Invited Speakers

Burcu Dogramaci, born 1971 in Ankara, is Professor of 20th Century and Contemporary Art at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In 2016 she has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council. Her research focuses on the areas of: modern and contemporary global art, photography and architecture; exile, migration and flight; fashion history and theory; live art. Her main books include: Handbook of Art and Global Migration. Theories, Practices, and Challenges, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2019 (ed. with B. Mersmann); Fotografie der Performance. Live Art im Zeitalter ihrer Reproduzierbarkeit (Paderborn: Fink, 2018); Passagen des Exils/Passages of Exile (Munich: edition text + kritik, 2017, ed. with E. Otto); Heimat. Künstlerische Spurensuchen (Cologne: Böhlau, 2016); Fotografieren und Forschen. Wissenschaftliche Expeditionen mit der Kamera im türkischen Exil nach 1933 (Marburg: Jonas, 2013); Migration und künstlerische Produktion. Aktuelle Perspektiven (Bielefeld: transcript, 2013); Netzwerke des Exils. Künstlerische Verflechtungen, Austausch und Patronage nach 1933 (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2011, ed. with K. Wimmer); Kulturtransfer und nationale Identität. Deutschsprachige Architekten, Stadtplaner und Bildhauer in der Türkei nach 1927 (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2008).
Photo: Simone Scardovelli.

Elizabeth Otto is an art historian and the author of Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, the coauthor of Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective, and the coeditor of five books including The New Woman International: Representations in Photograph and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s, Art and Resistance in Germany, and Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School. She is Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where she has also served as the Executive Director of the Humanities Institute. Her work has been supported by numerous organizations including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Humanities Center, and the University at Pittsburgh's Humanities Center.

Bertrand Westphal is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Limoges, France, where he heads the research team "Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles" ["Human Spaces and Cultural Interactions"]. He is the main promoter of geocriticism, and he also specializes in world literature, postmodernism, and the relationships between literature and contemporary art (with a particular focus on literary cartographies and artistic maps). His recent publications include monographs such as L’œil de la Méditerranée. Une odyssée littéraire (Editions de l’Aube, 2005), Geocriticism. Real and Fictional Spaces (trad. Robert Tally, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, also translated to Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese forthcoming), A Plausible World (trad. Amy Wells, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), La cage des méridiens. Le roman et l’art contemporain face à la globalisation (Editions de Minuit, 2016, Chinese translation forthcoming), and Atlas des égarements. Onze études géocritiques (Editions de Minuit, April 2019).