Results of the AILC-ICLA elections 2025

All Chairs of AILC-ICLA Standing Research Committees have been ratified.

All proposed amendments to the AILC-ICLA Statutes have been approved.

The following officers and members of the Executive Council for the term 2025-2028 have been elected (full details will be published on the Executive Council page, which will be updated soon):

PRESIDENT 

Ipshita Chanda (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)

VICE-PRESIDENTS 

Anne Duprat (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France) [First Vice-President]

Noriko Hiraishi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Helga Mitterbauer (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Haun Saussy (University of Chicago, USA)  

SECRETARIES 

Oana Fotache (University of Bucharest, Romania)

Zoé Schweitzer (Université Jean-Monnet, St Étienne, France)

TREASURERS 

Europe-Africa-Middle East: Alexandra Lopes (UCP, Portugal)  

Asia-Pacific: Yuriko Yamanaka (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)

Americas: Gundela Hachmann (Louisiana State University, USA)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Megumi Arai (University of Tokyo, Japan) 

Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina, USA)

Raul Calzoni (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) 

Laura Cernat (KU Leuven, Belgium) 

Sung-Won Cho (Seoul Women’s University)

Adriana Crolla (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina) 

Lobna Ismail (Cairo University)  

Maria Esther Maciel (U of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)

Irma Ratiani (Tbilisi State University, Georgia) 

Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford, UK)

Godwin Siundu (University of Nairobi, Kenya)

Fatiha Taib (Mohammed V University, Morocco)  

Clotilde Thouret (Paris-Nanterre University)  

Makoto Tokumori (University of Tokyo) 

Ying Xiong (Shanghai Normal University, China)

Rita Wilson (Monash University, Australia)

Hui Zhang (Peking University)  

Former President Lucia Boldrini (2022-25) was conferred the title of Honorary President.