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Caroline Lehni
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Fanny Moghaddassi
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Hélène Ibata
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1Hélène Braeuner

2Hélène Braeuner is a doctor in art history. Her research centres on the analysis of images and discourses related to Orientalist art, following on her PhD thesis on “The representations of the Suez Canal (15th-20th century): aesthetics and politics of a vision” (University of Strasbourg, 2015). Among other titles, she is the author of several studies on nineteenth-century artists (Les peintres de la Baie de Somme, autour de l’Impressionnisme, 2001; Victor Hugo, récits et dessins de voyages, 2001; Les peintres de l’Alsace, 2003), which were published by La Renaissance du Livre. On Orientalist painting, she is the author of “Séailles biographe: Dehodencq ou le martyr de l’art”, in Gabriel Séailles, Anthologie critique (Paris, Kimé, 2010).

3Pauline Collombier-Lakeman

4Pauline Collombier-Lakeman was awarded her PhD on the topic of “Le discours des leaders du nationalism constitutionnel irlandais sur l’autonomie de l’Irlande: utopies politiques et mythes identitaires” from the University Paris 3—Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2007. She currently teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of the British Isles and English language at the university of Strasbourg, where she was appointed Maître de Conférences (lecturer) in 2009. Her current research work is focused on Irish parliamentary nationalism and on the relationship between Ireland and the British Empire. Recent publications include a contribution to G. Doherty (ed.), The Home Rule Crisis 1912-14, Cork, Mercier Press, 2014 and a book co-written with Prof. Peter Gray: La Grande Famine en Irlande, 1845-1851, Paris, Fahrenheit, 2015.

5Damien Coulon

6Damien Coulon holds the “agrégation” in History and was a Scientific Member of the Casa de Velazquez (French School of High Hispanic Studies) between 1996 and 1998. He defended his PhD in medieval history in 1999 on the relations of the port of Barcelona with the oriental Mediterranean region between 1330 and 1430 (published as Barcelone et le grand commerce d’Orient au Moyen Âge. Un siècle de relations avec l’Egypte et la Syrie-Palestine (ca. 1330-ca. 1430) in 2004). He has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg since 2000 and took part in several research programs on the Mediterranean in the Middle Age with the University of Paris I, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (High Scientific Council of Research in Spain) of Barcelona and the University of Santa Cruz (California). He defended his “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” in 2011 (University Paris I) on Networks and travels between Europe and the Mediterranean at the end of the Middle Ages.

7Willem Floor

8Willem Floor studied development economics and non-western sociology, as well as Persian, Arabic and Islamology from 1963 to 1967 at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands). He received his doctoral degree from the University of Leiden in 1971. From 1983, Dr. Floor was employed by the World Bank as an energy specialist; however, after his retirement in 2002, he has dedicated his time to the study of the social and political history of Iran, and has published extensively throughout this time.

9Daniel Foliard

10Daniel Foliard is a lecturer in British studies at Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense University. His main research area is the British Empire in the nineteenth century with a focus on its visualizations. His first book entitled Dislocating the Orient will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017. The volume sets out to explore the genealogy of the Middle East as a geographical concept. He has also published articles on British and French early photography in the East in the Revue d’histoire du xixe siècle and Études Photographiques. He is currently working on the imagery of colonial violence before the First World War.

11Isabelle Gadoin

12Isabelle Gadoin is Professor of British Art and Literature at the University of Poitiers, France. She has worked mostly on the question of visual perception and the apprehension of space in novels (in particular those of Thomas Hardy), as well as in nineteenthand twentieth-century travel narratives. More generally, her interest is in the field of Visual Culture and text-and-image studies. She teaches in the Master Degree on Text and Image at the university of Poitiers (“Texte-Image: Littérature, Écrans, Scènes”), and is the president of “SAIT” (“Société Angliciste Arts-Images-Textes”, the French Society for Intermedial and Intertextual Studies). She also holds an MA in Art History from the Sorbonne, for which she specialized in Islamic art, working more precisely on the reception of Persian art in Victorian Britain, with a short unpublished thesis on George Salting and his collections of Persian art. She has published several articles and co-edited two volumes on the subject: Rêver d’Orient, Connaître l’Orient, Lyon, Presses de l’ENS, 2009; and Figures pionnières de l’Orientalisme: Convergences européennes, Revue Res Orientales, no. 20, 2012.

13Christoph Heyl

14Christoph Heyl is Chair of British Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Previous stages of his education and career include Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt), the German Historical Institute (London), the School of Advanced Study, UCL (London), Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Bamberg) and Humboldt-Universität (Berlin). He has worked on a wide range of topics from the early modern period to the present day. These include collections and collectors in seventeenth-century England (and the literature they inspired), seventeenth-century poetry and early scientific prose, the rise of the private sphere in eighteenth-century London and related phenomena in literature and the visual arts, crime and crime fiction from the seventeenth century, disasters such as the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, Hogarth’s paintings and engravings, Handel’s oratorios, Scottish music and the musical aesthetics of early Romanticism, Anglo-German cultural relations and perceptions of the Orient.

15Hélène Ibata

16Hélène Ibata is a senior lecturer at the University of Strasbourg. Following a doctoral thesis on William Blake, her research has focused on British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her most recent publications include essays on J.M.W. Turner, William Blake, nineteenth-century book illustration and orientalist illustration, in the European Romantic Review, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, The British Art Journal, and Word and Image. She is currently writing a book on the sublime in British Romantic art.

17Jacqueline Jondot

18Professor at Toulouse 2 University (France) and doctor in English literature, Jacqueline Jondot wrote a 3rd-cycle thesis on Orlando by Virginia Wolf and a PhD thesis on Middle Eastern Arab authors who write in the English language; she wrote articles on Ahdaf Soueif, Edward Atiyah, Carl Gibeily, Yasmin Zahran, Jamal Mahjoub, Fadia Faqir, Susan Abulhawa… as well as on British women writers (Virginia Woolf, Penelope Lively, Mary Shelley). She has also translated Outremer by Nabil Saleh. Her photos of Cairene mashrabiyyas and Egyptian Revolution graffiti have been exhibited. She has coordinated an issue of Horizons Maghrébins on The Revolution in Egypt, including her photos of street graffiti. She is currently working on a book about the Egyptian Revolution graffiti.

19Caroline Lehni

20Caroline Lehni is a senior lecturer in British civilization at Sciences Po Strasbourg (University of Strasbourg). Her dissertation on the representations of Egypt in nineteenthcentury Britain through travel book illustrations earned her a PhD from Paris Diderot in 2007. Her current research centres on British visual and cultural history, more particularly on Orientalism and the reception of Egyptian architecture. Among other recent articles, she is the author of “‘Never the Twain Shall Meet’: The Impossible Encounter of Self and Other in the Illustrations of Nineteenth-Century British Travel Books on Egypt” (in C. Dubois & V. Alayrac, eds., The Foreignness of Foreigners: Cultural Representations of the Other in the British Isles (17th-20th centuries), Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars, 2015

21Gerald MacLean

22Gerald MacLean, Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter (UK), is most recently author of Abdullah Gül and the Making of the New Turkey (2014). Earlier books include Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 (2007; Turkish, 2009), The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720 (2004; Turkish, 2006), Time’s Witness (1991), and with Donna Landry, Materialist Feminisms (2003). With Nabil Matar, he is co-author of Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713 (Oxford, 2011). He edited Britain and the Muslim World: Historical Perspectives (2012), Writing Turkey: Explorations in Turkish History, Politics and Cultural Identity (2006), Re-Orienting the Renaissance (2005), and with Donna Landry, The Spivak Reader (1996) and The Country and City Revisited (1999). With Ercihan Dilari, Caroline Finkel, and Donna Landry, he established The Evliya Çelebi Way, since 2013, a UNESCO Cultural Route suitable for walkers, cyclists and equestrian travellers in western Turkey.

23Fanny Moghaddassi

24Fanny Moghaddassi is a senior lecturer at the University of Strasbourg. She specialises in late medieval English literature, focusing on travel literature and literary representations of space. In 2010, she published Géographies du monde, géographies de l’âme, Le voyage dans la littérature anglaise de la fin du Moyen Age. Devoted to the theme of travelling, the book considers different medieval genres, including visions of the otherworld, romance, and travelogues. Fanny Moghaddassi has recently published various essays on Mandeville’s Travels, as well as research on other late medieval texts, including Middle English Breton Lays.

25Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

26Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam finished his PhD in Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) in 2002, after studying History in Iran (University of Tehran). His thesis, entitled “Les missions archéologiques françaises et la question des antiquités en Perse (1884-1914)”, received the Best Dissertation of the Year Award from the Foundation for Iranian Studies and was published in Paris in 2004 as: L’Archéologie française en Perse et les antiquités nationales (1884-1914). He is the author of books and articles concerning the Safavid and Qajar periods and has been teaching as Assistant Professor at the University of Strasbourg, France, since September 2006. His works deal with the relationship between Iran and the West (16th-20th centuries), the history of archaeology and art marketing in Iran. Since September 2016, he has been Professor and Head of the Department of Persian Studies at the same university.

27Stéphanie Prévost

28Stéphanie Prévost was appointed lecturer in nineteenth-century British history at Paris-Diderot University in September 2011 after defending her PhD at Tours University in 2010 on “Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1898”. Anglo-Ottoman relations in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, as well as Britain’s representations of the East over that period, be they political and religious in particular, range amongst her current research interests, together with British women’s responses to Ottoman women’s conditions, and the role and status of British subjects in the Ottoman Empire. She has widely published on these issues, including in 2015: “Quand représenter l’Égypte revient à prédire le futur de l’Empire britannique: Charles Piazzi Smyth et la pyramidologie (1864-1898)” (in Catherine Delmas & Daniel Lançon, eds., Vestiges du Proche-Orient et de la Méditerranée, Geuthner).

29Yann Richard

30Yann Richard is professor emeritus (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) and has worked mainly on the religious movements in contemporary Iran and the history of this country at the beginning of the 20th century. He has authored L’Iran de 1800 à nos jours (Paris, Flammarion, 2009) and published C.J. Edmonds’s East and West of Zagros as well as Ducrocq’s and Hoppenot’s diaries for the period 1919-1921 as Regards français sur le coup d’État de 1921 en Perse, both with Brill Publishers (Leiden and Boston).

31Wendy M. K. Shaw

32Wendy M. K. Shaw is Professor of the Art History of Islamic Cultures at the Free University of Berlin. She is the author of Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire (University of California Press, 2003) and Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (IB Tauris, 2012). Her work explores the intersection between modernity, colonialism, postcoloniality, philosophy and art in the Islamic world through museums, art historiography, archaeology, religion, film, photography and contemporary artistic production. It features a regional emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey within comparative perspectives with other regions of the global south and dominant Islamic legacies.

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