Philosophy and Travel

Philosophy and Visual Arts I

Philosophy and Visual Arts II

Philosophy and Dance

Indian academic, and professor of English literature at the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, India. Specializes in the areas of Travel Narratives, Indian Literature(s), Film Studies, Indian Epics, and Indian Theatre.

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at NSSR, specializing in Africana, continental, decolonial, environmental, and feminist philosophy.

Professor of Sociology at the NSSR and founder of Tempie Shoes., a company dedicated to crafting fine handmade shoes from raffia. He specializes in teenage life and culture, drug abuse, crews, gangs, and urban social policy. Author of of The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure (Columbia, 2022); Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club (Columbia, 2020); Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm (Columbia, 2017); and ten other books

Assistant professor of Design and Management at Parsons and winner of UK design awards including "Best Emerging Talent" and "Best Menswear." His trans-disciplinary work explores the harmony between Fashion, Critical Awareness, and Social Entrepreneurship.

Born in Madrid, Jana Leo is a conceptual artist based in New York City. Her publications include “Rape New York (Book Works, London, 2009) and “I condo New York” (Gasteiz City Hall, 2009). Currently working in the publication of “The Art Resort” and “Pet Prisoner”. 

Associate professor of Textiles, an internationally experienced textile designer and CAD expert. She is also a Bharatanatyam dancer, an actor and a philosopher with a special interest in Plato and Vedanta studies.

Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at Lang. Areas of research include film and media studies, new media theory, and the intersections of media, science, and technology.

Dean of Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. A philosopher, critic, and curator of visual and sonic art, Christoph teaches and writes on contemporary European philosophy, cultural theory, and aesthetics.

Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Race and Media specializing in Black Studies, black popular music, black feminist theory, sound studies, visual culture, and performance.

Associate Professor of Design Practice and Theory at Lang specializing in the material culture of Europe (1780-1850) and the meaning, materiality, and praxis of contemporary design.

Associate dean of School of Art History and Design and scholar of modern and contemporary art. Rory’s research explores the intersection of visual art, literature, and language, with a focus on the 1960s and 1970s, and these scholarly interests significantly inform his pedagogy of writing within an art and design studio context.

Professor of Photography at Parsons working across photography, video, and installation. Her works have been exhibited internationally at collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Choreographer, performer and teacher, specializing in West African dance forms from Guinea, Mali and the Casamance region of Senegal. In addition to his appointment as professor of West African dance at The Juilliard School, guest professor at The New School, he is also a faculty member at Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance. 

A lecturer in Dance at Lang, Sasha Welsh is a choreographer, dancer and educator whose work explores states of awareness, memory and imagination, and the limitations and possibilities of the human body.

An AfroDominicanYork artistic scholar, educator, and writer who merges her creative language and academic research within her practice. As a visual artist, Rodriguez conceptualizes wearable art, sculptures, and site-specific installations drawing connections between her research on Black cultures in the Caribbean and the United States.

A Brooklyn-based choreographer from Uruguay who grew as an artist in close dialogue with the NY and Uruguayan contemporary dance communities. She has been making work in NYC and Uruguay independently and collaboratively since 1999. Her work is concerned with the post-colonial world, searching for an undoing of current power structures from the inside out. 

A first-year MA Philosophy student who previously graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Mathematics. His research interests include aesthetics, politics, and identity. He is also a multi-instrumentalist and enjoys playing and studying games.

Hannah is a first-year MA Philosophy student. She did her BA in Humanities, the arts, and social thought with a concentration in ethics and politics, from Bard College, Berlin. She is interested in the phenomenological accounts of perception and how (resonance with) art can transform how we relate to/perceive the world. In her free time she paints, sings in a choir, and tries to spend as much time as she can in forests.

Henry is a first-year MA Philosophy student. Previously, he did his BA in Biology with a Minor in Chemistry from Whittier College, Los Angeles. His area of research interest is the philosophy of love, with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. He is a cycling enthusiast and pursues that during his spare time. 

Matthew is a first-year MA Philosophy student. He did his BA in Social Thought & Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). He's interested in the philosophical intersection of ethics and aesthetics.

Neha is a first-year MFA Textiles student at Parsons School of Design. She previously did her BDes in textiles from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. She is currently working on researching the relationship between cotton and its problematic history in India and the US and is depicting this through slow textile making techniques.

Nikita is a textile designer and natural dyer, with a B.Des in Textiles from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bhopal, India. Currently, she is pursuing her MFA in Textiles at Parsons. Her body of work reflects a blend of diverse techniques. She is constantly seeking to expand her knowledge and expertise by exploring new fiber techniques and conducting in-depth research on traditional textile making processes.