Migrations cluster heads
Dr Robin Schuldenfrei
Schuldenfrei’s research and teaching focuses on the history and theory of modern architecture, concentrating on the subjectivity, materiality, political agency, and social impact of objects and spaces. She utilizes both objects and architecture as cultural indices of society at large in order to illustrate the conscious and unconscious perspectives and values of the society that generated them. Her research in the area of exile and global movement examines paths of migration, exile and dislocation globally to consider issues of detemporalization and destabilization in modernism. As Cluster Head, Schuldenfrei seeks to brings together interdisciplinary research and creative work related to the global movement of peoples in order to explicate the cultural value, conditions and economics of migration through the study of objects and architecture, as well as its political and legal frameworks.
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Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
Klara Kemp-Welch works on modern and contemporary art from Eastern Europe. She was educated at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and University College London. She is the author of Antipolitics in Central European Art. Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956-1989 (IB Tauris, 2014), Networking the Bloc. Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981 (MIT Press, 2019) and co-editor of A Reader in East-Central European Modernism 1918-1956 with Beata Hock and Jonathan Owen (Courtauld Books Online, 2019). She is currently completing a monograph entitled Free Movement? Documenting Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe.
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