| Heike Behrend is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of African Studies of the University of Cologne, Germany. She has conducted intensive research in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria. Currently she studies popular photography and video and continues investigating the relationship between religious change and war in Uganda. Hans Belting is currently visiting Crowe-Professor of Art History at the Northwestern University of Chicago. From 1993 to 2003 he was Professor of Art Sciences and Media Theory at the Academy of Arts and New Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he initiated the research programme Image, Medium, Body. An Anthropological Perspective in 2000. His book entitled ?Bildanthropologie? (2001) laid the foundation for the development of interdisciplinary image studies. Markus Buschhaus is a fellow of the Karlsruhe-based research group on Image, Medium, Body. An Anthropological Perspective since 2001. He has just finished his PhD-thesis about the impact of imaging strategies and technologies on the production and organisation of anatomical knowledge. Thomas Cummins is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University in Cambridge. Current research interests include the analysis of early Ecuadorian ceramic figurines, the study of late Pre-Columbian systems of knowledge and representation, colonial images and comparative studies on idolatry. Iris Därmann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Cultural Studies of Lüneburg University, Germany. Her research focuses on culture and art philosophy, phenomenology, visual anthropology and intercultural studies. She co-edited a book on ?Konversions. Experiences of foreignness in anthropological and intercultural perspective? (Amsterdam 2004). Martin Gieselmann is a scientific researcher at the Institutes of Chinese Studies and Modern Sinology at the University of Heidelberg and member of the Karlsruhe-based research group on Image, Medium, Body. An Anthropological Perspective. His research interests include contemporary Chinese literature, history, theatre and cinema. Simone Grießmayer studied East Asian art history and modern sinology at Heidelberg University, Germany. Currently, she is a fellow of the Karlsruhe-based research group on Image, Medium, Body. An Anthropological Perspective, studying the presentation and reception of Buddhist relics in China. Ilka Herrmann, who studied culture sciences, art history and philosophy, is a fellow of the Karlsruhe-based research group on Image, Medium, Body. An Anthropological Perspective. In her PhD-thesis she examines ?Rituals of Photography?. Irit Rogoff is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Goldsmith College in London, where she runs a research project on ?Translating the Image - Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts?. In her research studies on visual culture, she often combines gender theories with post-colonial approaches. Alexandra Schneider is a lecturer at the Film Studies Department of the Freie University in Berlin. In her current research project she analysis Bollywood cinema?s relationship with the west, particularly the representation of Switzerland in recent Bollywood films. Misook Song is Professor of Art History at Sungshin Women?s University in Seoul, South Korea and vice-president of the Samsong Museum of Modern Art in Seoul. In 1999 she chief-curated the Korean pavilion on the Venice biennial art festival. Karim Traore is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in Athens, USA. His research interests include African literature, oral literature, literary anthropology, African film, and popular music culture. The cultural and geographical focus of his studies lies on West Africa and the Sahel region. Beat Wyss holds the Chair of the Institute of Art History at Stuttgart University, Germany. Since October 2003 he is the head of the Karlsruhe-based research group on Image, Medium, Body. An Anthropological Perspective. His main areas of research cover contemporary and popular art, classical modernity, the art of the modern era and its historico-cultural correlations, architecture and urban history.
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