The advisory board of the conference includes the following scholars, representing various disciplines and many countries of the world:
- William Jankowiak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
- Victor de Munck, Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Victor Karandashev, Aquinas College, Michigan, USA
- Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- Jessica Symons, University of Manchester, UK
- Claude-Hélène Mayer, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Charles Hill, Whittier College, California, USA
- Anna Romanowicz, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
- Pan Wang, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Corinne Fortier, French National Center of Scientific Research, Social Anthropology Laboratory, Collège de France, Paris
- Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, University of Haifa, Israel
- María Isabel González Cruz, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- Ian Skoggard, Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, USA
- Sandra Langeslag, University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA