Francisco Beltrame Trento

Finland (residence), Brazil, Finland, Italy (citizenship) °1987
research interests: neurodiversity, queer theory, Film-making, post-qualitative inquiry, neuroqueerness, artistic research, anarchive, research-creation, kinship
affiliation: University of Helsinki
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Fran Trento (they/them) is an artist-researcher and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, within the Academy of Finland-funded research project ´Enchantment in young people's technoscientific urban landscape: Encounters of difference and the opening of politics in the post-social city´. Fran worked as a postdoctoral researcher at The University of The Arts Helsinki, where they led projects that investigated academic ableism and neuroqueer intimacies and taught critical disability studies. Fran’s research interests are neurodiversity, anti-ableism, and the pedagogies for neurodiversity. Fran is a translator who translated several works into Portuguese, such as Brian Massumi’s “What Animals Teach Us About Politics”. Fran is also a social sustainability coordinator at Frame Contemporary Art Finland. Their background is initially in media studies, but they have worked with critical disability studies, process philosophy and neurodiversity studies for several years. 


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