François Boucher, KU Leuven

François Boucher is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy at the KU Leuven. He works as part of the Justice and Migration project since the Fall of 2019. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University, Canada, and has been a postdoc at University College London, Université de Montréal and Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. His PhD Thesis, titled Open Secularism and the New Religious Pluralism, supervised by Will Kymlicka, develops a liberal conception of political secularism in an attempt to answer the core challenges raised by the new religious pluralism. It argues that “open secularism”, by emphasizing the accommodation of religious diversity within shared public institutions, provides a better answer to those challenges than rival regimes of secularism such as religious institutional pluralism and strict separationist secularism. François works in the field of contemporary normative political philosophy and applied ethics. Most of his work explore different topics related to liberal theories of justice and the accommodation of ethnocultural diversity. He published on topics such as secularism and religious minorities, minority nationalism and federalism and the rights of indigenous peoples. His publications also deal with the ethics of asylum and migration as well as with federalism and distributive justice. He published articles in international journals such as Studies in Philosophy and Education, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Issues, Comparative Migration Studies and several book chapters. He is the editor of the political philosophy section of the online Encyclopédie philosophique.

 Jean-Yves Camus, IRIS

 Jean-Yves Camus is a political analyst and a Associate Research Fellow at IRIS. Graduate of Science-Po Paris (field of study: public policy); Master’s degree in Political Science from Sorbonne University (Paris 1); DEA in Contemporary History from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (field of study: ‘The French Extreme Left and Israel”). In addition, Jean-Yves Camus was a researcher at CERA (Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Action sur le Racisme et l’Antisémitisme) and in charge of research projects for the PNR 40+ “Left-wing Extremism” of Fond National Suisse (2002-2004). He is also a member of the European Consortium on Political Research and of the Task Force on Antisemitism at the European Jewish Congress. In 2008, he supervised a research project at IRIS for the FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) on the islamophobic analysis in the French newspapers.

Alex Demirovic, University of Frankfurt

Alex Demirovic is philosopher, sociologist and Germanist and has been professor and guest professor of various German and not German universities since 1990. His main interest of studies has been the critical theory of the Frankfurt school and the scientific, political and cultural development of the post 1945 period. He has worked in different research institutions, including the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main between 1990 and 2001. He is a graduate of the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main where he started his studies in 1971

Éva Gedő, Wesley Theological College Budapest

Eva Gedő is an associate professor at the John Wesley Theological College. She wrote her PhD thesis in philosophy at ELTE University Budapest in 2006. Her thesis topic was the philosophical analysis of the decisionist political theory of Carl Schmitt. Her main research areas include German historicism, the political philosophy of the Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic, populism as political philosophy, theories on fascism. She taught for 12 years at the University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, now she is a lecturer at several universities such as ELTE, Károli Gáspár University, and the John Wesley Theological College.

Péter Krekó, Political Capital

Péter Krekó is a social psychologist and political scientist. He is the executive director of Political Capital since 2011. Currently he is a Europe’s Futures Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and Erste Foundation. During 2016-2017 he worked as a Fulbright Visiting Professor in the United States at the Central Eurasian Studies Department of Indiana University. He focuses on Russian ‘soft power’ policies and political populism and extremism in Europe. He defended his thesis on the social psychology of conspiracy theories at the ELTE University in 2014.He was the co-chair of the PREVENT working group at the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) between 2013 and 2016. Currently, he is an non-resident Associate Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Institute of Policy Research. His books include: The Hungarian Far Right (co-authored by Attila Juhász), Ibidem Verlag 2017 and Fake news and conspiracy theories, 2018. He is a regular commentator in the international media. He is the owner of Political Capital Institute. 

Attila Melegh, Corvinus University Budapest

Attila Melegh is senior researcher at the Demographic Research Institute, Central Statistical Office. Budapest, and associate professor at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest, as well as professor at Tomori Pál College, Kalocsa. He is a recipient of several Academic Honors, Professorships and Awards. His books include: On the East/West Slope. Globalization, Nationalism, Racism and Discourses on Central and Eastern Europe. New York-Budapest, CEU Press, 2006.

 János Salamon, McDaniel College Budapest

János Salamon is professor of philosophy at McDaniel College, Budapest, a former associate professor of philosophy at Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design Budapest. He taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, at St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, New Jersey and at the diplomat school of the Foreign Service Institute, State Department, Washington D.C. His books include A magány metafizikai struktúrája (The Metaphysical Structure of Solitude), Budapest: Attraktor, 2003 and A szív arisztokratikus szokásai (The Aristocratic Habits of the Heart), Budapest: Kalligram, 2016 

Endre Sík, ELTE University / TARKI

Endre Sík is external researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Institute for Sociology, and professor emeritus at ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Minority Studies, Budapest. His teaching experience include:  2003 – EU identity – Tomsk State University, Tomsk, 2005, 2006 – Sociology of Migration EIUC, Venice, 1996 – Second Economy in Post-Communism, CEU, Prague, 1994 – The Sociology of the Informal Economy, Notre Dame University, and 1990 – Sociology of organisation, University of Toronto. He has been a fellow of several research centres across Europe and a recipient of several research grants. 

Éva Szénási, University of Szeged

Éva Szénási is professor emerita at the Faculty of Education at the University of Szeged. Her fields of study are the history of French political ideas and the analysis of some theoretical questions related to the European integration. Her publications are primarily based on these topics. Her latest study ‒ to be published in the History of contemporary France ‒ is a deep dive into the history of French radical parties. She is also a translator from French. Between 1993 and 1994, she worked as a visiting professor at the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Lausanne. In 2000, she gave lectures at the Institut of Political Studies of Paris in the frame of the doctoral school studying post-communist countries. She is an editor of the Varietas Europaea book series at L’Harmattan-Hungary publishing house. 

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, CNRS

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden is a political scientist and a lawyer, Emeritus Director of Reearch at CNRS. She graduated at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the University Paris I. (Panthéon Sorbonne). She got her PhD in Political Science (1986). Author of numerous works and articles published in French and English, especially in peer-reviewed journals. She was president of the Research Committee Migration of International Sociology Association (2002-2008) and participated in a working group directed by Mayron Weiner in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the presidency of Madam Ogata. She is also teaching at Sciences Po. Her latest books are Atlas mondial des migrations (Autrement, 2018), Géopolitique des migrations internationales (Eyroles, 2019) and Un monde de migrants (CNRS Éditions, 2019)