Dr Liliana Janik
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Dr Liliana Janik is an Associate Professor in Archaeology and Heritage at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology. She also serves as the Deputy Director of the Cambridge Heritage Centre and is a Fellow at Girton College. Dr Janik has led research projects in both Northern and Southern Russia, as well as in Japan. Her area of expertise focuses on the prehistoric art of fishing, gathering, and hunting communities, particularly rock art and figurines.
Her latest book, The Archaeology of Seeing: Science and Interpretation, the Past and Contemporary Visual Art, was published by Routledge in 2020. She is currently working on a new publication that explores the relationship between prehistoric and contemporary art in visual communication, from the creation of the first images to contemporary conceptual art. In her work on heritage, she focuses on the concept of ontological security and its connections to the past.
Prof. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick and Prof. Louis D. Nebelsick
Institute of Prehistoric and Early Historic Archaeology and Provincial Roman Archaeology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Institute of Archaeology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw
Dr Jakub Stejskal
Department of Art History and Theory, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
Dr Jakub Stejskal is an assistant professor of aesthetics at the Department of Art History and Theory, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology (BUT).
Before joining BUT, he held research positions at Masaryk University, University of Basel, and Freie Universität Berlin.
His research primarily involves a philosophically informed analysis of historical, anthropological, and archaeological studies of visual art and culture. An underlying theme of this work is the development of a postformalist framework for aesthetic enquiry suitable for archaeological and anthropological contexts—a project he elaborated in his book Objects of Authority: A Postformalist Aesthetics (Routledge, 2023). His work has been published in journals including Critical Inquiry, History and Theory, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, World Art, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and Synthese. He is an associate editor of the journal Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics.