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Egon Gál is a philosopher. A Slovak Technical University chemistry graduate, he switched to philosophy after 1989 and has taught in various departments of Bratislava’s Comenius University. Until 2005, he was the director of the university‘s Institute of Judaic Studies and is currently the chairman of the Jewish community in Bratislava. He used to be the editor of Kritika &…

Tony Curzon Price is an economist and entrepreneur, educated at Lincoln College, Oxford (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and University College London (PhD, Economics). He was the editor-in-chief of openDemocracy from 2007 to 2012, where he helped grow the readership to 3.5million unique viewers per year, and he continues to work for the website as a contributing editor and a technical…

Pavel Barša (1960) has taught political philosophy at the Charles University in Prague since 1998 and is responsible for courses in the theory of international relations, World War One and ethnic conflict. Thanks to a fellowship at the IWM (Institute for Advanced Studies) in Vienna, Pavel is currently investigating how the end of communism has coincided with an anti-liberal/populist backlash…

Petko Kovachev participated in the first Ecoglasnost protests in the late 1980s and has remained a committed activist, participating in other protest actions from 1989 through to the #ДАНСwithme anti-government protest of 2013-2014; the longest anti-government protest in the history of Bulgaria. Working at the heart of the creation of the Greens and the Green Policy Institute in Bulgaria, Petko…

Evgenii Dainov is a Bulgarian academic, author and political commentator as well as the lead guitarist in a blues-rock band. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in modern history and Russian and currently teaches political philosophy and social practices at the New Bulgarian University. Evgenii has published three major monographs, one collection of short stories and participated in…

Stanimir Panayotov is a PhD candidate in comparative gender studies at the Central European University of Budapest. He works at the intersections of continental and feminist philosophy, non-philosophy and Neoplatonism. Stanimir is also an organiser and co-director of the Sofia Queer Forum (2012-present) and was a co-organiser of the Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics (2012-2017) in Belgrade. Information…

Alexander Sivilov is an associate professor and historian who teaches the history of the USSR and international relations at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. Alexander researches the ties between Russia/the USSR and Latin America and East Asia and previously taught in the Faculty of History at the M. Lomonosov State University of Moscow, the Department of Political Sciences…

Valentina Gueorguieva is a professor in the Department of History and Culture Theory at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. Valentina holds a PhD in sociology from Laval University of Québec and her research interests comprise youth subcultures and social movements, studies of popular culture and political anthropology. She is the author of many academic publications as well as…

Theodoros Chiotis is a poet and literary theorist. He is the editor of Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis and his work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in Australia, Croatia, Greece, Sweden, the UK and the US. He currently works as a project manager at the Cavafy Archive and is a DPhil candidate in the Department of Modern Greek at the…

Iara Boubnova is an art historian and one of the founders of the Sofia Institute for Contemporary Art. She has been the curator of several leading art projects in the field of contemporary art and holds a doctorate in the history of contemporary art from the Russian Academy of Arts. Born in Moscow, Iara Boubnova has lectured in the Visual Arts and Communication Department…