Fellows

Prerna Agarwal
Mehmet Celil Çelebi
Maddalena Fragnito
Kirsten Kamphuis
Gertrud Koch
María Laura Mazzoni
Elizabeth (Liz) Schoppelrei
Justyna Aniceta Turkowska
Koyal Verma

Faculty Fellows 2026/27

Natascha Zaun

Artist Fellow 2026/27

Khehla Chepape Makgato

Senior Fellow 2026/27

Ranabir Samaddar

Maddalena Fragnito
Symposium: "Mediterranean Technocultures"
September, 21–22, 2026
University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy
(as part of the Global Collaboration Grant of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University)

Kirsten Kamphuis
Lecture: "Gerwani on the World Stage: Leftist Indonesian Women and their International Network, c. 1950–1965"
June 25, 2026
Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Münster

Maddalena Fragnito
Roundtable: "Reproductive Justice in Palestine: A Feminist Anti-Colonial Perspective"
May 22, 2026
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

Maddalena Fragnito
Conference Presentation: "TANC | The Apocalypse is Not Coming" (Transdisciplinary Conference)
May 12–15, 2026
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Lila García
Comment on: "25 years of Latin American Legal and Political History: from Rights-based Policies to Regressive, Populist Counterreforms" (keynote by Pablo Ceriani Cernadas)
Conference: Are Migrants Rights (still) Human Rights? Protection and Exclusion amid the Crisis of Liberalism in the Americas
February 12, 2026
Lateinamerika-Institut Freie Universität Berlin

Lila García
"The Protection of Environmental Migration in Law and Practice: the Argentine Case"
Conference: Are Migrants Rights (still) Human Rights? Protection and Exclusion amid the Crisis of Liberalism in the Americas
February 13, 2026
Lateinamerika-Institut Freie Universität Berlin

Lila García
"(Im)mobilised Precarities in the Context of Climate Change in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights" (Lecture)
Workshop: Climate Justice Lab – Second Edition: The Role of International Courts in a Climate-Changed World Leuphana Universität, Wageningen University & Research and Tilburg Universität.
October 28, 2025
Wageningen University & Research

Lila García
"Barriers to access asylum across the globe: a starting point for comparative research" (panel presentation)
Conference: IMISCOE Conference
July 1–4, 2025
Paris

Egidijus Mardosas
"The Environmental Conditions of Aristotle’s Ideal Polis"
Conference: Conference of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe
July 1–4, 2025
University of València

Lila García
"The Standing of Precarious Human Lives on the Move: Towards a Human Rights-Based Intermestic Law of Human Mobility from a Global South Perspective"
Conference: Research Methods on Fundamental Rights
June 16–18, 2024
Hertie School, Center for Fundamental Rights, Berlin

Jason Goldfarb
"Nothing Left? Professional Class Politics and the University"
Conference: Knowing Infrastructures in and beyond the neoliberal university
June 13, 2025
University of London

Lila García
"The Latin-American contribution for a human rights-based mobility regime: standards from the Argentinean and the Mexican Supreme Courts in perspective"
Conference: The Migration Conference
June 11–13, 2025
University of Greenwich, London, UK

Proshot Kalami
"Gender Performativity and Performance of Gender in Women Life Freedom Uprising; A Decolonial Dramaturgy"
Conference: American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Annual Conference
November 14–19, 2024
Seattle, USA

Bruno Moreschi
"After Memory" (symposium)
October 23–26, 2024
ZKM Karlsruhe

Proshot Kalami
"Multimodal Manifestation of Gender Performativity: Marginalised Figures of Ancient Iranian Women in Contemporary Iranian Performing Arts"
Conference: Convegno Internazionale Marginalities/Marginalità
October 9–11, 2024
Tor Vegata University of Rome, Italy

Paula Bertúa
Co-chair of the panel: "The becoming of technical artifacts: material life and non-anthropic existences"
Conference: 36th CIHA World Congress. Matter/Materiality
June 23–28, 2024
University of Lyon, France

Egidijus Mardosas
"The Environmental Conditions of Aristotle’s Ideal Polis"
Conference: Conference of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe
July 1–4, 2024
University of València

Lila García
"The Standing of Precarious Human Lives on the Move: Towards a Human Rights-Based Intermestic Law of Human Mobility from a Global South Perspective"
Conference: Research Methods on Fundamental Rights
June 16–18, 2024
Hertie School, Center for Fundamental Rights, Berlin

Jason Goldfarb
"Nothing Left? Professional Class Politics and the University"
Conference: Knowing Infrastructures in and beyond the neoliberal university
June 13, 2024
University of London

Lila García
"The Latin-American contribution for a human rights-based mobility regime: standards from the Argentinean and the Mexican Supreme Courts in perspective"
Conference: The Migration Conference
June 11–13, 2024
London

Maud Meyzaud
Symposium: "Roberto Schwarz Beyond Borders"
June 6–7, 2024
Cologne

Paula Bertúa
"The Book of the Ten Thousand Things: fictions and multispecies imagination"
Conference: XLI Congress of SoFHIA, La forêt dans les mondes ibériques et ibéro-américains
June 5–8, 2024
Limoges University, France

Maud Meyzaud
Round Table: "Gibt es ein 'unstetes' Archiv der Literatur? Globale Verflechtungen in Folge von Exil, Migration und Flucht"
June 5, 2024
Zentrum Geisteswissenschaften, Frankfurt/Main

Richard Drayton
"The Time of Capital", interpretation of Hew Locke's "The Procession" (Tate Britain, 2022–2023)
Film by Paul Mellon Centre for the Studies in British Art:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/10999469/video/916751153