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. [In-preparation monograph] Armstrong, Hannah, Sagalands: Island Medievalism and the Norse North Atlantic (forthcoming).

2. Armstrong, Hannah and Rebecca Menmuir, ‘Editors’ introduction: Medieval Forgeries /

   Forging the Medieval’, postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 15, no. 2,

   (2024), 419-435: doi.org/10.1057/s41280-024-00315-4

3. Armstrong, Hannah, ‘“The Northland of Old”: The Use and “Misuse” of (Medieval)Iceland’, International Medievalisms: From Nationalism to Activism (ed.) Mary Boyle(Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), 95-110: doi.org/10.1515/9781800109087
4. Armstrong, Hannah, ‘‘Possessed, magical, and dangerous to handle’: Jane Ellen Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists’, Hellebore 7 (2022), 63-71.

About: Hannah Armstrong recently completed her PhD in English and Related Literature at the University of York (2025) with a thesis titled: ‘Sheaves from Sagaland’: Island Medievalism and the Norse North Atlantic in British Writing (1860-Present). Her doctoral work focused on the phenomenon of ‘saga pilgrimage’, a form of literary tourism which began in the mid-nineteenth century and which saw readers of the medieval Old Norse-Icelandic sagas travel to places such as Iceland to see the sites where their heroes had allegedly lived and died.

During her PhD, research grants from the British Association for Victorian Studies and the Chalke Valley History Trust, as well as the 2023 Peter Foote Memorial Bursary from the Viking Society for Northern Studies, enabled her to undertake fieldwork in both Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) and the Faroe Islands. In 2024, she was also a visiting scholar at the Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute in East Iceland.

Currently, she is working on her first monograph, provisionally titled Sagalands: Island Medievalism and the Norse North Atlantic, as well as plannning her next monograph project which will focus on the application of Island Studies perspectives to Old Norse prose literature. 

Publications: 

1. "Navigating Biblical Narratives in Islamic Thought: From Early Engagement to Ibn Taymiyya's Theorization" (Forthcoming, De Gruyter, January 2026)
2. "Online Scriptural Reasoning as a Pedagogical Tool for Fostering Intercultural Understanding and Empowering Women: A Case Study from Egypt" (Forthcoming, IJMES – International Journal of Middle East Studies), co-authored with Joel Pierce
3. "On Teaching Islam Across Cultures," co-authored with Courtney Dorroll and Kimberly Hall (University of Indiana Press, 2019)
4. Baumi, Doaa M., Dini, Elena, and Feldmann Kaye, Miriam. "Scriptural Reasoning in a Time of Social Distancing." The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, vol. 20, no. 1, February 2023
5. Baumi, Doaa M. "Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ghassānī" in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (Asia, Africa and the Americas), ed. David Thomas and John Chessworth (Brill: Oct. 2018), vol. 12, pp. 56–59
6. Book Review: "Biblical Figures in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature" by J. Kaltner & Y. Y. Mirza, in The Bible and the Qur'an: Biblical Figures in the Islamic Tradition

Personal Website: 

LinkedIn Profile

Publications: 

Monograph

Namtar: Deity, Demon, Agent of Fate, under review

Articles

1. “The Neo-Babylonian Tablets of the Lawrence Henry Ott Collection in the Yale Babylonian Collection.” Orientalia, in press.
2. “Everyday Magic?: Four Sumerian zi…pa₃ Incantations on Amulets.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies, in press.
3. “The Son of King Kurigalzu on a Kassite Prayer Seal.” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2022/2, #65.
4. “A Tale of Two Plague Gods.” Biblical Archaeology Review 47/4 (Winter 2021), 58-59. 

About: Jon Beltz holds a PhD in Assyriology from Yale University, specializing in the languages, literature, and religions of ancient Mesopotamia. His dissertation was on the Mesopotamian underworld deity/demon Namtar, who functioned as a "grim reaper" figure for the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. He has also worked on the usage of inscribed amulets in ancient Mesopotamia and the phenomenon of "magic." His current work focuses on a group of Sumerian incantations he calls "oath incantations," which utilize the language of oath-binding to exorcize demons and prevent them from attacking a patient. He is currently producing a critical edition of the late bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian compositions Diĝir Hul and Lugal Namtar, two lengthy standardized incantations used in ancient Mesopotamia for exorcism and healing from demonic attack. He has studied and published cuneiform texts from the Yale Babylonian Collection and the British Museum.

Publications: 

1. Veronica Cibotaru (2025). Phenomenological understandings of the relationship between ethics and the idea of God, Continental Philosophy Review.
2. Veronica Cibotaru (2024). For a contextualist and content-related understanding of the difference between human and artificial intelligence, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
3. Veronica Cibotaru (2023). Le problème de la signification dans les philosophies de Kant et Husserl. Paris: Hermann.
4. Veronica Cibotaru (2023). Banal evil - Radical goodness. Reflection on the 60th Anniversary of "Eichmann in Jerusalem", Open Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 1.

A full list of publications can be found here: Academia profile.

Publications: 

1. Cox, Samuel J. [forthcoming] ‘Review: Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel.’ Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, April 2025.
2. ——. ‘Writing from the South: An Interview with Kim Scott.’ Overland no. 255, 2024.
3. ——. ‘Review: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel.’ JASAL, vol. 24, no. 2, 2024.
4. ——.  ‘On the Track to Tourmaline: Randolph Stow’s “dry-souled country.”’ Westerly, vol. 69, no. 1, June 2024.
5. ——. ‘Textual Encounters of the Bird Kind: Dal Stivens and the Night Parrot.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, 2023, dx.doi.org/10.20314/als.486a89265d.
6. ——. ‘The Dust of Carpentaria.’ Motifs [En ligne], vol. 6, 2022, DOI : 10.56078/motifs.806.
7. ——. ‘I’ll Show You Love In a Handful of Dust: The Material Poetics of Voss.’ JASAL, vol. 22, no. 2, 2022, pp. 1-11.
8. ——. ‘“The Kingdom of Dust”: Voss as Planetary Epic.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 2022, pp. 1-27, http://dx.doi.org/10.20314/als.40f6a48016.
9. ——. ‘On the Track to Tourmaline: Photo Essay.’ Westerly, vol. 67, no. 2, 2022, pp. 109-118.
10. ——. (2022). ‘Land, Grief, and Returning to Dust: An Interview with Dani Powell.’ The Saltbush Review, vol. 2, 2022, pp. 1-13, https://saltbushreview.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/saltbush-issue-2-land-grief-and-returning-to-dust-cox.docx.pdf. 

Research Project: Building Transatlantic Media Law Education and the Prospective U.S. Digital Media Workforce

Purpose: 

This research project aims to equip future U.S.-trained media, journalism, and communication professionals with the knowledge and competencies needed to navigate emerging European Union regulations addressing digital privacy, online competition, and other harms. As these laws increasingly shape global media practices, the project prepares students and professionals not only for work within the EU but also for potential regulatory shifts in the United States. By fostering transatlantic regulatory literacy, the initiative supports a more agile and informed media workforce capable of adapting to evolving legal and ethical standards. 

Publications (selected): 

1. Smith Ekstrand, V., Ring Carlson, C., Coyle, E., Dente Ross, S. & Reynolds, A. (2023). Trager's The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication. Sage Publications Inc.
2. Smith Ekstrand, V. (2015). Hot News in the Age of Big Data: A Legal History of the Hot News Doctrine and Implications for the Digital Age. Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc.
3. Smith Ekstrand, V. (2010). Unmasking Jane and John Doe: Online Anonymity and the First Amendment. Communication Law and Policy, 8(4), 405 - 427.

Publications: 

M.Astolfi, G.F. De Simone, P. Harrison, A. Mesisca, and B.Russel. “Marble revetment at Aeclanum (Italy):new evidence from three public buildings”, in Asmosia XII, Association for the study of marble and stones in Antiquity (Izmir 8-14 October 2018).

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

Publications: 

1. Dordevic, Z., Kumbani, J. and Alvarez-Morales, L. (Submitted book chapter). Sacred soundscapes of Medieval World: The role of percussion instruments in landscape sacralistaion.
2. Kumbani, J and Díaz-Andreu, M. (Submitted). Animated motifs: a systematic analysis of dance scenes in the rock art of the Zimbabwean Plateau. Southern African Field Archaeology.  
3. Kumbani, J and Díaz-Andreu. (Submitted). Dance scenes from Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape Provinces in South Africa. TELESTES: An International Journal of Archaeomusicology and Archaeology of Sound.
4. Kumbani, J and Díaz-Andreu. (Submitted book chapter). Dance scenes of the rock art of the Central Limpopo basin (South Africa and Zimbabwe): a systematic study.
5. Kumbani, J and Díaz-Andreu, M. 2024. The art of music. The representation of musical instruments in the rock art of Zimbabwe. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.
6. Kumbani, J and Díaz-Andreu, M (Submitted). Animated motifs: a systematic analysis of dance scenes in the rock art of the Zambezi and Save river basins (Zimbabwe). African Archaeological Review.
7. Scherzinger, M.R and Kumbani, J. (Submitted) Mbira Key from the Later Iron Age excavated at the Medieval City of Great Zimbabwe. Global Anthology of Sources in the History of Music Theory.
8. Kumbani, J. 2023. Drumming things up: a possible depiction of a drum at Grootvlei 158 (Oakdene), South Africa. The South African Archaeological Bulletin 78(218): 3-10.
9. Kumbani, J. 2023. Idiophones or palettes? An analysis of flat bone and shale implements from Matjes River site, southern Cape of South Africa. Critical Arts 37(1): 72-86, DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2023.2220368
10. Kumbani, J. and Vogels, O. 2022. Musicals bows in the Rock Art of Southern Africa. Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Musical Bows in the Rock Art of Southern Africa | Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Anthropology.
11. Rust, R., Kumbani, J., Rusch, N. and Wurz, S. 2022. Flute-playing in the rock art of the Klein Karoo and Cederberg, South Africa; a link to ancient sound. Rock Art Research: The Rock Art Research: Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA). 39(1): 104-113.
12. Kumbani, J. 2020. Music and sound-related archaeological artefacts from southern Africa from the last 10,000 years. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 55: 217-241.
13. Kumbani, J., Bradfield, J., Rusch, N. and Wurz, S., 2019. A functional investigation of southern Cape Later Stone Age artefacts resembling aerophones. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24: 693-711.
14. Mercader, J., Patalano, R., Favreau, J., Itambu, M., Kumbani, J. and Marufu, H., 2016. Acheulean prepared core technologies from the eastern Zimbabwe escarpment, Maunganidze. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8: 47-62.

Publications: 

Selection of Opinion and Analysis Pieces

1. Kunz, K. (21 June 2024). Asia Studies in Aotearoa. The Context. https://www.thecontextasiapacific.org.nz/asiastudies/   Kunz, K. (15 May 2024). South Korea & Japan's Response to China. Asia Media Centre. https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/opinion-and-analysis/south-korea-and-japans-response-to-china/
2. Kunz, K. (24 May 2023). Why South Korea and Japan’s Radar Link Plan Might Be Bad News for China. NK News: Korea Pro. https://koreapro.org/2023/05/why-south-korea-and-japans-radar-link-might-be-bad-news-for-china/
3. Kunz, K. (3 May 2023). New Zealand-China Relations Under Prime Minister Hipkins: Changes on the Horizon? 9DASHLINE. https://www.9dashline.com/article/new-zealand-china-relations-under-prime-minister-hipkins-changes-on-the-horizon 

Books Under Contract

1. Kunz, K. (expected 2026). The Foreign Policy Decision Making of Japan and South Korea: Navigating the Rise of China. Routledge.
2. Shibata, R., & Kunz, K. (expected 2025).  Competing Victimhood and Intergenerational Responsibility: Resolving the Rift between Japan and Korea. Routledge.

Journal Article in Preparation

1. Kunz, K. Flashpoints, Threat, and Leverage: How Geography Shaped Japan’s and South Korea's Diverging Responses to China's Rise (1992-2022). 

About: Since obtaining my PhD at the University of Otago, I have worked as a researcher for the Toda Peace Institute and am now a Teaching Fellow at the University of Tübingen.My research interests include international relations in the Asia-Pacific region, state decision-making processes, and conflict management.

My current research project examines the decision-making processes of Japan and South Korea in response to the rise of China. For this research, I conducted extensive field work in South Korea and Japan, including a stint as a Waseda Visiting Research Fellow.

I have taught courses on international relations theory and New Zealand foreign policy, and worked as a teaching assistant for various courses, including introduction to international relations, Chinese foreign policy, and US foreign policy. 

As a freelance writer and researcher, I have contributed articles to NK News, the Asia New Zealand Foundation, 9Dashline, and The Context. 

Publications: 

1. Lunardon, M., Cerni, T., & Rumiati, R. I. (2022). Numeracy Gender Gap in STEM Higher Education: The Role of Neuroticism and Math Anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 856405. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.856405
2. Lunardon, M., T., & Rumiati, R.I. (2024). Field of study and gender modulation of the effect of personality and math anxiety on numeracy. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/0223980.2024.2352706
3. Lunardon, M., Lucangeli, D. Zorzi, M., Sella, F. (2023). Math computerized games in the classroom: an Number Line Training in Primary School Children. Progress in Brain Research, 276, 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.11.001
4. Lunardon, M., Decarli, G., Sella, F., Lanfranchi, S. Gerola, S., Cossu, G., & Zorzi, M. (2023). Low discriminative power of WISC cognitive profile in developmental dyscalculia. Research in Developmental Disablities, 136, 104478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2023.104478
5. Lunardon, M., Cerni, T., Zanon, M., & Rumiati, R.I. (2024). Psychological correlates of numeracy in higher education. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/adnw9

A full list of publications can be found here: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=VpWV0rUAAAAJ&hl=it

Publications: 

1. Marchionni, Francesco, Promethean Grief in Byron and Shelley: Subjectivity, Knowledge and Art. (Under contract with Liverpool UP)
2. Hamilton, Paul, Marchionni Francesco (Eds.), Giacomo Leopardo: Reading, Reception and Legacy in Europe. (Legenda, 2026)
3. Marchionni, Francesco, ‘Giacomo Leopardi’s Promethean Weltanschauung', in Contaminazioni leopardiane, ed. by Olmo Calzolari, Alessandra Aloisi and Emanuela Tandello (Milano: Mimesis, 2024), pp. 136-144
4. (Forthcoming) Marchionni, Francesco, “' Il rimembrar delle passate cose”: Giacomo Leopardi between ricordanza and dimenticanza', in Giacomo Leopardi. Reading, Reception and Legacy in Europe, edited by Paul Hamilton and Francesco Marchionni
5. Marchionni, Francesco, “And making death a Victory”: Sceptisim and Personal Conflict in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I-II and ‘Prometheus’, The Byron Journal, 48:1 (2020), 45-56
6. Marchionni, Francesco, ‘Performing the Promethean Self in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III-IV and Cain', Essays in Romanticism, 31:2 (2024), 133-150
7. (Forthcoming) Marchionni, Francesco, ‘Promethean Nihilism in Giacomo Leopardi’s Canti and Operette Morali', Forum for Modern Language Studies 

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:  

Articles

1. Gomathy, K.N. (2024). Technology a Co-actor in Kinning and ‘Desirable’ Aging? Anthropology and Aging https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2024.552
2. Gomathy, K.N. (2024). A Case Study of CSR Pratices by Select Agri Companies in Andhra Pradesh, International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research, 6(2), 1-9, https://doi.org/gtnkbb
3. Gomathy, K.N. (2022). Symmetrical, Non-soverign Cartography as a means for Conservation: Insights from a Participatory Forest Mapping Exercise, Journal of Polititical Ecology 29(1), 94-100. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2371

Book Chapters

1. Gomathy, K.N. Growing Food and Making Kin in Later life: Towards a More-than-human Approaching to Aging in South Asia, in The Routledge Handbook of Anthropological and Development Studies Approaches to Aging (under review)
2. Gomathy, K.N. Doing organic rooftop gardening in the city: Multiple knowledge and agents guiding the transition in South Asia, in ‘Urban human-nature partnerships – From The Anthropocene to the Ecocene’ (under review) 

Contact: 

kngomathy92spam prevention@gmail.com

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. 2025. 02 You are the 20,000th person to ask me this question - the indefatigable Femi answers. Taehak Publishing/Nal Pub. Paju. ISBN: 979-11-681033-0-6 http://aladin.kr/p/PzmPM
2. 2024. 02 Epistemic Vulnerability of Korean Budding Feminists in the Era of Post Feminism Reboot Doctoral Dissertation, Ewha Women's University https://dspace.ewha.ac.kr/handle/2015.oak/267226
3. 2024. 01 The ‘Tal-jo’ Diary of a Matriarch – Ain’t I a Woman? In: Reading bell hooks together. Dongnyokpub. Paju. ISBN: 978-89-729711-4-6http://aladin.kr/p/dQFXD
4. 2022. 12 The Strangers in the Feminist Classroom. In: Equality in the Classroom, now. Dongnyokpub. Paju. ISBN: 978-89-729707-1-2 http://aladin.kr/p/FQiFe
5. 2022. 06 Feminist Pedagogy through the Silence in a Time of Backlash. In: Women’s Studies Review, 39(1). Korean Women’s Institute at Ewha Women’s University. Seoul. ISSN: 15987698 https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=ART002853596
6. 2021. 06 The Political Responsibility of “No. 1 Orphan Exporter” and the Appearance of Compassionate Korean. In: Memory&Vision, 44. Korea Democracy Foundation. Seoul. ISSN: 1599712x https://kiss.kstudy.com/Detail/Ar?key=3889946
7. 2019. 12 Well-Grounded Anxiety Becoming Hate: A Focus on the Discourses of Recognizing Refugees’ and Women’s Fear. In: Gender and Culture, 12(2). Keimyung University Institute of Women’s Studies. Daegu. ISSN: 20056354 https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002550145
8. 2019. 06 Encounters with ‘Ugly Koreans’ and the Construction of the ‘Other’. In: Memory&Vision, 40. Korea Democracy Foundation.Seoul. ISSN: 1599712x https://kiss.kstudy.com/Detail/Ar?key=3683340

Contact: 

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About: Dr Hye-min OH is a feminist scholar, writer, filmmaker, and educator. She holds a PhD in Women’s Studies from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul and an MA in Gender and Diversity from the Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation, entitled ‘Epistemic Vulnerability of Korean Budding Feminists in the Era of Post-Feminism Reboot.' focused on the contemporary and generational context, examining the impact of feminism and anti-feminism backlash on the young generation. 

Following the emergence of the #MeToo movement in the arts sector, she has taught mandatory feminist courses at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul for six years. In an educational environment characterized by acceptance and resistance, she cultivated her interest in feminist pedagogy. She participated in numerous projects to develop educational content and published academic papers and books. In addition to her previous activities, she has expressed a desire to research the current situation in which alternative knowledge, defined as information that deviates from established facts and is often used to manipulate public opinion, is replacing and influencing reality. To this end, she was awarded a Global Encounters Fellowship at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany, where she is currently engaged in research to identify responses to this phenomenon from a transnational perspective, with a particular focus on resilience and institutionalization.

Publications: 

1. Yuta Okada (2025) “The dialogue as silence ―From ‘From a Dialogue on language’ to intercultural philosophy,” in Heidegger-Forum No.19, pp. 53-66 (in Japanese)
2. Yuta Okada (2025) “The Intersection and Divergence of Heidegger and Miki Kiyoshi: On Technology and Nature,” in Menschenontologie Vol. 3, pp. 23-35 (in Japanese)
3. Yuta Okada (2022) “The Problem of Trueness in Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art,” in Arche No. 30, pp. 67-77 (in Japanese)

A full list of publications can be found here: https://researchmap.jp/YutaOkada

Publications:

Recent publications (selection)

1. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2024). Is Violence a Limit Phenomenon? A Critical Approach from the Perspective of Transcendental Phenomenology and Public Health Studies. Human Studies (published online 31 July 2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09750-5
2. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2024). Phenomenological Method and Violence Research. The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter, 31, 30-33. https://hiw.kuleuven.be/en/study/alumni/newsletter/newsletter-31-2024.pdf/view
3. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2023). The Distinction between ‘First’ and ‘Universal’ Philosophy in Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations: On a Basic Precondition for the Transformation of Philosophy into a Rigorous Science. In Daniele De Santis (ed.), Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations. Commentary, Interpretations, Discussions. Baden-Baden: Karl Alber, pp. 481-495.
4. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2023). La recepción temprana del concepto ‘mundo de la vida’ en la filosofía de habla hispana. Valoración crítica de un episodio decisivo en la historia de la fenomenología entre Alemania, España y México. In Matei Chihaia et al. (eds.), Caminos cruzados: filosofía y literatura del exilio español en América Latina. Madrid: Iberoamericana, pp. 413-433. https://doi.org/10.31819/9783968694030
5. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2022). ¿Funcionarios de la humanidad? La fenomenología, la UNESCO y el exilio español en México. Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, 19, 159-171. https://doi.org/10.5944/rif.19.2022.34319  
6. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2022). Philosophy between Wisdom and Science – Luis Villoro’s Critique of Husserl’s Phenomenology. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 20, 115-121. https://doi.org/10.4324/b23070
7. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2021). Die Diskussion zwischen José Gaos und Luis Villoro über den Begriff der Lebenswelt – Kritische Auswertung einer entscheidenden Episode der Rezeptionsgeschichte von Husserls Phänomenologie in Spanien und Mexiko. Husserl Studies, 37(3), 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10743-021-09293-y  
8. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2020). Anfang und Methode. Zur Verwandlung der Ersten Philosophie in eine Grundlagenwissenschaft bei Husserl. Dissertation published by KUPS, Universität zu Köln, 279 pp. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/62926/

Research Areas: 

• Geography (Black Geogrpahies/Urban Planning/Exclusionary Zoning/ Public Policy)
• Africana Studies (African Diaspora Studies/ African American Diaspora Studies/ African Studies)
• Sociology (Historical/ Whiteness Studies/ Race, Class, and Gender/ Urban Sociology/ Environmental Justice/ Social Justice/ Social Problems/ Sociology of Culture/ Sociology of the Body/ Race and Health)

Publications: 

1. “Coloured South African Politics and the New Orleans Afro-Creole Protest Tradition,” in the edited volume The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action! Teresa N. Washington, ed. Oya’s Tornado’s Books, 2016.
2. “Coloured South African Consciousness: Blurring the Lines of Identity Formation and Space,” in the edited volume New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Uncharted Themes and Alternative Representations. Glenn A. Chambers, Rita Kiki Edozie, and Tama Hamilton-Wray, co-ed. Michigan State University Press, 2018.
3. “Race, Space and Urban Renewal in New Orleans: From Plessy through Katrina,” in Architecture_Media_Politics_Society (AMPS) Journal Proceedings Series 24.2: ISSN 2398-9467, Jason Montgomery, ed. UCL Press. February, 2022.

Publications: 

1. “Memories of the Morisco Expulsion in the Writings of Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Rafīʿ.” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa 13.4 (2022): 435-450.
2. “The North Atlantic in the Islamic Cartographic Imaginary,” Viator 51.1 (2021): 35-45.
3. (Book Review) Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun. ed. Susan Diane Laningham. trans. Jane Tar. Toronto and Tempe: Iter Press and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. The Sixteenth Century Journal. L.2 (Summer 2019): 525-6.

Activities at the College of Fellows:

At the College of Fellows, I will form a focus group with the other members of the current Global Encounters cohort. I plan to participate fully in College of Fellows academic life and work collaboratively with the other Global Encounters Fellows. I will spend my time in Tübingen preparing a book manuscript for publication, as well as other article length projects. I will also take part in several symposia and workshops.

About: 

I am a historian of the late medieval and early modern period, with a focus on religious, cultural, and migration histories. I earned my PhD in History from the University of Rochester in 2024. My research has been supported by Fulbright-Hays, the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Institute of Maghrib Studies, among others. My current book project “Valorous Defeat: North African Narratives of the Morisco Expulsion” examines how memory, conflict, and religious identity interact during migratory processes and diasporic communities and is based on archival research in Morocco, Tunisia, and Spain.

Publications: 

Books & edited Volume

1. Moltmann in China: Reception and Dialogue (forthcoming from Routledge)
2. 《靈基壹築：見證百年香港社區故事》。香港：一八四一，2024。（林皓賢、霍揚揚、德詩婷合著）(Joint authorship)

Selected articles 

1. “Chinese Theology and Alternative Sinicizations: Theological Reception History and Moltmann’s Theology in Greater China,” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie (forthcoming in 2025)
2. "New Political Theology in Beijing: Jürgen Moltmann’s Dialogue with Chinese Humanists", Exchange 53, 3 (2024): 204-232, doi: doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-bja10077.
3. “阿坎族的整體社群關係與東亞社會的祖先傳統” (translation of the article following by Zhang Yong 張勇), Christian Studies Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, Jan. 2024, www.csccrc.org/news_tc.php.
4. “Relating to the Whole Community in Akan and East Asian Ancestral Traditions,” in: Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions Vol. 11, Submission: November 5, 2021 Acceptance: January 24, 2022

Book chapters

1. “Scholar, Critic, Scribe: Zha Changping 查常平’s Humanist Criticism,” in Modern Chinese Theologies III (Academic and Diasporic), edited by Chloë Starr. (Fortress Press, 2024).
2. “Imported insider/outsider boundaries: the case of contemporary Chinese Christianity researchers,” in: The Insider/Outsider Debate: New Perspectives in the Study of Religion, edited by George D. Chryssides and Stephen E. Gregg (Equinox, 2019).

A full list of publications can be found here: https://www2.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/faculty-staff/teaching-faculty/naomi-thurston 

Activities at the College of Fellows: 

Focus group with “Lektüretreffen” (three meetings scheduled); CoF lecture; Book talk

Publications: 

1. Tripathi, A, Samanta, T. (2023). Third Agers in India: Empirical Evidence from Longitudinal Aging Studies in India (LASI), 2017-2018 (Journal of Applied Gerontology)
2. Tripathi, A; Samanta, T (2023). Social Engagement as leisure: Does it moderate the association between subjective wellbeing and depression in later life? (Frontiers in Sociology)
3. Tripathi, A; Samanta, T (2023). “I don’t want to have the time when I do nothing”: Aging and reconfigured leisure practices during the pandemic Ageing International
4. Tripathi, A; Samanta, T (2022) Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India, Leisure Studies
5. Isaacson, M; Tripathi, A; Samanta, T; D'ambrosio, L; Coughlin J. 2020. ‘Giving voice to the environment as the silent partner in aging: Examining the moderating roles of gender and family structure in older adult wellbeing,’ International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Book Chapters 

1. Tripathi A. 2021. ‘Social Care and Habitus Transformation in the Elderly Indian Immigrants in Belfast (United Kingdom)’ in Joshi, P. C., & Mahajan, C. Introduction: Emerging Challenges in Indian Medical Anthropology.
2. Lubit, A., Marshall, T., & Tripathi, A. (2021). Editorial Note Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Irish Journal of Anthropology: Editors' Introduction to Special Issue Irish Journal of Anthropology, 24(1), 4-7. 8.
3. Tripathi, A. 2021. ‘Rethinking Transnational Care: The Nature of Nurture among Indian Families in Belfast, Northern Ireland,’ in Rajan, et al (2021). Handbook on Aging, Health and Social Policy, Springer Nature. 

Contact:

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tripathi.ashwin05spam prevention@gmail.com

Activities at the College of Fellows: 

1. Workshop Participation in the Teach@Tübingen Induction Workshop
2. Workshop Leader at the Spring School of the Methods Center – Writing in Qualitative Research (Academic Writing and Publishing Practices)
3. Teaching “Social Gerontology” at the Methods Center