Andreea Ceplinschi is a Romanian-American writer currently living on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her poetry has been featured online in Solstice Literary Magazine, Passengers Journal, Hare's Paw Journal, La Piccioletta Barca, Into the Void, and Prometheus Dreaming, and her prose has been featured in Passengers Journal and On The Run.

Anthony Sean Neal is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and a Faculty Fellow in the Shackouls Honors College of Mississippi State University. He is a 2019 inductee into the Morehouse College Collegium of Scholars and a Fellow with the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. Dr. Neal received his doctorate in Humanities from Clark Atlanta University. He also received his Master of Divinity degree from Mercer University and a Bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College. Dr. Neal is the author of two books, Common Ground: A Comparison of the Idea of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard Thurman and Huey Newton (Africa World Press, 2015). The second book is entitled, Howard Thurman’s Philosophical Mysticism: Love Against Fragmentation (Lexington, 2019). He serves on the editorial board of The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence.

Binyam Mekonnen is a Lecturer of Philosophy at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and the chairperson of the Department of Philosophy. He obtained both his B.A and M.A degrees from Addis Ababa University. His main research areas focus on social and political philosophy, liberation philosophy and theology, and critical theory.

C. Assefa is a writer, activist, and scholar based in southern california, on Kumeyaay land. Her writing focuses on race, displacement, and the lateral moves of the Black diaspora. Committed to community based research and grassroots organizing, her work explores lifemaking, care work, and solidarity—with a particular focus on the knowledge production and everyday life of Black refugees in the u.s..

Cat Prueitt is an Assistant Professor of South Asian philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her research investigates questions about pain, selfhood, and intersubjectivity from the perspective of post-Dharmakīrtian pramāṇa traditions, particularly Pratyabhijñā Śaivism. She received her BA from the University of Rochester and her PhD from Emory University. She's an avid gamer, of both the sporting (ultimate frisbee) and nerd (D&D, WoW, tabletop, etc.) types.

Charles de Agustin’s moving image–, performance–, and text–based work contends with critique, complicity; the moment you stop yourself from saying something; listen to noise, overwhelm; bewildered white people; a pollution, a possession, a primary source; show your panic, contempt; maintain a sense of humour, suspicion of efficiency; where storytelling and punctuation begin to implode.

Recent presentations at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 (South London Gallery and Firstsite UK), Kassel Dokfest (DE), RISD (US), Alternative Film/Video Belgrade (RS), LoosenArt (IT), Brooklyn College NYC (US), Whitworth Art Gallery (UK), Film and Video Poetry Symposium LA (US); support from The Elephant Trust (UK), Mansfield-Ruddock Art Prize (UK); attendance at Doclisboa Filmmaking Seminar (PT), Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (DE). He is from New Jersey (Lenape). BFA Rutgers (US), MFA University of Oxford (UK).

Cody Fuller is reading for an MPhil in Buddhist Studies with Sanskrit and Tibetan (University of Oxford, 2020-22). Cody’s research interests include: Buddhist photographic practice in Tibet and Laos; darśana and photography; Avalokiteśvara and gender in Mahāyāna thought; embodiment and the Self; text-historical and philological approaches to art history; archives and museum studies.

Fasil Merawi is an assistant professor of philosophy at Addis Ababa University. He obtained his B.A, M.A and PhD degrees in philosophy from Addis Ababa University. His areas of interest include postmetaphysical thinking, fundamental ontology and utopia and Otherness.

Gail Presbey is Professor of Philosophy at University of Detroit Mercy, and Director of the James Carney Latin American Solidarity Archives. She engages in interdisciplinary work that involves philosophy, world history, oral history, and political theory. Her areas of expertise are philosophy of nonviolence and African philosophy, with current studies and research on Africa, Latin America, Mohandas Gandhi’s movement, feminism, and Pan-Africanism. She has researched in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, India, and Brazil, having received several Fulbright grants. She has four edited books and over fifty articles and book chapters published. She has been Executive Director and then President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace (2003-2010). She is currently Secretary of the Peace History Society. Visit her home page at https://sites.udmercy.edu/gailpresbey/.

Greg Moses is editor of The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence and author of Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. He has co-edited a book with Gail Presbey: Peace Philosophy and Public Life: Commitments, Crises, and Concepts for Engaged Thinking. His research interests include the pluralist philosophy of Alain Locke, the peace philosophy of James Farmer, Sr., the concept of “Evolutionary Love” in Charles S. Peirce, and, more recently, the Howard School of religious humanism as exemplified by William Stuart Nelson. He teaches Ethics and the Philosophy of Nonviolence at Texas State University.

Jonardon Ganeri is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. He advocates an expanded role for cross-cultural methodologies in philosophical research, together with enhanced cultural diversity in the philosophical curriculum. His research interests are in consciousness, self, attention, the epistemology of inquiry, the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literature. He works too on the history of ideas in early modern South Asia, intellectual affinities between India and Greece, and Buddhist philosophy of mind.

Joshua Elwood tries to read, write, and research well, sometimes for pay. With a degree in English, he uses language with nervous care, and goes for many small walks daily on traditionally Wabanaki land in the US state of Maine.

Naomi Zack (PhD, Columbia University) has taught at the University of Oregon and the University at Albany, SUNY. Her most recent books are The American Tragedy of COVID-19 (2021) and Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government (2020). Other recent books include Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics (2018), her edited 51-essay Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and Race (2017) and Philosophy of Race, An Introduction (2018). Her monographs include: The Theory of Applicative Justice: An Empirical Pragmatic Approach to Correcting Racial Injustice (2016), White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of US Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (April 2015), The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (2011/2015) and Ethics for Disaster, (2009, 2010-11), Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women’s Commonality (2005), and Philosophy of Science and Race (2002). Her first book was Race and Mixed Race (1992).

Shi. Xian’gui is a Buddhist nun from mainland China. She graduated from Beijing Normal University with a Bachelor’s degree in Education and earned her Masters degrees in Buddhist Studies and Asian Studies at HongKong University, Leiden University and the University of Oxford. She has trained and worked in Chinese monasteries for over ten years.

Her primary research interest is the historical transmission of Buddhist texts from India to China. She is also interested in Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts, Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma and Yogācāra.

(poetess, filmmaker and photographer)​​

I have always been interested in capturing the soul of life in my work. In the century I belong to there seems to be no value for the soul. For me the soul is the innermost truth about our ephemeral existence, living life more soulfully is the only form of immortality an individual can possess. This notion of the soul was introduced to me by poets residing in South Asia, that travelled from places like Samarkand and Azerbaijan to contemporary Pakistan and India during the tenth/eleventh century. While growing up in New York City the value I found common between this city and Lyallpur/Faisalabad (my birthplace), was that people were undaunted and lived with soul. Throughout my independent film and photojournalism practice, along with capturing plights of everyday life in the global south and west I aim to share something larger. The ability of a person to circumvent societal labels and assigned hierarchy through projecting their innermost power, that is granted from birth and that power is their soul. Something that can never be purchased.

Tadhg is a Sheffield-based and Ghanaian-born Irish poet and philosophy student whose work touches on the introspective and existential aspects of experience, particularly the Black experience and mental health.

takaharu oda is PhD Candidate and Provost’s Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin. As a historian of early modern philosophy, it focuses on a pragmatist theory of causation in George Berkeley’s metaphysics of science, featuring his work in Latin, De motu (1721). It also works and teaches on Asian philosophy, especially Buddhist metaphysics, logic, immaterialism, and Zen aesthetics. Recent publications include Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley, co-edited with Dr Kenneth Pearce (Cambridge University Press 2020); ‘Zen Buddhist and Christian Views of Causality: A Comparative Analysis’ (Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 2020); with Alessio Bucci, ‘Izutsu’s Zen Metaphysics of I-Consciousness vis-à-vis Cartesian Cogito’ (Comparative Philosophy 2020). It also creates short films of supernaturally natural philosophy. In its latest film, Deathsert Agape (2019), onesecafterthelaughter (co-author for oxford public philosophy) recites ‘Orphic Hymn to Thanatos’ with Estonian mouth harps accompaniment. One can witness it from the link.

Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjlRbAUJbmY4VEt6Vxtm3Cg

vassilis galanos, elsewhere known as onesebeforethend/onesecafterthelaughter, conducts research on social dimensions of artificial intelligence and digital technologies at the University of Edinburgh; currently finishing its doctoral thesis and teaching about the internet, society, and economy. It has published numerous articles and chapters in the fields of science and technology studies, information science, and media theory, while it contributes to public engagement with science and technology. It is one of the founding members of the AI Ethics and Society research group. Its further interests, with occasional overlaps to academic endeavours, include sound experimentation, rap music and sampling techniques, folklore research, Japanese culture and the works of Lafcadio Hearn, throat singing and mouth harping, photography, vinyl, book, and comicbook hoarding, as well as beer tasting and vegetarian cooking.

Websites:

Institutional website and full bio: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/vassilis-galanos

Artistic photography: https://www.flickr.com/photos/onesec

Ephemeral photography: https://instagram.com/onesecaftertheend

Twitter: https://twitter.com/FractaloidConvo

AI Ethics & Society: https://www.ai-ethics.org/

Vipul Modak is based in Pune, India. Professionally a software engineer, loves to spend rest all of the time with poetry. Arun Kolatkar, William C. Williams, Walt Whitman are major influences on him. Along with poetry, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky are his favourite go-to persons.

ZEO is a multimedia artist based in Oxford and London. Their practice centres on self-portraits, poetry comics and family photographs salvaged from house clearances. ZEO’s work plays with scripture, dreamscapes and amplified internal monologues, exploring subjects such as gender, embodiment and the tension between public and private religion.