Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. Her video "Accent Elimination" was included in the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Her work has been included in group shows at the Serpentine Gallery, Turner Contemporary, de Appel, Palais de Tokyo, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art,
Brooklyn Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her travelling solo museum survey entitled “Curiouser” toured three US museums in 2017, and her solo show, "Uncommon Denominator," was shown at the Morgan Library & Museum in 2023. Nina lives and works in Brooklyn and Berlin and is a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

Shahram Khosravi is professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University. His research interests include anthropology of Iran, forced displacement, border studies, and temporality. Khosravi is the author of several books such as : Young and Defiant in Tehran (2008); The Illegal Traveller: an auto-ethnography of borders, (2010); Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, (2017); After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives, Palgrave (2017, edited volume); Waiting. A project in Conversation (2021, edited volume), Seeing Like a Smuggler (2022, edited volume), and The Gaze of X-ray: an archive of violence (2024, edited volume). He has been an active writer in the international press. He is a co-founder of Critical Border Studies, a network for scholars, artists and activists to interact.