Mieke Bal is author of 50 books and supervisor of 81 finished PhDs, the cultural theorist, critic, video artist and curator. She writes in an interdisciplinary perspective on cultural analysis, literature and art, focusing on gender, migratory culture, the critique of capitalism, and the political agency of art. She co-founded (1994) and directed ASCA, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, an interdisciplinary institute that is still thriving. From 2002 on, she also makes films, as a different, more in-depth, more contemporary and interactive mode of cultural analysis. Since then, writing, filmmaking and curating go together. She made the 16-channel video-installation Don Quijote: Sad Countenances (2019) with Mathieu Montanier, and a short essay film It’s About Time! Reflections on Urgency (2020). Her latest short film, made with Lena Verhoeff, Refugeedom: Lonely but not Alone, premiered in May 2023 in the SPEME program on traumatic memory. Her 50th book, Moments of Meaning-Making, was published by Valiz (Amsterdam) in 2025. Her next book on curating and semiotics is currently in production (London, Bloomsbury). www.miekebal.org