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BARBARA DAY

Barbara Day studied theatre in Prague in the 1960s, returning at the beginning of the 1980s to research her dissertation on the Theatre on the Balustrade and the relationship between theatre, society and politics in the Czech lands. 

This led to contacts with the “underground university” and the Jan Hus Educational Foundation, for which she worked as liaison between Britain and Czechoslovakia until 1989. In 1999 she published the story of the underground seminars as The Velvet Philosophers. 

She now lives in Prague and is occupied with translation, teaching and writing, having just published Trial by Theatre: Reports on Czech Drama (Karolinum Press).

NACIM PAK-SHIRAZ

Nacim Pak-Shiraz  is the Head of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Senior Lecturer in Film and Persian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. 

She has published widely on Iranian visual culture, particularly on Iranian cinema. These include her monograph, Shi‘i Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality in Film (2011), and Visualizing Iran: From Antiquity to Present (2017), a special issue edition of the Iranian Studies journal. 

She is also active on the cultural scene and engages with international film festivals both within and outside the UK.

ALEŠ RUMPEL

Aleš Rumpel is a former director of the Mezipatra festival, to which he contributed between 2003 and 2014. He also worked in programme and PR at the One World International Festival of Documentary Films and as a programme coordinator at the Prague Quadriennal. Apart from organising festivals, he also worked at the Documentary Film Institute and as the Director of External Relations at the National Film Archive. He is currently running the Patra community café.