Josef Vojvodík explores 20th century Czech and world literature (especially German) and its relationships to philosophy, psychology and the fine arts. He is known for defending the hidden value of Biedermeier art. He teaches at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University. He has published several books, the last of which on Pathos in Czech art, poetry and aesthetics (Patos v českém umění, poezii a umělecko-estetickém myšlení čtyřicátých let 20. století, Argo, 2014). He’s also published a Glossary of Catchwords of the Czech Avant-Garde (FF UK, 2011).

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Trained in law, Jiří Přibáň has published extensively in social theory and sociology of law, legal philosophy, constitutional and European comparative law, and theory of human rights. He is an editor of the Journal of Law and Society and a regular contributor to the Czech and international media, and is known for his comments on Czech and European politics. He currently teaches law at Cardiff university. He is the acclaimed author of Právní symbolismus (Filosofia, 2007) – in English: Legal Symbolism, On Law, Time and European Identity (Ashgate, 2007).  His last book, Obrana ústavnosti aneb česká otázka v postnacionální Evropě deals with the “Czech question” in post-national Europe (Slon, 2014).

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David Lengyel explores as a philosopher the work of several film directors, among whom Hungarian Béla Tarr, on whom he has published a book entitled « Trembler pour l’autre ». Pour une éthique du cinéma (‘Fearing for the Other’. For Cinema Ethics, Palio, 2015). He is also a film critic for French magazines, and teaches Central European cinema at the Inalco in Paris.

Miroslav Marcelli is a philosopher and is famous for his translations of Michel Foucault’s works in Slovak. He spent some years in France and in Oxford. He has written several books and articles on Foucault (Michel Foucault alebo stať sa iným, 1995) and Roland Barthes (Príklad Barthes, 2001). Lately he’s explored the philosophy of urban life and architecture (Mesto vo filozofii, 2011) . He teaches both at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague and at the Comenius University in Bratislava.

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If teaching  Ancient Greek literature and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague, Sylva Fischerová has been writing poetry since her childhood, and is a major figure of contemporary Czech literature (her last collection of poems is entitled Sestra duše, 2015—and some of her previous poems can be read in English since the publication of the 2010 volume The Swing in the Middle of Chaos. Her collection of new poems was edited by Callypso under the title Stomach of the Soul (2015).

Read her 2010 interview in English about her poetry here.

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Veronika Darida is Associate Professor at the Department of Aesthetics of the ELTE, Budapest, and guest lecturer at the CIPh (Collège International de Philosophie, Paris). She studied at the Hungarian School of Drama and Film and later in Paris for her PhDs (for she has two, one in Philosophy and one in Comparative Literature). Her main research interests are contemporary French phenomenology and theory of the theatre (Színház-utópiák, 2010). She lately investigated the question of nostalgia in art (A nosztalgia művészete / A művészet nosztalgiája, 2015).

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