Moving Things

Dragana Jurišić is a Yugoslav artist and Assistant Professor of Communications at the Dublin City University. Working primarily with image, text, and video, and looking at the effects of exile and displacement on memory and identity, Jurišić has shown her work extensively and won many awards, including the Golden Fleece Special Recognition Award, IMMA 1000 Residency Award, and numerous Bursaries and Project Awards. Her work is in a collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, Arts Council Collection, and the Irish State Art Collection.

Subha Mukherji is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests and publications range across Renaissance English literature, early modern law and drama, form and faith, literary epistemologies, migration, and contemporary Indian art.

Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English and Founding Dean at Ashoka University and the author of The First Firangis (Aleph Books, 2015) and Masala Shakespeare (Aleph Books, 2018), as well as many books on early modern culture, ideas of the foreign, and globalization, including Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism and Disease in Shakespeare’s England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004); Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008); and Marvellous Repossessions: Globalisation, The Tempest, and the Waking Dream of Paradise (Ronsdale, 2012).

Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a scholar, poet, and translator. He is the Joint-Lead of the Baddawi Camp Lab, as part of the Imagining Futures GCRF-Network+ project, and was Writer-in-Residence for the AHRC-funded Refugee Hosts project. His essays, poetry, and translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Critical Quarterly, GeoHumanities, Cambridge Literary Review, PN Review, Stand, New England Review, and Poetry London. His collection, Writing the Camp (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), was a 2021 Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was selected as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by the Telegraph and The Irish Times, highly commended by the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry, and shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. His latest books are Eating the Archive (Broken Sleep Books, 2023) and The Southern Eye: Co-Seeing Displacements (Broken Sleep Books, 2024).

Issam Kourbaj comes from a background of fine art, architecture, and theater design. He was born in Syria and trained at the Institute of Fine Arts in Damascus, at the Repin Institute of Fine Arts & Architecture in St Petersburg, and at the Wimbledon School of Art. He has lived in Cambridge, UK, since 1990, where he has been artist-in-residence, bye-fellow, and lector in art, at Christ’s College. His works have been featured at museums around the world, including Fitzwilliam Museum, Museum of Classical Archaeology, and Kettle’s Yard House and Gallery; Penn Museum; British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Tropenmuseum; and the Venice Biennale.

Natalya Din-Kariuki is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where she works on the literary and intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a particular focus on travel writing, transnational and transcultural encounters, and rhetoric and poetics. Her work has appeared in journals including the Review of English Studies, Huntington Library Quarterly, and Textual Practice.

Saifoudiny (Dine) Diallo was born in Guinea and lives in Palermo, Italy, where he founded the association for social promotion Giocherenda with other young people from different countries. He is a HIP ambassador for Philip Zimbardo’s Heroic Imagination Project and, as president of Giocherenda, he collaborates with Marina Warner for the Stories in Transit project. He is co-protagonist of Gabriele Gravagna’s documentary film Io sono qui (2017).