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Srdan Keca
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
BioSrđan Keča is a Yugoslav-born filmmaker, visual artist and educator living in the U.S.
His documentary films have been selected at leading festivals, including the Berlinale, IDFA and HotDocs, while his video installations have been exhibited at venues like the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Whitechapel Gallery. His early medium-length films include A Letter to Dad (IDFA 2011, Dokufest 2011 - Best Balkan Documentary) and Mirage (Jihlava IDFF 2012 - Best Central and Eastern European Documentary). Flotel Europa, an archival feature-length film produced and edited by Keča, premiered at the Berlinale in 2015, winning the Tagesspiegel Jury Award, and went on to win awards at numerous festivals including Documenta Madrid, Torino Film Festival, and IndieLisboa. His latest film, the poetic-observational feature Museum of the Revolution premiered at IDFA in 2021, and won awards including the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary at Sarajevo Film Festival and Best Feature at Big Sky Documentary Festival. It has been released theatrically in Europe and North America and broadcast on major networks.
Keča’s work has been praised in The New York Times, Senses of Cinema, Sight & Sound, Variety and POV Magazine, among others. He is an alum of the Ateliers Varan and UK’s National Filmand Television School (NFTS), and a Sundance Institute grantee. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University and Program Director of Stanford’s M.F.A. in Documentary Film. -
Ari Y. Kelman
Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Religious Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProfessor Kelman's research focuses on the forms and practices of religious knowledge transmission. His work emerges at the intersection of sociocultural learning theory and scholarly/critical studies of religion, and his methods draw on the social sciences and history. Currently Professor Kelman is at work on a variety of projects ranging from a history of religious education in the post-war period to an inquiry about Google's implicit definitions of religion.
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Amanda Helen Kennard
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment
BioAmanda Kennard is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She studies the politics of climate change and global governance, employing game theory and a range of quantitative methods. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at Princeton University, an M.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a B.A. from New York University.
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Elizabeth Kessler
Advanced Lecturer
BioElizabeth Kessler’s research and teaching focus on twentieth and twenty-first century American visual culture. Her diverse interests include: the role of aesthetics, visual culture, and media in modern and contemporary science, especially astronomy; the interchange between technology and ways of seeing and representing; the history of photography; and the representation of fashion in different media. Her first book, Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime, on the aesthetics of deep space images, was published in 2012. She’s currently writing on book on extraterrestrial time capsules, as well as developing a new project on fashion photography.
