Prof. Stefania Milan is Professor of Critical Data Studies in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research examines how digital technologies and data shape political participation and governance, with particular attention to infrastructures, power, and political agency—often through the lens of data activism and datafied social movements. She is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a Research Associate/Chair, “Artificial Intelligence & Democracy,” at the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute). She leads the NWO-funded IN-SIGHT project, which asks how public values and rights can be built into the infrastructures that organize digital life, and has previously been PI of the ERC-funded DATACTIVE project on data activism and civic engagement with data.
Prof. Wilfried Raussert is Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies / InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University and German Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). His work spans American, Inter-American, and Black Americas studies, with a particular focus on music, visual culture, public space, and movements of resistance across the Americas. He is the author of What’s Going On: How Music Shapes the Social and Off the Grid: Art Practices and Public Space, and co-editor of Black Power in Hemispheric Perspective: Movements and Cultures of Resistance in the Black Americas.
Prof. Stephen Tuck is Academic Director and BASc Course Director at the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS). A historian of the United States and transatlantic society, his work examines anti-racist protest, the intersections of religion, racism, and dissent, and how national histories are written and contested. Before joining LIS, he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and the inaugural director of Oxford’s interdisciplinary humanities research center (TORCH). He is the author of We Ain’t What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama and The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest.