Conference keynotes include:
- Stathis Gourgouris: Author of Does Literature Think? and Lessons in Secular Criticism.
- Arlene Saxonhouse (emeritus, U of Michigan), author of Fear of Diversity and Free Speech and Athenian Democracy
- George Yancy (Emory), author of Black Bodies, White Gazes and Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
- Slavoj Žižek (U of Ljubljana), author of the two-volume Pandemic! and Less Than Nothing.
- Alenka Zupančič: Author of Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan and What is Sex?