Mavrothi Kontanis is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and teacher with roots in Halkidiki, Greece. Mavrothi’s main instrument is the oud, and he has performed and recorded throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. When not performing with various groups in the NY/NJ area, Mavrothi teaches music at Elliott Street Elementary in Newark, NJ.  

Rossen Ventzislavov is a philosopher and cultural critic specializing in aesthetics, architectural theory, literature, popular music and performance art. His work has appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Deleuze Studies, Contemporary Aesthetics, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Woodbury University.

Chiara Bottici is a philosopher and writer. She is Associate Professor at Philosophy at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College (New York). She is the author of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and The Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Men and States (Palgrave, 2009). With Benoit Challand, she also co-authored Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, Identity (Cambridge University.. Read More

Prof. Pigliucci has a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He currently is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His research interests include the philosophy of biology, the relationship between science and philosophy, the nature of pseudoscience, and the practical philosophy of Stoicism. Prof. Pigliucci has been elected fellow of the.. Read More

Skye C. Cleary PhD MBA is the author of Existentialism and Romantic Love and Associate Director of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy at Columbia University.  She teaches at Columbia, Barnard, and the City College of New York, is the Managing Editor of the APA Blog, and has written for Aeon, LA Review of Books, The Independent, The Paris Review Daily and others.

Samantha Rose Hill is the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and visiting assistant professor of Political Studies at Bard College. She is also associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where she teaches courses on critical theory. She is finishing a manuscript of Hannah Arendt’s poetry, which has been edited and translated into English. Her writing can be found in Theory & Event, Contemporary Political Theory,.. Read More

Susanna Schellenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Center for Perception Research. She is best known for her work on perception, evidence, capacities, content, and imagination, as well as other issues at the intersection of philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and epistemology.

B 1988. Gabrielle Meyerowitz has always found solace in color and line, and has understood it as her medium. During her studies in Paris after studying painting and drawing at New York’s Pratt Institute and the Arts Students League, she found an old suitcase, “Valise”, which then became a foundational principle of portable home in her “Projet Valise” as well as her Scroll Series. Meyerowitz’s work is often interactive, site-specific,.. Read More