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
• Claude-Hélène Mayer, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Duygu Dincer, Bogazici University, Turkey & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Charles Hill, Whittier College, California, USA
• Anna Romanowicz, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
• Piotr Sorokowski, University of Wrocław, Poland
• Félix Neto, University of Porto, Portugal
• Vicente Cassepp-Borges, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda, Brazil,
• 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
• Rashmi Singla, Roskilde University, Denmark
• María Isabel González Cruz, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Encarnación Soriano Ayala, Universidad de Almería, Spain

The Members of the Local Team

• María del Pilar González-de la Rosa, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Carmen Luján-García, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• María del Mar Pérez-Gil, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Graciela de la Nuez-Placeres, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Cathaysa Santana-Rodríguez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain