Ayesha Mukherjee is Associate Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Film, University of Exeter. She was educated at Presidency College and Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Her book Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England (2015) recovered intersections between the histories of early modern science, medicine, economics and literature, with special attention to the works of the Elizabethan scientist, medical practitioner, socio-economic analyst, trader and poet Sir Hugh Platt (1552-1608) who tried to 'remedy' famine. She has edited and contributed to A Cultural History of Famine: Food Security and the Environment in India and Britain (2019). Her next monograph in progress is titled Placing Famine: Cultural and Medical Geographies of Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1700. From 2014-16, Ayesha was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800 in collaboration with colleagues from Jadavpur University and Aligarh Muslim University in India, and the Exeter Digital Humanities team.
Argha Manna was trained as a cancer researcher. He is currently a science illustrator who runs an online platform named 'Drawing History of Science' where he blends his passion for science, history, and comics to carve a unique genre. His artwork tells stories from the history of science through comics and other forms of visual narratives, combining prose writing with sequential art. His current collaborative work, with institutions in India and abroad, includes projects on Indian Women in Science (with Sci-Illustrate, Munich, and the Ministry of Science and Technology, India), History of Cell Biology (with the Bengali newspaper Anandabazar Patrika), and stories of the early days of the Royal Society (with the Indian newspaper The Telegraph).
Next is Mayuko Kudo. She graduated from Tama Art University in Department of Visual Drama, and from Bremen Art University, Germany, in Department of Fine Art. She is currently taking a master's degree in the fields of digital media, animation, and site-specific art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. Today, she’ll be talking about phygital world via AR. Welcoming Mayuko Kudo who will be presenting her master project.
Jessica Poon is an LA-based animation director from Hong Kong. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts’ Character Animation program. Her work concerns humanity and interpersonal relationships. She is also interested in the philosophical aspects of politics, as well as geography and geometries. Today she will be presenting her master project, Sunset Singer, a fictional commentary on the parallel lives of Hong Kong’s individuals, employing both animation and documented materials obtained during the Anti-extradition Protests in 2019.
She is currently a student at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, where she started working with photography and video art but quickly discovered her interest in animated drawings. Her work mainly focuses on the topics of body and sexuality as well as associative stream-of-consciousness storytelling that is often derived from personal experience.
Christine Cornet has a doctorate in Chinese history and civilization, is a university professor and has directed the Research Masters on Contemporary Asia at ENS in Lyon. Her research focuses on the contemporary history of China, and in particular on Shanghai and the French Concession. .She is the author of several books including Chronique photographique de la Concession française de Shanghai, 1849-1949 (Scheibli édition), Paysans de l’eau ; Chine, 1932 : Le Voyage insensé du Père de Reviers de Mauny (Actes-Sud/ Bleu de Chine) and also a book on the economic reforms of China (Ellipses).She was the Book Attachée in Beijing from 2006 to 2010 and currently heads the Books and Ideas Office at the French Institute in India/Embassy of France.
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