty and students from across the university and the region.

Research Project: “Friends in Thought: Aristotle and Confucius on the Ethical Meaning of Friendship.” 

My research project explores connections between the ethical thought of Aristotle and Confucius on the nature of friendship and its role in moral development. It will argue that both thinkers share a conception of friendship as essentially aimed at shared activity with friends and a conception of moral development that emphasizes habituation. It will then appeal to these shared conceptions to explain why both thinkers saw friendship as an important tool for moral development. According to both thinkers, friendship has the power to shape our moral character, for better or for worse.

Publications: 

For a full list of Guy's publications please visit: https://philpeople.org/profiles/guy-schuh