The founding members of ACN are:
Iside Carbone holds a PhD from the Department of Anthropology, UCL. Her research interests focus on Chinese art and material culture in particular, and on museum ethnography as well as anthropology of art in general. Her book China in the Frame discusses mechanisms of perception and representation of China in Italy, analysing museum displays. She works for the RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) in cooperation with the Anthropology Library and Research Centre at the British Museum. She is member of relevant research groups and associations: the RAI Anthropology of Art Committee; EACS (European Association for Chinese Studies); EAAA (European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology); and ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies).
Elisabetta Colla (高埃麗) is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities (Lisbon University). She is also researcher of the Centre for History of Lisbon and PhD candidate in Pre-history and Archaeology at the School of Arts and Humanities (Lisbon University). She holds a PhD in Culture Studies obtained from the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon, a Master’s degree in Asian Studies from the Faculty of Human Sciences of Oporto, a Master’s degree (Laurea) in Oriental Languages and Literatures from “Ca’ Foscari”, University of Venice, and a diploma in Chinese Language from the former Beijing Languages Institute.
Amy Matthewson is a historian interested in race relations, identity, epistemologies, and visual and material cultures with particular focus on China in the British imagination in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the author of Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era and is currently Lecturer in History at the University of Hull.
Karen Tam is a Montréal artist whose research focuses on the constructions and imaginations of ‘ethnic’ spaces through installations in which she recreates Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters. She has exhibited her work and participated in residencies in North America, Europe, and China, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the He Xiangning Art Museum. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths (University of London) and a MFA in Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau. Website: http://www.karentam.ca
Photo credit: Morris Lum
The board of ACN – Europe is as follows:
Iside Carbone (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) – Director
Arnaud Bertrand (Guimet Museum) – Co-Director
Executive Committee
Antoine Gournay (Sorbonne University) – President
Kristine Milere (Latvian National Museum of Art / Art Museum RIGA Bourse) – Vice-President
Elisabetta Colla (University of Lisbon) – Secretary
Maria Szymanska-Ilnata (Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw) – Treasurer
Administrative Committee
Melodie Doumy (British Library)
Marco Guglielminotti Trivel (Formerly Museum of Oriental Art, Turin)
Emmanuel Lincot (Institut Catholique de Paris, IRIS)
Manuela Moscatiello (Cernuschi Museum)
Martin Petersen (National Museum of Denmark)
Alexander Westra (Aegean University)
Bettina Zorn (Weltmuseum, Wien)