Adolfo Albán Achinte is a Master in Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting from the National University of Bogotá (1983). He completed a Master’s degree in Communication and Cultural Design at the University of Valle in Santiago de Cali (1998) and holds a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from the Simón Bolívar Andean University in Quito, Ecuador (2007). Since 1984, he has been participating in experimental printmaking workshops organized at the Rayo Museum in Roldanillo, being part of the “Arco Iris” Collective, and since 2005, he has been a member of the “Colectivo 5” of artists from the center of Valle del Cauca. He has trained in topics such as contemporary painting techniques, culture, cultural heritage and development, cultural management and community participation, management of cultural institutions, pedagogical mediation, and new communication technologies. As a painter, serigrapher, and printmaker, he has participated in over 40 collective exhibitions and has had 20 solo exhibitions. He has worked as a cultural promoter and researcher with Afro-descendant communities in the Valle del Patía since 1988, where he developed the “Cultural Tradition Recovery” project, which gave rise to the now-recognized group of Cantaoras del Patía and Son del Tuno from the El Tuno village. He is currently a full-time professor in the Department of Intercultural Studies at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Cauca. 

Karin Amos is a professor of educational science with a focus on general pedagogy, with a particular emphasis on international comparative educational research and intercultural pedagogy. She has been working at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Tübingen since the winter semester of 2006/07. Since the winter semester of 2013/14, she has held the position of Vice Rector for Studies and Teaching. Her research focuses on the social conditioning of educational thought and pedagogical action since the 19th century. "Social" here is to be understood both in the sense of nation-state peculiarities and in the sense of increasing interdependencies, which finds expression in terms such as "globalization," "Europeanization," and transnationalization.

Jochen von Bernstorff is a professor at the University of Tübingen, where he has held the Chair of Constitutional Law, International Law, and Human Rights since 2011. He has also served as a visiting professor at several international institutions, including diplomatic academies and universities in Berlin, Paris, Aix-Marseille, and Taipei.

He previously worked in the German diplomatic service (2002–2007), focusing on multilateral human rights policy at the United Nations. He later held research positions at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and was affiliated with academic institutions in Cambridge and Florence. He has acted as a consultant for international organizations such as the United Nations, as well as for the German government and parliament, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law.

His research focuses on general international law, its theory and history, with particular emphasis on the prohibition of the use of force and international humanitarian law. His publications include works on Hans Kelsen’s theory of international law and the historical development of humanitarian law.

Manuel Dieterich is a postdoctoral researcher at the institute for sociology at the University of Tübingen. For his PhD he studied neighborly relations in the west of Johannesburg. He was visiting scholar at the Centre for Diversity Studies and at the School of Geography, Archeology and Environmental Studies, both at Wits University. His research includes neighbourhoods, urban transformations, global and comparative urbanism, diversity, migration, social inequality and figurations. He works with qualitative methods, especially ethnography and Grounded Theory.

Mamadou Dramé is Full Professor of language sciences at the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of Education and Training at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. Holder of two doctorates, he has published several articles and works on urban cultures linked to language (poetry, rap, slam, hip-hop). Coordinator of the Research Group on Contemporary Cultural Expressions (GRE2C) and former Director of the Didactics of Languages and Human Sciences Laboratory at UCAD. His last publications are Parlez-vous hip hop : Langage de la rue et Transgression langagière dans le hip hop au Sénégal (2019) et Thione Seck, Patrimoine culturel sénégalais : Education, culture et musique (2021). M. DRAME is Vice-Dean of FASTEF and Editor of the journal Liens, Revue internationale francophone.

Patrick Eisenlohr heads the research group "Society and Culture in Modern India".

Patrick Eisenlohr holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago and previously held positions at Utrecht University, Washington University in St. Louis, and New York University. His research focuses on atmospheres, especially in the sonic dimensions of religion, the anthropology of media, sound studies, media and religion, linguistic anthropology, language, religion, and citizenship, as well as language and diaspora.

He is author of Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality (with Birgit Abels, University of California Press, 2025), Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World (University of California Press, 2018) and Little India: Diaspora, Time and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius (University of California Press, 2006).

Uzma Falak is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Heidelberg and a lecturer at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on Kashmir women’s sonic praxes as enactments of alternate spatiotemporal imaginaries.

Her academic articles, essays, reportage and other cross-genre work have appeared in English Language Notes, The Economic and Political Weekly, Guernica Magazine, Vittles, The Baffler Magazine, Himal Southasian, including anthologies and edited volumes like Of Occupation and Resistance: Writings from Kashmir (Tranquebar Press, 2013), Cups of Nunchai (Yaarbal Books, 2020) and Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? (Women Unlimited 2020) among others. Her poetry has appeared in Adi Magazine, Warscapes, Anthropology and Humanism, Himalaya Journal, and in collections such as Fault Lines of History (Zubaan, 2017), Poetry as Evidence (Outlook Magazine, 2024), Insurgent Feminism: Writing War (Daraja Press, 2024) and others.

In 2017, she won an Honourable Mention in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Ethnographic Poetry Award. In 2018, she was an invited artist-scholar at the Warwick Tate Exchange held at the Tate Modern. She has been part of the Regional Arts Australia’s online studio, Regional Assembly, as well as an artist-in-residence at Liquid Architecture (Naarm/Melbourne) as part of a cohort focused on exploring sound/listening as resources of power, capture, and extraction. She was also the 2025 digital poet-in-residence at SAPIENS. In addition to academic conferences, she has presented and exhibited her work at the Tate Modern Exchange, Rizq Art Initiative, Art Gallery of Guelph, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, West Space, SAVVY Contemporary, DYSTOPIA Sound Art Biennial 2024, Norient Festival 2026, and The Grey Space in the Middle, among others.

Her documentary film, Till Then the Roads Carry Her, exploring Kashmir women’s lifeworlds and repertoires of refusal, seeks to disrupt official histories and exoticised iconographies. It has been screened at the Rice Cinema (Houston), Art Gallery of Guelph (Ontario), 2nd Annual Memory Studies Association Conference (University of Copenhagen), The 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies (University of

Warsaw), Karlstorkino (Heidelberg), Tate Modern Exchange (London), CineDiaspora Film Festival (New York), 12th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival (New Delhi) and others.

Born in Mexico City in 1981, Daniel Figueroa Gutiérrez has devoted his life to building bridges between science, art, and human awareness. His background in Computer Systems Engineering, Data Analysis, Community Development, and Music has led him to craft a personal language — a convergence between the precision of code and the freedom of sound. He currently lives in Mexico, collaborating remotely with U.S.-based companies and developing independent art and technology projects. In his practice, the algorithm becomes an instrument, information turns into emotion, and sound emerges as a form of knowledge. 

Political Scientist works on political struggles in the Global South at the intersection of environmental justice, indigenous rights, and the Rights of Nature. She is Junior Professor for Political Struggles in the Global South at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, focusing on socio-ecological conflicts and contested norms.

Bani Gill completed her PhD at the University of Copenhagen in September 2019. Situated at the intersection of Anthropology, Migration Studies and South Asia Studies, her doctoral dissertation explored contemporary practices of transnational mobility from West Africa to Delhi, India, with a particular focus on frameworks of migrant ‘illegality’, informal entrepreneurship, racialization, and the violence of law and bureaucracy from a global south perspective. She currently serves as Executive Committee Member of the Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues Network (ESPMI) and is on the editorial team of Refugee Review. Bani Gill was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the PEAK Urban Programme until early 2022.

Susanne Goumegou is a graduate of the University Humboldt, Berlin, with an MA in 1998 and a PhD in 2004. From 2004 to 2015, she was an assistant professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where she was also awarded her habilitation in 2015. Since 2015, she has held the position of full professor for French and Italian Literature at the University of Tübingen.Her research interests span Italian Renaissance Literature, French Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Francophone African Literatures. She has been actively involved in several research networks, including the DFG-founded Network “The Nocturnal Self. Conceptual and Creative Approaches to the Dream in the Century of Psychology (1850-1950)”, the ICLA Research Committee “Dream Cultures. Cultural and Literary History of the Dream”, the DAAD/BMBF Thematic Network “Literary Cultures of the Global South,” and the Tübingen doctoral school’s “Entangled Temporalities of the Global South.” Currently, she serves as the director of the “Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies.” 

Dirk Hanschel was trained at law schools in Germany, the UK and Australia, took his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees at University of Mannheim, before working at University of Aberdeen as a Reader. Since 2015 he has been a professor of German, European and International Public Law at the University of Halle. Between 2019 and 2025, he was a Fellow at the MPI, focusing on the topic of “Environmental Rights in Cultural Context (ERCC)”. He is still co-conducting a related research project there on “Rights of Nature without Cultural Rights?”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Speaker of CALAS and project spokesperson to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). He is a professor of Ibero-American History and director of the Centre for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research interests focus on: ethnicity, social movements, social anthropology, cultural studies and processes of transnationalisation in Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia. His research focuses on the formation, imagination and performativity of the state in the Andean world; on indigenous movements in Latin America and the transformation of political cultures; and on the intersections of class and ethnicity in the 20th century in the Americas.

Jacky Kosgei teaches African Literary and Cultural Studies in the English Seminar. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, located at the borders of literary and cultural studies, history, and anthropology. One of her preoccupations is oral history, where she uses hitherto unrecorded versions of history to challenge and subvert but also to expand and complement the existing archive of historical knowledge. She also focuses on marine ecosystems and oceanic lifeworlds, from a sociological and literary perspective – probing how indigenous knowledges of the sea capture changes in the ocean, and exploring how indigenous knowledges carried in local art forms aid marine conservation. Using knowledge gained from interviews with seafarers, Jacky Kosgei's research has shifted analyzes of the sea from surface to depth in line with recent trends in oceanic studies.

Carola Lorea is a Junior Professor 'Rethinking Global Religion' at the University of Tübingen. She is interested in gender, oral traditions and popular religious movement in South Asia, particularly eastern India, Bangladesh and the Andaman Islands. Her research lies at the intersection between orality-literary studies and the anthropology of religion, with a particular focus on sound, folklore, esoteric movements and the ethnography of Tantra. Her monograph Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: a Journey Between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation (Brill, 2016) is the result of a four year travel-along ethnography with Baul performers in West Bengal.

She received research fellowships from IIAS, Gonda Foundation (Leiden) and SAI (Heidelberg) to study travelling archives of songs in the borderlands of India and Bangladesh. She authored several articles on folklore and sacred songs, translated the works of Bengali poets and novelists, and has been socially engaged as an interpreter for Bangladeshi refugees in Italy.

As a senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, she was working on soundscapes of religion and displacement focusing on a numerous, yet understudied community of low-caste religious practitioners called Matua, and the circulation of preachers, performers, religious items and ideas across the Bay of Bengal.

Rachel Macreadie is a joint PhD student at the University of Melbourne and KU Leuven where she is researching language policies and multicultural health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Melbourne. Rachel comes from a public policy background, with a BA in Political Science, an MA in Gender Studies, and a Graduate Diploma in Law. She previously worked for the Parliament of Victoria (Australia) in research and law reform (2007-2025). In 2011-12, she was an AusAID Australian Youth Ambassador for Development and worked in research and communications with the IOM/UN in Vietnam and with the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture.

Yaoreipam Makang is a postdoctoral researcher at Religious Studies Rethinking Global Studies, Tübingen University, Germany, and holds a position at the University of Delhi, India. His research work looked at Indigenous performances and rituals among the Nagas in India and Myanmar, intersecting across performance studies, literary and cultural studies, sound studies, and ritual studies in the Himalayan South Asian region. His current research at the Mantrams Project investigates the sonic efficacy of the indigenous community in Northeast India and explores the performative and transformative iterations contributing to understanding the notion of indigenous personhood and identity.

Es hijo del pueblo originario Kamënts̈á del departamento del Putumayo (Colombia). Su curiosidad natural comienza a crecer en la wuafajonay “laguna brava”, actualmente como Valle de Sibundoy, desde su nacimiento comenzó a conocer el mundo con los pies y luego con la cabeza, desde entonces, su constante crecimiento ha sido en “pensar con los pies y caminar con la cabeza”, atendiendo de esa manera el llamado y los mensajes que nos ofrenda la Madre Tierra, nuestra gran maestra, sus diversos lugares son escuelas y quienes en ellos habitamos, somos tejedores de una constante urdimbre de la espiralidad del equilibrio. Siguiendo las señales que nos ofrece el principio de biayá “tejer palabra en la oralidad”, ko-hizo la palabra biolugargogía, cuyo significado en constante crecimiento es “Memorias de sabidurías ancestrales sobre la vida desde los lugares” y comprende cuatro elementos fundamentales: memoriandar, kosmovilidad, plurikósmos, kohacer y co-creación/investigación. A nivel de la co-creación/investigación, en la Universidad del Cauca (Popayán-Cauca) es donde establece una relación con los “campos epistémicos universalistas”, logrando su profesión en antropología, adelantando sus estudios en posgrado: Maestría en Estudios Interdisciplinarios del Desarrollo, Maestría en Estudios Interculturales y adelantó su proceso de formación doctoral en Etnobiología y Estudios Bioculturales. En la misma institución es “transplantado” desde el año 2019 como abuatambayá (profesor) de planta en el Departamento de Estudios Interculturales. Asumió la coordinación del programa de la Licenciatura en Etnoeducación en los años 2023 a 2024. Director del Grupo de Investigación en Educación Rural Intercultural, líder en la línea de Memorias y sabidurías ancestrales, mentor del Semillero biolugargogía de memorias y sabidurías ancestrales. Sus hilos y puntadas de profundización sobre kohaceres de curiosidad natural y co-creación/investigación se resumen en: Ciclos de vida-muerte-vida, educación rural intercultural, memorias de lugar-naturaleza, sabidurías de la Madre Tierra, la etnoeducación, la educación propia, relaciones de rural/virtual/urbano y la gestión intercultural.

He is a member of the Kamënts̈á indigenous people of the Putumayo department (Colombia). His natural curiosity began to grow at the wuafajonay (“wild lagoon”), now known as the Sibundoy Valley. From birth, he began to discover the world with his feet and then with his head; since then, his constant growth has been in “thinking with his feet and walking with his head,” thus heeding the call and the messages offered to us by Mother Earth, our great teacher; her diverse places are schools, and we who inhabit them are weavers of a constant warp of the spiral of balance. Following the signs offered by the principle of biayá—“weaving words into orality”—he co-created the term biolugargogía, whose ever-evolving meaning is “Memories of ancestral wisdom about life from the places” and encompasses four fundamental elements: memoriandar, kosmovilidad, plurikósmos, kohacer, and co-creation/research. At the level of co-creation/research, it was at the University of Cauca (Popayán-Cauca) where he established a connection with “universalist epistemic fields,” earning his degree in anthropology and pursuing graduate studies: Master’s in Interdisciplinary Development Studies, Master’s in Intercultural Studies, and pursued his doctoral training in Ethnobiology and Biocultural Studies. At the same institution, he has been “transplanted” since 2019 as an abuatambayá (professor) on the faculty of the Department of Intercultural Studies. He served as coordinator of the Bachelor’s program in Ethnoeducation from 2023 to 2024. He is the director of the Research Group on Intercultural Rural Education, a leader in the research area of Ancestral Memories and Wisdom, and a mentor for the Biolugargogy Seedbed of Ancestral Memories and Wisdom. His threads and stitches of in-depth exploration regarding natural curiosity and co-creation/research are summarized as follows: Life-death-life cycles, intercultural rural education, memories of place and nature, wisdom of Mother Earth, ethnoeducation, self-education, rural/virtual/urban relationships, and intercultural management.

Esteban Morera Aparicio is the Academic Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS). He holds a doctoral degree (Dr. des.) from the University of Tübingen, where he completed his doctoral research within the Promotionsverbund "Entangled Temporalities." He received his undergraduate degree in History from Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia) and his Master's degree in History of the Hispanic World from Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). For four years, he served as coordinator of scientific cooperation for Spanish-speaking Latin America at the Brasilien und Lateinamerika Zentrum, University of Tübingen. He has taught at Universidad Icesi (Cali, Colombia) and the University of Tübingen (Germany), offering seminars on social history, political communication, Latin American intellectual history, research methodologies, and visual representations. He is a member of the University Seminar on Social Time Studies (UNAM, Mexico), the CLACSO working group "Studies on Time and Temporalities," and the research group Nación Cultura Memoria (Colombia). He was a recipient of the Colciencias Young Researchers and Innovators Award. His research focuses on political languages, temporalities, urban history, political communication in large-scale music events, populism, and the relationship between political language and territory.

Adalberto Müller is a full Professor for Literary Studies at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Rio de Janeiro). He was a Visiting Professor in several universities including Lyon2, Yale, Münster, Buffalo and Trier. He published several essays and books on poetry, translation and film studies, including a monography on Orson Welles and the translation of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson into Portuguese. Since 2020, he turned his focus back to his origins and studied Guarani and other Tupi-Guarani languages, as well as begun doing field research among Guarani and Kaiowá peoples Brazil and Paraguay. He is currently a Fellow Researcher at FAPERJ (CNE) and CNPq (PQ-2) working on issues concerning the relationship between Brazilian literature and Tupi-Guarani ontocosmologies. His book Ayvu Rapyta: cosmopoética Guarani Mbyá, which brings together his research on Guarani Cosmologies, was due to be published in 2025.

Boris Nieswand studied sociology in Bielefeld and earned his doctorate in ethnology in Halle/Saale. He worked, among others, at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale) and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen).  Boris Nieswand's research focuses on migration and diversity, urban conviviality, and morality. His research perspectives can be characterized as reflexive and are normally based on an ethnographic approach.

Ruksana Osman is the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic at the University of the Witwatersrand. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Advancement, Human Resources and Transformation, as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, and as the Head of the School of Education. Her experience in higher education spans the full range of roles at all levels of institutional management, governance, and leadership. As Professor of Education, she has an established reputation for impactful scholarly work in the broad fields of higher education policy, pedagogy and students’ lived experiences of equity and access to higher education. An elected member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, Professor Osman is recognised for the quality and relevance of her work in higher education as a teacher and researcher in pursuit of socially just education. Professor Osman holds the UNESCO Chair in Teacher Education for Diversity and Development and has established a global network to support the research and development work of the Chair. Outside of South Africa, Professor Osman has been at the forefront of building several transnational partnerships, particularly with UK, European, and African universities. She has spearheaded Wits’ partnership in several strategic academic initiatives including the Diversifying the Academy programmes, the Wits Edinburg Sustainable African Futures (WESAF) doctoral program, the AFRETEC (African Engineering and Technology) network that aims to drive digital transformation on the African continent, The Future Materials Project which involves collaborating with a number of global universities and a new generation of scholars working on future materials and the way such materials can advance society more inclusively. She is also the Co-Chair of the Wits Edinburgh Sustainable African Futures (WESAF) Board.

Kristell Pech-Oxte is a Mayan PhD Student at the University of Tübingen within the Department of Romance Languages and the Interdisciplinary Center for Global South Studies. Since October 2023 is a junior researcher in the PhD Programme "Collocations: Constructing Interknowledges, Negotiating Proximities" sponsored by the Global Encounters Platform of University of Tübingen Excellence Strategy. She holds a degree in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY) and a master’s degree in international literatures with a focus on Latin American Literature and Global South Studies from the University of Tübingen. In her research she explores the relationships between humans and nonhumans in contemporary Maya literature from Yucatan, Mexico, and Guatemala of oral and written record. She is interested in indigenous knowledge, languages and aesthetics, and the decentralization of knowledge in academic spaces. She also works as a cultural promoter and collaborates with projects in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, mainly as part of the Maya K'ajlay collective dedicated to the dissemination of Mayan history through social networks.

Tom Peterson is a MANTRAMS Postdoctoral Researcher for Task Force 2 at the University of Tübingen. With a background in ethnomusicology, sound studies, and sonic histories of South Asia, his research to date considers sound arts and their sociocultural, religious, political, and historical significance in Sri Lanka and India. His PhD thesis examined a colonial archive of Sri Lankan manuscripts through an ethnomusicological lens, bringing its contents, formation, and internal logic into conversation with wider histories of sound and music in Sri Lanka, as well as colonial listening practices, collecting, and knowledge formation. He holds an MMus in Ethnomusicology and a PhD in Music, both from SOAS, University of London.

His work with MANTRAMS explores the metaphysic and social dynamics of sharing sacred soundspace at the multi-religious Kataragama temple complex, an important Sri Lankan pilgrimage site for Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and Veddas.

Social and cultural anthropologist with a commitment to ethnographic fieldwork based on building trusting and lasting relationships. Since 2001, she has conducted more than 64 months of field research in Asia and Europe. Her research focuses on inequalities, the production of marginality, cultural heritage, embodiment, habitus, and memory. Her regional focus is the Himalayan region with thematic emphases on gender, ritual, cultural heritage, knowledge formations, anthropology of violence, and medical anthropology. She examines how global hierarchies of values affect local communities, particularly regarding heritage performances, ritual practices, and contemporary social transformations. Her recent work includes projects in Jammu and Kashmir on violence, memory, mental health, and artistic practice, as well as collaborative research with universities across India and partnerships with INTACH (Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage).

Thomas Potthast, Biologist and Philosopher, works on the nexus of epistemic and moral dimensions of knowledge and technologies, with a focus on biodiversity and its related conservation practices. He is professor of ethics, philosophy and history of the life sciences and director of the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen.

Brahma Prakash is a writer, cultural theorist and Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India (LeftWord, 2023). His research interest lies in regional cultural performance traditions from northern India with a special focus on the question of aesthetics, marginality and environmental and cultural justice.

Salah Punathil is a Sociologist and teaches at the Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. He has done his Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2018-2020) at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany. He was a DAAD Guest Professor at CeMIS, University of Gottingen from 1 November 2023 to 31 January 2024.  He was visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Gottingen from 1 August 2024 to 30 August 2024. His research interests include ethnic violence, migration and borderlands, citizenship, minorities in South Asia and the intersection of archives and ethnography. His book ‘Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India’ is published by Routledge in 2019. He has published articles in journals such as Citizenship Studies, History and Anthropology, Third World Quarterly, Asian Ethnicity, Migration Politics, South Asia Research and Contributions to Indian Sociology. His edited book ‘Lines and Passages: Reimagining Migration and Borderlands in South Asia’ (Routledge) will be released in March, 2026. He is a recipient of the M. N. Srinivas Award for Young Indian Sociologists in 2015 and the Chancellor’s Award for Best Faculty at the University of Hyderabad.

BIRGITTE STAMPE HOLST is an associated researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. She is an anthropologist investigating processes of political and social change from the point of view of everyday life. Having lived and worked in Syria for a few years before the 2011 uprising, she focuses particularly on Syrians’ navigations of authoritarianism and displacement and has conducted research with displaced Syrians especially in neighbouring countries for the past decade. Her forthcoming book Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life: Reckoning with the State (Berghahn Books) investigates how the authoritarian Syrian state saturated the life of Syrians who sought refuge in Lebanon and Turkey before the overthrow of the Assad regime. She has published in journals such as Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, History and Anthropology, Conflict and Society, Journal of Refugee Studies.

Amaya Querejazu is a professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Antioquia, Colombia. She is a British Academy Newton International Alumnae. She holds a PHD in Political Science from University of Los Andes. Her research interests are relationality, pluriversality, decoloniality, environmental issues, non-anthropocentric theories, creative and relational methods and Latin America. 

Economist, Ph.D in Sociology with specialization in Labor Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism, University of Coimbra – Portugal; Master in Economic Development, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands. He worked as Coordinator of the III Regional Conference on Higher Education for Latin America and Caribbean (IESALC-UNESCO), thematic axis "Science, Technology and Innovation" (2018). At present, he is research of the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM), México. 

With a PhD in Latin American Literature from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), she is a researcher at the Institute of Philological Research and teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels at UNAM. She has been part of the UNAM research group in the Interinstitutional Network for Research on the Global South at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since 2015, and a founding member of the Seminario de estudios sobre Narrativa Latinoamericana Contemporánea (SENALC) at UNAM. Her research focuses on the relationship between literary strategies, literary theory, and writing contexts; her area of ​​specialization is Latin American narrative, particularly post-Soviet Cuban literature, recent Mexican literature, and the work of contemporary Latin American women writers.

Dr. Jagat Sohail is a sociocultural anthropologist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Over the past decade he has conducted research on flight and migration in Germany and Southern India, with a particular interest in the intersection between psychic life and political economy in the context of existentially fraught projects of global mobility. His forthcoming book, Shadows of the Long Summer is based on his doctoral research at Princeton University, and explores the afterlives of a particular event in German contemporary history - a moment in 2015 where a culture of welcome greeted refugees fleeing civil war and catastrophe in the Middle-East. His current work on migration from Kerala to Germany examines how nursing infrastructures have become rapidly central to youth-masculine projects of self-fashioning via migration. His work tracks a two-fold shift in how young men in Kerala sense their situation: The first seems to be a shrewd assessment that nurses are likely to be a demographically declining world's most mobile entities. The second is how migration has entirely saturated existential projects of self-making. Set against increasingly mainstream  far-right conspiracies of a racial “great replacement,” Sohail follows the lives of these young men, as the demographic anxieties they look to leverage for inclusion become the very site of a new  politics of exclusion. 

Incoming Global Encounters Fellow at the University of Tübingen, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson works on ecology and utopianism. He is a former lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Oxford, where he has convened a module on masculinities and supervised dissertations for the MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Sebastian Thies holds the Chair of Ibero-American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen. After completing his doctorate at the University of Osnabrück, he was Junior Professor of Hispanic Literature and Media Studies and subsequently Associate Professor of Inter-American Studies at the University of Bielefeld. He was the director of the doctoral program "Entangled Temporalities in the Global South" and is currently Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Global South Studies (ICGSS) and one of the coordinators of the BMBF/DAAD thematic network ‘Futures under Construction in the Global South.’His research interests include Global South studies and Latin American literature, film, and media studies. He co-edited the Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities.

Felipe Trotta is a musicologist, professor at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brasil) and member of the Graduate Program in Communication. He is former chair of Latin America branch of International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-AL) and is the author of dozens of articles about popular music (in English, Portuguese, and Spanish), and is co-editor of the volume “Made in Brazil” (Routledge, 2015), together with Martha Ulhoa and Claudia Azevedo and author of the book “Annoying Music in Everyday Life” (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Ritu Vij joined the Department of Politics and International Relations in 2006, after completing a two-year fellowship at Keio Univerity (Tokyo) as the recipient of a Fellowship awarded jointly by the Social Science Research Council (USA) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Her doctoral degree is from the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), at the University of Denver, USA. She has been affiliated with several universities in Japan including, Kobe, Meiji Gakuin, Meiji, Ritsumeikan and Tokyo Universities. In the UK, her research has been funded by the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust of Scotland, the British International Studies Association and the University of Aberdeen. 

Ronica Vungmuankim is a Doctoral researcher at the Centre for Global South Studies with an affiliation to the Faculty of Law, University of Tübingen. Vungmuankim holds a Master’s degree in Criminology and Justice from the School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Psychology from University of Delhi. Her work lies in the intersection of law, anthropology and cultural studies where she explores indigenous conceptions of land and legalities in South Asia and conducts fieldwork in the frontiers of India and Myanmar. She is engaged as Junior Scientific Researcher under the PhD Programme “Collocations: Constructing Interknowledges, Negotiating Proximities”. In the past, her work has contributed to the field of inclusive education where she manages projects and taught among undergraduates in ongoing and post-conflict settings in the north east region of India. Her work as Criminal Justice Fellow with Tata Trusts in 2016 contributed towards the petition filed under Supreme Court of India in cases of alleged extra judicial killings and human rights violation in the state of Manipur. Her research interest includes indigeneity, customary law and access to justice, oral traditions, state and border nations and decolonial research methodology.

Russell West-Pavlov teaches and researches comparative Global South cultural and literary studies with foci in the areas of Australia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Particular interests are the poetics of space and time and their transformation in the contemporary moment. He co-convenes the MA Cultures of the Global South and teaches in the Comparative Literature programme in the German Department. He is currently co-convening a Minor in African Literary and Cultural Studies. He convened a BMBF/DAAD funded Thematic Research Network with six partner universities in the Global South from 2015 to 2020. That network inaugurated the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen, of which he is a founding board member. He is convenor of the editorial collective of the book series Transdisciplinary Souths (Routledge) and Challenges (Narr).