Nicolas Berger, a journalist, has recently edited a new version of Paule Riversdale's novel L’Être double. He recently took part in the international conference ‘Renée Vivien’ (Paris 2009) and has contributed to the volume Renée Vivien à rebours. Études pour un centenaire (2009).
Arnold Berleant is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at Long Island University (USA) and the founding editor of the on-line journal, Contemporary Aesthetics. His work ranges over aesthetics, especially environmental aesthetics, the arts, ethics, and social philosophy, and he has lectured and written widely in these areas, both nationally and internationally. Berleant is the author of numerous articles, as well as eight books and three edited volumes, and his work has been translated into many languages. His book, Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World, appeared in 2010, and his most recent book, Aesthetics beyond the Arts, was published in 2012. Berleant has been active in many professional organizations and is a Past President of the International Association of Aesthetics.
Pauline von Bonsdorff is Professor of Art Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include children and aesthetics, contemporary art, environmental aesthetics and phenomenological aesthetics. She is the author of The Human Habitat. Aesthetic and Axiological Perspectives (1998) and numerous articles and book chapters in English, Finnish and Swedish. She has edited and co-edited books on environmental aesthetics, everyday aesthetics and feminist aesthetics. von Bonsdorff is former chair of the Finnish Society for Aesthetics and the Finnish Society for Childhood Studies, and present chair of the Finnish Society for Research in Art Education.
Curtis Carter is a Professor of Aesthetics at Marquette University, where he was the founding director of the Haggerty Art Museum. He has authored many papers and essays in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Among his recent works are, Art and Social Change, International Association for Aesthetics Yearbook (ed., 2009), Wifredo Lam in North America (2007) and Jean Fautrier: 1898-1964 (2002).
Aleš Erjavec is a Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Centre of Scientific Research of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Ljubljana) and a Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Ljubljana and at the Faculty for Humanities, Koper, where he is also the Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies. He has authored or edited 14 books, among them The Ideology and Art of Modernism (Ljubljana 1988, Sarajevo 1991), Towards the Image (Ljubljana 1996, Changchun 2002), Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism (ed.), (Berkeley 2003, Taipei 2009), Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond (Newcastle 2008, Kaifeng 2011).
Alberto Indelicato is a former Ambassador of Italy to Unesco (1984-87), to the German Democratic Republic (1987-1990), and to the International Organizations in Vienna (1994-1997). He has authored several essays on the history of the 20th century.
Gao Jianping is Professor of Literature and Aesthetics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He holds a PhD in Aesthetics from Uppsala University, Sweden, and has published eight books and more than a hundred papers in Chinese and English, including The Expressive Act of Chinese Art (1996), Globalism vs. Localism: Aesthetics and Art in a Comparative Perspective (2008).
James Kirwan is a Professor at Kansai University, Osaka. He holds a PhD from Edinburgh University, and is the author of Literature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics (Routledge, 1990), Beauty (Manchester University Press, 1999), The Aesthetic in Kant (Continuum, 2004), and Sublimity: The Non-rational and the Irrational in the History of Aesthetics (Routledge, 2005).
Katya Mandoki is Professor of Aesthetics, semiotics, and theory of culture for postgraduate studies at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico. She initiated the study of everyday aesthetics since 1994 (Prosaica) publishing six books on this subject (Everyday aesthetics, 2007). Mandoki has exhibited experimental artwork in Mexico and abroad, received National Prize for visual arts in two occasions and published numerous articles on art, aesthetics and semiotics.
Raffaele Milani is Professor of History of Aesthetics in the Philosophy Department at the University of Bologna, Chief of the “Institute of research on the cities” (Institute for Advanced Studies), member of the European Commission at French Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development on: “De la connaissance des paysages à l’action paysagère”. He is the author of Aesthetic Categories (Categorie estetiche, Parma 1991), The Picturesque (Il pittoresco, Bari 1996), The Adventure of Landscape (Il paesaggio è un’avventura, Milano 2006), The Art of the Landscape (Montreal-London, 2009), The Faces of Grace. Philosophy, Art and Nature (I volti della grazia. Filosofia, Arte, Natura, Bologna 2009). He has contributed widely to important Italian journals of aesthetics, such as “Rivista di Estetica”, “Il Verri”, “Studi di estetica” and “Estetica”.
Jos de mul is Full Professor Philosophy of Man and Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Scientific Director of the Research Institute Philosophy of Information and Communication Technology (φICT). He has also taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Fudan University (Shanghai). From 2007-2010 he was President of the International Association for Aesthetics. Among his book publications are: Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 1999), The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life (Yale University Press, 2004), Cyberspace Odyssey (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). See for an extended CV and a list of publications: www.demul.nl.
Heinz Paetzold (1941-2012) taught philosophy at the University of Kassel. He was a director of postgraduate courses on social philosophy at the Inter University Center of Dubrovnik. From 1992-1997 he was Head of the department of Theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His books include: The Symbolic Language of Culture, Fine Arts and Architecture (1997), Symbol, Culture, City (2000; translation to Chinese 2008), Ernst Cassirer zur Einführung (1993; 2002; 2008), City Life: Essays on Urban Culture (1997; ed.), Integrale Stadtkultur (2006; ed.), Interkulturelle Philosophie (2007; ed. with W. Schmied-Kowarzik) and Schellings Denken der Freiheit (2010; ed. with H. Schneider). From 2004 until 2007 he was President of the International Association for Aesthetics.
Zdravko Radman is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, and a Professor of philosophy at the University of Split. As an Alexander von Humboldt and a William J. Fulbright Fellow he was affiliated with the University of Konstanz and the University of California, Berkeley; as a visiting scholar he conducted research at the Australian National University and University College London. He publishes in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language. He has authored Metaphors: Figures of the Mind (Kluwer, 1997), and edited From a Metaphorical Point of View (Walter de Gruyter, 1995); Horizons of Humanity (Peter Lang, 1997); Knowing without Thinking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); and The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (The MIT Press, 2013).
Nicole Revel, a linguist and ethnologist at the CNRS in Paris, has devoted her life to the languages and cultures of Asia, with a specific focus on the intangible heritage of the Philippines. From 1991 to 2001, she has run the international seminar “Epopées/Epics” in the framework of the Unesco Silk Routes Programme. She has gathered, together with other scholars, chants and songs in 15 different languages. The collection The Philippines Epics and Ballads Archive, stored at the Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila (34 vol., 5 hard disks), and at the Département de l’audiovisuel of the National Library of France, is accessible at the address http://epics.ateneo.edu/epics.
Ken-ichi Sasaki: Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He was President of the International Association for Aesthetics and Japanese Society for Aesthetics, and is now member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. The main fields of his research are the general theory and the modern history of aesthetics, and Japanese culture. His publications include: 日本的感性(Japanese sensibility, 2010), タイトルの魔力 (Magical Power of Title, 2001), Aesthetics on Non-Western Principles (1998), 美学辞典 (Dictionary of Aesthetics, 1995), and many papers in Japanese, English and French.
Gerhard Seel is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Bern. His publications include Sartres Dialectic (Bouvier, 1971), Die Aristotelische Modaltheorie (Walter de Gruyter,1982), Ammonius and the Sea Battle (with J.-P. Schneider and D. Schulthess, Walter de Gruyter, 2001), Minderheiten, Migranten und die Staatengemeinschaft. Wer hat welche Rechte? (Peter Lang, 2006) and End of Art-Endings in Art (Schwabe, 2006). He is Secretary General of the International Academy of Philosophy of Art, co-editor (with Lloyd Gerson and Carlo Natali) of International Aristotle Studies and member of the Steering Committee of FISP.
Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton) and director of its Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. Author of Body Consciousness (2008), he has also written Surface and Depth (2002); Performing Live (2000); Practicing Philosophy (1997); and Pragmatist Aesthetics (1992, 2000, and translated into fourteen languages) as well as other books. A graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem (B.A. and M.A.) and Oxford University (D. Phil), he has held academic appointments in France, Germany, Israel, Japan, and China, and has been awarded research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Humboldt Foundation, and UNESCO.
Carole Talon-Hugon is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, and President of the French Society of Aesthetics. Her main areas of work are aesthetics and affectivity. Besides many papers and articles on these domains, she has recently published L’Esthétique (P.U.F., 2013), and Avignon 2005: le conflit des héritages (Actes Sud, 2006). These field of work merge in her work Goût et dégoût. L’art peut-il tout montrer? (Chambon, 2003). Recently, she has also authored Morales de l’art (P.U.F., 2009), edited Art et éthique. Perspectives anglo-saxonnes (P.U.F. 2011) and, with P. Destrée Le Beau and le Bien. Perspectives historiques (Ovadia, 2012).
