Transeuropa Forum speakers
Ségolène Pruvot
Ségolène Pruvot is a co-president of European Alternatives and coordinates Transeuropa Festival. She is interested in issues such as democracy in Europe, feminism and equality and urbanism. Ségolène actively participates to transnational activities and campaigns of European Alternatives and develops activities of the organisation in Paris, such as regular salons discussions and the TRANSEUROPA Festival. For European Alternatives she has developed and participated to projects on democracy (Transnational parties in Europe), on the twenty first century city (City 21) and on feminism (European Feminists Summits). Ségolène has studied political sciences and urban planning in France, Germany and the UK. She has previously worked in the field of urban planning and of European Affairs.
Robert Misik
Robert Misik is a journalist collaborating to Standard, the Taz, Falter and Profil. He is a writer and a blogger at www.misik.at. He lives and work between Vienna and Berlin. Tweets @misik.
Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera is a Cuban installation and performance artist. She lives and works between Chicago and Havana. Bruguera uses the terms ARTE DE CONDUCTA (conduct/ behavior art) and ARTE ÚTIL (useful art) to define her practice. She is one of the leading political and performance artists of her generation. Bruguera’s work researches ways in which Art can be applied to the everyday political life; creating a public forum to debate ideas shown in their state of contradictions and focusing on the transformation of the condition of “viewer” onto one of “citizenry. Tweets @immigrantmove
Also visit: http://immigrant-movement.us/wordpress/about/
Erdem Gündüz
Erdem Gündüz is a dancer, choreographer and performer, well-known for his silent protest on Taksim square as duran adam, ‘the standing man’ during Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in the summer of 2013. With his silent demonstration, Erdem Gündüz became the face of the protest movement in Turkey and has inspired other protests around the world. You can find a speech he held in Berlin about this performance here. Tweets @artakalan
Ole Frahm & Torsten Michaelson
Ole Frahm and Torsten Michaelson are members of the LIGNA, a collective founded in 1997. The group consists of the media- and and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners and Torsten Michaelsen, who since the early nineties work at the Freies Sender Kombinat (FSK), a public non-profit radio station in Hamburg. All works of LIGNA have in common, that they regard their audience as a collective of producers. In a temporary association it can produce unforseeable, uncontrollable effects, that challenge the regulation of a space. For Transeuropa Festival 2013, Ole and Torsten led 10 artists from all over Europe to create Air Time, the opening performance of the festival, performed in 10 european cities on the 5th of October.
Margarita Tsomou
Margarita Tsomou is a writer and performer from Greece, based in Berlin. She has studied dance at the John Cranco Ballett School as well as Cultural Studies at Universität Lünebrug. She is writing and performing on political intervention, sex-positive feminism, capitalism, media criticism and subversion. She is the publisher of the first popfeminist Magazine in Germany “Missy Magazine”, as well as an editor of the well known queer magazine “Hugs&Kisses”.
Daphne Büllesbach
Daphne Büllesbach is the elected co-chair of the Cooperative and sits on the Transnational Board of European Alternatives. She lives and works in Berlin and has studied European Studies and Social and Political Science in the UK and France. After two editions organised in Berlin of the Transeuropa Festival, the local team grew to an engaged group of people now in the process of becoming a formalised non-profit association in Germany. Speaking about the Transeuropa Festival on the Berlin radio station FLUX FM (http://soundcloud.com/transeuropaberlin/sets/flux-fm-ber-das-transeuropa/) was a definite highlight in marking the Festival’s goal of building a borderless European public space. She always likes to seek new cooperations with partners in Berlin and is hopeful that there is a critical mass that doesnt feel too demoralised to keep imagining Europe outside crisis talks and top-down decisions. Its happening now.
Gerald Häfner
Gerald Häfner (Die Grünen, Germany) is a member of the European parliament (MEP) since 2009. He officiates as the coordinator of the Commitee Constitutional Affairs and is a member of the Commitee Legal Affairs. Speaker and board member of the german organization ‘Mehr Demokratie’ and president of Democracy International, he is involved in promoting an ever-evolving democracy. Tweets @geraldhaefner
Also visit: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/…
Giuseppe Caccia
Giuseppe Caccia is a scholar in History of Political Thought, an editor to Globalproject.info, and a city councillor of Venice, Italy.
Lorenzo Marsili
Lorenzo Marsili is the current executive director of European Alternatives. His main areas of work include developing the political positions of the organisation, managing the new EU-China think tank, and establishing the European initiative for Media Pluaralism. He is part of the Transnational Board and is the coordinating editor of the Editorial Board. Lorenzo’s interests include bottom-up transnational democracy and political practice, and contemporary Chinese politics and intellectual production. He was founding editor of the quarterly journal Naked Punch.
Robert Biedron
Robert Biedron is a polish politician and LGBT activist, a member of Palikot’s Movement. He was recently appointed as General rapporteur on the rights of LGBT people of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly. He also serves on the board of the Polish Campaign Against Homophobia.
Iker Barbero
Iker Barbero completed a PhD in Law at the University of the Basque Country (March 2010) His thesis looked at the struggles of undocumented immigrants that took place in Barcelona in 2001, and its implications. The use of alternative citizenship practices made the sinpapeles (sans papiers) become subjects of legality. A lecturer in graduate and postgraduate studies at the Faculties of Law and Social Sciences of the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), he is also general editor of Sortuz, the Journal of Emergent Socio-legal Studies.
Jack Harrington
Jack Harrington is a research associate at the Oecumene project. Jack has published articles on the intellectual history of empire, settler colonialism, orientalism and historiography.He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has received funding awards from the Carnegie Trust and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. His doctoral thesis was published in 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan as “Sir John Malcolm and the creation of British India.” Jack has taught at the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh and The Open University.
Niccolo Milanese
Niccolo Milanese is co-president of European Alternatives. He also works on the SHARES and Citizens’ Pact projects. Before he started European Alternatives, he occupied himself mostly with poetry, philosophy and travel.
Elena Dalibot
Elena Dalibot works for European Alternatives as Participation coordinator. She is coordinator for the “Citizens Pact” project in France, Germany and the UK, and is based in Paris. Prior to joining EA, she completed a Master’s degree in European Affairs at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris. She has previously worked for other civil society organisations, including the Balkan Youth Festival in Bulgaria and Transparency International Secretariat in Germany.
Alessandro Valera
Alessandro Valera is a Managing Director at European Alternatives and follows in particular the Citizens’ Pact. After studying in Italy, Canada and the UK to specialise in Politics and Communication at the London School of Economics, he worked for five years in London in different public sector research consultancies. Before joining European Alternatives, he worked for over two years for EdComs, specialising in research on education and other issues affecting young people. His interests include minority rights, primary, secondary and tertiary education as well as the fight against organised crime and corruption.
Noel Hatch
Noel Hatch is Co-Chair of the Cooperative for European Alternatives
Currently managing local programmes to develop creative solutions to complex new challenges, he supports community groups and students to come up with ideas and turn them into solutions with entrepreneurs.
He has developed research programmes for public services, think tanks and universities, on community engagement, organisational development and social innovation. In his voluntary capacity, he has designed over 50 activities and workshops to support people to develop creative campaigning skills in public spaces, as Youth Chair of Compass and co-founder of Visual Camp & Campaign Camp. He is currently contributing to the sequels of Radical Future & Handmade.
Prof Engin Isin
Prof Engin Isin holds a Chair in Citizenship and is Professor of Politics in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University. He is also a past director (2007-2009) of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG). Prof Engin Isin joined The Open University in 2007 after fifteen years of teaching and research at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published widely on the politics of citizenship involving various sites, scales and subjects. From Cities Without Citizens (1992) to Being Political (2002) his concern has been to document historically how citizenship has been contested by its ‘others’ (strangers, outsiders, aliens) and how their claims to rights has constituted them as responsible subjects. His latest book Citizens Without Frontiers elaborating on the themes of his Inaugural Lecture is just published. His current research projects include Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism and Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT).
Jérémie Zimmermann
Jérémie Zimmermann is a co-founder and spokesperson for La Quadrature du Net, a French advocacy group that promotes digital rights and freedoms of citizens. It advocates for French and European legislation to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. La Quadrature du Net engages in public-policy debates concerning, for instance, freedom of speech, copyright, regulation of telecommunications and online privacy. Tweets @jerezim
Diani Baretto
Diani Baretto is an information activist involved in the free Chelsea Manning campaign. Tweets @deCespedes
Andreas Lehner
Andreas Lehner focuses on manifestations of war and peace and has research interests in democratic participation, market economies and surveillance technologies. He works as secretary at a trade union and contributes to various organizations as an activist.
