Sandra Noeth is a professor at HZT – Inter-University Centre for Dance, and a practising curator and dramaturge. She specializes in body-based research in the arts, society and politics, often bringing together knowledge from diverse artistic, social, political, and activist fields. Recent programs and publication projects have focused on the role, status and agency of bodies in bordering processes; the relation between arts, bodies and unequal politics of protection; the embodiment of violence; and the ambivalent status of the body in international humanitarian law. She is the author of Resilient Bodies, Residual Effects. Borders and Collectivity from Lebanon and Palestine (2019); the editor of Violence: Embodiment (2022, for PARSE research journal) as well as a co-editor of Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Movement (with G. Ertem, 2018); Breathe. Critical Investigations into the Inequalities of Life (with J. Janša, 2023); and Shielding: Body-based Studies on Integrity and Protection (with J. Janša and S. Umathum, 2024).