Issue 2 | Contributors
David Berridge is a writer and researcher on artists’ books and art writing.
Pompeo Della Posta is Professor of Economics at the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University. He was the 2019 president-elect of the International Trade and Finance Association and is the editor of the scientific journal Scienza e Pace/Science and Peace. His research focuses on international economics, international monetary economics, economic globalization, and Chinese international economics.
Samuel B. H. Faure is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) in Paris, teaches at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, and co-edits the academic journal Politique européenne. He has published over sixty academic articles and books on European defense policy and European Union politics, including The Elgar Companion to the European Union, co-edited with Christian Lequesne (Edward Elgar, 2023).
Grigori Khislavski (Orcid: 0000-0003-3348-5844) is a visiting scholar affiliated with the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Erfurt, the Chair of East and Southeast European History at the University of Leipzig, and the Chair of Political Theory and Intellectual History at Chemnitz University of Technology. He is currently working on a postdoctoral project on Russian war propaganda and its connections to the New Right in Europe.
Gaëlle Le Pavic is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at Ghent University, Belgium, also affiliated with the United Nations University (CRIS). She completed her PhD with a dissertation on the social consequences of contested borders, focusing on Abkhazia and Transnistria as case studies. She has published on this topic in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals.
Claire MacEvilly is CEO of Airfield Estate and a public health nutritionist by background.
Paul O’Keeffe, PhD, is Head of Education and Research at Airfield Estate and has a background in education for sustainable development.
Kunling Zhang is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on international development and political economy.
Art Exhibition | Literary Excerpts
Magali Chesnel is a French award-winning artist, painter, and self-taught photographer based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her aerial photographs have been shown across the globe and featured in prominent media. She aims at revealing the world by pushing the boundaries between photography and painting and between form and color. She is particularly fascinated by salt marshes. Her work can be found here.
Tess Lewis translates from French and German, including works by Peter Handke, Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Klaus Merz, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Pascal Bruckner.
Olivia Olsen is a writer, translator, and teacher based in Sweden. She holds a BA in literary translation and an MFA in literary arts from Brown University, where she taught fiction to undergraduates. Her translation from the Swedish of poetry collection Homullus Absconditus by Magnus William-Olsson was published by O’Clock Press in 2015, and her latest writing can be found in Black Warrior Review.
Leta Semadeni was born in Scuol, Engadin in 1944. She studied languages at the University of Zurich and worked as a teacher in Zurich and Engadin. She has held residencies in Latin America, Paris, Zug, Berlin, and New York. Since 2005, she has lived in Lavin as a freelance writer. Writing poetry in Romansch and German, her collections have won multiple awards, including the 2011 Literature Prize of the Canton Graubünden. Her debut novel, Tamangur, earned the 2016 Swiss Literature Prize and has been translated into several languages. In 2023, she received the Grand Prix for Literature, the most prestigious Swiss literary prize.
Mats Söderlund was awarded the Swedish Writers’ Union’s prestigious Catapult Award for best literary debut in 1992, and has since received numerous literary awards and scholarships. He describes himself as “a forester from the north” with roots deeply entrenched in Nordic folklore and the Northern narrative tradition. He has released seven collections of poetry, as well as works of fiction and nonfiction. Söderlund holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Work and served as Chairman of the Swedish Writers’ Union between 2005 and 2012.