Isabel Capeloa Gil - Hazardous Future : Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk.

Daniela Agostinho holds a PhD in Culture Studies from the Catholic University of Portugal, where she is an Invited Assistant Professor. She is founding editor of Diffractions Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture and co-editor of Panic and Mourning. The Cultural Work of Trauma (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012). Her main areas of interest are Cultural Theory, Visual Culture, Film and Memory Studies.

Elsa Alves , Ph.D. fellow in Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and researcher affiliated to COPE (Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research) and CECC (Research Centre for Communication and Culture). She was the research assistant with a grant from FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) of the joint project Critique of singularity: the catastrophic event and the rhetoric of representation, between the Catholic University of Portugal, the FU Berlin and the University of Kyoto (2010-13).

Claudia Benthien , Professor of Germanic Literatures and Cultural Theory at the University of Hamburg. Her work focusses on historical anthropology, cultural theory, gender studies, intellectual history, intermedial studies and visual culture. She is currently working on a research project on The Literariness of Media Art.

Gabriele Brandstetter , Professor of Theatre and Dance Studies at Freie Universitt Berlin. Her research focus is on: History and aesthetics of dance from the eighteenth century until today, theatre and dance of the avant-garde; contemporary theatre and dance, performance, theatricality and gender differences; concepts of body, movement and image. Selected publications: Tanz-Lektren. Krperbilder und Raumfiguren der Avantgarde (1995); ReMembering the Body. Krper-Bilder in Bewegung (2000); Bild-Sprung. TanzTheaterBewegung im Wechsel der Medien (2005); Schwarm(E)Motion. Bewegung zwischen Affekt und Masse (2007); Tanz als Anthropologie (2007); Notationen und choreographisches Denken (2010); Dance [and] Theory (2013).

Isabel Capeloa Gil , Professor of Cultural Theory at the Catholic University of Portugal and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC); director of The Lisbon Consortium. Her main research areas include intermedia studies, gender studies, representations of war and conflict . Her most recent publications include Mythographies. Figurations of Antigone, Cassandra and Medea in German Twentieth Century Drama (2007), Landscapes of Memory. Envisaging the Past/Remembering the Future (with Richard Trewinnard, 2004); The Colour of Difference: On German Contemporary Culture (with Mnica Dias, 2005), Fleeting, Floating, Flowing: Water Writing and Modernity (Wrzburg, 2008) and Kulturbau (with Peter Hannenberg, Wrzburg, 2009), Visual Literacy. On the Disquiet of Images (Lisbon, 2011). Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Comunicao e Cultura ( Communication and Culture ) and member of the editorial boards of several European journals. She has been visiting professor at several institutions in Europe and the U.S., Fulbright Scholar at Western Michigan University in 2001 and is Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (London).

Carmen Diego Gonalves , PhD, Associate researcher at GEG-IGOT, Lisbon, and collaborator at the European Centre for Urban Risk. Was a post-doctoral researcher, with a grant from FCT at Center for Social Studies, Coimbra, with research focusing on dimensions of vulnerability and resilience, exploring the composite nature of the concept of natural disaster. Her fields of interest and research are: Theory of thinking styles and social representations; conceptions and perceptions of risk; risk societies; disasters and catastrophes; vulnerability and resilience; science, technology and society; knowledge and scientific practices; science communication and vulgarization; controversies and public participation; communication strategies; qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis.

Diana Gonalves , PhD in Culture Studies, jointly awarded by the Catholic University of Portugal and the Justus-Liebig University, Giessen. Researcher at the Research Center for Communication and Culture (CECC), before that, member of the research project Critique of Singularity: Catastrophic Events and the Rhetoric of Representation. Her main areas of interest are Culture Studies, American Studies, Translation Studies and Media Studies.

Isak Winkel Holm , teaches and researches at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. His field of research implies German, French and Scandinavian literature and philosophy after 1750. His research deals with the relationship between literature and justice or, more generally, between aesthetics and politics. Hence, his research themes fall in two halves: on the one hand, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Aesthetics, Theory of Metaphor and Theory of Tragedy; on the other hand, Political Theory, Social Philosophy, Theory of Justice and Disaster Research. Currently, the two halves meet in two book projects.

Fernando Ilharco , Prof. at the Catholic University of Portugal and researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) at the School of Human Sciences, Lisbon. His PhD is from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London (2002). Since then he has published regularly at scientific publishers such as Oxford University Press, Wiley, Macmillan, Springer, Elsevier and Universidade Catlica Editora.

Toshio Kawai , Ph.D., professor at the Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University. He is also a Jungian analyst. He was educated in clinical psychology at Kyoto University and in philosophical psychology at Zurich University where he received a Ph.D. in 1987. He obtained his diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich in 1990. He has published articles and book chapters in English, German, and Japanese. His research field is clinical psychology, especially the cultural and historical background of psychotherapy and how consciousness is reflected in psychotherapy today.

Paulo de Medeiros , Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literatures, teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies program. He was Associate Professor at Bryant College (USA) and Professor at Utrecht University (Netherlands) before moving to Warwick. In 2011-2012 he was Keeley Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford and is currently President of the American Portuguese Studies Association. Current projects include a study on Postimperial Europe. His research interests include World Literatures, Modernism and Postcolonial Studies, and Lusophone Literatures. His qualifications are BA; MA (Massachusetts at Boston), MA: PhD (Massachusetts at Amherst).

Jos Manuel Mendes , Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is also a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, where he has been working in the fields of inequalities, social mobility, social movements and collective action and, more recently, on the themes of risk, social vulnerability, trauma and victims associations. He is coordinator of the Risk Observatory (OSIRIS) of the Centre for Social Studies. Among his publications is the edited book (with Pedro Araujo), Os lugares (im)possveis da cidadania: Estado e risco num mundo globa-lizado (The (im)possible places of citizenship: risk and state in a globalized world). Coimbra: Almedina, 2013.

Johana E. Prawitasari-Hadiyono , acquired her Ph.D at University of Arizona, USA. She has been Professor of Clinical Psychology at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and is now working in the same field at UKRIDA (Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana) in Jakarta.