Marion Detjen attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, and then studied European history and German literature and linguistics in Berlin and Munich, where she received her MA and passed her first state exam. She worked for several years as a freelance curator, teacher, writer, and activist, before receiving her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on rescue helpers after the building of the Berlin Wall. 2009 - 2014 Marion worked and taught at Humboldt University Berlin, 2015 - 2107 on a DFG-position at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Contemporary History) in Potsdam. She has been teaching migration history, German history and global history at Bard College Berlin since 2016, and is director of Bard College Berlin's „Program for International Education and Social Change“ (PIESC). She is currently writing a biography on the German-American publisher in exile Helen Wolff. Her historical interests include German post-war history, migration history, global history, the history of publishing and cultural transfer, biography and oral history, gender, and the relationship between the private and the public. Marion is a regular contributor to the column „10nach8“ at ZEIT-Online as part of its editorial team, she runs the „Real Talk“ series on diaspora discourse at the Volksbühne Berlin, and she is a co-founder and board member of "Wir machen das," a coalition of action focused on the migration crisis.

m.detjen@berlin.bard.edu

Nontobeko Ntombela is a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she currently heads the Art History Department. Ntombela's research area focuses largely on South African modern and contemporary art with a particular interest in early modern Black women artists. A large part of Ntombela’s career has been working as a curator, producing exhibitions across South Africa and abroad. She has worked as a curator at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (2010-2020), Durban University Art Gallery (2005-2010), BAT Centre (2001-2005), and Art for Humanity (2000-2001), where she produced numerous exhibitions. She has also served in different capacities on several boards and committees for organisations such as the Department of Art and Culture, VANSA Visual Arts Network of South Africa, National Arts Council, KZNSA KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts, Art for Human Rights Trust, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and UNISA Art Gallery.

nontobeko.ntombela@wits.ac.za

Juan Orrantia's photographic practice uses color, appropriation, mixed media and the photobook as forms to interrogate historical narratives and experiences of looking and being seen. His book Like Stains of Red Dirt was awarded the Fiebre Dummy Award and published by Dalpine, and forthcoming A Machete Pelao received the first prize Latin American Photobook Centro de Fotografia de Montevideo. Self published artist books are held in collections like the Smithsonian Museum of African Art Library, Biblioteca de Arte Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, The Tierney Foundation and The Ginsberg Center for the Book, Wits Museum of Art. Reviews of his work appear in Aperture, Nearest Truth, BJP, Africa is a Country, among others, and has been supported by the Smithsonian Artist Fellowship, Tierney Fellowship, and artist residences at various institutions and universities. Orrantia is now Assistant professor of Fine Art Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, having previously taught at Wits University Fine Arts (Johannesburg), Bard Center for Human Rights and Arts, and the ICP among others. Juan was born in Colombia and lives and works between Rochester, NY, South Africa and Colombia. He holds an MFA in Photography from Hartford Art School and a PhD from Yale University.

www.juanorrantia.com
@orrantia_juan_

Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Culture at the Universidad de los Andes. Teach undergraduate and graduate courses on critical theory, Cultural Studies and Latin-American Critical thought. Research interests are the humanitarian goverment, development, displacement, social movements and the State. My ethnographic research is set in locations where both the experiences of traumas, forced displacement and massacres together with complex humanitarian interventions converge with the new borders of capital accumulation. I work between the theoretical debates and the etnographic interrogation on the everyday life, the problem of subjetivity, affects and the question of the commons. My most recent publications are the coedited academic volume (2022) "Neoliberalismo en Colombia: contextos, complejidad y política pública”, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, and the book chapter (2021), and "From the ‘Suffering Stranger’ to the IDP: The Emergence of a New Problem Area”, in Liquid Borders. Migration as Resistance. Mabel Moraña, ed. Routledge, New York.

japarici@uniandes.edu.co