- Christine Lorre (Université Paris 3) : "Inhabiting Culture: Notes on the Literature of the Chinese Diaspora"
- Saugata Badhuri (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) : "Colonial Contact, Translation, and the Case of Modern Bengal: Towards a Cosmopolitics of Culture"
- Simi Malhotra (Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi) : "The Other in Translation: Some Questions".