Samuel Abrahám

Born and grew up in Bratislava and emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1980. While in Canada, he studied International Relations at the University of Toronto (BA 1988) and at Carleton University in Ottawa where he obtained MA (1990) in Soviet and East European Studies and subsequently also at Carleton University PhD in Comparative Politics and Political Philosophy.

Dagmar Kusá

Dagmar Kusá received her MA in political science from Comenius University her PhD. in political science from Boston University. Her primary academic interests include the political use of collective memory, ethnic identity, citizenship, and minorities, at present focusing on the manifestations of cultural trauma in public discourse.

Peter Mantello

My area of specialization focuses on the intersection between technology, conflict, Artificial Intelligence and surveillance. Combining media studies, International Relations theories, film studies, data studies, and technologies studies, I am interested in the various feedback loops between media, technology, conflict, and popular culture.

Juraj Hvorecký

Juraj Hvorecky is a researcher at the Department for Analytic Philosophy at Prague’s Institute of Philosophy. He also teaches philosophy at the University of Economics. His research interests cover primarily the area of philosophy of mind and language. He has been educated in Slovakia and the US. He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Arizona and also a junior fellow at the Collegium Budapest.