Nova Peris is an Olympic gold medallist, dual Olympian and international sports representative former Federal Senator for the Northern Territory. She is a mother, grandmother and proud Aboriginal woman of Yawuru, Lunga Kitja, and Bunitj Gagadju descent. A trailblazer in sport, politics, and social justice, she has dedicated her life to building bridges of understanding and advancing equality for Indigenous Australians within her own foundation, https://novaperisfoundation.org.au/

Applying lessons from the Hebrew revival to the reclamation of empowerment of Indigenous languages and cultures in Australia, New Zealand and beyond
Ghil'ad Zuckermann is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. He was awarded the Rubinlicht Prize (2023) "for his research on the profound influence of Yiddish on modern Hebrew", and listed among Australia's top 30 "living legends of research" (2024) by The Australian. He is a hyperpolyglot.

Jewish Perceptions of Exile in the Wake of Postmodern Colonialism and Antisemitism
Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle East and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and the Goldman Fellow at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. He will also be a Visiting Academic and Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

Tracing the intellectual genealogy of the anti-Israel stream in Māori academic discourse. 
Sheree Trotter is New Zealand Maori (Te Arawa). She earned a PhD in history from the University of Auckland (Thesis: Zionism in New Zealand to 1948). She is a Fellow of London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and completed an ISGAP scholars-in-residence course at University of Oxford in 2023. In 2012 she co-founded the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation for whom she has interviewed seventy Holocaust survivors. She is co-director of Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem.

The Fabrication of a History: The Palestinian narrative and the undermining of Jewish connection to the Land
Michael G. Wechsler earned his Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from the University of Chicago. He is a research associate with the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. He specializes in biblical languages and Hebrew Scriptures and his research and publication focuses on Judaeo-Arabic literature, with particular emphasis on pre-modern exegetical and theological literature, as well as well as the literary and ideological contacts between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University, is an archeologist and academic specializing in ancient Near East and Assyriology. For the past decade Professor Horowitz has worked on a joint research program with the Gwich'in Tribal Council, Department of Culture and Heritage in the Northwest Territories, Canada, to protect and recover Gwich’in knowledge of stellar and other heavenly phenomena.

Indigeneity on Trial: Deconstructing Anti-Zionist Rhetoric, Islamist Entrenchment, and the Erasure of Jewish and Native American Histories in U.S. Discourse
Erin Ross, citizen of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, possesses more than a decade of professional experience working in Indian Country and for state government. As a subject matter expert in tribal economic development, tribal planning, the Indian Child Welfare Act, American Indian/Alaska Native college student retention, American Indian Law, and strategic planning, Erin values listening, collaboration, and direct consultation with sovereign tribal nations, their citizens and their descendants.

Stronger Together: Stories of Indigenous Collaboration

Professor Gillian Gould is a Public Health Researcher, Tobacco Treatment Specialist, and General Practitioner dedicated to improving the health of First Nations communities in Australia.

How Judahites in Babylonia Preserved their sense of Indigeneity and connection to the Land of Israel

Shawn Zelig Aster is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, specializing in the historical context of the Biblical prophets and their connection to Assyria and Babylonia. He is Associate Professor in the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, where he teaches the history and geography of Biblical Israel.

Avraham Vofsi (b. 1989, Australia) is a Jewish artist based in Israel, working in classical oil painting. Born in Melbourne to American parents, he grew up as a Jew in a non-Jewish city. Inspired by the connection Indigenous Australians had to land and history, he began painting stories of marginalised communities before turning inward: toward his own identity and the Jewish story.