Nanna Heidenreich is a research assistant in media studies
at the HBK Braunschweig and co-curator of the Forum Expanded. She specialises in the intersections of politics and art, image disputes, migration and anti-racism. Her dissertation "Ansichtssachen. Die V/erkennungsdienste des deutschen Ausländerdiskurses und die Perspektive der Migration" will be published by transcript Verlag in 2013.

Melanie Ulz is a junior professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Osnabrück. She researches and teaches on: Art and cultural history of the 18th-21st century, postcolonial theory and gender studies. Selected publication: "On the Battlefield of Empire. Concepts of masculinity in the image production of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign", Marburg: Jonas Verlag 2008.

Brigitta Kuster, artist, author, lives in Berlin. Video/installation works include À travers l'encoche d'un voyage dans la bibliothèque coloniale. Grades pittoresques (2009), Decolonisation (2010), Rise for you will not perish (2012, with artefakte//anti-humboldt), collaboration on the film series "Ohne Genehmigung. The films of René Vautier" (2012).

Susanne Leeb works as an assistant professor of contemporary art at the Department of Art History at the University of Basel and is co-editor of the PoLYpeN series published by b_books Berlin. Her book "Die anthropologische Konfiguration der Moderne in der deutschsprachigen Kunstgeschichte und -theorie" will be published in autumn 2013.