Anastasia Karagianni is 3rd-year Doctoral Researcher at the LSTS research group of the Law and Criminology Faculty of VUB and former FARI Scholar. She is the main coordinator of the Feminist Book Club at CPDP and the LSTS Gender, Law, and Technology Sessions. 

She has been a visiting researcher at several Universities, including iCourts University of Copenhagen, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville, ITACA Institute-Universitat Politècnica de València, University of Alicante (upcoming) and McGill University in Montreal (upcoming). 

Her academic research focuses on the "Divergencies of Gender Discrimination in the EU AI Act Through Feminist Epistemologies and Epistemic Controversies”. She is currently a RHEA member (VUB Research Centre on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality) and former member of the Feminist Gender Equality Network.

Besides her academic interests, Anastasia is a digital rights activist, since she is a co-founder of DATAWO, a civil society organisation based in Greece advocating about gender inequalities in the digital era. Anastasia Karagianni was a MozFest Ambassador 2023, and Mozilla Awardee for the project “A Feminist Dictionary in AI”– of the Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence working group. 

Sarah Sharma is currently acting Vice Dean, Research and Program Innovation at the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. She is Professor of Media Theory at the ICCIT/Faculty of Information and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between technology, time and labour.

In 2024 she was awarded a Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is the author In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014) which was awarded a NCA Critical Cultural Book of the Year award in 2014. Her edited volume (with Rianka Singh) Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre between 2017-2022. Sarah’s next book, Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech will be published by Duke University Press in 2025.

Demetra Tzanaki is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of the Aegean. Her work explores how regimes of normality are constituted through gender, race, class and ableism, engaging Foucauldian, decolonial and crip feminist theory. She develops a decolonial feminist critique of eugenics and contemporary forms of normalization and dehumanization.

Dr. Paulien Broens (°1999) is a legal historian and anthropologist specialised in gender, colonialism, and legal authority in Africa. After graduating summa cum laude in African Studies at Ghent University and completing a Research Master’s in Social Anthropology at SOAS London with distinction, she conducted doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and KU Leuven, where she defended her PhD on female legal authorities in colonial Asante in 2024. She is currently Research Coordinator at the Research Centre for Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.