is a stylist, author, and model. They completed a course in makeup after their studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Based on their understanding of the portrayal of different people in art and media, they ascribes a special responsibility to stylists. Umber works as a stylist for theater, film,
Tomasz Różycki was born in Opole, Upper Silesia in 1970. He was already singled out for his poetry at school, with an early poem was published in the journal »Polska Miedź«. Różycki studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He then worked as a French teacher at the
is an Associate Professor of South Asian History at Purdue University in the US. She is the author of »The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal« (Oxford University Press, 2005) and the editor of a volume of essays on gender and labor, »Mapping Social Reproduction
has been the head of the Behavioral Endocrinology Lab in the Department of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig since 2005. In the context of his doctoral work, he spent years conducting field research in Taï National Park in Ivory Coast. Since 2014 Deschner leads
born in 1975, is a political scientist and contemporary historian. In »Die Geburt der Drogenpolitik aus dem Geist der Rassenhygiene. Deutsche Drogenpolitik von 1933 bis 1972« (2007) he analyzes the development of drug laws from their beginnings in the Weimar Republic to the prohibition policies of the Nazis to the
born in 1957 in Munich, is a German evolutionary biologist and journalist. He studied pharmacy at the Universität Freiburg and earned his PhD in 1989 with a dissertation on Darwinism and botany at the Universität Marburg. Since 2003 he has taught the history of biosciences at the Universität Tübingen. He
Thomas Macho, born in Vienna in 1952, is a cultural scholar and philosopher. In 1984, he completed his postdoctoral lecturer thesis »On the Metaphors of Death« at the Universität Klagenfurt. He was Professor of Cultural History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 1993 to 2016. Since 2016, he runs the
Tasos Zafeiriadis was born in 1981 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2002, the certified orthodontist has regularly written and illustrated comics that have been published in Greek newspapers and online. He has also published several graphic novels and fanzines as a writer and illustrator. He first self-published »Oi apithanes peripeteies tou
Sydney Smith was born in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and began drawing as a very young child. He studied drawing and printmaking at the NSCAD University in Halifax and has illustrated numerous children’s books since then, working for the publishing houses Nimbus Publishing and Groundwood Books.»Sidewalk Flowers« (2015),
born 1960 in Berlin; after her studies in German and English literature, she taught German language, literature and culture as a DAAD lecturer in Britain, Taiwan, and Australia. Since 2003, she has been teaching German cultural history at FU Berlin. Her current research focuses on the notion of »Heimat«, nature
Sujatha Gidla was born in 1964 in Andhra Pradesh, India, as a member of the Dalit caste or »Untouchables«, the descendants of the original inhabitants of India. She studied physics at Regional Engineering College in Warangal and later worked as a researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.
Stephan Thome was born in 1972 in Biedenkopf in Hesse. He studied philosophy, Chinese studies, and religious studies at the FU Berlin and wrote his dissertation on Confucian thought. He spent extensive time conducting research in East Asia, in particular Taipei, where he taught and translated until 2011. In his
