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Irem Cihan is a Ph.D. candidate in in Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London, researching how aesthetic imaginaries and performances of nostalgia and the future shape post-imperial and post-colonial national biographies and ontological security in South Korea and Turkey.

Material culture of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesian textiles; the relationship between material culture and memory; the history of museum collecting; the role of material heritage in society.

The material and visual cultures of Myanmar’s diaspora communities in the UK: Media of remembering and identity.

Gender and development, gender and education, feminist theory, feminist epistemologies, feminist movements, girls' education, the girl in development, India.

PhD candidate and scholar of the German Research Foundation at the School of Business and Economics, Freie Universität Berlin

Abdel Razzaq Takriti is the Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST)

Ethnomusicology; anthropology; Korean music; music traditions in Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Thailand, and Siberia; studies of religion; composition; education; shamanism; early keyboard instruments, players and restorers