Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of philosophy and politics at the New School for Social Research and a member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review. Her newest book is Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet–and what we can do about it (Verso, 2022). Other recent books include Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya (Verso, 2019); The Old is Dying (Verso, 2019); and Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory, co-authored with Rahel Jaeggi (Polity Press, 2018). Her current book-in-progress is entitled “Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties between Gender, Race, and Class.”
Fraser’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and was cited three times by the Justices of the Brazilian Supreme Court–in opinions upholding marriage equality, affirmative action, and Afro-descendant collective land rights. A Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, she is the recipient of six honorary degrees, the Alfred Schutz Prize for Social Philosophy, the Nessim Habif World Prize, the Nonino Prize “Master of our Time,” and the Havens/Wright Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship. She has delivered the Tanner Lectures, the Spinoza Lectures, the Ralph Miliband Lecture, the Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture, the Storrs Lectures, the Leibniz Lecture, the Humanitas Lectures in Women’s Rights, the Karl Polanyi Lectures, the Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture, the Marc Bloch Lecture, and the Walter Benjamin Lectures.
Emma Green is a staff writer at The New Yorker who covers education and academia. She was previously a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covered religion and politics, and where she also served as managing editor. Her work has been anthologized in several books, including “The American Crisis” and “The God Beat,” and has won a number of awards, including the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Excellence in Journalism, Arts & Letters and the Supple Award for feature writing from the Religion News Association.
Nadia Yala Kisukidi was born in Brussels, Belgium. She taught in Switzerland (University of Geneva) and France (University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis). She was Vice President of the Collège International de Philosophie (2014-2016) and a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and imagination/ Columbia University (2022-23). In addition to being part of the editorial committee Les Cahiers d’études africaines (CNRS, Ehess), she was co-curator of the Yango II Biennale, Kinshasa / RDC, which took place in Kinshasa from February 2020 to August 2022.
Kisukidi is specialized in French and Africana philosophy. She has published Bergson ou l’humanité créatrice (Paris, CNRS, 2013); led collective essays Afrocentricités (Kisukidi, Guedj dir.) for the revue Tumultes in 2019 and Kinshasa Star Line (Kisukidi dir.) for the revue Multitudes in 2020; and written many articles on French and Africana philosophy. She has written a book with the feminist and Brazilian philosopher Djamila Ribeiro, Dialogue transatlantique (Paris, Anacaona, 2021), and her first novel, La Dissociation (Paris, Le seuil, 2022).
Under the supervision of Pierre Singaravelou, she coordinated with historians Melanie Lamotte, Arthur Asseraf, and Guillaume Blanc, on the book, Colonisations. Notre histoire, Paris, Seuil, 2023.
Yannick Lebrun, originally from French Guiana, is a professional dancer with the renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. He started dancing at the age of 9 at Adaclam with Jeanine Verin. In 2004, he earned a scholarship to join the Alvin Ailey school, joined the junior company in 2006, and officially became a member of the Alvin Ailey company in 2008. He is currently the only French dancer in the troupe.
In 2011, he was named one of the “top 25” dancers to watch in the USA by the renowned Dance Magazine. In the summer of 2013, he was featured in the ranking of the 50 French talents shining in the United States in the magazine France-Amérique. In November 2016, he was invited as a “guest artist” to perform Wayne McGregor’s Chroma with the prestigious Royal Ballet company.
In 2019, he choreographed a duet, Saa Magni, for the junior company Ailey 2. He has also choreographed two pieces for the ABT Studio Company: Lora and Human.
James M. Lindsay is the Mary and David Boies distinguished senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy and director of Fellowship Affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In the latter capacity, he oversees CFR’s fourteen fellowship programs. From 2009 to 2024, Lindsay was senior vice president, director of studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg chair at CFR, where he oversaw the work of the more than six dozen fellows in the Council’s in-house think tank, the David Rockefeller Studies Program His writings examine U.S. national security policy, the U.S. foreign policymaking process, and the domestic politics of U.S. foreign policy. He has written and edited more than a dozen books on American politics and foreign policy. His book with Ivo H. Daalder, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, was awarded the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize. Dr. Lindsay was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution from 1999 to 2003 and taught at the University of Iowa (1987-1999) and the University of Texas (2003-2006). In 1996–97, he served as director for global issues and multilateral affairs on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House. He writes the blog The Water’s Edge and hosts the weekly podcast The President’s Inbox
Born in 1977, Pierre Singaravélou currently serves as Professor of Modern History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and director of the Center for Asian History at Sorbonne. He was previously British Academy Global Professor of History at King’s College London. His research spans multiple disciplines, combining social sciences, colonial studies, and global history to offer new perspectives on historical events and processes. Some of his notable publications include: “Decolonization” (2022), “A Past of Possibilities: A History of What Could Have Been” (2021), “France in the World: A New Global History” (2019). In addition to his academic work, Singaravélou has curated exhibitions, such as “The World Seen From Asia” at the Guimet Museum in 2018. He has also been involved in media projects, including a TV documentary series titled “Decolonizations” (2020), which won an international award.
James Traub is a historian, journalist and scholar. Over a career of almost fifty years he has written extensively about international affairs, national politics, urban issues and education.He worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker from 1993 to 1998 and as a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2011. His tenth and most recent book, True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest For A More Just America, was published in February. His other books include What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present and Promise of Noble Idea as well as biographies of John Quincy Adams and the Jewish Confederate leader Judah Benjamin. He is currently writing a book about the role that schools should play–and now largely fail to play–in preparing young people for democratic citizenship. He teaches classes on American foreign policy and on the history of liberalism at NYU Abu Dhabi and at NYU. He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.