Kevin Bales is President of Free the Slaves, and Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, U.of Hull. His book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy was published in ten languages. Desmond Tutu called it “a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expose of modern…

Étienne Balibar was born in Avallon (France) in 1942. He graduated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris, later took his PhD from the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) and has an Habilitation from Université de Paris I. He has been teaching at the Universities of Algiers, Sorbonne, Leiden, Nanterre, UC Irvine. He is…

Françoise Balibar is a historian of science and professor emerita of physics at the Université Denis Diderot, Paris VII. She has published numerous works on Albert Einstein, the theory of relativity, and on the history and epistemology of physics. She is a co-author (with Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond) of a textbook on Quantum Physics, translated into English…

Markus Balkenhol holds a PhD degree  as part of the research programme ‘Heritage Dynamics’ from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before that, he earned a M.A. degree in social anthropology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Magister degree in anthropology and German literature from Freie Universität Berlin. Currently he is affiliated with Meertens Instituut…

Elazar Barkan is a Professor of International and Public Affairs and the Director of the Human Rights Concentration at Columbia’s Schoolof Internationaland Public Affairs. His research interests focus on human rights and on the role of history in contemporary society and politics and the response to gross historical crimes and injustices. His human rights work…