Author: Jesus Acapulco

Affiliation: Aarhus University, Denmark, DK

Keywords: Theories of democracy, Literary epochs Romanticism, Modern aesthetics (starting with Baumgarten), Film history, Literary genres, Text theory and analysis

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My research is primarily concerned with the relations between literature, cinema, aesthetic theory and politics. My PhD thesis (awarded Aarhus University Research Foundation’s PhD prize in 2011) focused on figures of democracy in the works of romantic writers such as Friedrich Hölderlin, William Wordsworth and Victor Hugo around the time of the French Revolution. The dissertation was published in 2013 as an abridged and rewritten book entitled The Book and the People – The Politics of Romantic Literature. My later postdoc project was about aesthetic and political representations of post-communist Eastern Europe in Western European and American literature and film. I currently work on a book project about literature, slavery and economy in Early Modern England.

Affiliation: University of Utrecht, NL

Keywords: Islam en Arabisch, Religious Studies, Religie en samenleving

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Christian Lange (PhD Harvard, 2006) holds the Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Utrecht. In his research, he seeks to inject the study of Islamic sources in Arabic and Persian with the analytical categories and approaches developed in the Study of Religion and cognate disciplines in the Humanities. He’s primarily interested in the areas of Islamic theology (eschatology in particular), Islamic law and legal theory, and Islamic mysticism.

His first book, Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (CUP, 2008), is a study of state violence under the Seljuq dynasty (11th-13th c.) in political, eschatological, and legal terms. In pursuance of related lines of inquiry, he has co-edited a collection of essays on the topic of public violence in Islamic societies (EUP, 2009), as well as a multi-author volume on the Seljuq dynasty (EUP, 2011). His research focus of the last couple of years has been Islamic eschatology. He is the author of Paradise and hell in Islamic traditions (CUP, 2016) and the editor of a volume on hell in Islamic traditions, Locating hell in Islamic traditions (Brill, 2015 [Open Access]).

He welcomes inquiries about PhD supervision, particularly in regard to projects straddling Islamic Studies and the Study of Religion, and in Islamic eschatology.

Affiliation: Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Keywords: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Affiliation: University of Exeter, UK

Keywords: Theology and Religion

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Emma studied for a BA in History and History of Art at the University of York (1991-1994), where she specialised in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. She then worked back in time and took an MA (1994-1995) in Classical and Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. It was during her MA that she discovered Late Antique Syria, which became the subject of her PhD thesis at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
After graduating from SOAS in February 2001 she spent three years living and working as an archaeologist, fund-raiser, secretary and potato-peeler for the Community of Al-Khalil at Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi in Syria. The Community is dedicated to hospitality and Christian-Islamic dialogue and she spent the summers directing an archaeological excavation for the Community at their other monastery, Deir Mar Elian in Qaryatayn, and the rest of the year dealing with all English correspondence, greeting guests and helping with general chores (hence potato-peeling). During this period she was a visiting lecturer at SOAS and at the Université Saint Esprit de Kaslik in Lebanon. She also worked for the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Information as an archaeologist studying the artefacts found at a sixth-century monastery on the island of Sir Bani Yas.
In January 2004 she took up a position teaching Oriental Christian and Islamic Art at the University of Manchester and in 2010 she was appointed Senior Lecturer. During this time she was also a visiting lecturer at the Art University of Isfahan, Iran, the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, the University of Tehran, the Teacher Training University of Tehran and the Amirkabir Polytechnic College, Tehran, Iran
She joined the University of Exeter as an Associate Professor in April 2013 and from November 2012 has been working on a five-year European Research Council funded project entitled Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural Interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity exploring the purported Syrian evangelisation of Georgia in the fifth century and seeking to answer why the Georgians left the Oriental Orthodox fold to join with the Constantinopolitan Church in the early seventh century.

Affiliation: University of Zaragoza, SP

Keywords: Contemporary Narrative in English

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Silvia Pellicer-Ortín is Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology at the Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza. Before finishing her PhD thesis, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín was a Research Fellow at the Department of English and German Philology (2008-20 1 1), after being granted a four-year scholarship by the Science, Technology and University Department of the Aragonese Government (DGA) and after obtaining a national competitive national fellowship (FPU) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science in 2008. Silvia has also been an Academic Visitor at the University of Edinburgh (2008), the University of Cambridge (2009), University of Reading (2010) and Birkbeck College, University of London (2014).

Silvia graduated in English Philology at the University of Zaragoza in June 2007, for which she was awarded the Extraordinary Degree Award. In September 2008 she obtained the Master’s degree in Textual and Cultural Studies in English, distinguished with a Mención de Calidad, after defending with honours her MA thesis. And in March 2012 she defended with cum laude her PhD thesis (European Doctorate) entitled “Writing and Self-healing: The Representation of Trauma in Eva Figes’ Winter Journey, Konek Landing, Little Eden, Tales of Innocence and Experience, and Journey to Nowhere”, under the supervision of Prof. Susana Onega. In March 2013 she was awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award of the University of Zaragoza; in November 2013 she was offered a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, and in July 2014 she received the prestigious Burgen Scholarship Award by the Academia Euroapea.
Silvia’s main research interests lie in contemporary British fiction and autobiography, with a special focus on British-Jewish female literature, the ethical and traumatic component in the writings of sexual and ethnic minorities, the Holocaust and the question of Jewishness, feminism, women and gender studies. She is also very interested and involved in questions concerning pedagogy and innovative teaching methods in high education, mainly in the field of foreign languages. She has participated in a variety of national and international conferences delivering papers which deal with these topics, she has been invited to teach some research seminars in the Universities of Cambridge, Northampton and Birmingham (UK) and some of her articles have been published in scientific journals and books. Some of her previous projects comprehend a special issue of the MLA peer-reviewed British j ournal Critical Engagements 5.1/5.2 on the writer Eva Figes (http://www.lulu.com/shop/philip-tew­and-lawrence-phillips/ce-5 1 -and-52/paperback/product-2 109371 0.html#productDetails) and a compilation of essays on Trauma Narratives and Herstory with Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/Products/title.aspx?pid=630266). Her monograph will see the light in 2015: Eva Figes’ Writings: A Journey through trauma (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).

Affiliation: University of Heidelberg, DE

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Affiliation: Maastricht University, NL

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Affiliation: King’s College London, UK

Keywords: Medieval Philosophy and Theology

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Affiliation: University of Amsterdam, NL

Keywords: Experimental economics, Moral psychology, Cooperation, Behavioral ethics

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I am an associate professor at CREED — the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision making at the Psychology Department at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute and at the Young Academy of Europe. Before joining CREED, I worked at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. I am an Associate Editor at Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and at Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, and a member of the editorial board at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

My main research interest are in experimental economics, moral psychology, cooperation, and in particular behavioral ethics. At the moment, I mainly try to identify the mechanisms at the roots of corruption. See my personal website for more information.