Sudeep Dasgupta is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include Frankfurt School theory, postcolonial studies, queer theory and feminist studies, and political philosophy. He is the editor of Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique (2007), and recent publications include “Conjunctive Times, Disjointed Time: Philosophy between Enigma and…

Jolle Demmers is Associate Professor and co-founder of the Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She lectures and writes on theories of violent conflict, the role of diasporas in violent conflict, and on ethnographies of neoliberalism. She was Associate Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley (2007) and guest lectured at University of Ruhuna (Sri…

Rick Dolphijn is an assistant professor and a senior fellow of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has a background in art, cultural theory and philosophy. He is inspired by the work of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Michel Serres, and many contemporary artists. Dolphijn’s last book he edited with Rosi…

Dr. Jan Donner (1947) was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and obtained his doctorate in law in 1978 from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He did his Ph.D. on higher education policies and management. He lived and worked in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Throughout his career he has worked in academic and…

Costas Douzinas LLB (Athens) LLM PhD (London) is a Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Professor Douzinas joined the Department in 1992 and was Head of Department from 1996 to 2002. Costas was educated in Athens during the Colonels dictatorship where he joined the student resistance. He left Greece…