Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio is a French and Mauritian novelist and writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008.
Ien Ang is Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney (Australia). She has published widely on media and cultural globalization, migration, multiculturalism and the politics of identity, and on the role of cultural institutions in social and cultural change. Her books include Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination, Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World, and On Not Speaking Chinese: Living between Asia and the West.
In-Suk Cha, holder of UNESCO Chair in Philosophy Education for Democracy, is Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University. He studied at the New School for Social Research in New York and the University of Freiburg. Among his recent publications are: Teaching Philosophy for Democracy (ed), Seoul, SNU Press, 2000, The Mundialization of Home in the Age of Globalization: Towards a Transcultural Ethics, (Muenster, LIT Verlag, 2012), Essais sur la mondialisation de notre demeure: vers une éthique universelle (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013) and Der Begriff des Gegenstandes in der Phaenomenologie Edmund Husserls (Muenster, LIT Verlag, 2014).
Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame (USA). He is past-president of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and co-chair of the World Public Forum- Dialogue of Civilizations. Among his publications are Beyond Orientalism (1996); Achieving Our World (2001); Dialogue Among Civilizations (2002); In Search of the Good Life (2007); The Promise of Democracy (2010); Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars (2010); Return to Nature? (2011); and Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis (2013).
Uchang Kim was Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, from 2008 through to 2013. He studied at Seoul National University, Cornell and Harvard, and taught at Seoul National University, State University of New York at Buffalo, and Korea University where he was made Emeritus Professor in 2003. A literary critic, he published many books of literary criticism and social ciriticism, including The Poet in Time of Need (1977), Landscape and the Mind (2003), and Reflections in Changing Times (2011). All these volumes were published in Korean.
Suwanna Satha-Anand teaches Buddhist and Chinese Philosophy at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Her works cover the fields of philosophy of religion, Buddhism, feminist studies, and the relations between religions and social transformations. Her translation of Confucius’ Analects into Thai has been recently republished within a selection of her essays (หลุนอี่ว์: ขงจื่อสนทนา, 2012). She has been President of the Society for Religion and Philosophy of Thailand, and she is the Director of Humanities Research Program, The Thailand Research Fund. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies and a member of the International Advisory Committee of Diogenes.
Tanella Boni is writer and Professor of Philosophy at Cocody University, Abidjan (Ivory Coast). She has authored several essays and novels, and has been President of Ivory Coast's Writers Association. She is a member of the Steering Committee of he International Federation of Philosophical Societies and of the World Academy of Poetry. Her works focus on human rights, feminist issues, and the relations between ethics and politics. Her books include: Les nègres n’iront jamais au paradis (2006), Que vivent les femmes d’Afrique? (2008) et La diversité du monde. Réflexions sur l’écriture et les questions de notre temps (2010).
Jean-Godefroy Bidima is Professor and Yvonne Arnoult Chairholder in French at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA). His research embraces continental philosophy, literatures and arts of the Francophone world, African philosophies, juridical anthropology and medical ethics. Among his publications: Théorie critique et modernité négro-africaine: De l’Ecole de Francfort à la « Docta spes africana » (1993); La philosophie négro-africaine (1995); L’art négro-africain (1997); La palabre: Une juridiction de la parole (1997); Law and public sphere in Africa: La palabre and other writings (Indiana University Press, 2014). He was Laureate EURIAS (European Institute for Advanced Studies) 2011-2012.
Supakwadee Amatayakul, Ph.D., is currently Research fellow at the Institute for Research in Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council of Italy, after having taught for 15 years at the Department of Philosophy of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Her interests are in the areas of History of Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy. Her publications in English and in Thai cover new dimensions on feminist interpretations of classical philosophical sources. Her research on René Descartes's Passions of the Soul is the first philosophical treatment of the role of the emotions in Descartes's moral philosophy in Thai. In 2012, she was Research Fellow in Greek Philosophy from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
Bridget Vincent is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She is working on a monograph which questions the emphasis on narrative forms currently prevailing in ethical criticism and offers the first book-length study of poetry in this field. Her current postdoctoral research examines literary representations of public apology, with an emphasis on twentieth-century poets Geoffrey Hill and Adrienne Rich.
Hwa-Yol Jung is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, United States. His area of work includes Western political theories, existential philosophy and phenomenology, hermeneutics, postmodern philosophy, and the various comparative methods in philosophy and literature. His works include: The Crisis of Political Understanding (1979), Rethinking Political Theory (1993), The Way of Ecopiety: Essays in Transversal Geophilosophy (2009) et Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts (2011).
Ki-Dong Song is a Director-General at the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea. He was Director-General of University Support Bureau at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology from February 2011 to March 2013, Republic of Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University and George Mason University, VA, United States.
Eunjong Ra is a Senior Deputy Director at the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea. She graduated from Korea University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Samuel Minne is a member of cerli (Paris) and assistant editor to ReS Futurae. He is the author of several papers on gender and on homosexuality in literature.
Vinicio Busacchi is a member of the Dept of Pedagogy, Psychology, and Philosophy of the University of Cagliari, Italy. An Italian representative of the Fonds Paul Ricœur (Paris, France), his works include: Ricœur versus Freud (2008), Ermeneutica del profondo. Jürgen Habermas interprete di Freud (2009), Pulsione e significato. La psicoanalisi di Freud nella filosofia di Paul Ricœur (2010).
