Chiara De Cesari is Professor of Heritage, Memory and Cultural Studies, and Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her wide-ranging research explores how forms of memory, heritage, art, and cultural politics are shifting under contemporary conditions of post- and decoloniality, globalization and state transformation. An important strand of her research examines how artists and activists are reclaiming and reinventing cultural institutions. She is the author of Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine (Stanford UP, 2019), and co-editor of two key volumes in memory studies (Transnational Memory, de Gruyter, 2014; European Memory in Populism, Routledge, 2019).

Wiebe Ruijtenberg is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and co-host of De Verbranders, a podcast on Europe’s borders and resistance. His research critically examines social-legal and material infrastructures that sustain or reshape inequalities, aiming to rethink how we live together. Previously, he studied how the Dutch state affects Egyptians in Amsterdam and how frontline social workers categorize people within welfare and healthcare systems. He is currently developing a project on the social life of toxic PFAS chemicals. As a member of the Picturing Scholasticide collective, he coordinated contributing photographers.

Henning Lahmann is Assistant Professor at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University Law School. His research focuses on the intersection of digital technologies and international law, with a particular interest in the use of digital open-source information by civil society actors and its impact on international legal processes, disinformation and information operations, the legal, political, and ethical implications of the use of AI in military and security applications, transnational cybersecurity, and civil and human rights after the digital transformation.