Pr. Bernard Franco, Conference Chair, Sorbonne Université, France; Pr. Elisabeth Angel-Perez Vice President for Research, Sorbonne Université, France; Dr. Asun López-Varela, Research Network Chair, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Dr. Zsuzsanna Varga, Vice-President, The European Society of Comparative Literature; Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks, United States