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Katrin Tiidenberg is a Professor of Participatory Culture at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School at Tallinn University in Estonia. She has held fellowships at Durham University, Aarhus University and Microsoft Research New England.
Katrin's research focuses on the hows and whys of people's online and social media practices with a particular emphasis on visuality, sex and political participation. Her research engages the most relevant issues of our day, identity, community, norms and power.
How do we present ourselves online? What is normal? Who is in charge? And what happens to sex and to pleasure? She's the author and editor of multiple books on social media and digital cultures and research methods, including Sex and Social Media, Selfies: Why We Love and Hate Them and Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
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Adam Thirwell is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Among his best-known books are Lurid & Cute, Politics, Multiples and Kapow!.
His latest novel is The Future Future, which Salman Rushdie described as "A dazzling performance, unlike anything else you'll read this (or any other) year".
He has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, received a Somerset Maugham Award in 2008, and was a recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2015. He wrote and directed Utopia, a short film starring Lily Cole and Lily McMenamy, for Channel 4; and wrote another short film, Everyday Performance Artists – featuring Shia LaBeouf, Gemma Chan and James Norton, and directed by Polly Stenham – which was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2016. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books. He is Advisory Editor at the Paris Review, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
http://www.adamthirlwell.com/


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Professor Carrie Lambert-Beatty is a contemporary art historian. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard. She's the author of some of the most influential arts writing of the 21st century, including the award-winning book Being Watched, Yvonne Rainer in the 1960s and the essay, Make Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility (pdf). Carrie is also a co-editor at the illustrious arts theory journal October.
Her current research is on 30 years of fiction presented as fact in contemporary art, asking what happens when artworks deceive their audiences? What do the experiences of artists’ trickery teach about contemporary ways of knowing? And how can contemporary art help in developing a progressive epistemic set, one able to counter the culture of post-truth and to resist an epistemic return to order?
Artworks mentioned:
A Tribute to Safiye Behar (2005) by Michael Blum
Nike Ground (2003) by Eva & Franco Mattes
He Named Her Amber (2007) by Iris Häussler
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives Its Audience?
Faculty page: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/carrie-lambert-beatty
Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/lambert-beatty

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Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster, speaker and feminist campaigner.
She successfully campaigned to put a woman on the British £10 note in 2013 and campaigned to put a statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square in 2018 thereby making Parliament Square a little bit less of a sausage fest.
Her book 'INVISIBLE WOMEN: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' was a Sunday Times #1 best seller, and won both the Financial Times Book of the Year Award and the Royal Society Science Book prize.
Caroline’s Invisible Women Newsletter:
Caroline’s website: https://carolinecriadoperez.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CCriadoPerez
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccriadoperez
Sexist snow ploughing https://www.thelocal.se/20131211/snow-plowing-should-be-gender-equal-greens
Notes:
The book Caroline mentioned that opened her eyes to sexism: 'Feminism and Linguistic Theory' https://www.waterstones.com/book/feminism-and-linguistic-theory/deborah-cameron/9780333558898
Author of 'Feminism and Linguistic Theory', Deborah Cameron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Cameron_(linguist)
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Professor Hanneke van Laarhoven is professor of translational medical oncology at the University of Amsterdam and head of the Department of Medical Oncology of the Amsterdam University Medical Center. She is a world-renowned specialist on gastrointestinal cancer, but her interests reach far beyond the body, including psychology, AI, philosophy and theology. She is also known for helping develop the first large-scale databases collecting tumour and blood samples, archives which hopefully will one day provide a key to unlocking the mysteries still surrounding the disease today.
Van Laarhoven calls herself a “staunch advocate of interdisciplinarity”. She certainly has the credentials to back it up: she has PhDs in both Medical Oncology and Religious Studies, and has long been involved with spiritual and artistic projects. Not the most obviously related disciplines, you might say, but it has offered her a uniquely important position from which to understand the concerns of her patients, many of whom find themselves unexpectedly faced with questions of uncertainty, and, indeed, mortality.
Faculty page: https://researchinformation.amsterdamumc.org/en/persons/hanneke-w-m-van-laarhoven
European Society for Medical Oncology page: https://www.esmo.org/about-esmo/biographies/hanneke-van-laarhoven

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Professor Sophie Scott CBE is the Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, as well as the Head of their Speech Communications Group.
Her research interests include the neural basis of vocal communication - how our brains process the information in speech and voices, and how our brains control the production of our voice. She is also interested in the expression of emotion in the voice, especially laughter.
She is very active in the public communication of science and presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2017, has appeared on loads of TV and radio shows in the UK, she regularly performs standup comedy.
Faculty page: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/icn/people/sophie-scott
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sophiescott
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scott
Royal Institution profile: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/person/sophie-scott
TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/sophie_scott_why_we_laugh?language=en

NOTES:
Parasocial relationships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

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