AILS BOARDS MEMBERS
Christian B. Grusq, President Shahin Partiyeli, Treasurer Emmanuel Castel, Secretary
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Esteban Beltrán-Ulate, Philosophy Professor at Universidad Continental de las Ciencias y
las Artes, and Coordinator of the Institute of Research in Jewish Philosophy (IIFJ), Costa-
Rica
Olivia Bloechl, Professor of Music, Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, USA
Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology
(CALTECH), Pasadena, CA, USA
Jean-Claude Carron, Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of
California (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Anne Connor, Art Historian and Lecturer, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Roberto Dell’Oro, Director of the Bioethics Institute and Professor in the Department of
Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Véronique Flambart-Weisbart, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Loyola
Marymount University, CA, USA
Eric Gans, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA,
and Generative Anthropology’s discipline creator, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Erin Graff Zivin, Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, University of Southern
California, CA, USA
Paul A. Harris, Loyola Marymount University, CA, USA
Peggy Kamuf, Marion Frances Chevalier, Professor of French, Italian and Comparative
Literature at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA
Per Schelde, Anthropologist
Dr. David G. Schwartz, Director of the Center for Gaming Research, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Cynthia Skenazi, Professor in the Department of French and Comparative Literature at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Brad Elliott Stone, Director of the Philosophy M.A. Program, Loyola Marymount
University, CA, USA
Emmanuel Taub, Doctor in Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires) and Magister in
Cultural Diversity at National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina
Ricardo Timm de Souza, Humanities and Philosophy Professor at the Post-Graduation
programs in Philosophy, Literature and Criminal Sciences at PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Brian Treanor, Charles S. Casassa Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount
University, CA, USA
Yves Vendé, Ph.D., Instructor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University (LMU), and
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts (BCLA), Los Angeles, CA