Joan «Nanook» Webley

JOAN «NANOOK» WEBLEY A cultural artivist, and attorney utilising intellectual property law for 15 years. She was a former adviser to Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Manager of Copyright at the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office, and contributor to the Executive Boards of professional entities that developed Jamaican film, music, youth, coffee, and cannabis. Having lived in […]

Marielle Barrow Maignan

MARIELLE BARROW MAIGNAN Dr. Barrow Maignan is a Fulbright Scholar, Social Entrepreneur, Arts Management Consultant and Visual Artist. Her research has focused on the politics of cultural memory, arts and cultural policy and the arts as cultural capital enabling sustainable civic practice particularly in the Caribbean region. With a focus on praxis as a mode […]

Anders Juhl

ANDERS JUHL Writer, curator, composer, music historian and cultural producer. He has supported and is developing new approaches to history and storytelling within the art scene in Denmark, previously from positions as Chief Operating Officer to The Karen Blixen Museum and Chief Executive Officer to the art space CAMP. He is currently serving as chair […]

Evalina Gomes Dias

EVALINA GOMES DIAS Evalina Gomes Dias has a degree in Human Resources Management (ISCSP) and a Master in Development Studies (ISCTE). Activist for Human Rights, Migrants, Refugees and asylum seekers. She is the project manager of Djass – Association of Afrodescendants, created in 2016. More  

AILSA ANASTATIA

AILSA ANASTATIA Ailsa Anastatia is an Artist and Art teacher/educator born and Based in Curaçao. She is known for her installations, drawings and paintings inspired by the theme of space, thus in the broadest sense of the word. Physical space, space between people, inner space, open or closed spaces, but also social/ cultural/ spiritual “spaces”. […]

Eric Schnakenbourg

ERIC SCHNAKENBOURG Eric Schnakenbourg is a professor of early modern history at the Nantes University and director of the Center for Research in International and Atlantic History (CRHIA). He is a specialist of the history of international relations in Europe and the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the author of Le […]

Aurora Almada E Santos

AURORA ALMADA E SANTOS She has a PhD in Contemporary History from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is the coordinator of the thematic line Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism and Post- Colonialism: Rethinking Empires and Their Consequences. Humanities with an emphasis on History and Archaeology. More  

Alan Rice

ALAN RICE He is a Professor in English and American Studies, he is the director of UCLan Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX) and Co-Director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research at the University of Central Lancashire, UCLan. More  

Jean-François Manicom

JEAN-FRANÇOIS MANICOM Artist (photographer-videographer) and Chief Curator of the Liverpool International Museum on Slavery. His artworks explore the imbalance at the heart of human life and more specifically memory, as much historical and family memory, as cognitive and allegorical memories. More  

Anne Lafont

ANNE LAFONT Director of Studies at the EHESS, Chair of Art History and Creolity. Her research focuses on the art of the French West Indies during the colonial and slave period and, more generally, on the visual and artistic cultures of the French Americas. More