Engin Sustam is Assoc. Prof. (maître de conférences) in the Department of Educational Sciences at Paris 8 University Vincennes Saint-Denis and research associate at the CETOBAC of EHESS Paris, CITERES of University of Tours. He is currently working on "Contemporary Art, cinema and decolonial approach, Alternative pedagogy, New Form of Global Uprisings and Autonomy experiences in the world " as a methodological approach. Since March 2016, he has been invited by several universities like the University of Geneva, EHESS and ENS, recognized as "academic at risk" by SAR (Scholars at Risk of New York University). He is an associate researcher at IFEA Istanbul. Currently attached as Assistant Prof. at University Paris 8. He is a independent curator and an art critic for contemporary art exhibitions on micro-politics, subculture, ecology, decoloniality, gender and memory. He currently realized with his collective team a Kurdish contemporary art project at NGBK Berlin (neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst ) 'Bê Welat – The Unexpected Stroytellers'. He is the author of the books "Art and Kurdish Subalternity, The Emergence of a Space of Subjective and Creative Production Between Violence and Resistance in Turkey" published by Harmattan in September 2016 and "Street Manifestations and New Uprisings" published by Edition Kalkedon in Istanbul. And soon to appear 'Unforeseen Uprisings: New Places of Emancipation' and 'Decolonial Aesthetics and Arts in the Kurdish Space'.
Supervisors:Assoc. Prof. (Docent or Maître de conférences) at the University Paris 8
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