Publications: 

1. Adeogun AO, Babalola AS, Oyale OO, Oyeniyi T, Omotayo A, Izekor RT, et al. (2025). Spatial distribution and geospatial modeling of potential spread of secondary malaria vectors species in Nigeria using recently collected empirical data. PLoS ONE 20(4): e0320531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320531
2. Aiki, I.P., Akogwu, S. A., Shindi, H. A.and Aati, R. (2024). Harnessing the Untapped Potential of Termite Mound Soil for the Improvement of the Growth of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench).  40 (1): 1-12. DOI. 10.36108/NJE/4202/04.0160.
3. Aiki Istifanus, Abdelmutalab G. A. Azrag., Christian Pirk and Abdullahi Yusuf (2023) Predicting the habitat suitability and distribution of three species of mound building termites in Nigeria using bioclimatic and vegetation variables. Diversity, 15 (2), 157; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020157
4. Aiki, I.P., Yusuf, A.A. & Pirk, C.W.W. (2021). Refuge in architecture: mounds and diversity of termite species from a Sahel and Sudan savannah. Int J Trop Insect Sci 41, 1365–1371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-020-00330-5
5. Aiki, I., Pirk, C. & Yusuf, A. (2019). Thermal regulatory mechanisms of termites from two different savannah ecosystems. Journal of Thermal Biology, 85, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.102418

About: He obtained his PhD from the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa, in 2021, with a thesis titled "Diversity, Nesting Behaviour, Thermoregulation and Cephalic Secretions of Termites from a Nigerian Savannah.” His doctoral research resulted in several publications in peer-reviewed journals, including “Refuge in Architecture: Mounds and Diversity of Termite Species from a Sahel and Sudan Savannah” and “Predicting the Habitat Suitability and Distribution of Three Species of Mound-Building Termites in Nigeria Using Bioclimatic and Vegetation Variables,” among others.

His research focuses on the ecology of social insects, particularly mound-building termites. He investigates how termite mound architecture, nest-site selection, and thermoregulatory mechanisms contribute to colony stability and survival under varying environmental conditions. His work also explores local adaptation in termites and employs habitat suitability modelling to predict the impacts of climate change on termite distribution and persistence. In addition, he studies ant behaviour, cognition, and their ecological roles within terrestrial ecosystems. Through these research interests, he aims to advance understanding of how social insects both influence and respond to environmental change, thereby contributing to biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

Currently, he teaches the course “Termites in African Ecosystems and Cultures” at the Faculty of Science, Institute of Evolution and Ecology (EvE), Comparative Zoology. Alongside his teaching responsibilities, and research, he is also actively engaged in reviewing scholarly articles in the fields of termite biology, taxonomy, ecology, and social insect research for some peer review journals.

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

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 

1. 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.

Research Project: ‘100% American: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Creation of a National Consciousness’ 

As a flagship program of the New Deal, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was one of several federal agencies that turned to the natural and built environment to promote sociocultural homogenization between the First and Second World War. Yet with camps in every state and overseas territory, the CCC eschewed any sort of national style and instead reconfigured much of the American landscape by deploying a regionally diverse blend of vernacular architecture from coast to coast. This project turns to the Corps in an effort to trace the New Deal’s emphasis on regional cohesion as a prerequisite to the type of national consciousness and identity it sought to instill on the eve of war. It will assess the ways this process of transformation came to impact the country, both in physical and cultural terms. To do so, it engages with a wide variety of primary source material and considers the design, organization, and lived experience of CCC camps between 1933 and 1942. 

Publications: 

1. James Fortuna and Lisa Schrenk, eds. International Expositions, 1851–Today: Looking to the Past, Seeing the Future. London: Routledge, under contract.
2. “International Expositions: Architecture and Urbanism,” with Lisa D. Schrenk. In Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Edited by Kevin Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2026.
3. “Building Bridges on the Brink of War: Urban Planning, Pan-American Identity, and the International Expositions of 1939,” Planning Perspectives 40, no. 4, (2025): 1615–41.
4. “Designing the Transatlantic Cruise Liners of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.” In Art and the Sea. Edited by Emma Roberts, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. 157–78.
5. “The New Deal and the Old Frontier: American Identity, Environmental Design, and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-42.” Environment, Space, Place 13, 1 (2021): 37–73.
6. “‘Un’arte ancora in embrione’: International Expositions, Empire, and the Evolution of Fascist Architectural Design.” Modern Italy 25, 4 (2020): 455–76.
7. “Fascism, National Socialism, and the 1939 New York World’s Fair.” Fascism 8, 2 (2019): 179–218.

Activities at the College of Fellows: 

I will lead two seminars within the Institute of Contemporary History: 

• The New Deal in Global Perspective (Hauptseminar)
• Immigration and Migration in American History (Proseminar)

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. Iorio, Francesca. “De l’onda il ciel, del ciel l’onda è confine. Le voyage du peintre Giovanni Gherardini en Chine en 1698, entre circulation artistique et échange culturel”. Revue Artitalies 30 (2024), pp. 59-69.
2. Iorio, Francesca. “Global turn in art history and methodological constellations on artistic circulation. Perspectives, ideas, and operational concepts”. Eikon Imago 13 (2024): 1-10. Open access DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/eiko.90184

Contact: francescaioriospam prevention@fcsh.unl.pt; 

 francesca.ioriospam prevention@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de

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)

Research Project: “Postcolonial Joshua in Historical Context: Strategic Essentialism and Imperial Fantasy”

The story of ancient Israel’s conquest over the land of Canaan as told in the biblical book of Joshua has long been considered one of the Bible’s key founding myths of identity, establishing the alliance of the Israelite tribes and their claim to the southern Levant. Nationalist thinkers have attempted to trace a so-called “proto-nationalism” back to these texts by emphasizing its unifying identity construction and downplaying its othering and violence towards the land’s inhabitants. However, such attempts ignore the essential imperial context of the narrative—both literary and historical—shaped by the ancient authors’ experiences of continual domination by Mesopotamian empires. Instead, this project uses postcolonial theories of strategic essentialism to explore the book of Joshua as imperial fantasy, which mimics rather than rejects the power of empire.

Publications: 

1. Editor, with Marietta van der Tol, Zoran Grozdanov, and Petr Kratochvíl, The Many Faces of Christianism: The ‘Russian World’ in Europe. Political and Public Theologies Series. Brill: Leiden, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731899.
2. “The Great League of Israel? Historical Skepticism and the Amphictyony Hypothesis in 20th Century Biblical Studies,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 136, no. 4 (2024): 571-589. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaw-2024-4005.
3. “The Sons of Esau and Lot: Reevaluating National States in Deuteronomy 2,” Horizons in Biblical Theology, 46, no. 1 (2024): 44-64. https://doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341484.
4. “Covenant and Kingship: Reconsidering the Oath of David and Jonathan,” Journal of Biblical Literature 141.4 (2022): 635-651. https://doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1414.2022.3.
5. “‘We the People of Israel’: Covenant, Constitution, and the Supposed Biblical Origins of Modern Democratic Political Thought,” Special Issue of the Journal of the Bible and Its Reception on “Old Testament Imaginaries of the Nation in German, Dutch, and Anglo-American Political Thought,” 8.2 (2021): 247-268. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbr-2021-0005.

Updated list and access at: https://profile.hcommons.org/members/srcjohnson/

Publications: 

Peer-reviewed articles 

1. Keller, HM; Queffelec A; Airale, L; d’Errico, F. (In revision). Detecting Prehistoric Sound-Producing Practices: A Multiproxy Analysis of Ostrich Eggshell Rattle Wear. PLOS One.

2. Keller, HM; and Frahm, E. (In Review). Beneath the Hearth: Repeated combustion events reshape ostrich eggshell thermal signals. Journal of Archaeological Methods and Theory.

3. Keller HM; Frahm E; Kaliba PM; Thompson, JC.  Taphonomic considerations for ochre residues on ostrich eggshells. (2025). Journal of Archaeological Science Special Issue: Worldwide Archaeological Science of Ochre: New Results and Challenges. Taphonomic considerations for identifying ochre residues on ostrich eggshell - ScienceDirect

4. Hodgkins J; Bertacchi A; Knudson KJ; Rasbury T; Giblin J; Gordon G; Anbar A; Turq A; Sandgathe D; KellerHM; Britton K; McPherron SP (2024). Late Pleistocene prey mobility and its implications for reconstructing Neanderthal ranging behaviors. Quaternary Science  Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108610

5. Gravel-Miguel C; Hodgkins J; Orr CM; Cristiani E; Strait D; Peresani M; Benazzi S; Pothier-Bouchard G; Keller HM; Meyer D; Drohobytsky D; Talamo S; Panetta D; Miller CE; Negrino F; Riel-Salvatore J. (2022). The ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic infant burial. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-022-09573-7  

6. Diehl, RJ; Keller, HM; Hodgkins, J. (2022). Towards an Interpretive Framework for Heated Ostrich Eggshell: An Actualistic Study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 43, 103465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103465  

7. Hodgkins J, Orr CM, Gravel-Miguel C, Riel-Salvatore J, Miller CE, Bondioli L, Nava A, Lugli F,  Talamo S, Hajdinjak M, Christinani E, Romandini M, Meyer D, Drohobytsky D, Kuester F, Pothier-Bouchard G, Buckley M, Mancini L, Baruffaldi F, Silvestrini S, Arrighi S, Keller HM, Belen Griggs R, Peresani M, Strait DS, Benazzi S, Negrino F. (2021). An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe. Scientific Reports, 11, 23735 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02804-z

8. Miller, JM., Keller, HM., Heckel, C., Kaliba PM., Thompson, JC. (2021). Approaches to Land Snail Shell Bead Manufacture in the Early Holocene of Central Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-021-01274-8 

9. Hodgkins, J., Marean, CW., Venter, J., Richardson, L., Roberts, P., Zech, J., Difford, M., Copeland, SR., Orr, C., Keller, HM., Fahey, BP., Lee-Thorp, JA. (2020). An isotopic test of the seasonal migration hypothesis for large grazing ungulates inhabiting the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106221

Book chapter 

Thompson, J.C., Bertacchi, A., Keller, HM., Hallett, E., and Pobiner, B. (2023). The Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Africa. In: Beyin, A., Wright, D.K., Wilkins, J., Olszewski, D.I. (eds) Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_126

Publications: 

1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108938
2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109645
3. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010178
4. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836251387252
5. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.14.664680

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. Depite 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 the ongoing transfer of knowledge between law, philosophy and the humanities during the second half of the 20th century. This stagnation had 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. This 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: 

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.

Publications: 

1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108599
2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109068
3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111839
4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106474
5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.12.017
6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-024-00908-x
7. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0604 

Publications: 

1. Stephen Muecke [Trans., forthcoming] Malcom Ferdinand, Loving the Earth: Undoing Colonial Inhabitation, Cambridge: Polity, 2026.
2. Jennifer Eadie and Stephen Muecke, eds., Living in Critical Zones: Environmental Humanities in South Asia, Delhi: Routledge, 2025.
3. Stephen Muecke [with Paddy Roe] The Children's Country: The Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia, London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020.
4. Rita Felski and Stephen Muecke, eds., Latour and the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
5. Stephen Muecke [Trans.] Isabelle Stengers, Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science, Cambridge: Polity, 2018.
6. Stephen Muecke The Mother's Day Protest and other Fictocritical Essays, London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016.
7. Stephen Muecke Butcher Joe, Documenta 13: 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken No. 054 English/German, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011.
8. Stephen Muecke Ancient & Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy, University of NSW Press, September 2004, 197pp. Reprinted 2006.
9. Stephen Muecke [with Adam Shoemaker] The Australian Aborigines; First Nations in an Ancient Continent, Thames & Hudson, 2004. 128pp. English translation of Les Aborigènes D'Australie, 2002.
10. Stephen Muecke [ed. and intro. with Adam Shoemaker] Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines, David Unaipon, University of Melbourne Press at the Miegunyah Press, 2001.
11. Stephen Muecke Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies University of NSW Press, 1992, pp. 214. Second Edition, API Network, Curtin University of Technology, 2005, pp. 194.
12. Stephen Muecke [ed. with Jack Davis, Mudrooroo Narogin and Adam Shoemaker] Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings, University of QLD Press, 1990.
13. Stephen Muecke [with K. Benterrak and P. Roe] Reading the Country, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1984.

Publications: 

2025

1. Paquis, P., Pardo-Esté, C., Tapia, J., Florez, J. Z., Pérez, V., Molina, V., Cornejo-D'Ottone, M., Pérez, P. A., Harrod, C., Jeffre, W. H., Calabrese, S., Quatrini, P., Tassi, F.,  & Hengst, M. B. (2025). Energetic Convergence Drives Metabolic Adaptation in Lirima Chilean High-Altitude Hydrothermal System. Communications Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02817-w
2. Pardo-Esté, C., Castro-Severyn, J., Aldridge, J., Alvarez-Saravia, D., Kurte, L., Aguilar-Muñoz, P., Paquis, P., Pérez, V., Medina, D., Jeffrey, W. H., Molina, V., & Hengst, M. B. (2025). Unraveling microbial life from a high-altitude hydrothermal system in the Andes plateau and their potential for nitrogen transformations. Engineering Microbiology, 100242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engmic.2025.100242 

2024

1. Pardo-Esté, C., Cortés, J., Castro-Severyn, J., Pérez, V., Henríquez-Aedo, K., Cuadros, F., Yañez, C., Cuadros-Orellana, S., Dorador, C., Molina, V., Eissler, Y., Paquis, P., Jeffrey, W. H., Pozo, P., Pérez, P. A., & Hengst, M. B. (2024). Secondary metabolites with antimicrobial activity produced by thermophilic bacteria from a high-altitude hydrothermal system. Frontiers in microbiology, 15, 1477458. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1477458
2. Faragó, V., Megyes, M., Nagy, B., Hengst, M., Paquis, P., & Borsodi, A. K. (2024). Environmental characterization and impact of climatic fluctuations on the diversity of extremophilic bacterial communities of a high-altitude seasonal meltwater pond on Ojos del Salado (Dry Andes, Chile). Geomicrobiology Journal, 41(10), 1008-1017. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2024.2415717 

2023

1. Paquis, P., Hengst, M. B., Florez, J. Z., Tapia, J., Molina, V., Pérez, V., & Pardo-Esté, C. (2023). Short-term characterisation of climatic-environmental variables and microbial community diversity in a high-altitude Andean wetland (Salar de Huasco, Chile). Science of The Total Environment, 859, 160291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160291
2. Book Chapter: “Madre Tierra, Toda la Vida”, Alto El Loa: Territorio de Conservación (2023).

Publications: 

1. Passaghe, Roberta, “Biografismo esistenziale nell'opera di Fabrizia Ramondino”, in “Realismo esistenziale” nel romanzo italiano contemporaneo, edited by di Dalila Colucci, Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, Alessandra Pantano & Leonarda Trapassi, Franco Cesati Editore, (in press, June 2026).
2. Passaghe, Roberta, “Il desiderio come strumento di emancipazione nelle riscritture italiane di Fedra di Eva Cantarella e Nadia Fusini”, in Quaderns d'Italià, 30, 115–128, 2025. https://revistes.uab.cat/quadernsitalia/article/view/v30-passaghe
3. Passaghe, Roberta, “Ricostruire umanità attraverso la deformità: l'avventura del corpo in Voltami di Savina Dolores Massa”, in Corpi Terrestri, Corpi Celesti. L'avventura Del Corpo Nella Letteratura e Dintorni, edited by Monica Farnetti and Nadia La Mantia, 1st ed., Dykinson, S.L., 2024, pp. 429–39. https://escritorasyescrituras.com/publicaciones/corpi-terrestri-corpi-celesti-lavventura-del-corpo-nella-letteratura-e-dintorni

Publications: 

1. Johnson, K., Mitchell, S., Parkin, R., Peak, K., Chavis, C., Cleveland, S., Comer, K., Cross, C., Hawkins, T., Ingram, C., Johnson, T., & Jones, A. (2025). Systemic Inequities in Healthcare: Lessons Learned from Black People with IDD and Their Care Partners. Progress in Community Health Partnerships.
2. Wasmuth, S., Milton, C., Pritchard, K., Johnson, K., Wakeford, L., Caldwell, B., Peak, K., Briggeman, L., & Johnson, K. (2022). Narrative Theatre to Examine and Mitigate Anti-Black Racism within Occupational Therapy. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health.
3. Bailliard, A. L., Carroll, A., & Peak, K. (2021). Laying Low: Unmasking the Contributions of Science and Education to Racism. Journal of Occupational Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2021.1893109
4. Johnson, K. R., Bogenschutz, M., & Peak, K. (2021). Propositions for Race-Based Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Inclusion, 9(3), 156-169. https://doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-9.3.156

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

Publications: 

Books

1. Bambi, C., Mizuno, Y., Shashank, S., & Yuan, F. (Eds.) (2025). New Frontiers in GRMHD Simulations. Springer Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Singapore. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8522-3
2. Bambi, C., Kashyap, V., Shashank, S., & Yoshida, N. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Machine Learning Techniques for Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Singapore.

Selected articles

1. Shashank, S., Abdikamalov, A. B., Liu, H., Mirzaev, T., Jiang, J., Bambi, C., Baker, F., & Young, A. (2026). Modeling Reflection Spectra of Super-Eddington X-Ray Sources. The Astrophysical Journal, 996, 51. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2614
2. Shashank, S., Abdikamalov, A. B., Liu, H., Nosirov, A., Bambi, C., Dihingia, I. K., & Mizuno, Y. (2025). Measuring black hole spins with X-ray reflection spectroscopy: A GRMHD outlook. Physical Review D, 112, 123030. https://doi.org/10.1103/4sth-rnwv
3. Shashank, S., Nouri, F. H., & Gupta, A. (2023). f-mode oscillations of compact stars with realistic equations of state in dynamical spacetime. New Astronomy, 104, 102067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2023.102067
4. Shashank, S., Riaz, S., Abdikamalov, A. B., & Bambi, C. (2022). Testing Relativistic Reflection Models with GRMHD Simulations of Accreting Black Holes. The Astrophysical Journal, 938, 53. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9128
5. Shashank, S., & Bambi, C. (2022). Constraining the Konoplya-Rezzolla-Zhidenko deformation parameters III: Limits from stellar-mass black holes using gravitational-wave observations. Physical Review D, 105, 104004. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.104004

For a full list of publications, please consult: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1903109.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3402-7212

About: Swarnim Shashank is an astrophysicist from India. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Fudan University in Shanghai. After his PhD he won the Shanghai super-postdoctoral fellowship to continue his work at Fudan, following which he joined Tübingen. 

His research mainly encompasses various aspects of relativistic astrophysics i.e. how matter and light behave in the most extreme conditions of the Universe. Swarnim studies black holes by connecting theoretical models and large-scale computer simulations with real astronomical observations. His research aims to bridge the gap between simulations and data, making it possible to interpret what telescopes and gravitational-wave detectors observe in terms of the underlying physics of black holes and their environments.

His work combines general relativity, plasma physics, high-performance computing, and machine learning to model how matter behaves as it falls into black holes and how this process produces X-rays and gravitational waves. By developing more realistic models and comparing them with observations, he helps improve the accuracy of measurements of black hole properties such as mass and spin, while also testing whether these objects truly follow Einstein’s theory of General Relativity.

Swarnim also develops open-source software and publicly available datasets that enable the wider scientific community to carry out more accurate analyses of black hole observations. In addition, he has edited research volumes on GRMHD simulations and on the growing role of machine learning in astrophysics and cosmology.

His long-term research goal is to build a seamless connection between state-of-the-art numerical simulations and astronomical observations, allowing the next generation of telescopes and gravitational-wave observatories to reveal how black holes work and to uncover new insights into the laws governing our Universe.

Publications: 

Published

1. ‘‘And Grew a Giant Tree; – the Mind May Grow the Same’: The Rooting, Growth, and Transplantation of Byron’s Exilic Identity’, Byron Journal (53.1: 2025), https://doi.org/10.3828/bj.2025.6.
2. Book Review: ‘Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations. By Christine Kenyon Jones. | Byron: A Life in Ten Letters. By Andrew Stauffer.’ Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (48.2: 2025), https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12981.
3. ‘Women’s Fashion: The Deceit in Dress’, Gissing Journal (LIV, 4: 2020).

Forthcoming

1. ‘‘Like These Blasted Pines’ and Hardy Firs: Byron’s Resilient Exilic Identity’, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum,1740-1840, eds. Amanda Blake Davis and Anna Burton (under contract with Liverpool University Press)
2. ‘Byron and Shelley, Human Potentiality, and the Poetics of the Ocean’, Shelley and Collaboration: Posterity, Intertextuality and Affect (under contract with Legenda Press), Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration

Under Review

1. ‘Reconfiguring Mind and World: The Ecological Imagination in the Poetics of Byron and Shelley, 1816-1820' (proposed monograph, Liverpool University Press)
2. ‘‘As If the Earth and Sea Had Been Dissolved in a Lake of Fire’: The Illusory Venetian Shoreline in Julian and Maddalo’, Essays in Romanticism
3. ‘‘In the Valley of Waters’: Byron’s Willow, Liminality, and Ambient Poetics’, Romanticism on the Net

Research Project: 

Investigating Ecological Hopefulness in Lusophone Cultures:

During my 1-year position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen, I am inspired by this year’s Global Encounters Fellowship theme of ‘making peace with nature’ to research how literature and the arts can inspire hope at a time of human-made environmental crisis. Building on my background in Lusophone studies and my ecocritical collaborations with Dr Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford), I am currently building a panorama of cultural expressions of eco-optimism that emerge specifically in Portuguese-speaking contexts, namely Portugal and Brazil – where Indigenous languages and cosmologies provide additional critical counterpoints. Every culture’s storehouse of ecological wisdom and accompanying toolkit for green politics evolve in response to (and even in co-authorship with) local climates, landscapes, ecosystems, and species. Disseminated more widely, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indigenous artists’ own unique solutions to the problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss can provide the global community with fresh ways of imagining an eco-utopian ‘counterapocalypse’ (Joanna Zylinska, 2018) worth striving for.

In this vein, as my new and evolving research project begins to take shape (under its more precise title of Eco-Utopias of the ‘We-Earth’—The Multi-Species Co-Authoring of Culture in Portugal & Brazil), I will be exploring how Portuguese- and Indigenous language-speaking writers, filmmakers, and visual artists engage hopefully and reciprocally with other species in order to imagine solidaristic futures beyond the purely human. Examining a range of cultural objects co-authored in partnership with the biodiverse species of the Lusophone world, I am looking to redress anthropocentric narratives that prioritise exclusively human understandings of cultural creation, the future, and ecological catastrophe. By focusing on multi-species collaborations between cultural practitioners and the ‘more-than-human’, I mobilise ecocriticism alongside critical animal studies, plant philosophy, and queer ecologies to celebrate the forms of conviviality, expressivity, and artistry that only a biodiverse world can sustain. (I borrow the term ‘more-than-human’ from David Abram’s book The Spell of the Sensuous, from 1996: for a succinct explanation of its meaning, origins, and evolution, please see this collection edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito in 2024).

My stay in Tübingen equally represents an opportunity for me to revisit my DPhil thesis (Unruly Daughters: Complications of Epic and Identity in 20th and 21st Century Portuguese Women’s Poetry), which examined the critique of Portuguese canonical literature and national identity offered by modern Portuguese women poets, in order to expand upon its eco-feminist conclusions.

In parallel, I am looking forward to disseminating my collaborative work with Professor Cláudia Pazos-Alonso on translating the poetry of Natália Correia (1923-1993) into English. Soon to be published by Shantarin, the bilingual collection Song of Emerging Homeland and Other Poems seeks to show how this Azorean surrealist poet and philosopher of eco-matriarchy, who dreamt of ‘rewilding the world with roses’, may help us to revitalise our ecological hopefulness today.

Publications: 

1. (Forthcoming) Stuart-Thompson, Andrzej. ‘Ana Luísa Amaral’s Animal Voice-Overs: Exploring the politics and possibilities of (more-than-)human speech in Mundo (2021)', in Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal.
2. Boulanger, Dorothée and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson (eds.). Luso-Ecologies: Environmental, Ecocritical and More-Than-Human Perspectives in Lusophone Studies, Portuguese Studies, no. 41.1 (Spring 2025).
3. Stuart-Thompson, Andrzej. ‘“A Casa da Porca”: the porcine undoing of domesticity and anthropocentrism in Hilda Hilst’s sensual world’, in Luso-Ecologies: Environmental, Ecocritical and More-Than-Human Perspectives in Lusophone Studies, Portuguese Studies, no. 41.1 (Spring 2025).
4. Boulanger, Dorothée, and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson. ‘Postcolonial childhoods, literary filiations? Angolan boyhood narratives in the works of Luandino Vieira and Ondjaki’. Global Portuguese: Legacies of Empire and Acculturation, edited by Shihan da Silva and Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2025).
5. Joy, Vaughn, and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson. ‘O Ornitólogo, João Pedro Rodrigues (2016)’, in Natureza e Cinema Português Contemporâneo, edited by Filipa Rosário and José Duarte (Lisbon: Editora Documenta/Sistema Solar, 2024).
6. Stuart-Thompson, Andrzej. ‘“Escrever um poema/ escavar uma toca”: inhabiting the world dis-anthropocentrically with the poetry of Adília Lopes’. Adília Lopes: do privado ao político, ed. Burghard Balstrusch et al. (Lisbon: Editora Documenta/ Sistema Solar, 2024).
7. Stuart-Thompson, Andrzej. ‘Ethically Inclined Models of Authorship and Lyric Subjectivity in the Poetry of Adília Lopes’. ELyra: Revista Da Rede Internacional Lyracompoetics, n. 14 (Dec. 2019), pp. 19-47, https://elyra.org/index.php/elyra/article/view/304.

About: Having completed my DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages (Portuguese) in 2023 at the University of Oxford, with a thesis entitled ‘Unruly Daughters: complications of epic and identity in 20^th and 21^st century Portuguese women’s poetry’, I carried my love of eco-feminist women’s writing into my teaching practice with a stipendiary lectureship at Oxford’s sub-faculty of Portuguese. More recently, I have convened a module on masculinities (‘A Cultural Analysis of Swagger: Representing Performative Masculinities in Literature and the Arts') and supervised master's dissertations for Oxford's MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

With Dr Dorothée Boulanger, I run an ongoing research project entitled ‘Luso-Ecologies’ which focuses on ecocritical approaches to Lusophone cultural production. In this vein, I am now using my Global Encounters Fellowship at the University of Tübingen to investigate how literature and the arts – with case studies from Portugal and Brazil – can help with combatting eco-anxiety, generating active hope for a greener and more biodiverse planet.