Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Professor of Greek and Latin
University of Michigan

Sara Ahbel-Rappe is a Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan, specialising in Classical and Hellenistic philosophy, Neoplatonism, and the philosophy of language. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Berkeley and has authored significant works, including Reading Neoplatonism and a translation of Damascius' Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles.

Emile Alexandrov
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
School of Advanced Studies, Tyumen State University

Emile Alexandrov is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tyumen State University, where he specialises in Greco-Arabic and German philosophy. Emile is also heavily involved in research on Islamic and Esoteric Buddhist philosophy, including collaborative projects on American Transcendentalism's reception of Islamic and Buddhist thought.

Grégoire Langouët
Doctoral Candidate
Université Catholique de Louvain — Research Institute for Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS)

Grégoire Langouet is a doctoral candidate at the Université Catholoque de Louvain. His research focuses on the Dzogchen Nyingmapa tradition, the rainbow body, and Neoplatonism.

Emma Lavinia Bon
Doctoral Candidate
University of Padua

Emma Lavinia Bon is based at the University of Padua. Her research interests include comparative philosophy, deconstruction, Renaissance Neoplatonism, Indian philosophy and Buddhism.

Tomohiko Kondo
Associate Professor
Keio University

Tomohiko Kondo is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, specialising in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially from the Hellenistic period through to Late Antiquity. He is also currently involved in a collaborative project on the reception of the Greek and Roman classics in Japan.

Jeffrey Kotyk
Associate Researcher
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Jeffrey Kotyk is presently researching Sino-Iranian relations in late antiquity. His earlier research has dealt with the intersection between astral science and Buddhism in East Asia. He is actively publishing on astrology and cosmology in China and Japan.

Erik Kuravsky
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Erfut

Erik Kuravsky is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Erfurt, specializing in phenomenology and the ontological foundations of religious and spiritual transformation. He is the author of Transcendent in Heidegger’s Early Thought: Towards Being as Event (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and has published numerous articles on Heidegger's and Mamardashvili's philosophies, particularly their application in religious experiences, notably in Buddhism and Meister Eckhart’s Christian mysticism.

Paul Livingston
Professor
University of New Mexico

Paul M. Livingston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico, USA.  He is the author of several books developing the relationship between the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy, most recently The Logic of Being: Realism, Truth, and Time (Northwestern, 2017).  His current project investigates several critical logics of unity and multiplicity, primarily as these appear in the traditions of Platonism, twentieth-century analytic philosophy, and Buddhist Madhyamaka thought.

Sherice Ngaserin Ng Jing Ya
Lecturer
Yale-NUS College

Sherice Ngaserin Ng Jing Ya is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, having earned her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2023. Her research focuses on Buddhist philosophy and its intersections with Western philosophical traditions, and she has been actively involved in projects exploring Buddhist-Platonist dialogues.

Joseph S. O’Leary
Retired Professor
Sophia University

Joseph S. O'Leary is a Roman Catholic theologian and scholar who has taught at Sophia University in Tokyo. O'Leary's work explores the intersections of Christian theology with modern philosophy and Buddhist thought.

Alexander James O'Neill
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Musashino University

Alexander O'Neill is a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at Musashino University in Tōkyō, Japan. His research focuses on Mahāyāna Buddhist literature and its worship, especially in contemporary Nepal. He is serving as one of the organisers of the Symposium.

Alexis Pinchard
Associate Member
French National Centre for Scientific Research

Alexis Pinchard specialises in Greek philosophy and Indo-Iranian comparative cosmology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He holds the position of "professeur agrégé" of philosophy at the Lycée Militaire in Aix-en-Provence. Pinchard has been a fellow at prestigious institutions, including the École normale supérieure in Paris and the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University.

Thomas Plant
Chaplain
Rikkyo University

Thomas Plant is an Anglican priest currently serving as the chaplain at Rikkyo (St Paul’s) University in Tokyo. He specialises in Christian Platonism and Japanese religion and actively engages in interfaith dialogue, particularly with Shin Buddhist communities. Rev. Dr. Plant is also a Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism.

Daniel Regnier
Professor of Philosophy
St. Thomas Moore College

Daniel Regnier is a Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, where he serves as the Department Head of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the École Pratique des Hautes Études and focuses his research on ancient philosophy, particularly the transmission of Greek thought into Arabic and comparative philosophy. His work includes a project on the political thought of Merab Mamardashvili, supported by an SSHRC Insight Development Grant, and he has published extensively on topics related to Plotinus, Islamic philosophy, and the philosophy of music.

Dominick Scarangello
International Advisor
Rissho Kosei-kai

Dominick Scarangello is an expert in early modern and modern Japanese religions. He completed his PhD in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in 2012 and currently holds the position of International Advisor at Rissho Kosei-kai, where he is engaged in educational activities, translation work, and coordination of the International Lotus Sutra Seminar.

Kenneth K. Tanaka
Professor Emeritus
Musashino University

Kenneth K. Tanaka's research areas include Shin Buddhist "Theology," Pure Land Buddhism, and Pure Land Buddhism in America. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. He is the past president of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies as well as the Japanese Association for the Study of Buddhism and Psychology. His hobby is to think of and promote Buddhist humour!

Fabian Völker
University Assistant post doc
University of Vienna

Fabian Völker has been a postdoctoral university assistant at the University of Vienna's Department of Intercultural Philosophy of Religion since March 2020. He studied German Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, earning his doctorate in 2019 from the University of Münster. His research focuses on the intercultural philosophy of religion and has published on the interpretation of nonduality in Buddhism and interreligious dialogue.

Janet Williams
Vice Principal
St. Hild College

Janet Williams is Vice Principal at St. Hild College, an Anglican seminary in the North of England. Her research interests include Christian spirituality and doctrine, particularly the apophatic and mystical traditions, and Buddhist-Christian studies.