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Andrés Fabián Henao Castro

University of Massachusetts Boston

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Before joining UMB, he held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory at the University of Bologna/Duke University and was the Karl Lowenstein Fellow at Amherst College. His research deals with the relationship between ancient and contemporary political theory, via the prisms of decolonial theory, psychoanalysis, critical theory, settler colonial critique, and poststructuralism. He is the author of The Militant Intellect: Critical Theory’s Conceptual Personae (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) and Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality and Death In the Settler Colonial Present (SUNY Press, 2021). His research has also been published in Critical Philosophy of Race,Settler Colonial Studies, Theoria, Theory & Event, Representation, La Deleuziana, Theatre Survey, Contemporary Political Theory, and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, among others. 

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Before joining UMB, he held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory at the University of Bologna/Duke University and was the Karl Lowenstein Fellow at Amherst College. His research deals with the relationship between ancient and contemporary political theory, via the prisms of decolonial theory, psychoanalysis, critical theory, settler colonial critique, and poststructuralism. He is the author of The Militant Intellect: Critical Theory’s Conceptual Personae (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) and Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality and Death In the Settler Colonial Present (SUNY Press, 2021). His research has also been published in Critical Philosophy of Race,Settler Colonial Studies, Theoria, Theory & Event, Representation, La Deleuziana, Theatre Survey, Contemporary Political Theory, and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, among others. 

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Suisui Wang

University of Massachusetts Boston

Suisui Wang is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. An interdisciplinary scholar of feminist and queer STS, Suisui’s work situates health, technology, and data in nexuses of activism and governance and as sites of community-based analysis, participation, and action. Their current book project, Just Listen: Hotline Activisms and Technopolitics of Crisis Listening, examines crisis hotline activisms by youth, women, LGBTQ people, and suicide preventionists as media genealogies of listening across differences of age, gender, sexuality, and disability. Undoing the ideological doctrine of active listening, Just Listen develops conceptual tools that attune to listening’s institutional, affective, epistemic, and performative dimensions. 

Suisui Wang is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. An interdisciplinary scholar of feminist and queer STS, Suisui’s work situates health, technology, and data in nexuses of activism and governance and as sites of community-based analysis, participation, and action. Their current book project, Just Listen: Hotline Activisms and Technopolitics of Crisis Listening, examines crisis hotline activisms by youth, women, LGBTQ people, and suicide preventionists as media genealogies of listening across differences of age, gender, sexuality, and disability. Undoing the ideological doctrine of active listening, Just Listen develops conceptual tools that attune to listening’s institutional, affective, epistemic, and performative dimensions. 

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