Scientific committee: Nathalie Clayer (historian, EHESS), Kathy Foley (performing arts, University of California), James Fox (anthropologist, Australian National University), Sheldon Pollock (historian, Columbia University),  Amina Taha-Hussein Okada (curator, Musée National des Arts Asiatiques, Musée Guimet), Philip Yampolsky (ethnomusicologist, University of Illinois)

Organization committee (members of Autoritas Research Group) : Michel Boivin (CEIAS), Pascal Bourdeaux (GSRL/EPHE), Elsa Clavé (Goethe University/CASE), Gabriel Facal (CASE), Delphine Ortis (INALCO), Tiziana Leucci (CEIAS), Hélène Poitevin (CASE), Dana Rappoport (CASE), Paul Sorrentino (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity/CASE)