Manuela Infante

Manuela Infante

Theater Director

Nació en Santiago, en 1980. Actriz, dramaturga y directora, es egresada de la Escuela de Teatro de la Universidad de Chile. Se suman a estos, sus estudios de Puesta en Escena y Analisis de Texto cursados en el HB Studio en Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Como actriz ha participado en el elenco de Las Troyanas de Rodrigo Pérez, Fuera de foco, dirigida por Cristián Marambio, Esa, escrita por Alejandro Moreno y Ciudadanos dirigida por Alexis Moreno.
Como músico, junto a la compañía El Hijo, se ha encargado de las bandas sonoras de El lugar común, Discurso a una acción imposible o Ifigenia y La cueca. Además, trabajó en Digo siempre adiós y me quedo, de Juan Radrigán, dirigida por Rodrigo Pérez en el Teatro de la Universidad Católica, y junto a la Quinta Teatro en El marinero, de Fernando Pessoa. Es autora y directora de las obras Prat (2002) y Juana (2004) que ha llevado a escena junto a su compañía Teatro de Chile, y finalmente de Narciso (2005). Este, al igual que sus anteriores montajes, ha obtenido el finananciamiento de Fondart. A su vez Juana y Narciso han obtenido premios otorgados por el Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile y han sido seleccionadas como mejores montajes del año en los correspondientes FITAM.
La publicación de su primer libro Prat seguida de Juana (2002) se llevo a cabo bajo la editorial Ciertopez y se enmarca dentro de la colección de Dramaturgia Chilena Contemporánea. Ha trabajado como docente en la Universidad de Chile, realizando el montaje Hipólito (2005). Ha cursado estudios de postgrado con el apoyo de becas de Fundación Andes y Fondart en Ámsterdam, Holanda.

Working Group Affiliation

Women Mobilizing Memory

Kayhan Irani

Kayhan Irani

Kayhan Irani is an Emmy-award winning writer, a performer, and a Theater of the Oppressed trainer. She creates art to build community, offer spaces for healing, and to engage audiences in social justice issues. 

Kayhan was one of ten U.S. artists named by President Obama's White House as a 2016 White House Champion of Change for her storytelling work.  She is currently working on a new one-woman show, There is a Portal, which asks: Can the story of an Iranian-Indian immigrant offer a space of healing for all Americans?

Her previous one-woman show, We've Come Undone toured nationally and internationally, telling stories of Arab, South Asian and Muslim-American women in the wake of 9/11. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher in 2012-2013 studying Parsi embroidery for her play, Tree of Seeds. Kayhan has trained hundreds of groups in Theater of the Oppressed and participatory storytelling tools over the years, both nationally and overseas, in Afghanistan, India, and Iraq. Clients include NGOs, government agencies, and community organizations interested in using in story-based strategies for engagement and education.

Kayhan’s work has been supported by the BBC World Service Trust, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Bronx Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Parks Service, and the American Society for Muslim Advancement. Her work has been written about in such publications as The New York Times, Race Forward Magazine, the N.Y. Daily News, and The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

Her published work includes Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims (Routledge, 2008), and Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice: A Way Out of No Way. (Routledge, 2015).

Sibel Irzık

Sibel Irzık

Sibel Irzık is currently teaching comparative literature in Sabancı University. She is the author of Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism (Garland, 1990) and the co-editor of Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide (South Atlantic Quarterly, 2003). Among her other publications are “Istanbul: The Black Book,” in The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti, Princeton U. P., 2006; “Orhan Pamuk's Snow: Re-imagining the Boundaries between East and West, Art and Politics,” in Europe and Its Boundaries, eds. Andrew Davison and Himadeep Muppidi, Lexington Books, 2009; “The Constructions of Victimhood in Turkish Coup d'état Novels: Is Victimhood without Innocence Possible?” in Betraying the Event, ed. Fatima Festic, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009; “Yaşar Kemal's Island of Resistance,” in Resistance in Contemporary Middle-Eastern Cultures, eds. Karima Laachir and Saeed Reza Talajooy, Routledge, 2012; and “Textualized Memories of Politics,” in From Literature to Cultural Literacy, eds. Naomi Segal and Daniela Koleva, Palgrave, 2014.

Working Group Affiliation

Women Mobilizing Memory

Islah Jad

Islah Jad

Lecturer on gender issues and politics, International Affairs Department, Qatar University

Islah Jad is a lecturer on gender issues and politics, International Affairs Department, Qatar University. She is the former director of the Women's Studies Institute at Birzeit University.  

As Director of the Institute of Women's Studies, which she founded and chaired during from 1995 to 1996, she participated in the award of excellence in education within a special program to develop educational cadres in the Palestinian universities, organized by AMDEAST, within the context of the Palestinian development program that aims to increase the capacity of higher education in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Dr. Jad got her bachelor's degree in political science from Cairo University, and earned a master's degree from the University of Nanteve Paris X in the field of political theory, and got her Ph.D. degree from the University of London, Faculty of Asian and African Studies in Development and Women Studies.

She started her academic work in 1984 at Birzeit University, as a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and then moved to teach at the Department of Cultural Studies. At a later stage, she became a lecturer for master students at the Institute of Women's Studies.

Fiona Jenkins

Fiona Jenkins

Senior Lecturer, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Fiona Jenkins is a senior lecturer in the School of Philosophy, RSSS, ANU. She teaches on contemporary French philosophy, on Nietzsche, on film, and on aspects of democratic theory. Following a DPhil at Oxford (with a thesis on Nietzsche, 'Becoming What We Are: On Realism, Revaluation and Self-Representation in Nietzsche's Philosophy') she spent two years teaching at Essex University, taking up a post-doc. at Sydney University in 1997 and moving to ANU in 2002. She has two children and is rediscovering the reasons for feminism.

Stephanie Jensen-Moulton

Stephanie Jensen-Moulton

Assistant Professor of Musicology, Brooklyn College

Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Brooklyn College, has published articles on women in hip-hop, the 19th-century piano prodigy "Blind Tom" Wiggins, feminist pedagogy and other topics in American music. She has presented papers and lecture-recitals at numerous national and international conferences, including IASPM Rome and national meetings of the Society for American Music and the American Musicological Society. She received the Ph.D. in Musicology and Certificate in Women's studies from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2008, winning the Carolyn Heilbrun Prize for her dissertation on Miriam Gideon's 1958 opera Fortunato, which will be published by A-R Editions as part of the Recent Researches in American Music Series in 2012. Jensen-Moulton's current research focuses on intersections of American opera and disability.  She has been awarded a Whiting Fellowship for excellence in humanities teaching for Fall 2011.

Working Group Affiliation

The Future of Disability Studies

Martha S. Jones

Martha S. Jones

Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican Studies, and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Martha S. Jones is Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican Studies, and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jones holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University (2001) and a J.D. from the CUNY School of Law (1987). She currently serves as a 2008 Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the National Constitution Center.

Jones has been a fellow with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, a recipient of the AHA Littleton-Griswold research grant (2002), and a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in Paris (2006 and 2007). She directs the Law and Slavery and Freedom Project, an international research collaborative with Rebecca J. Scott (Michigan) and Jean Hébrard (EHESS) and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Women's History. Jones is the author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (2007), which examines nineteenth-century debates over the rights of women. Her current work includes two book projects: Overturning Dred Scott: Everyday Life at the Intersection of Race and Law in an Antebellum City and Riding the Atlantic World Circuit: One Household's Journey Through the Law of Slavery and Freedom, a comparative study of slavery and law in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century French Caribbean and United States.

Working Group Affiliation

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women, Project Director

María José Contreras Lorenzini

María José Contreras Lorenzini

Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Universidad Católica de Chile

María Jose Contreras Lorenzini is a Chilean performance artist and scholar. She holds a Ph.D from Università di Bologna and is Associate Professor at the Theater School at Universidad Católica de Chile. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. Using a wide range of formats, from massive public interventions to intimate actions of resistance, Contreras creatively explores the relation between the body and memory. Her work presented throughout the Americas and Europe include theatre productions, site specific performances, durational performances and urban interventions. In the context of the commemoration of the state coup in Chile she convened “#quererNOver”, an urban intervention that involved 1200 people lying in the streets of Santiago to commemorate the more than 1200 detenidos desaparecidos. Some of her recent performances include: "Suelo", which took place in Plaza Italia in Santiago and affronted the relation between surveillance and human rights, and “Aquí” that consisted in the embodied marking of places where women were assassinated in the first months of the dictatorship.

 She has published chapters in international volumes such as Múltiplos Olhares Sobre Processos Descoloniais nas Artes Cênicas (Brasil, 2018), Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times (Palgrave, 2017), Frontières & dictatures. Images, regards (L’Harmattan, 2016). She has recently served as co-editor of Women Mobilizing Memory (Columbia University Press 2019). She is one of 70 international artists featured in The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (Routledge 2020).

Working Group Affiliations

Women Mobilizing Memory

Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair, Social Engagement Project

Kelly Baker Josephs

Kelly Baker Josephs

Associate Professor, English, City University of New York

Kelly Baker Josephs, Associate Professor of English, specializes in World Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature. She teaches courses in Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Literatures of the African Diaspora, and Gender Studies. Her book Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (U of Virginia P, 2013), considers the ubiquity of madmen and madwomen in Caribbean literature between 1959 and 1980. Professor Josephs is Director of the York College Honors Program and Editor for sx salon: a small axe literary platform.

Working Group Affiliation

The Digital Black Atlantic

Andrés Kalawski

Andrés Kalawski

Theater, Faculty of Arts, Pontificia Universidad de Chile, playwright

Andrés Kalawski studied acting and playwriting at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and received his Masters in Literature at Universidad de Chile. He is now working on his dissertation for a PhD in History, and is currently Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Among his most remarkable works are «Acción Armada» (2013), «Pana» (2009), «Chile» (2004) and «Más que nada» (2001). Kalawski is a published author and award-winning poet. As a screenwriter he was nominated for the prestigious Altazor award in 2006 and 2008. His most recent works include Niño Terremoto (2011) and Acción Armada (2013), written in light of the 40th anniversary of the Chilean military dictatorship and the 70th anniversary of the Universidad Católica Professional Theater.

His research areas include theatre historiography, relationships between fiction and historiography, documentary theatre and playwriting.

Andrés Kalawski nació en Santiago de Chile en 1977. Siempre ha vivido en la misma ciudad. Está casado y tiene dos hijos. Estudió actuación y dramaturgia en la Universidad Católica y es magíster en literatura por la Universidad de Chile. Ejerce la docencia en la Universidad Mayor y en la Universidad Católica de Chile.

Entre sus obras estrenadas están «Más que nada» (2001), «Logo» (2002), «La» (2003), «Chile» (2004), «Enormes detalles» (2008) y «Pana» (2009). Participó en la Muestra Nacional de Dramaturgia Chilena de 2001, y en 2008 recibió una Beca de Creación del Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura. Como guionista de televisión ha sido nominado a los premios Altazor de 2006 y 2008.

Su obra «The day was truly chilean» fue antologada en Teatro chileno contemporáneo de Casa de Las Américas (La Habana, 2008) y en Dramaturgia chilena del 2000. Nuevas escrituras (Santiago, 2009). Publicó Ensayo y error(Santiago, 2003), donde aparecen algunos de los poemas con que ganó el concurso Setenta Años de las Juventudes Comunistas en 2002. Otros poemas suyos han sido incluidos en el libro Treinta jóvenes poetas (2003) y en la revista mexicana Viento en vela.

Achilles Kallergis

Achilles Kallergis

Achilles Kallergis is an Assistant Professor at the New School for Social Research and the Director of the Cities and Migration Project at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. His research focuses on urbanization, migration, and mobility in rapidly growing cities. Specifically, it explores environmental mobility and how locally-generated data can provide new evidence on mobility patterns and contribute to improving living conditions in low-income destination areas through better provision of housing and services. In his research, he has collaborated with transnational community networks Slum/Shack Dwellers International and the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights. At Zolberg, he directs the research program on cities and migration and coordinates the Research Platform on Cities and Human Mobility.

Previously he was a Research Scholar at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University. He has taught at New York University at the New School. His work has been published in academic journals and edited books. He holds a PhD in Urban Policy and an M.A. in International Affairs from the New School University, and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Lausanne.  

Working Group: Refugee Cities

Banu Karaca

Banu Karaca

Banu Karaca (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, Graduate Center-CUNY) is a Visiting Scholar at Sabanci University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is currently completing a manuscript, which examines how divergent claims regarding the civic, political and economic impact of art are mediated in the art worlds of Berlin and Istanbul. Some of her recent publications interrogate the politics of intercultural exchange programs in the EU (International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2010), current modes of art censorship in Turkey (New Perspectives on Turkey, 2011; Toplum ve Bilim, 2012), and Istanbul’s 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe tenure (The Cultural Politics of Europe, 2013). Banu is the co-funder of “Black Ribbon”, a research platform that documents and analyzes censorship in the arts throughout Turkey, and continues her research on the possibilities and limitations of art in reconciliation processes.

Working Group Affiliation

Women Mobilizing Memory

Katrina Karkazis

Katrina Karkazis

Senior Research Scholar, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University

Katrina Karkazis is an anthropologist and bioethicist at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University and a faculty affiliate in the Program for Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, also at Stanford.

Her recent work examines "gender verification" of elite female athletes. An article analyzing the latest policies was published in the American Journal of Bioethics.

Commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, New Scientist, and Discover.

Her work has been covered in the New York Times, Time, The Week, CNN, ESPN, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Jezebel, Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, San Jose Mercury News, and the Toronto Star. She has also appeared on the BBC, CBS News, NBC News, KCBS, CTV News, Q Radio, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Working Group Affiliation

Science and Social Difference

Jasmine Kelekay

Jasmine Kelekay

Jasmine Kelekay is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work examines the ways in which ideas about Blackness are both circulated globally and shaped by local contexts, histories, and material conditions, with a focus on the Nordic context. Situated at the intersection of African diaspora studies, sociology, critical criminology, and cultural studies, Kelekay employs interdisciplinary methods informed by Black/Afrofeminist, critical race, and postcolonial theories. Her current book project investigates the racialized politics of crime control in the Swedish welfare state by examining how Black communities in Sweden are targeted by, experience, navigate, and resist racialized policing. Grounded in community-engaged Black feminist ethnography, Kelekay illustrates how Afro-Swedish communities are criminalized through intersecting logics of antiblackness, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant racism, revealing how Blackness is policed at the intersections of the various modalities through which it is lived. Her work has been published in journals including Annual Review of Sociology, City & Community, Social Currents, and Open Cultural Studies. Forthcoming works include the co-authored article Letter Writing as Counter Archiving: An Afro-Nordic Feminist Care Practice," to be published in Meridians.

Kelekay earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Sociology with a designated emphasis in Black Studies. She is also an affiliated scholar at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Racism (CEMFOR) at Uppsala University. As an Afro-Finland-Swedish scholar, Kelekay is publicly engaged in both Sweden and Finland, where she also continues to work with community organizations and activists.

Kerwin Kaye

Kerwin Kaye is an Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State (Columbia University Press, 2019). He has also written on the history and politics of male sex work.

Working Group:

Recovery

Hollyamber Kennedy

Hollyamber Kennedy

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich

Hollyamber Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Her book manuscript, The World Island, explores colonial-era land policy and its influence on the sciences of settlement at the intersection of modern architecture, demographic reform, and rural modernization. This project centers the role of anti-colonial and anti-partition resistance in the shaping of the colonial built environment. She previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard University, at the Mahindra Humanities Center, where she began work on her second long-term project, Wastelands of Empire. Her research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Social Science Research Council, the DAAD, SAH, and CAA, among others. Her writing has been published in Grey Room, Avery Review, Journal of Architecture (forthcoming), and by The University of Chicago Press, Whitechapel Gallery, and MIT Press. She has a chapter in a forthcoming book edited by Itohan Osayimwese on The Architectural Legacies of German Colonialism in Africa. She received her PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Working Group Affiliation

Insurgent Domesticities

Stephanie Kerschbaum

Stephanie Kerschbaum

English, University of Delaware

Stephanie Kerschbaum (B.A. The Ohio State University, M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) conducts research focused on diversity issues and the teaching of writing. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Delaware where she teaches writing, rhetoric, and composition theory in the University of Delaware Writing program and special topics courses. She is a Faculty Scholar affiliated with UD’s Center for the Study of Diversity. She also teaches undergraduate courses on diversity and higher education and teaches graduate seminars in composition theory and pedagogy.

Professor Kerschbaum is a 2014-2015 Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellow for the American Association of University Women. Before coming to Delaware in 2008, she was an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University.

Her book, Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference, was published in 2014 as part of the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series published by NCTE and was awarded the 2015 Advancement of Knowledge Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. The book makes an argument for a new way of understanding how difference circulates and takes shape within writing classrooms, one that is dynamic, relational, and emergent through developing interpersonal relationships, and has been reviewed in Disability Studies Quarterly and Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning.

She is currently working on a project focused on narrative and disability disclosure. she received several grants to support her disability scholarship and activism, most recently a 2014-15 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the AAUW’s American Fellowships Program. She has also received a collaborative Research Initiative Grant from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and individual grants from UD’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center and  UD’s Center for the Study of Diversity.

Working Group Affiliation

The Future of Disability Studies

Ynestra King

Ynestra King

Feminist Theorist

Ynestra King is a feminist teacher, writer and oral historian. She is an ecofeminist theorist, and a founder of Women and Life on Earth and the feminist anti-militarist movement, as well as the Committee on Women, Population and Environment. Her current work is on disability narratives and body politics, focusing particularly on women and disability. She is also at work on a memoir tentatively entitled Falling. She was previously visiting Scholar at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. 

Working Group Affiliation

The Future of Disability Studies

Eva Feder Kittay

Eva Feder Kittay

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, SUNY

Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University/SUNY. Among her most recent major publications are “On the Margins of Moral Personhood” (Ethics, October 2005) and Blackwell Studies in Feminist Philosophy (with Linda Alcoff, 2006) and Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy (with Licia Carlson, Blackwell 2010).  Among her other books in Feminist Philosophy are Theoretical Perspectives on Dependency and Women (with Ellen Feder, 2002); Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (1999); and Women and Moral Theory (1987). She is at work on a book, tentatively entitled, A Quest for A Humbler Philosophy: Thinking about Disabled Minds and Things that Matter, which explores challenges posed by cognitive disabilities to philosophy and ethics.  She is also working on a collection of her essays on carework and the ethics of care.

Nancy Kricorian

Nancy Kricorian

Nancy Kricorian is the author of the novels Zabelle, Dreams of Bread and Fire, and All The Light There Was, which is set in the Armenian community of Paris during World War II. She is a widely published poet and essayist, whose work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Parnassus, In These Times, The Minnesota Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and other journals. She has taught at Barnard, Rutgers, Queens and Yale, as well as for Teachers and Writers Collaborative in the New York City Public Schools. Kricorian is the Fall 2015 Writer-in-Residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University.Kricorian serves on the Executive Committee of the Armenia Tree Project and is a member of the national staff of CODEPINK Women for Peace. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, The Anahid Literary Award, a Gold Medal of the Writers Union of Armenia, and the Daniel Varoujan Prize of the New England Poetry Club, among other honors.

Working Group Affiliation

Women Mobilizing Memory