Michael Loriaux is Professor of European and international politics in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the author of Europe Anti-Power, of European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier, and of other works on European and French politics. He is the founder and director of the French Interdisciplinary Group.
Micol Bez is currently teaching in the CPES (Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’Études Supérieures) at the University of Paris Sciences and Letters. She is a graduate of the École Normale de Paris. Her research focuses on race and whiteness in post-kantian philosophy and on the political uses of the quasi-transcendental. She is working currently on sexual violence and on phenomenological approaches to fear in sexual abuse. Originally from Italy, she did her undergraduate work at Georgetown University, and has studied at Sciences Po, the University of Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis, and theCentre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (Kingston University London) before entering the École Normale Supérieure in 2016. She is also a published poet, playwright, and dedicated teacher. In 2019 she taught as a temporary lecturer at the University of Johannesburg.
Marc Crépon is a philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and community in French and German philosophy and in contemporary political and moral philosophy. He has also translated works by philosophers such as Nietzsche, Rosenzweig, and Leibniz. Three of his books have appeared in English: The Thought of Death and the Memory of War, Murderous Consent, and The Vocation of Writing. He has served as Chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, and is director of research at the Archives Husserl, National Center for Scientific Research.
Samuel Weber teaches Critical Theory, German and Comparative Literature at Northwestern and directs that University’s Paris Program in Critical Theory. In 2021 his new book “Singularity: Politics and Poetics” will be published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Following a bachelor’s degree in translation, theory of literature and contemporary philosophy, Ginevra Vénier embarked upon her doctoral studies at the École Normale Supérieure in September under the supervision of Marc Crépon and Dominique Combe.
