Anders Pettersson is Emeritus Professor of Swedish and Comparative Literature at Umeå University, Sweden and Secretary-General of one of CIPSH's member-organizations, the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM). He has worked particularly in fundamental literary theory on issues concerning the nature, functioning, and value of literature, but also writes on transcultural literary history. His books in English are two monographs, A Theory of Literary Discourse (1990) and Verbal Art: A Philosophy of Literature and Literary Experience (2000), and three edited collections, Types of Interpretation in the Aesthetic Disciplines (2003, with Staffan Carlshamre), From Text to Literature: New Aesthetic and Pragmatic Approaches (2005, with Stein Haugom Olsen), and Notions of Literature across Times and Cultures (2006). Email: [email protected]
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements and House for the History of the Ruhr at the University of Bochum. Between 2003 and 2008 he chaired the European-Science-Foundation-funded Programme entitled ‘Representations of the Past: the Writing of National Histories in 19th and 20th Century Europe’ (www.uni-leipzig.de/zhsesf). He has published widely in the fields of historiography, national identity studies, and labour history. His most recent monographs include The Nation as History (2011), Friendly Enemies. Britain and the GDR 1945 – 1989 (2010); Inventing Germany (2004), The Search for Normality. National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany since 1800 (2nd ed., 2003). Email: [email protected]
Elizabeth Closs Traugott is Professor of Linguistics and English, Emerita, at Stanford University. Her research has been primarily in historical syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicalization, and linguistics and literature. She is currently working on constructionalization, especially ways to bring the theories of grammaticalization and construction grammar to bear on accounts of micro-changes. Publications include A History of English Syntax (1972), Linguistics for Students of Literature (1980; with Mary L. Pratt), Grammaticalization (1993, 2nd revised ed. 2003; with Paul J. Hopper), Regularity in Semantic Change (2002; with Richard B. Dasher), Lexicalization and Language Change (2005; with Laurel J. Brinton). Email: [email protected]
Norman Yoffee is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He writes on the history, culture, and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and on the evolution of ancient states and civilizations. His most recent books are Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Environmental Variability, and the Aftermath of Empire (co-edited with Patricia McAnany, 2009), Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations (2005), Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Archaeology (co-edited with Brad Crowell, 2006), and Negotiating the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research (2007). Email: [email protected]
Severin Fowles is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. His research investigates the evolution of voluntary simplicity, sacred landscapes, and religious organization among the native peoples of the American Southwest. He is author of An Archaeology of Doings: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion (2012) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the American Southwest (in preparation, with Barbara Mills). Email: [email protected]
François Djindjian is Professor of Archaeology at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. A specialist of European Upper Paleolithic, he is in charge since 1992 of the archeological site of Gontsy, Ukraine. He is a specialist of mathematical and digital methods applied to archeology. Since 2006, he is Deputy Secretary-general of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Uispp). He authored or co-authored two reference volumes: Méthodes pour l’Archéologie (1991) and Le Paléolithique supérieur en Europe (with J. Kozlowski and M. Otte, 1999). Email: [email protected]
Zhang Longxi is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. His research interests are East-West comparative literature and cross-cultural studies, and his major book publications include The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (Duke UP, 1992); Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China (Stanford UP, 1998); Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West (Cornell UP, 2005); and Unexpected Affinities: Reading across Cultures (Toronto UP, 2007). Email: [email protected]
Sylvie André is Professor of French and francophone literatures at the University of French Polynesia. Her last book deals with native authors from the Pacific region. She questions the links between pre-modern traditions (oral and aesthetic) and modern European culture. She uses interdisciplinary approaches (anthropological and sociological) in order to deepen her postcolonial analyzes of the texts. She tries to propose general literary frames valuable for all types of linguistic “productions” as aesthetic ones. Email: [email protected]
Young Ahn Kang is Professor of Philosophy at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests span from modern and contemporary European philosophy, ethics and philosophy of religion to Asian philosophy in interaction with European philosophy since 17th and 18th centuries. His most recent publication includes The Face of the Other: Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (2005) and Kant on Metaphysics and Representational Thinking (2009). Email: [email protected]
Daihyun Chung is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy of Ewha Womans University. He served as the president for The Korean Philosophical Association 2002-2003, as a vice-president for the Korean Organizing Committee, World Congress of Philosophy (Seoul 2008). Among his publications are [1] papers in English: “Dispositions: An Integrational Analysis”, http://choise80.khu.ac.kr/workshop201205.htm; “A Conceptual Analysis of Suffering: How One's Suffering is Redemptive of Others?”, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/chungsufpaper.pdf; “Fitting: A Case of Cheng (誠) Intentionality”, Abstracts: XXII World Congress of Philosophy: 2008: 109; “Seeds: Agents of Cheng (誠) Intentionality”, Abstracts: XXII World Congress of Philosophy: 2008: 110; “Intentionality of Cheng (誠): Toward an Organic View”, Philosophy and Culture: Metaphysics, Korean Philosophical Association, 2008: 33-40; [2] books in Korean: Embodied Mental Content (2001); Fitting: An Understanding of Truth and Meaning (1997); Necessity: A Contextual Understanding (1994). Email: [email protected]
Michael Carter is currently an Hon. Professor in the Centre for Medieval Studies at Sydney University, after a career in which he taught Arabic for some years at Sydney University, then briefly at Duke University, followed by a decade at New York University and seven years at the University of Oslo, before returning to Sydney to retire. His main research interests are the history of Arabic grammatical theory and the relationship between grammar, theology and law in mediaeval Islam. Email: [email protected]
Shigetoshi Osano, Professor of the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters and Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, teaches the history of Western art. Among his many studies include contributions to Italian and European journals such as Antichità viva, Paragone, Quaderni di Palazzo Te, Verona Illustrata and artibus et historia. While his interest in Renaissance art and the reception of the Antique therein has been the focus of books such as Antiquity in Memory: the Reception of the Antique in the Art of the Renaissance (Tokyo 1992), and L’occhio dell’intelletto (Tokyo 2007), he has also undertaken comparative studies between Western art and traditional Japanese art. He was the president of the Japan Art History Society (2006, 2009-2012) and is currently a vice-president of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA). Email: [email protected]
Theo d’haen is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leuven (Louvain), Belgium. Earlier he held positions at Leyden and Utrecht, both in the Netherlands. Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne III (2004) and Harvard (2007-2008). Recent book-length publications in English: Contemporary American Crime Writing (2001), Configuring Romanticism (2003), How Far is America From Here? (2005), Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing (2006), International Don Quixote (2009), Literature for Europe? (2010) and The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). Editor-in-chief of the European Review, the journal of the Academia Europaea. He is Past President of FILLM. Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Adama Samassékou is today member of the ITU and UNESCO International Broadband Commission for Digital Development, member of the UN-IYGU Steering Committee initiated by the IGU and member of the High Level Panel for UNESCO's Reforms. Email: [email protected]
Jon Elster (1940) is Robert K. Merton Professor of Social sciences at Columbia University and Professeur honoraire at the Collège de France, Paris. Among his récent Works: L’Irrationalité (2010) and Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist (2009). His current work deals with the mecanisms regulating collective décisions. Email: [email protected]
Jacques Poulain is Professor at the University Paris 8, where he holds the Unesco Chair of Philosophy of Culture and Institutions (focused on Europe). Email: [email protected]
