In/Visibility of Flight

Monika Mokre (PD Dr.), born in 1963, is a senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The political scientist did her doctorate at Universität Wien and her habilitation at Universität Innsbruck. She teaches at various universities. Her research focuses on asylum and migration, democracy and the political public sphere, cultural politics, and gender studies.

Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Dr.), born in 1965, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). She did her doctorate at Universität Wien. Her research fields are political and historical anthropology, diasporas and transnational communities, memory studies and art-based research. Her regional focus is on Kurdish communities in the Middle East and in Diaspora.