Rudi Laermans is Professor in Sociology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and author of several books in Dutch as well as numerous articles in sociological theory, cultural sociology and sociology of the arts. Among his most recent articles are ‘Dance in General, or Choreographing the Public, Making Assemblages’, Performance Research (2008) and ‘Framing…

Gregg Lambert is Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, founding director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center and Principal Investigator of the Central New York Humanities Corridor. Professor Lambert is internationally renowned for his scholarly writings on critical theory and film, the contemporary university, Baroque and Neo-Baroque cultural history, and especially for his…

Bruno Latour was trained first as a philosopher and then an anthropologist. From 1982 to 2006, he has been professor at the Centre de sociologie de l’Innovation at the Ecole nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, at the London School of Economics and in the History of…

Gerd Leonhard is a well-known futurist and author of several books, keynote Speaker, think-tank leader and advisor, and – since late 2011 – the founder of GreenFuturists.com. Gerd also serves as Visiting Professor at the Fundação Dom Cabral (São Paulo, Brazil). Gerd’s background is in music and the music business; in 1985 he won Berklee College’s ‘Quincy Jones…

Dr. Leticia Sabsay joined London School of Economics in September 2014. Prior to this, she held a lectureship at the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and was a research associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, appointed to the European Research Council Project, Oecumene Citizenship…