Invited speakers:
- Bert Le Bruyn (University of Utrecht)
- Anne Carlier (University of Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3)
- Maria Cieschinger (University of Osnabrück),
- Xuping Li (EHESS, Paris)
- Christopher Lucas (SOAS, London)
- Ulrike Mosel (University of Kiel)
- Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS, Lyon 2)
- Frans Plank (University of Konstanz)
- Erhard Voeltz (University of Frankfurt/Main)
All Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf:
- Sebastian Löbner (HHUD)
- Robert D. Van Valin, Jr (HHUD)
- Albert Ortmann (HHUD)
- Elizabeth Coppock (HHUD)
- Dorothea Brenner (HHUD)
- Adrian Czardybon (HHUD)
- Doris Gerland (HHUD)
- Christian Horn(HHUD)
- Nicolas Kimm (HHUD)
