Iveta SlavkovaIveta Slavkova is Associate Professor at the American University of Paris. Her field of research is the humanism crisis and the avant-garde in the context of the two World Wars. She is the author of a monograph, 'Réparer l'homme. La crise de l'humanime et l'Homme nouveau des avant-gardes' (1909-1929) published in 2020 by Presses du réel, co-editor of the EAM volume 'Crisis' (2022) at De Gruyter, and translator of Sascha Bru's 'The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935. A Portable Guide' (original edition 2018 by Edinburgh University Press, French translation 2023 by Hermann). She has published articles on the instrumentalisation of humanism in World War I propaganda. She has also written on the disillusionment with humanism after World War II, specifically in the work of Paris-based artists Camille Bryen or Wols, which led them to reconsider the place of humans in the universe and the Earth's ecosystem, calling for a new ecology of the mind. She is currently working on a book studying the intellectual trend Abhumanism initiated by French playwright and novelist Jacques Audiberti, a precursor of posthumanism. He was also a visual artist whose drawings and paintings will be analysed for the first time. An understudied aspect of post-Second World War intellectual life, Abhumanism contributes to reevaluate the vitality of the Parisian intellectual and artistic debates, and establish the continuity with the historical avant-garde preceding it, Surrealism in particular. Read More Read Less