*Niko Besnier (keynote speaker, University of Amsterdam)
*Okunishi Takashi (Director Kobe University Brussel European Center)
*Adachi Nobuko (Illinois State University)
*Peter Bernardi (Düsseldorf University)
*Fujita Yuiko (Meiji University)
*Ruth Martin (Oxford Brookes University)
*Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University)
*Shibata Yoshiko (Kôbe University)
*Christian Tagsold (Düsseldorf University)
*Jutta Teuwsen (Düsseldorf University)
*Dimitri Vanoverbeke (Catholic University Leuven)
*Tine Walravens (Ghent University)