Elisabeth Roudinesco holds a doctorate in literature and is a historian (HDR, 1991). She teaches a seminar on the history of psychoanalysis at the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS). Elisabeth Roudinesco was a member of the Paris Freudian School (1969-1981), where she received psychoanalytic training. She has published dozens of articles and numerous prefaces. Her works have been translated into close to twenty languages. They include Histoire de la psychanalyse en France (2 vol. 1982-1986), a biography of Jacques Lacan (1 vol, 1993), all republished by Points (2023-2024), a Dictionnaire de la psychanalyse in coll. with Michel Plon (6th published by Fayard, 2023), a dialogue with Jacques Derrida, De quoi demain, (Fayard/Galilée, 2001), Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le nôtre, (Seuil, 2014), Dictionnaire amoureux de la psychanalyse, (2017, Plon/Seuil, 2017) and Soi-même comme un roi. Essai sur les dérives identitaires (Seuil, 2021). She is president of the Société internationale d'histoire de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse (SIHPP), a columnist for Le Monde des livres, an honorary member of the Espace Analytique organisation, and vice-president and co-founder with Olivier Bétourné of the Institut histoire et Lumières de la pensée created in 2021.

Kristupas Sabolius is professor of philosophy at Vilnius University (Lithuania) and research affiliate at MIT (Climate Visions). His recent publications include On the Real (2021, ed. Kristupas Sabolius, LAPAS books), Matter and Imagination. Hybrid Creativity between Science and Art (2018, Vilnius University Press, ed.), Proteus and the Radical Imaginary (2015, Bunkier Sztuki, CAC) The Imaginary (2013, Vilnius University Press), signalizing the contradictory function of imagination between Western and Indigenous thought. Sabolius was a member of the Swamp School curatorial team at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018, curated by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas). He is also a writer of novels and film scripts, including The Gambler (2014) and Invisible (2019), both co-written with director Ignas Jonynas.

Ukrainian philosopher Constantin Sigov, in charge of the European Centre at Mohyla University in Kyiv, was Associate Research Director at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris from 1992 to 1995. He helped compile the Vocabulaire européen des philosophies (Paris, Seuil/Le Robert, 2004) and founded the Duh i litera (Spirit and Letter) publishing house in Kyiv, which has published authoritative Ukrainian translations of great thinkers such as Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas and François Furet. A friend of Paul Ricoeur and Charles Taylor, he hosted them at the University of Kyiv. For his tireless work building bridges between cultures, Constantin Sigov was decorated by France with the rank of Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académique. In 2014, he supported the Maidan Revolution, of which he was a leading voice. His personal work as a thinker, occupying an important place in the Slavic world, has a strong international following.