Topical Advisory Panel

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1. International Federation of Rock Art Organisations (IFRAO), Caulfield South, VIC 3162, Australia
2. International Centre of Rock Art Dating (ICRAD), Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
Interests: pleistocene archaeology; epistemology; rock art; prehistoric art; cave art; dating methodology; archaeometry; Pleistocene seafaring; human evolution
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Department of Art and Musicology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: visual arts from antiquity to c. 1500; medieval artist; Byzantine art; Romanesque art; artistic transfer and mobility; patronage; pilgrimage; Mediterranean studies
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Independent Scholar, Indianapolis, IN 46290, USA
Interests: global early modern artistic culture; Renaissance portraiture; stone and metal supported paintings; materiality studies; trans-Mediterranean aesthetic interchanges between Italians, North Africa, the Levant, and the Ottomans; the survival of pre-Colonial visual idioms in 16th–18th century New Spain

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College of Humanities, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK
Interests: art and technology; media art history; generative art; algorithmic art; pioneers of computer art
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Department of Design, Monash University, Caulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia
Interests: industrial design; participatory design; product service systems; digital fabrication; design thinking; design education

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Office of Global Education, Kent State University, 50129 Florence, Italy
Interests: classical tradition; Renaissance studies; iconography; history of collecting; museums; early modern intellectual and cultural history; art theory and criticism

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Institute of Theater Pedagogy, Berlin University of the Arts, 10719 Berlin, Germany
Interests: theatre as a subject in school; aesthetic education; contemporary theatre in education; performative education; art and praxeology; artistic research

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School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies Quays, University of Salford, Manchester, MediaCity, UK B4, Orange Tower, Salford M50 2HE, UK
Interests: media and psychology; narrative theory; transmedia; cross-cultural readings; narrative video games
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Department of Arts, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
Interests: contemporary visual arts in Britain; cultural landscapes and environments; Northern visual cultures, Islands and Border regions
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Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Beograd 11000, Serbia
Interests: Balkan music; popular music; Russian/Soviet music since 1950; Serbian music since 1950
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School of International Liberal Studies, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan
Interests: theory and analysis of film realism; neorealismo and post-neorealimo; studies of Japanese auteurs
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Department of Sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Interests: qualitative research methods; comparative and international education; sociology; hip-hop culture; social justice and urban education; intersectionality and social inequality; graffiti, street art, writing, and ephemerality; musicology
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Institute of Musicology, University of Zurich, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Interests: Jewish music; music in Israel; Chinese music; music of national minorities in People's Republic of China and in the Republic of China; gender-specific music education; ethnographic film; anthropology of media; cultural identity; ethnic popular music

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School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Interests: visual ethics; visual journalism; identity; media ecology; ethics; ethnographic practice
School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4FQ, UK
Interests: the position of holography within contemporary visual culture; historical perspectives within holography; spatial drawing and mark-making; projected light, installation and time-based media; the peripheral view; the unsupported mark; luminous indicators; ephemeral documents; 3-D imaging; constructed worlds and research informed teaching
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School of Engineering and Architecture, Zaragoza University, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: historiography of modern architecture; Spanish late-modern and postmodern architecture; feminist practices in architecture; gender studies in architecture; architecture journals and magazines
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Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: cartoons; comic art; graphic novels

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School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: directing; theatre as voyeurism; the body in performance; contemporary approaches to Greek tragedy; devised pieces with live musical soundscape(s) as interdisciplinary process: the interfaces between music, movement and text; defining improvisational techniques and compositional practices for performance; musicals of the 21st century; contemporary British drama since the 1990s
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Department of Jewish Art, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
Interests: synagogue art and architecture; Jewish visual culture; folk art; phenomenology of plastic arts
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Independent Scholar, St. Paul, MN 55104, USA
Interests: Greek and Roman art; wall painting; opus sectile; surface decoration; Sardis; art authentication; antiquities trade
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Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London SW19 3QA, UK
Interests: art and politics; spirituality and art; the art object as sacred; the image reproduced; ironism; art and language; performance art and audience engagement

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Department of Art & Design, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407, USA
Interests: contemporary art; Latin American art; history of photography; decolonial thought; memory studies
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1. Interdisciplinary Center of Gender Studies, University of Lisbon, 1300-663 Lisbon, Portugal
2. Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: history of architecture; Portuguese architecture; gender studies; architecture and cities; dwelling
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School of Communication, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142, USA
Interests: fan cultures; comic cons; comic book history; superheroes; comics as a medium

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Department of English, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: extraterritorial; posthumanism; outlaw technologist; steampunk; virtual idol
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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: artists’ books; collaborative practice; contemporary art; drawing; printmaking
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Monash Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Caulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia
Interests: fine arts; spatial arts; contemporary art; minimalism; pop art and culture; 1960s and 1970s interior design; architecture; public art; holocaust studies; memorials monuments and remembrance

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School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Interests: comics; comics history; visual culture; children's book illustration

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Department of Fine Art, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA 30149, USA
Interests: 20th-century textile design in Europe and America; Anni Albers; Appalachian weaving; early 20th-century pictorial tapestry; 20th-century textile display
Department of Human Sciences, University of Basilicata, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: royal iconography; royal sacrality; meanings and functions of royal portraits; representation of power; royal kingship; political use of royal body; cultural transfers in the Mediterranean; Kingdom of Sicily in Norman–Swabian and Angevin–Aragonese period
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