Gil Z. Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern studies south Asian studies and African studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University New York.  She is the writer of four single authored books. In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (Princeton University Press, 2007); Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone (Duke University Press, 2015); Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke University Press, 2021), and her forthcoming creative nonfiction: My Father the Messiah: a Memoir (Duke University Press 2026)

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author of scholarly work on AIDS, most recently, We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (with Ted Kerr, Duke, 2022); and fake (and real) documentaries, most recently, Really Fake. Her edited anthology of community-produced poetry about Fake News, My Phone Lies to Me was published in 2022 by punctum press. Her current work (Fall 2025), HOLDING PATTERNS, takes the form of an installation about archives, grief, AIDS, and research and is showing at the One Archives in Los Angeles and the Center in NYC. 

Laura Raicovich is a New York City-based writer and curator known for her critical work on cultural institutions and dedication to more equitable cultural production. She is curator of the inaugural Counterpublic Convening: CIRCUS OF LIFE, taking place in St. Louis, MO in October 2025. Her recent book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, was published by Verso Books. In 2023, with a collective of artists, musicians, and culture workers, Raicovich opened The Francis Kite Club, a public social club in NYC’s East Village. Raicovich also served as Director of the Queens Museum and Interim Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; she was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Center, and the Tremaine Curatorial Fellow for Journalism at Hyperallergic.

An artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the appointment of Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is bringing to completion Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which is in Spanish translation (Metales Pesados, 2022), and the co-edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014). Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Nicholas Mirzoeff has been writing and teaching about Jewishness and Palestine for over two decades. His most recent project is “To see in the dark: Palestine and visual activism since October 7” (2025). This work is complemented by a range of online and mass media writing, including publications in the Guardian, the Nation and the LARB. He lives and works in New York.