Opposing ideological or political interference and

litmus tests in Germany

We the undersigned writers, artists, scientists, and scholars have either

been invited (many of us more than once) or occupy professional
positions that make it likely that we will in future be invited to
nominate candidates for literary, artistic, scientific, and scholarly
honors awarded by German institutions, to serve on or report to the
juries selecting the recipients for these honors, and/or to assist
academic committees at German universities with hiring or promotion
decisions. We were therefore dismayed to learn that on two recent
occasions city authorities in Germany have intervened to overrule the
decisions of prize committees on ideological and political grounds,
and that for similar reasons a performer has been threatened with
cancellation of an already publicized concert.

On September 14, 2019, the City of Dortmund rescinded the award—

already announced—of the Nelly Sachs Prize for Literature that was
to have gone to British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie. Sixteen days
later, the City of Aachen announced that it had reversed a previous
decision to award the Aachen Art Prize to the Lebanese-American
artist Walid Raad. Around the same time, Israeli-German performer
Nirit Sommerfeld received a warning from the municipal Gasteig
cultural center in Munich that her planned concert at the center faced
cancellation if she broached certain themes. This March, Stephanie
Carp, curator of the 2020 Ruhrtriennale Festival in Bochum, came
under pressure from two public officials (Lorenz Deutsch, a Deputy in
the Nordrhein-Westfalen State Parliament, and Felix Klein, Federal
Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight
against Anti-Semitism) to rescind the invitation to Cameroonian
philosopher Achille Mbembe to deliver the festival's opening address;
the two falsely claimed that Mbembe’s academic work was anti-
Semitic because it includes an analysis and critique of Israeli
government policies.
These four incidents, involving four German cities and four different
forms of expression, had one thing in common: in each case, the artist
or intellectual in question was considered a supporter of the non-
violent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for
Palestinian rights. In Raad's case it was his "evasive[ness]" when
asked to "distance himself from BDS" that led to the withdrawal of
Aachen's sponsorship of his prize, on the grounds that BDS is a form
of anti-Semitism; and even though the Verein der Freunde des Ludwig
Forums decided to award the prize to Raad without the city's
cooperation, they did so only after their "intensive" investigation
turned up no "conclusive" proof that the accusations against Raad
were justified. Although Sommerfeld's concert went forward as
planned, three years earlier a benefit concert in which she was
scheduled to perform, in the same city, was cancelled on the same
grounds. And while this year's Ruhrtriennale has been cancelled
because of Covid-19, Carp and the festival organizers remain under
pressure not to invite Mbembe in the future either.

In declaring BDS a form of anti-Semitism, the authors of the attacks

on Mbembe and the cities of Aachen, Dortmund, and Munich aligned
themselves in direct opposition to more than forty progressive Jewish
organizations around the world — including European Jews for a Just
Peace, the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace, and the German
Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden im Nahost e.V. — that on July
17 2018 issued a statement affirming that

“dangerously [conflating] anti-Jewish racism with opposition to

Israel’s policies and system of occupation and apartheid ...
undermines both the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and
equality and the global struggle against anti-Semitism. It also
serves to shield Israel from being held accountable to universal
standards of human rights and international law.”

The signatories of this letter hold a variety of positions on BDS, but

we agree with the 40 Jewish organizations and also with the three
German courts — most recently the Administrative Court of Cologne,
in September 2019 — that have reaffirmed that support for BDS is a
legitimate exercise of the universally recognized right of freedom of
expression.

To make the awarding of a prize, or a hiring decision, contingent on a

commitment to disavow BDS not only violates academic freedom and
the rights of freedom of expression described above. It also makes a
mockery of the very system for and purpose of awarding prizes to
individuals judged to be leaders in their fields. To reverse a prize
jury’s decision or to withdraw an invitation to speak on ideological
grounds is an intolerable interference that we cannot condone, even by
our participation in juries subject to such interference.

Accusations of the kind levelled by politicians like Deutsch, Klein,

and city officials in Germany are intended to narrow the frame of
discussion solely to antisemitism and its pernicious impacts. They are
designed to draw attention away from, and to silence, any critical
focus on the treatment of Palestinians in Israel-Palestine. We
anticipate that some will seek to paint this point as an expression of or
relativization of anti-Semitism; to do so would be to engage in exactly
the tactics we are opposing with this statement.

While we wish to acknowledge how much we appreciate the honor of

being chosen to consult on prizes and hiring decisions, we cannot
continue to lend our weight to judgments of artistic, scientific, or
scholarly distinction that are subject to political interference. We
therefore wish to inform the German artistic and academic community
and the institutions that support them, including municipal councils,
that all of us undersigned will no longer agree to serve on prize
committees or in hiring consultations if there are convincing indicators
that their decisions may be subject to ideological or political
interference or litmus tests. In such cases, we will specifically require
assurance that the support for any non-violent campaign (including
BDS) directed at any country that practices discrimination and
violence against any population under its control will not be used as a
litmus test to disqualify candidates selected for hiring, distinction, or
honor.

Yours sincerely,

[Initial 377 signatories (update May 10, 2020)]

Ackbar Abbas, University of California, Irvine, United States

Ahmed Abbes, mathematician, Directeur de recherche au CNRS,
France
Rabab Abdulhadi, Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim
Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University,
United States
Malek Abisaab, McGill University, Canada
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College and Columbia University , United
States
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Artist, Lebanon
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University, United States
Evelyne Accad, University of Illinois / Prof Emerita, United States
María del Rosario Acosta , University of California Riverside , United
States
Mojisola Adebayo, Lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Elena Agudio, curator, art historian, Germany
Arnika Ahldag, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi , India
Mounira Al Solh, Lebanese Artist , Netherlands
Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies,
Brown University, United States
Antonia Alampi, Artistic Co-Director, SAVVY Contemporary,
Germany
Mehdi Alioua, Sociologist, International University of Rabat (UIR),
Morocco
Heba Y. Amin, Artist, Germany
Hila Amit, Writer, Germany
Evelyn Annuss, Professor of Gender Studies, University of Music and
Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
Arjun Appadurai, The Hertie School and New York University,
Germany
Iasmin Omar Ata, Graphic novelist, United States
Danielle Aubert, Wayne State University, United States
Ariella Azoulay, Brown University, United States
Annie Baker, Playwright and Associate Professor, the University of
Texas at Austin, United States
Viviane Baladi, Mathematician, CNRS, France
Alex Baladi, Comic book artist, Switzerland
Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock , SAVVY Contemporary , Germany
Etienne Balibar, Department of French & Institute for Comparative
Literature and Society, Columbia University, United States
Nicolas Bancel, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Sindre Bangstad, Research Professor KIFO (Institute For Church,
Religion And Worldview Research, NO
Kass Banning, University of Toronto, Professor, Canada
Edwige Baron, Project Manager, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary
Art, Germany
Yto Barrada, Artist, United States
Taysir Batniji, Visual artist, France
Ian Baucom, University of Virginia, United States
Jean-François Bayart, IHEID (Genève), Suisse
Arnaud Beauville, Professor emeritus, Université Côte d'Azur, France
Joel Beinin, Donald J McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus,
Stanford University, United States
Habib Bel Hedi, Producer, Tunisia
Joachim Ben Yakoub, Ghent University, Belgium
Roberto Beneduce, University of Turin, Professor of Cultural
Anthropology, Dept. of Cultures, Politics, and Society, Italy
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, United States
Hourya Benthouami , Université de Toulouse , France
Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago , USA
Florence Bernault, Centre d'Histoire, Sciences Po, France
Susan Bernofsky, Associate Professor of Writing & Director, Literary
Translation at Columbia, School of the Arts, Columbia University,
United States
Omar Berrada, Writer and Curator, Morocco
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Dept. of social anthropology, University of
Bergen, Norway
Jess Bier, Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Yahya Birt, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Susan Blackwell, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pascal Blanchard, Groupe recherche Achac (Paris) et LCP CNRS,
France
Nicholas Blincoe, Writer, United Kingdom
Gilles Boetsch, CNRS, France
Claudia Bosse, artist, choreographer, artistic director theatercombinat,
Österreich
Stefanie Böttcher, Director Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
Charles Bottex, Retraité , Canada
Hemley Boum, Writer, France
Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, United
States
Robert Boyce, London School of Economis and Political Science,
United Kingdom
Brian Boyd, Columbia University, United States
Sarah Bracke, Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Anouar Brahem, Composer, Tunisia
Rony Brauman, Physician, writer, France
Candice Breitz, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig,
Germany
Marie Brennan, University of South Australia, Australia
Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota, United States
Haim Bresheeth, SOAS, London, United Kingdom
Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and
Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Alexandre Capitaine, Writer, France
Ana Casares, Escritora. Editora. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Unversidad Nacional de Jujuy. Argentina, Argentina
James Chandler, Univerisity of Chicago, U.S.
Julie Chateauvert, School of social Innovation, St-Paul University,
Canada
Zahid Chaudhary, Princeton University, United States
Hannah Chazin, Columbia University, United States
Usuf Chikte, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT, Laureate Professor of
Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair University of Arizona, United
States
Barriere Christine , Headmaster, France
Andrés Claro, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Véronique Clette-Gakuba, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique
Yinon Cohen, Sociology, Columbia University, United States
Steven Cohen, Artist, France
Juan Cole, University of Michigan, United States
Elliott Colla, Georgetown University , United States
Imraan Coovadia, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Eli Cortiñas, Visual artist, Germany
Molly Crabapple, artist and writer, United States
Carolina Crespo, CONICET-INAPL- UBA, Argentina
Warren Crichlow, York University, Toronto, Canada
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, curator, Brazil
Robin Huw Crompton, Hon. Professor, Institute of Ageing and
Chronic Disease and School of Archaeology, Classics and
Egyptology, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Ayça Çubukçu, Asssociate Professor, Co-Director, LSE Human
Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science, United
Kindgdom
Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University, United States
Patricia Dailey, Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University, United States
Leyla Dakhli, CNRS, Centre Marc Bloch, Allemagne
Luis Dapelo, translator, France
Chandler Davis, Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
Canada
Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Sociologist, Emeritus Professor at the
University of Paris Diderot, France
Université libre de Bruxelles de Vries, Director Weserburg Museum
for Modern Art, Germany
Tj Demos, University of California, Santa Cruz / Professor, United
States
Manthia Diawara, University Professor, New York University, United
States
James Dickins, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Laurence Dreyfus, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford, FBA,
United Kingdom
Madhusree Dutta, Artistic Director Akademie der Künste der Welt,
Köln, Germany
Ronit Eden, Curator, Netherlands
Ben Ehrenreich, Writer, United States
Anna Ehrenstein, visual artist, Germany
Paul Eid, Professor, dept. of sociology, Université du Québec à
Montréal, Canada
Galit Eilat, Curator, writer, The Netherlands
Ivar Ekeland, Professor Emeritus and Former President, the University
of Paris-Dauphine, France
David Eng, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Farid Esack, Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Arturo Escobar, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of
North Carlina, Chapel Hill, United States
Maria J. Esteban, Mathematician, director of research at CNRS,
France
Iolanda Évora, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Reem Fadda, Curator , Palestine
Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Canada
Richard Falk, Professor of International Law, Emeritus, Princeton
University, United States
Emmanuel Farjoun, Mathematics Department, Hebrew University,
Israel
Leila Farsakh, Associate Professor and Chair, Political Science
Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, United States
Aslam Fataar, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Gary Fields, University of California, San Diego, United States
Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University, United States
Marilyn Frankenstein, University of Massachusetts/Boston (retired),
United States
Gideon Freudenthal, Professor emeritus, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Will Fredo Furtado, artist writer, Germany
Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, Catholic Pontifical University in São Paulo,
Prof.f.sil, Brazil
Verónica Gago, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Zeynep Gambetti, Political theorist, Turkey
Debjani Ganguly, Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA
Keya Ganguly, Professor, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature,
U of Minnesota, United States
Luis-Manuel Garcia, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Flavia Gasetua, Citca-CONICET, Argentina
Irene Gendzier, Prof. Emeritus, Boston University, United States
Peter Geschiere, Emeritus Professor for the anthropology of Africa,
University of Amsterdam / Leiden University, Netherlands
Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara, United
States
Natasha Ginwala , Curator and Writer, Germany
Carlo Ginzburg, UCLA/Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Charles Glass, Author and journalist, England
Amos Goldberg, Holocaust history professor, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel
David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine, USA, USA
Catherine Goldstein, CNRS, IMJ-PRG, France
Priyamvada Gopal, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Arunima Gopinath, Jawaharlal Nehru University/ Professor, India
Neve Gordon, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Michael Götting, Writer, Germany
Daragh Grant, University of Chicago, United States
Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Herman Gray, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
Lev Grinberg, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Raphaël Grisey, Artist, Germany
Francio Guadeloupe, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Nacira Guénif, Professor of sociology and anthropology at University
Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint- Denis, France
Mahmoud Guettat, Ethnomusicologist, Professor Emeritus, University
of Tunis, Tunisia
Henriette Gunkel, Professor of Media Studies, Ruhr-University
Bochum, Germany
Farid Hafez, University of Salzburg, Austria
Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne, Australia
Wael Hallaq, Columbia University, United States
Ross Hamilton, Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University,
United States
Yael Harlap, University of Bergen, Norway
Michael Harris, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University and
Université Paris-Diderot, United States
Michelle Hartman, Professor, McGill University, Canada
Salah Hassan, Professor, Cornell University, USA
Wail Hassan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United
States
Abe Hayeem, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Chair of
Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, United Kingdom
Eric Hazan, Editor, France
Nanna Heidenreich, media/cultural studies scholar and curator,
Germany
Ethan Heitner, Cartoonist and visual artist, United States
Barry Heselwood, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds,
UK, United Kingdom
Shir Hever, Scholar, journalist, Germany
Béatrice Hibou, CNRS - SciencesPo, France
Alcinda Honwana, London School of Economics and Political
Science, United Kingdom
Nancy Rose Hunt, Universities of Florida | Michigan, United States
Hannah Hurtzig, Mobile academy Berlin / theatre maker, Germany
Simon Inou, Journalist, Austria
Jean E. Jackson, Professor of Anthropology Emerita, MIT, United
States
Sean Jacobs, The New School, United States
Stine Marie Jacobsen, Artist, Germany
Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Ivana Jofre, Conicet, Argentina
Emily Jones, Lecturer in Law, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Rebecca Jordan-Young, Professor, Barnard College, United States
Ashraf Kagee, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Tom Kalin, Columbia University School of the Arts, Film, United
States
Louis Kampf, Professor of Literature and Women's Studies, Emeritus,
MIT, United States
Sibel Karadag, Koc University, Turkey
Nina Katchadourian, New York University, United States/Germany
Suvir Kaul, A M Rosenthal Professor, United States
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Michael Keith, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Enora Keller, Theater Author & Director, Perfomer, Artist, France
Assaf Kfoury, Computer Science Department, Boston University,
United States
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University, United States
Laleh Khalili, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Ranjana Khanna, Duke University , United States
Dina Khoury, Professor of History, George Washington University,
USA, United States
Ana Kiffer, Ponficia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-
Rio, BRAZIL
Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Philosopher, Associate Professor at Paris 8
Vincennes St Denis / France, France
Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, Philosopher, France
Lina Louisa Krämer, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany, Germany
Kobi Kremnitzer, University of Oxford, England
Nancy Kricorian, Writer, United States
Phil Kutzko, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Iowa,
United States
Dominique Lacombe, Syndicaliste, France
Premesh Lalu, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the
Western Cape, South Africa
Brian Larkin, Barnard College, Columbia University, United States
Vito Laterza, Associate Professor, Department of Global Development
and Planning, University of Agder, Norway
Maurizio Lazzarato, Writer, France
Patrick Le Monnier, Sound engineer and musician, Canada
Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University, United States
Patricio Lepe-Carrión, Núcleo de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades,
Universidad de La Frontera, Chile
Les Levidow, Open University, United Kingdom
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, Emeritus professor, University of Nice,
France
Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
and of History Acting Chair, Department of Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies New York University, United States
Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Ali Louati, Writer, Tunisia
Geraldine Lublin, Swansea University, United Kingdom
John MacKay, Yale University, United States
Revital Madar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, France
Ewa Majewska, ICI Berlin (affiliated fellow), Poland
Antje Majewski, Artist, Professor for painting at Muthesius
Kunsthochschule Kiel, Germany
Fouad Makki, Development Sociology, Cornell University, United
States
Dominique Malaquais, CNRS, France
Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University, United States
Firoze Manji, Daraja Press, Canada
Sarah Marusek, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Brian Massumi, Professor (retired), Communication Department,
University of Montreal, Canada
Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Florencia Mazzadi, Director of cinema, Argentina
Achille Mbembe , University of the Witwatersrand, Cameroon/South
Africa
Alberto Medina, Professor, Columbia University, United States
Monika Mehta, Binghamton University, United States
Natalie Melas, Cornell University, United States
Bjørn Melhus, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
Constanza Mendoza Sutherland, artist and researcher, Germany,
Germany
Dilip Menon, University of Witwatersrand , South Africa
Nivedita Menon, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Lena Merhej, Samandal collective, France
Brinkley Messick, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University,
United States
Soumaya Mestiri, Professor of political and social philosophy,
University of Tunis, Tunisia
Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Faranak Miraftab, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana
Champaign, United States
Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University, United States
Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University, United States
Tariq Modood, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Raul Mondragon , Comunicador, Músico , Perú
Célestin Monga, Economist, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,
USA
Pete Moore, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Marissa J. Moorman, Associate Professor, Indiana University, United
States
Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Clément Mouhot, Professor of mathematics, University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Franz Müller, film director, Germany
Abdul-Karim Mustapha, Writer/ Multitudes Journal , United States
Charles NACH, Generation 90 Think Tank, Malaysia
Lubna Nadvi, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University
of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Sina Najafi, Editor-in-Chief, Cabinet Magazine, Germany & United
States
Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, Philosopher, writer, curator, Germany
Bonaventure Ndikung, SAVVY Contemporary (Director), Germany
Basile Ndjio, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study/university of
Douala, Cameroon, the Netherlands
Mary Jane Nealon, Writer, United States
Michael Neocosmos, Emeritus Professor in Humanities Rhodes
University , South Africa
Christopher Newfield, University of California, Santa Barbara, United
States
Alf Nilsen, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Onur Suzan Nobrega, Institute of Sociology, Goethe University
Frankfurt, Germany, Germany
Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, United States
John Oakes, OR Books, publisher, United States
Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Elsa Oréal, CNRS, France
Juan Orrantia, Photographer, South Africa
Pablo Oyarzun, Professor, University of Chile, Chile
Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, United Kingdom
Hadas Pe'ery, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Peter Pelbart, Professor in Catholic Pontifical University in São Paulo,
Brasil
Nicola Perugini, University of Edinburgh , United Kingdom
Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of Japanese History,
Columbia University, United States
Edgar Pieterse, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town,
South Africa
Alexandra Pirici , Artist, Romania
Sheldon Pollock, Raghunathan Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian
Studies, Columbia University, United States
Megan Povey, Professor of Food Physics, United Kingdom
Anjali Prabhu, Wellesley College, United States
Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor of Architecture, MIT, United
States
Anandi Ramamurthy, Sheffield Hallam University , United Kingdom
Norma Rantisi, Professor, Canada
Roshdi Rashed, CNRS, Paris, France
Marwan Rashed, Professor of Philosophy, Sorbonne University,
France
Carina Ray, African and African American Studies, Brandeis
University, United States
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, United States
François Robinet, Paris-Saclay University, France
Shira Robinson, The George Washington University, United States
Mariela Rodríguez , Universidad de Buenos Aires- CONICET,
Argentina
Noa Roei, Assistant Professor, Department of Literary and Cultural
Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jonathan Rosenhead, Emeritus Professor of Operational Research,
London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Andrew Ross, New York University, United States
Michael Rothberg, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust
Studies, UCLA, United States
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Associate Professor of
History, Canada
Catherine Rottenberg, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Renée Roukens, Creative producer, Nederland
Mario Rufer, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, Mexico
Teemu Ruskola, Emory University, United States
Marie-Noëlle Ryan, Professor of Philosophy, Université de Moncton,
Canada
Vladimir Safatle, Professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Dana Sajdi, Associate Professor of History, Boston College, United
States
Maréme Samb Malong, Fondation MAM , Cameroun
Katya Sander, Professor, Nordland School for Art & Film, Germany
Peter Santos, Sociologist, Brazil
Felwine Sarr, Professor of Economics, University Gaston Berger,
Saint-Louis, Sénégal
S. Sayyid, Professor, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
James Schamus, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia
University, United States
Pierre Schapira, Professor emeritus, Sorbonne University, France
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, University of California, Berkeley, United
States
Willem Schinkel, Professor of Social Theory, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Joan W. Scott, Professor Emerita, Institute for Advanced Study
(Princeton NJ), United States
Richard Seaford, Professor, United Kingdom
Karen Seeley, Columbia University, United States
Michel Seymour, Université de Montréal, Canada
Andrée Sfeir-Semler, Gallery Owner, Germany
Dr. Andrée Sfeir-Semler, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Owner, Germany &
Lebanon
Nishant Shah, ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands
Sa'diyya Shaikh, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town,
South Africa
Kamila Shamsie, Writer, United Kingdom
Wendy Shaw, Free University, Berlin/ Professor, Germany
Dr. Simon Sheikh, Programme Director, MFA CUarting, Goldsmiths,
University of London, Germany
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Marc Siegel, Scholar, Berlin, Germany
Shelly Silver, Associate Professor, Columbia University, United
States
Adam Sitze, Amherst College, United States
Eyal Sivan, Filmmaker and Professor, Head of Research in Cinema,
Amsterdam University of the Arts, Netherlands
Leila Slimani, Writer, France
John Smith, Artist filmmaker, United Kingdom
George Smith, Professor emeritus of Biological Sciences, University
of Missouri; Nobel laureate in Chemistry 2018, United States
Rasha Soliman, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Ania Soliman, Artist, France
Sylvain Sorin, Professor of mathematics, France
Michael Sorkin, Urbanist, Distinghished Professor, CUNY, United
States
Ahdaf Soueif, Writer, Egypt
Sid Ahmed Soussi, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Chantal Spitz, Tahitian writer, French Polynesia
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities,
Columbia University, United States
Bettina Steinbrügge, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Director, Germany
Raid M. Suleiman, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
United States
Zohreh T. Sullivan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
United States
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago, United States
Leslie Swartz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Simona Taliani, University of Turin, Dep. of Cultures, Politics and
Society, Italy
Michael Thaddeus, Columbia University, United States
Madeleine Thien, Writer, Canada
Lembe Tiky, University of Connecticut , United States
Anya Topolski, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands
Maryse Tripier, Sociologist, University of Paris Diderot, France
Lou Turner, Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Urban & Regional
Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibet, Columbia
University, United States
Beata Umubyeyi, Writer, France
Eli Valley, Comic Artist, United States
Salim Vally, Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Peter Van Der Veer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious
and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany
Rogier van Reekum, Assistant Professor, The Netherlands
Pierre Vanhove, Physicist, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, France
Zachary Vaupen, artist and writer, United States
Françoise Vergès, Writer, Antiracist Decolonial Feminist, France
Claude Vergès, Professor of Medical Ethics University of Panama,
Panama
Guido Veronese, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Tonje Vold, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norge
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Stockton University, USA
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Associate Professor of Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, Stockton University, United States
Hans von Sponeck, UN Assistant Secretary-General (ret.), Germany
Dror Warschawski, Biophysics, UQAM, Montréal, Canada, Canada
Joanna Warsza, Curator / Konstfack University of Arts , Germany
Silja Weber, Germanic Languages, Columbia University, United
States
Lisa Wedeen, Professor, The University of Chicago, United States
Eyal Weizman, Professor, Goldsmith's, University of London, United
Kingdom
Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law, King's College
London, England, United Kingdom
Nicole Wolf, Goldsmiths, University of London, United
Kingdom/Germany
Natalie Zemon Davis, Professor of History, University of Toronto,
Canada
Linda M. G. Zerilli, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, USA
Lew Zipin, University of South Australia, Australia