Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (PIASt)

Doctor Marcos Silber is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa.

Doctor Gennadii Korolov is a historian and political scientist, a senior research fellow of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv) and associate of the ERC project “Non-territorial Autonomy as Minority Protection in Europe” (Vienna).

Massimo Leone is Full Tenured Professor ("Professore Ordinario") of Semiotics, Cultural Semiotics, and Visual Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, Italy and Permanent Part-Time Visiting Full Professor of Semiotics in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Shanghai, China.

Claudia Rossignoli lectures in Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature at the University of St Andrews.

Stefano Gulizia is a historian of early modern science and philosophy, with a focus on forms of intellectual coordination.

Yanna B. Popova (D. Phil. in Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2002; MA in Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK; MA in Linguistics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria) has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham in the UK.

Tuvia Friling is a Professor and a senior Researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute, at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Ai-Gul Seitenova is an independent consultant on Economics and Strategic Planning in Kazakhstan. Since receiving her PhD in Economics in 1987 from the Moscow Agricultural Academy, she was employed by the Research Institutes of the State Planning and Statistics Committees of Kazakhstan.

Liliia Korol is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Department of Intercultural Communication in the National University of Ostroh Academy.

Michal Valčo is a Professor of Religious Studies at the Greek Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Prešov in Slovakia.

Pierre O. Juhel received his PhD in Ancient History, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) in 2007.

Professor Oleksandr Fisun is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine (B.A. with Highest Honors in Political Economy, 1987; C.Sc. in Philosophical Sciences, 1990, Dc.Sc. in Political Science, 2009).

Anca Șincan has a Ph.D. in history from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary with a research on religion in communist Romania.

Darya Malyutina is a sociologist and human geographer who has written about post-Soviet and Russian-speaking migrants in the West, social networks, transnationalism, ethnography, and methodological and ethical challenges of research in social sciences and humanities.