Dr Mike Ryder is a lecturer in Marketing at Lancaster University (UK). His research sits at the intersection between literature, philosophy, history, technology studies and social science. He also conducts practice-based research relating to digital marketing and work-based learning. His website is www.mjryder.net.
Dr Thomas Arnold is assistant professor (akademischer Rat) at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Heidelberg. He has interests in both ancient metaphysics and phenomenology (which resulted in his Dissertation Phänomenologie als Platonismus) and is currently working on his Habilitation on Plato, Plotinus & Nicolas of Cusa, concerning philosophical thematization (i.e., how we acquire topics in philosophy, what we do then, and whether we ever stop doing it). Apart from these scholarly matters, he also pursues public philosophy when- and wherever he can: in schools, in jail, and in the streets for example.
Michael Dunn is a research associate at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), Heidelberg University where he works in publication management. He is currently a PhD candidate at Heidelberg University working on the framing of ecological apocalypses in modern classic literature. His research interests focus on climate culpability and justice, the ecological uncanny and ecoGothic, literary vampires, and earthly ends. He recently co-edited a book with his colleague and friend Jenny Stümer entitled Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation (DeGruyter 2023). His latest chapter “Immortality Immemorial: Colonial Vampires and the Climate Crisis” appears in the edited collection Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2024). He is also a poet, writer of fictions, and songwriter performing under monikers M. P. Dunn or The Earl Grey. His new album Mercury Mouth (2023) is available on all streaming services.
Philipp Schrögel went from physics to public policy and science communication research with degrees from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Harvard University. He worked as a consultant and facilitator for citizen participation, conducted research on science communication at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and successfully implemented various innovative science communication formats. His research and practice focuses on creative and participatory forms of science communication, with the goal of making science and humanities more accessible. This includes focusing on marginalized and excluded audiences and shaping a participatory transdisciplinary exchange.
