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  • Biographies

Mesfin Beyene Abrha is an LLB, LLM, Lecturer, currently working at Woldia University. He has taught different law courses at Samara University and Bahir Dar University such as Jurisprudence, legal history, customary law, property law, contract law, business law and law of business organizations. He has worked as a coordinator of Legal Aid Center in Samara and Woldia Universities. Mesfin can be reached at mesfango@gmail.com

Muauz Gidey Alemu is assistant professor of Political Sciences at Wollo University. He studied Political Sciences (BA), and Peace and Security Studies (MA) at AAU. His major interests are violence, peace, and security in the Horn of Africa, in general, and the Afar and Somali speaking peoples in the Horn of Africa, in particular. Currently, he is an African Pathways-NIHSS Doctoral Student at the University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences. Mu'uz can be reached at muauzaga@gmail.com

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy. His third instalment of Being & Event is now published as The Immanence of Truths.

Jason Blakely is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. His main areas of interest are philosophical hermeneutics and interpretive approaches to the study of politics. He is the author of Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism (Notre Dame, 2016) and with Mark Bevir of Interpretive Social Science (Oxford UP, 2018). His work has appeared in academic journals like The Review of Politics, Polity, and Political Studies, as well as in popular venues like The Atlantic and The Washington Post. Jason's email address is jason.blakely@pepperdine.edu

Darren Bohle received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta, with a dissertation entitled Agonistic Democracy: Witnessing and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. As an instructor at the University of Alberta and at Simon Fraser University, he has taught courses in political theory, Canadian politics, research methods, and in the politics of reconciliation. Darren has recently taken a public service position with the Government of Canada. Darren's email address is darrenbohle@gmail.com

Jane Duran teaches in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She received her PhD in philosophy from Rutgers, and is the author of numerous works on feminist theory and international relations. One of her most recent books is Worlds of Knowing: Global Feminist Epistemologies (Routledge, 2002). Jane's email address is jduran@education.ucsb.edu

Allen Feldman, has authored three books, including Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics and Dead Memory (2015), Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (1991 and numerous articles on the political philosophy and anthropology of violence, the sensorium and embodiment. He has conducted ethnographic field research on political violence and transitional justice in Northern Ireland and South Africa and on policing AIDS and homelessness in New York City. He is Professor of the philosophy of media and visual culture at the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University. Allen's email address is af31@nyu.edu

Jason Frank is the Robert J. Katz Chair of Government at Cornell University, where he teaches political theory. He is the author of Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America, Publius and Political Imagination, and the editor of A Political Companion to Herman Melville. He is currently finishing a book titled The Democratic Sublime: Assembly and Aesthetics in the Age of Revolution. Jason's email address is jf273@cornell.edu

Vangelis Giannakakis is a Belgian-Greek scholar in philosophy. He holds a PhD from University College Dublin and is an external collaborator of the Laboratory for Artistic and Cultural Education (University of the Aegean). His doctoral dissertation, Negative Dialectics and Event, developed a comparative reading of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectics...

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