Örebro University

“Framing the Past: Weaving Memory and Experience into Historical Writing”.

Izabela A. Dahl is an associate professor and senior lecturer in history, affiliated with Örebro University and Södertörn University in Sweden. She studied and worked at several universities in Poland, Germany, Holland and Sweden.

Her main research interests concern modern and contemporary European history. Her research encopasses the fields of migration and refuge studies, humanitarian aid and relief activities, the history of anti-Semitism, Jewish history, European memory culture, and international relations in the Baltic Sea area, with special attention given to democratization processes.

Her analysis is driven by the interest in social power structures and social categorisations that pre-condition cultural and social contexts. Epistemologically, her work is inspired by discourse analysis, intersectionality, narrativity and the use of oral sources in history writing, as well as source pluralism. Approaches that are often applied in her investigated empirical studies include sensitivity to the gender dimension, processes of social inclusion and exclusion, and social categorization.

Universidad de Zaragoza

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Celestino Deleyto is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Zaragoza.

He has published widely on romantic comedy, film genre theory and history, transnational cinema and cosmopolitan film theory, including The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (Manchester, 2009), Alejandro González Iñárritu, for the Contemporary Film Directors series (Illinois, 2010), co-written with María del Mar Azcona, and From Tinseltown to Bordertown: Los Angeles on Film (Wayne State, 2016). He has contributed to recently edited volumes on Pedro Almodóvar and Film Comedy for Wiley-Blackwell, and to the Film Genre Reader (ed. Barry Keith Grant) for The University of Texas Press, among many others. He has published his research in Cinema Journal, Screen, PostScript, Critical Survey and Film Criticism, among others.

His most recent work on transnational cinema and cosmopolitan theory has appeared in Transnational Screens, Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas and New Review of Film and Television Studies.