The following is the list of candidates selected by the Nominating Committee for the positions available for election for the term 2022-2025: 1 President; 4 Vice-Presidents; 2 Secretaries; 3 Treasurers; and 18 members of the Executive Council.

Further candidates can be proposed by ICLA members in good standing, as detailed on the page about Elections of officers and members of the Executive Council.

List of candidates

President (1 will be elected)

Lucia Boldrini – Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
João Cézar Castro Rocha – Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Vice-Presidents (4 will be elected)

EV Ramakrishan – Central University of Gujarat, India (second term)
Márcio Seligmann-Silva – Unicamp, Brazil (second term)
Stefan Helgesson – Stockholm University, Sweden
Noriko Hiraishi- University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Haun Saussy – University of Chicago, USA 
William Spurlin – Brunel University, UK 
Anne Tomiche – Université de Paris, France
Xiaohong Zhang – Hunan University, China

Secretaries (2 will be elected)

Ipshita Chanda, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India
Anne Duprat – Univ. Amiens, France

Treasurers (3 will be elected)

Europe-Africa-Middle East: Alexandra Lopes – UCP, Portugal
Asia-Pacific: Yuriko Yamanaka, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
Americas: Adelaide Russo – LSU, USA

Executive Council Members (16 will be elected*)

Toshiko Ellis – Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan (second term)
Oana Fotache – University of Bucharest, Romania (second term)
Isabel Gómez – University of Massachusetts, USA (second term)
Marina Grishakova – University of Tartu, Estonia  (second term)
Marko Juvan – University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (second term)
Youngmin Kim – Dongguk University, South Korea   (second term)
Adam Kola – Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland   (second term)
Rita Terezinha Schmidt – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil  (second term)
Takayuki Yokota-Murakami – Osaka University, Japan (second term)

Michal Ben Horin – Bar Ilan University, Israel
Raoul Calzoni – Universitá degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
Sayantan Dasgupta – Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Paulo Lemos Horta – NYU, Abu Dhabi
Zhang Hui, Peking University, China
Lobna Ismail – Cairo University, Egypt
Boutheina Khaldi – American University of Sharjah, Emirates
Hyung-jin LEE – Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea
Liina Lukas – Univ. Tartu, Estonia
Wen-chin Ouyang – SOAS – U. London, UK
Jerónimo Pizarro – Univ. de los Andes, Colombia
Liedeke Plate, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Loredana Polezzi – StonyBrook University, USA
Véronique Porra – U. Mainz, Germany
Ato Quayson – Stanford University, USA
Irma Ratiani, State U. Tbilisi, Georgia
Hubert Roland –   Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Emanuelle Santos – U. Birmingham, UK
Gaby Schwab – University of California Irvine, USA
Christianne Solte Gresser – U. Saarbruecken, Germany
Alexis Tadie – U. Paris, France
Fatiha Taib – Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Clotilde Thouret, Univ. Lorraine, France
Adelina Angusheva Tihanov – University of Manchester, UK
Frederik Tygstrup – Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark

* As stipulated by the Statutes, 2 further members will be nominated from the remaining non-elected list, with consideration given to the diversity of the Executive Council.

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