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, Visioning Lab Ltd and 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, 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
• Adam Bode, Australian National University, Australia