Migration and borders in the globalised world: living together in conviviality?

Suvendrini Perera

is John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Her previous books include Survival Media (Palgrave 2017), Australia and the Insular Imagination(Palgrave, 2009) and Reaches of Empire(Columbia University Press, 1992). With Sherene Razack she co-edited At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror (Toronto University Press, 2014).

Joseph Pugliese

is Professor of Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His previous books include: Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics (Routledge, 2010), State Violence and the Execution of Law: Torture, Black Sites, Drones (Routledge, 2012) and Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (Duke University Press, 2020).

Amani Abuzahra

who holds a doctorate in philosophy and is an author, is one of the best-known speakers on the topic of anti-Muslim racism in Austria. Her research and lecturing activities have taken her to the USA, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the University of Istanbul. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. Her latest publication: Ein Ort namensis Wut (K&S Verlag).

Monika Mokre

is a political scientist and senior scientist at the Institute of Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She teaches at several universities in Vienna. She is politically active in the areas of asylum, migration and prison. Relevant recent publications: Liberation knowledge as a research program. Thinking with Heinz Steinert (2022, co-editor), The city as a site of solidarity (Vienna: transversal 2021, co-editor).

Marina Gržinić

is a doctor of philosophy and works as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Marina Gržinić has published numerous articles, essays and several books and has been a video artist in the field of political film for 40 years. She is currently leading the research project Conviviality as Potentiality (FWF: AR 679) with her research team Dr. Sophie Uitz, Dr. Jovita Pristovšek, Dr. Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur and Mag. Asma Aiad.