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Presenters
Xinyun Zhao
Xinyun Zhao is a musicologist currently based in Berlin and Beijing. She
received her PhD in Historical Musicology from the Institute of
Musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cologne, under
the supervision of Professor Frank Hentschel. Prior to that, she
completed her Bachelor's and master’s degrees in Musicology at the
China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she studied under
Professor Jing-Mao Yang. Her research focuses on Baroque music,
German and Austrian music of the 19th and 20th centuries,
experimental music theatre, and the intellectual and cultural history of
Chinese music. She has also worked for many years as a music writer
and journalist, actively contributing to cultural exchange and music
criticism in both China and Germany.
Zu Brykalska
Zu Brykalska (they/them) is currently completing their Master’s degree
in Artes Liberales. Their research, broadly speaking, focuses on
including non-human animals in human communities, spaces, and
narratives. In their bachelor thesis they analyzed the Gallery of Ancient
Art in the National Museum in Warsaw from a zoocentric perspective,
attempting to explore the possible ways and outcomes of including
animal agency in the exhibition's narrative. In their Master’s course,
they dedicate themself to ways of understanding the non-human
necrohitage (after Prof. Ewa Domańska) and the possibilities it creates
to underline animals’ subjectivity, especially companion animals.
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