Arthur de Pins is a French illustrator and comic book author. His gloomy and fancy graphic novel Zombillenium was just published in 2014 by NBM publishing. Arthur de Pins has been working, for over a year now, as director and screenwriter on the feature film adaptation of Zombillenium.

Olivier Rohe has published two books in United-States, Vacant Lot, translated by Laird Hunt, Counterpath Press and Origin Unknown, translated by Lauren Messina and Jane Kuntz, Dalkey Archive Press. As the founding member of the Inculte publishing house, for which he has co-directed several essays and collective position papers, Rohe also writes segments for France Culture’s radio program and collaborates with many periodicals and magazines (Nouvelle Revue française (NFR), Revue Etudes, Pensée de Midi, Revue Feuilleton, etc.).

After studies in Washington D.C., Philippe Vasset published several books, his fictions are considered as non-standard and go beyond literary genres; molded by reality. The author calls them “exofiction”. Press reviews suggest that Vasset’s unusual style of writing may be forging a new genre of geographical literature.

Marie-Laure Cruschi is a children’s book illustrator and graphic designer. Her latest book Full Speed Ahead! How fast things go published by Abrams is at the intersection of art, graphic design, illustration and typography. With a keen sense of color and geometric modular designs, she enjoys experimenting with various graphic devices in playful, poetic and sometimes even didactic manners, creating narrative universes that are perpetually in renewal.

Barbara Cassin is Doctor of Philosophy and Emeritus Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. A program Director at the International College of Philosophy, she is also Director of its Scientific Counci, a member of its Board of Directors, and since January 2011, she has ensured its presidency. The author of more than 20 book, Cassin is the editor of the ambitious philosophical lexicon Dictionary of Untranslatables (Princeton University Press, 2014). 

Inspired by one of his professors, Serge Boucheron, to turn towards moral and political disciplines of philosophy, Marc Crépon attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He has taught philosophy at Nanterre University before moving to the USSR. This stay abroad greatly influenced his philosophical reflections on relations between political and linguistic communities. He returned to the ENS in 2011 and was recruited as head of the philosophy department and later as head of its sciences and humanities Ecole doctorale. His The Thought of Death and the Memory of War was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2013.

Françoise Vergès was born in Paris and grew up in La Réunion and Algeria. A journalist for 8 years (1975-1983) for the monthly then weekly journal Des Femmes en mouvement, she was also the editor of the collection “des femmes en lutte dans tous les pays” (women fighting in every country) for the publishing house Des femmes. She has published extensively on postcolonial theory, creolization, psychoanalysis, slavery and the economy of predation and Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire. She was recently appointed as Chair of of the new department of Postcolonial Studies ("Postcolonialisme, et après...") at the Collège d’études mondiales.