Every year we welcome several visiting scholars and other academic staff. Some come to teach in courses or in other ways collaborate with us, others come mainly to do their own research. One thing they all have in common is that they become a big part of the Division
Davide De Lillis
Davide is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and Feldenkrais practitioner, currently a PhD candidate at Roma Tre University and the Accademia Nazionale di Danza (Italy) in the programme Cultures, Practices and Technologies of Cinema, Media, Music, Theatre and Dance. He holds an MA in Choreographing Live Art from the University of Lincoln (UK) and a postgraduate degree in Environmental Humanities from Roma Tre University.
At the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH, he will further develop his doctoral project, which investigates how representations of nature in screendance can contribute to ecological discourse. During his stay, he will work on the theoretical framework of the project and on the development of an experimental screendance work as part of his practice-based research. He will also facilitate a workshop aimed at fostering interdisciplinary dialogue between artistic research and environmental humanities.
Period; January-June
Alexander Damianos
Dr. Alexander Damianos is a researcher and lecturer in environmental law at Kent Law School, University of Kent. His monograph Science, Politics and the Anthropocene Working Group: What was the Anthropocene? (Routledge 2025) presents the first ethnographic study of the effort to formalise the Anthropocene as a unit of the Geologic Time Scale. He is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the Univeristy of London, where he leads the
Ecologies of Care reading group
as part of the new Law and the Environmental Humanities Network. In 2025, he founded
Ecological Translation
, a non-profit company, which hosts its inaugural event at Goethe Institut Athens on April 28th and 29th. His research has appeared in journals including Αυτόματον, Law & Critique, Global Sustainability and Social Studies of Science.
