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My research interests have revolved around the cultural and literary connections between India and Slovenia in the wider historical context of former Yugoslavia and East-Central Europe. My area of study encompasses (post)colonial Indian modernity, Bengali literature, Anglophone Indian writers, the history of nationalisms and universalisms in South Asia and Europe, intellectual history of ideas (e.g. hospitality), avant-garde artistic movements between the two world wars, missionary encounters with India, etc. My approach draws critically on cultural and postcolonial studies perspectives.

Anita Stasulane, Professor of History of Religions, Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Daugavpils University (Latvia), graduated from the University of Latvia (1985) and the Pontifical Gregorian University (1998) in Rome (Italy). Her main field of research is cultural studies focusing on major paradigms of the new religious movements and youth culture. She has broad experience in executing international research projects.

Anna is a PhD candidate based at Technical University of Liberec. Her research interest consist of analysing Czech literature about Yoga. The main aim is to create a typology of specific representations and their underlying assumptions in Czech literature from 1850 to 1990.

Antonia Navarro-Tejero is professor at Universidad de Córdoba (Spain), where she also chairs the Permanent Seminar on India Studies. She founded the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies in 2007. She has held several scholarships, including Salvador de Madariaga fellow at Syracuse University (New York, USA) with Prof. Chandra T. Mohanty; Fulbright fellow at University of California-Berkeley with Prof. Bharati Mukherjee; and Rotary International fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi (India) with Githa Hariharan, among others. She is the author of more than 90 publications and is Editor-in-Chief of the "India Studies" series of Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Prof. Navarro specializes on South Asian women writers and activist-scholars, and is currently main researcher of the group “Societies and Power Revisited: Environmental Humanities and Ecofeminism.”

I am Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland. I finished a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen in 2012 and my main fields of expertise are the European avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, historical discourse analysis, cultural historiography and critical theory. I am the author and editor of a number of books and articles dealing with various aspects of cultural history and aesthetic modernity.

Boaz Huss is the Aron Bernstein Chair in Jewish History in the Department of Jewish Thought and serves as the chairperson of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. His research focuses on the history of Kabbalah, contemporary Kabbalah, Western esotericism, New Age culture, and new religious movements in Israel. Huss's recent publications include The Cosmic Movement: Sources, Contexts, Impact (Bialik Press, 2021, co-authored with Julie Chajes), Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age Spirituality (Oxford University Press, 2020), and The Zohar: Reception and Impact (Liverpool University Press, 2016). His forthcoming book, The Secret Doctrine of the Jew: Jewish Theosophists and the Kabbalah, is set to be published by the State University of New York Press.