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Patricia Marinho Aranha is a post-doctoral fellow in Latin American History at the Freie Universität Berlin with a grant from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In addition, She worked as a researcher at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, on the Core Concepts of Historical Thinking project, funded by the Polish Science Foundation, FNP; and at the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences of the Universidade de São Paulo with funding from FAPESP. Ph.D. in History from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2017), Master in History of Sciences from Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (2011), and graduated in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (2008). Patricia is also a researcher at the Ibero-Americanisches Institut, Berlin; the State University of New York; Fundação Getúlio Vargas; and Casa de Oswaldo Cruz.
Marcelo Durão Rodrigues da Cunha is professor of history at Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo in Brazil and is affiliated as a postdoctoral researcher to the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at Adam Mickiewicz University. His research interests revolve mainly around the fields of historical theory, conceptual history, and global history. His current work centers on Latin-American thought and the comparative possibilities associated with non-Eurocentric ideas relating to historical thinking and global historiography.
Jarosław Jaworek is historian and musician-instrumentalist; PhD student at the Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). Studied history at the Department of History, Wroclaw University, historical anthropology at the Sorbonne-Paris IV in Paris, as well as at the Academy of Music in Wroclaw. His research interests include: anthropology of the senses and sound studies. His dissertation focuses on the role played by sound and soundscapes in historical research
Michał Kępski is a PhD student in History at the Doctoral School of Humanities at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and a curator and producer of exhibitions in Poznań Heritage Centre in Ostrów Tumski, Poznań, Poland. His interests include the perception of space, heritage interpretation, and the history of museology. His doctoral dissertation explores the concept of “water heritage” based on environmental history of Warta River in Poznań, Poland.
Taynna Mendonça Marino is a PhD student in History at the Doctoral School of Humanities at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in History from Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Her main research interests are the theory of history, philosophy of history, history of concepts, indigenous knowledge/cosmologies, and non-Eurocentric and non-anthropocentric approaches to the past. Her doctoral dissertation explores the role of empathy in contemporary historical thinking by a post-/non-anthropocentric and post-/non-Western humanities theoretical framework.
Hugo Merlo is a PhD student in Literary Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. He holds a MA (2017) and a BA (2013) in History at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, where he also worked as a substitute professor from 2017 to 2019. Hugo is a member of the Laboratory for the Study of Theory and History of Historiography (Lethis-Ufes), Interdisciplinary Group of Theoretical Studies (Niet), and of the group Peripheral historiographies in a global perspective (Unicamp). He is the author of one book (“Um Alerta de Tempestade,” Milfontes, 2018) and co-organizer of two YouTube series (“Crisis and Historicity,” and “Philosophies of History in Brazil”).
Moira Pérez, PhD, is an assistant researcher at the Argentine National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, and assistant professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work brings together practical philosophy (with a focus on philosophy of history, epistemology, and politics) and queer and anti-colonial perspectives, in order to analyze various dimensions of the relationship between violence and identity. She is currently a Fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany, with a project that explores the global movement to tear down monuments.
Julia Freire Perini completed her PhD at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo in 2019 and specialized in Brazil's nineteenth-century cultural history. Her current research interests are related to the experience of modernity in peripheral territories and their impacts on the formation of historical thinking. In addition, she has published articles that address changes in the perception of time and the impacts of modernity on the ways of living of subaltern groups and segregated individuals.
Mikołaj Smykowski is an assistant professor at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is also a graduate of the international doctoral seminar Global Education Outreach Program at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN. In 2020, his PhD thesis titled “Ecologies of the Shoah” was awarded first prize by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. He is a member of the transdisciplinary academic group working within the subdiscipline called environmental history of the Holocaust, presented in the special issue of Journal of Genocide Research (2020/2). His teaching and research interests focus on ecological humanities, multispecies ethnography, phytoanthropology.
Monika Stobiecka is an art historian and archaeologist, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Warsaw. A fellow of the Lanckoroński from Brzeź Foundation (2016), the Kościuszko Foundation (2018), and the Foundation for Polish Science (2019). She has collaborated with several Polish museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery Zachęta in Warsaw and the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław. Her recent works have been published in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology (2018), Journal of Social Archaeology (2020), and Archaeological Dialogues (2020). In a series of articles she has discussed critical approaches to digital heritage and coined the term “digital escapism” (2018). She is interested in critical museum and heritage studies, archaeological theory, and methodology.
Tomasz Wiśniewski is a PhD student in the Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is currently completing his dissertation on “Postsecular History” (primary adviser: Ewa Domańska). His project is an attempt at introducing the postsecular turn into the theory of history to study the cryptotheological elements of historical discourse, thereby proposing new categories of analysis. He is interested in intellectual history and the philosophy of history. His recent publications include: “Towards the Postsecular Historical Consciousness” (Prace Kulturoznawcze, vol. 21, no. 1, 2017: 79-94), “Dominick LaCapra’s Postsecular Reflection: A Critical Reading” (Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne, vol. 50, 2020: 255-280, in Polish), and “Hayden White: A Postsecular Perspective” (Rethinking History, vol. 24, no 3-4, 2020: 388-416).