B.A. in Government and French (Bowdoin College); Ph.D. Sociology (Harvard). Douglas and Ellen Lowey Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Duke, where he is director of the Polarization Lab. Previously taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Specialist in the emerging field of computational social science, his research examines fundamental questions of social psychology, extremism, and political polarization using social media data, bots, and the latest advances in machine learning. Contributed to the Sunday Op-Ed page of the New York Times and The Washington Post Blog. Lectures to audiences in government, business, and the nonprofit sector. Also consults with social media platforms struggling to combat polarization. He is author of Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2015, for which he won the Outstanding Book Award, Association for Research on Non- Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action.

Laurea (Iuav), Doctorate in Geodetic and Topographical Sciences (Politecnico, Milan). Works at the Photogrammetry Laboratory of Circe, at Iuav, where she teaches "Survey" and "Processing Systems of Information". Author of more than 70 publications on Topographic and Cartographic topics. She was involved in research on "Digital Survey Methodologies, GIS and Multimedia Network for Architectural and Environmental Heritage" (Politecnico, Milan), "Survey and representation of Carlo Scarpa's works at Fondazione Querini Stampalia" (Querini Foundation and Iuav), “Archaeological and architectural survey and three-dimensional modeling systems” and "Digital memory of geometric forms. 3D scanners and digital photogrammetry: examination of systems for conducting surveys, for creating virtual models, for reproduction, for conservation and for the re-updating of objects"(Iuav).

Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, with focus on English, Chinese, German and French (Florence). Instructor of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute, where she has taught Chinese and American students.

Laurea in Architecture (Florence), BSc in Archeology (Haifa). Head of the program on Built Heritage Conservation Studies in the Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University, where he is also Lecturer and Tutor in the affiliated Conservation Studio. Founder of an independent architects’ studio specializing in the planning of preservation and restoration of historic sites, acting throughout Israel. In 2008, he and his planning partners, architects Lior Zionov and Lior Vitkin, won the first place at an open architects’ competition for the planning of the Umm al-Fahm Museum of Contemporary Art. Recent book: A Time for Conservation, in which he questions how we should cope with the memory of a place and how we assimilate the past in the contemporary environment, using his own professional experience in Israel.

Since July 2022 Research Fellow in International Law at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. PhD in “Law Market and Person” (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy) and “Politican Science and Regional Governance” (Astrakhan State University, Russian Federation).
Professional practice involves international legal consulting and analysus, with an emphasis on the Eurasian (Russia and Central Asia) region and business relations. A large deal of the activity consists in drafting opinions, negotiating partnerships and dealing with disputes in ADR frameworks. Academic research activity covers public international law, international organizations law, regional integration law and the development of transnational and supranational legal orders, international business law with a special focus on trade wars and the role played by the non-State actors specially in terms of business and human rights. In addition, during the Covid-19 pandemic the research interests have expanded to the field of the new forms of interaction within the international community and the regulation of new technologies, researching issues such as responsibility for cyberoperations and artificial intelligence and the law of the blockchain.
At the moment, the editing work for a scientific monograph is in its pre-final stage. The title of said work is: “The Eurasian Economic Union: the emergence of a new legal order in Eurasia” (written in English).

BSc in Medical Sciences and Doctor of Medicine (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology); certified in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Tmuroth School) and in Clinical Hypnosis (American Society for Clinical Hypnosis); European Master in Bioethics (Leuven). Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, TAU. Full time experience as a Senior Physician (consultant) in the Department of Internal Medicine, including consultations to surgical departments and other clinical services; Member of the Ethics Committee at the Meir Hospital; Member of the editorial board, "Medicine Healthcare and Philosophy" (Kluwer/Springer) and editor of the "Journal of the Israeli Society for Palliative Medicine". Publications include: "Human rights and bioethics", Journal of Medical Ethics, 34:379-83 (2008); "Responsibility as a meta-virtue: truth-telling, deliberation and wisdom in medical professionalism", Journal of Medical Ethics 35:153-8 (2009); "Persuasion as respect for persons: an alternative view of autonomy and of the limits of discourse", Journal of Medical Philosophy, 26:13-33 (2001); "Nozick's experience machine and palliative care: revisiting hedonism", Medical Health Care Philosophy, 12:399-407 (2009); "The dilemma of good clinical practice in the study of compromised standards of care", Crit. Care, 14:176 (2010).

Degrees in Engineering (St Petersburg State Academy of Cooling and Food Technologies) and in Art History and Theory (St Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture); M.A. in Art History (EUSP); Ph.D. in Art History (State Russian Museum). Professor at the Department of Art History at EUSP. Courses taught include: “Principles of architectural analysis“, “Architecture as Communication“, “History of Russian Architecture”. Research interests: Russian and Western architecture of the 20th century, classical tradition in architecture, architectural competitions, theory and rhetoric of architecture and architectural discourse, memorial architecture, architectural exhibitions, interrelations between professional and social values. Among his publications: St Petersburg Neoclassical Architecture of the 1900s to 1910s as Reflected in the Mirror of Architectural Competitions: Word and Form (St Petersburg, 2010, in Russian).

Laurea in English Language and Literature (Ca' Foscari), Dottorato in English Literature (Pisa and Florence). Associate Professor in English and Post-colonial Literature at Ca' Foscari. Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages (Italian Studies), Wake Forest University, Venice Program. Editorial secretary of "Il Tolomeo", journal of Post-colonial Literatures in English and French. Taught at VIU in Spring 2002, Fall 2004 and Spring 2007. Was visiting Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz; Member of the Board of the Jewish Community of Venice, 1994-1998 and secretary of AISLI, the Italian association of postcolonial studies (2003-06). Main fields of interest: Shakespeare and post-colonial theory and literature. Author of La metamorfosi di Otello. Storia di una etnicità immaginata, Graphis, Bari 2000; Poeti indiani del Novecento di lingua inglese (an anthology of Indian poetry in English, which he edited and translated), Supernova, Venice 1998; and (with Alberto Toso Fei) of Shakespeare in Venice. Exploring the City with Shylock and Othello, Elzeviro, Treviso 2007. Coedited (with Simona Bertacco and Rosanna Bonicelli) In that Village of Open Doors. Atti del I congresso dell'AISLI, Cafoscarina, Venezia 2002; An Academic and Friendly Masala (co-editor Flavio Gregori), Cafoscarina, Venezia 2005 and (with Roberta Cimarosti), Bullets of the Brain. Experiments with Shakespeare, Cafoscarina, Venezia 2006. Most recent publications in English include: 2008 "Traffic in the Jungle: Teachers, Lawyers, Animals in Three Kipling Films", reprinted in Considering Children's Literature. A Reader, Andrea Schwenke Wyile & Teya Rosenberg, eds., Peterborough, Ontario, Broadview Press; 2007 "Heart of Darkness and the Postcolonial Process", in Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), eds. Cordula Lemke & Claus Zittel, Berlin, Weidler Buchverlag, 2007, pp. 187-216; 2006 "'Funny, you don't look hybrid!': Jewish Memory Revisualized", in Postcolonial Studies: Changing Perceptions, a cura di Oriana Palusci, Trento, Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento.

Matteo Basso, a licensed urban and regional planner, Ph.D in regional planning and public policy, is assistant professor of Urban and regional planning at Università Iuav di Venezia. He obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification as associate professor of Urban and regional planning in 2021. Previously post-doc research fellow at Iuav, he was also visiting scholar at the University of Westminster, London, and at Tongji University, Shanghai. Within the field of urban studies, his research interests broadly refer to the analysis of urban, territorial and landscape transformations from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective, and the design of urban and spatial policies. Research results have been presented at both national and international conferences, and published in national and international scientific journals. Latest book: Gelli F. and Basso M., eds., 2022. Identifying models of national urban agendas. A view to the global transition. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. He teaches at VIU since Spring 2016.

Degree in History and Preservation of Environment and Architectural Heritage and PhD in History of Architecture and Urban Planning (Iuav); Degree in the School of Archival, Paleographic and Diplomatic Studies (Venice State Archives). Research Fellow at ‘classicA’, Iuav’s Centre for Research and Studies on Architecture and The Classical Tradition. Lecturer of History of Architecture at the CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) in Ferrara. Was Grant researcher in the VIU Visualizing Venice Lab, contributing to the 5th Centennial of the Venice Ghetto exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale. Research interests include Architecture and Music in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and the History of the Venetian Ghetto. She acts as consultant on preservation projects of ancient buildings (preservation techniques, historical research), specializing in Venetian Villas.

B.A. in Political Science (Wake Forest), M.A. in African Studies and Ph.D. in English (Yale). Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the English Department of Duke. Member of the Modernist Studies Association committee on Interdisciplinary Studies and Fellow in the British American Partnership. Involved in organising a series of working conferences on the Black British arts scene with the Tate Galleries and the universities of East London and Duke. Was Assistant Professor of English at Yale where he co-curated an exhibition on three Black British artists at the University Art Gallery (title: The Unmapped Body). Author of Out of Place: Englishness, Empire and the Locations of Identity, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999); edited Atlantic Genealogies, a special edition of the "South Atlantic Quarterly" (Spring, 2002). Forthcoming work include: Shades of Black: The London Renaissance, a collection of essays on the black arts scene in post-war Britain, co-edited with Sonia Boyce and David A. Bailey and Afterlives of Romanticism, a special edition of the "South Atlantic Quarterly", co-edited with Jennifer Kennedy and Anne Rowland (Summer 2003).

Master's degree and Doctorate in Theology (Leiden). Born in former Dutch New Guinea as son of a missionary preacher and a medical nurse. Today is Professor of Religious Studies, especially of Islam, and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, in the Faculty of Humanities, at Tilburg University, where he is also a Member of the Board of the Centre for Intercultural Ethics and a Member of Babylon, Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society. In 1989–1991 was University lecturer for the Indonesian-Netherlands Islamic Studies Program of Leiden University, seconded to the Islamic State University at Yogyakarta, Central Java. His research is focused on Islam and religious pluralism; Islam and multiculturalism; inter-religious dialogue between Islam and Christianity. He is a specialist in the field of Islam in Indonesia, Morocco and the Netherlands. Publications in English include: The rupture between the Muhammadiyah and the Ahmadiyya, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 161:2/3 [2005], pp. 210-246 and A Pillar of Social Harmony: The Study of Comparative Religion in Contemporary Indonesia, in G.A. Wiegers in association with J. Platvoet (ed.): Modern Societies and the Science of Religions (Studies in the History of Religions 95), Leiden: Brill 2002, pp. 331-349. Other publications include: Moslims in een westerse samenleving. Islam en ethiek (with Gerard Wiegers), Zoetermeer: Meinema 2008; Les musulmans d'Indonésie, Turnhout: Editions Brepols 2003; Islam in hoofdlijnen, Zoetermeer: Meinema 2002; Grondleggers van het Geloof. De levensverhalen van Mozes, Boeddha, Jezus en Mohammed (with M. de Jonge, P.S. van Koningsveld, K. van der Toorn and T.E. Vetter), Amsterdam: Prometheus 1997; L'image d'Idrîs II, ses descendants de Fâs et la politique sharîfienne des sultans marînides, Leiden: E.J. Brill 1989, reprinted in 1997.

BA in Cultural Heritage and MA in Anthropology (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), MPhil and PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge). Currently Marie Curie / MC+1 Fellow at Ca Foscari’s Humanities Department (teaches Introduction to Anthropology, Anthropology of Islam, Thesis Writing Seminar). Previously Marie Curie Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge: taught Anthropology of Religion and Ethnographic Methods. Formerly Vice President of UC Berkeley’s Humanities and Social Sciences Association. Specializes in the study of ethics, politics, religion (Islam and Christianity), heritage, catastrophe, and memory in Eurasia (Russia, Ukraine, Western Europe, Central Asia). Recent publications include: Forthcoming 2023, ‘Three memory frameworks on Chernobyl’, in Kryder-Reid E. and May S. (eds.) Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice, London/New York: Routledge; 2022, ‘Ethical Infrastructures: Halal and the ecology of askesis in Muslim Russia’, Anthropological Theory 22 (3): 294-316; 2022, ‘Emancipating Ethics: An Autonomist Reading of Islamic Piety in Russia’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 28 (1): 30-51; 2021, ‘The golden cage: heritage, (ethnic) Muslimness, and the place of Islam in post-Soviet Tatarstan’, Religion, State and Society 49 (4-5): 314-330.

Maria Bergamo, born in Venice, BA in Ca’Foscari University, MA at Gregroriana University, Rome in sacred and christian art, PhD in History of architecture at Iuav university, three years of fellowship at Iuav University. She’s an art historian specialized in medieval Christian art and iconography. Her studies have extended to the architecture of the early Venetian Renaissance. Together with Monica Centanni, she founded the «Rivista di Engramma» and the Research Center ClassicA-Iuav. She has worked for the most important Museum institutions in Venice, the Departement for the preservation of Cultural heritage, and the Office of the artistic ecclesiastical heritage of the Curia. She collaborated with the Archive of the Procuratoria of St Mark’s Basilica for two years. Her most recent publication is Alessandro, il cavaliere, il doge. Le placchette profane della Pala d’oro di San Marco, l’Erma di Bretschneider, 2022.

Laurea in Business Economics (Ca’ Foscari), Diploma in Directional Development (Bocconi, Milan). Professor of Economics and Management at Ca’ Foscari, where he is Director of the Master’s degree program in Creative Development and Management of Cultural Activities. Coordinator of the Planning and Control Area within the Master’s degree course in Cultural and Environmental Heritage Management, offered in partnership with the École Supérieure de Commerce, Paris. Sits on the Board of Governors of the Venice City Museums Foundation. Was a member of the Venetian regional board for improvement of standards in museums. Has taught at VIU in the Fall terms since 2012. Research interests focus on planning and control systems (especially in cultural organizations), accountancy, Information Technology, management and behavior, and distance learning processes through the Internet.

Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, with focus on English, Chinese, German and French (Florence). Professor of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute, specialized in teaching to Chinese and American students. Already taught Italian for Foreigners at VIU since a couple of years.

Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Cassino, where she teaches Microeconomics Theory and Industrial Economics. Already taught at VIU in Spring 1999 and 2006.
Her research interests range from game theory and the evolution of institutions, to firm structure and the role of innovation both on the product side and in the form of the ways in which consumers elect creatively to use products, analysing the characteristics of creative goods and the limits of the traditional economic framework in explaining choices concerning goods and activities of this type. Her most recent project and book is The Active Consumer. Among her recent publications are: (with Daniela Federici) Cities are Fun. Aesthetic Preferences and Urban Landscapes (paper presented at a conference "Policies for Happiness" Siena 14-17 June 2007); Time and Preference in Cultural Consumtion, in Hutter M. and D. Throsby (eds.), Value and Valuation in Art and Culture, Cambridge 2007; If Happiness is so important, Why do we know so little about it?, in L. Bruni and P. Porta (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of Happiness, London 2006.

BA, MA and PhD in Historical Geography (University of Jerusalem). Professor in the Department of Geography and Human Environment, at TAU. Published extensively on 19th-20th Century Historical Geography of Palestine and Israel, with particular interest in: the Historical Geography of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; Boundary formation in Modern Palestine and Israel; Geographical analysis of Palestine under British rule; Ideology and Landscape in a Historical Perspective; Wood, Trees and Forestation policies in Palestine and Israel.

Master's Degree in History (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen and Universiteit van Amsterdam); PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Professor, Tilburg University, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Sociology, where he is also Postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the project ‘Town and Countryside: the Dynamic Symbiosis’ and Professor at a funded chair for the regional history and ethnology of Brabant. He is member and president of the editorial board of Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek and member of the editorial boards of Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis and of In Brabant, journal for regional history, ethnology and heritage. Recent publications include: Maakbaar erfgoed. Perspectieven op regionale geschiedenis, cultureel erfgoed en identiteit in Noord-Brabant (Tilburg: Stichting ZHC, 2009) and Do ut des. Gift Giving, Memoria, and Conflict Management in the Medieval Low Countries. Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen 104 (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren 2007).

Klemen Bohinc graduated in the field of Physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Ljubljana. In 2001 he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana and in 2012 Ph.D. in Physics from the Faculty of Natural sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor. Currently he is employed at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana where he teaches Biomechanics and Biophysics. His research interests are electrostatics and statistical physics of biological macromolecules, polyelectrolytes and membranes as well as microbial adhesion to material surfaces.

Laurea (5-years) in Electronic Engineering (Univ. of Padova) – PhD in “Sciences of Industrial Innovation” (Univ. of Padova). He is Associate Professor at University of Padova where he teaches the courses “Technology and Innovation Management” and “Information Technology Management” at the School of Engineering. Formerly he also was EU Marie Curie research fellow at Manchester University and researcher at University of Trieste. He was also visiting lecturer at Coventry University, Kaunas Technological University, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Technische Hochschule Köln. He was Chair of the European Conference on Knowledge Management in 2009 and 2018. He was co-founder and first President of the International Association for Knowledge Management. He is Series co-editor of “Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning” (Springer), Editor-in-chief of the “Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management”, and member of Editorial Board of “Management and Marketing” and “Knowledge Management Research and Practice”. He is member of the Management committee of the EU COST Action INDCOR and team leader of the local unit of the University of Padova for the EU Erasmus+ KNOWMAN project (Knowledge management training for KIBS SMEs). His main research interests are in the fields of innovation management with a special focus on management of knowledge and information in organizations. He is supervisor of PhD students in the field of Innovation management. He is Member of the institutional group for developing active teaching and learning methods at the University of Padova.

Laurea (MSc) in Architecture (Politecnico, Turin) and PhD in Planning (IUAV). Professor of Urban and Environmental Sociology at IUAV, where he teaches Urban Sociology. Also teaches at the University of Eastern Piedmont and formerly taught at the State University of Milan, the Polytechnic of Turin and the University of Cagliari. Main fields of research: Urban Political Economy, modes of Governance, Community Studies. His publications include: “Immagini di Città” (Bruno Mondadori 2012), “La politica economica urbana” (Carocci 2013), “La comunità spaesata” (Contrasto 2015) and several essays on the thought and work of the French Marxist sociologist Henri Lefebvre.

Diploma of Economist-Mathematician and Phd in Mathematics (Leningrad), Doctor of Science in Economics (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). Professor at the EUSP Department of Economics, where he was Dean in 2008-2010. Research Interests: Economic growth and inequality, Natural resource and environmental economics, Political economy. Areas of Teaching: Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Economic Growth; International Economics ; Mathematical Economics.

Laurea in Ancient Greek Literature (Ca' Foscari), International Doctorate in Classical Philology (Trent and Lille III), Doctorate in Cognitive and Brain Sciences - Language, Interaction and Computation (Trent). Researcher at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of CNR. Teaches Linguistic Technologies for Information Extraction at the University of Pisa. Was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Liepzig and Visiting Scholar at Tufts University. He was Programmer and Assistant for digitization of Latin texts at the University of Padua. Main fields of research: Formal and Computational Philology, Corpus Analysis, and Greek Philology.

PhD in Philosophy (Université de Louvain); PhD Homoris Causa in Theology (University of Helsinki). Professor in Theology and Director of the Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology at Boston College. Previously taught at Siena College, St. Bonaventure University, The University of the South. Was Visiting Professor at SUNY, Buffalo; Yale University; and the Sorbonne. President of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Vice-President of Société internationale pour l'étude de la philosophie médiévale. Resarch interest: Medieval Philosophy and Theology, especially 13th and 14th centuries. Author of very successful textbooks on Protestantism, Chistianity, Judaism, the last two of which were also translated in Japanese.

Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literature (Ca’ Foscari), doctorate in Francophone Literature (Bologna). Specialized in Language Teaching with Advanced Technology (Ca’ Foscari). Member of the management staff and instructor in Italian for foreigners at the Istituto Venezia, Italian Language School in Venice and Triest. Was Teaching Assistant in Francophone Literature at Ca’ Foscari, with special interest in Black Africa. Author of several articles on African Francophone Literature. Coordinator of the Italian as a Foreign language courses at VIU since Fall 2001.

Bachelor (Laurea triennale) in Marketing and Business Management, master (Laurea specialistica) in Economics and Management of Networks (Ca' Foscari), PhD in Business Administration (Verona). Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Management at Ca' Foscari. Visiting researcher at the Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness at Duke. Research interest: Global Value Chains, Organizational structure, Global Production Networks, Outsourcing. Author of a comparative study on local production systems of North Carolina and North-Eastern Italy and global competition.

BA in Political Science and Modern History (University of Zurich and University of Copenhagen), MA in Comparative Politics (University of Bern), PhD in Political Science (University of Zurich). Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Evaluation at the Institute of Public Administration of the University of Lausanne. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bern and a visiting scholar at the University of Geneva and the University of California, Los Angeles. His research, publications, and expert opinions deal with the use of evaluations, evidence-informed policymaking, and the ways in which policymakers evaluate public policies. He is the principal investigator of a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on attitudes toward federalism in Germany and Switzerland. Pirmin Bundi is the author of numerous publications in professional journals, a member of the jury of the Prix Seval of the Swiss Evaluation Society, and co-editor of the Handbook of the Evaluation of Public Policy, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Laurea in Political Science and PhD in Theory of the State and Comparative Political Institutions (La Sapienza, Rome). Professor of Public Law at Tor Vergata, where he teaches Legal Traditions and Comparative Law, Fundamental Rights, Italian and European Public Law. Author of several essays and monographs, including a book on the Right of Resistance and the Italian Constitution. With M. Fioravanti, he is editor of a volume on people, cities, periodicals, daily papers, universities, institutions and political parties of 1943-48, who characterised the age and formed the background to the debates of the Italian Constituent Assembly. Later research interests include American Constitution and American Law. Most recent books are on US presidential vetoes and on constitutional interpretations of the American frontier. He is also codirector of a blog and co-editor of an online review on Comparative Rights.

BA, MA and Ph.D in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis from the University of Geneva.
Associate professor in the Department of French and Deputy director of the Centre of Linguistics and Language Sciences (CLSL) at the University of Lausanne.
Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), University of Macau (UMA), and at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). He taught at VIU in 2018. Marcel Burger is a member of the executive board of the Swiss Doctoral Schools in Language Sciences and was the President of the Swiss Society of Applied Linguistics.
Fields of research: Digital communication analysis (multimodal computer mediated discourse analysis), Political & Media communication analysis (ethnography of journalism, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis), Discourse and interaction analysis (interactional sociolinguistics, speech act theory).
Author of Les communautés en en ligne, CILS n°64 (2021), Investigating journalism practices. Combining Media Discourse Analysis and Newsroom Ethnography, CILS 54 (2018), Discourses of social Media: Public, Political and Media stakes (with J. Thornborrow & R. Fitzgerald), Bruxelles, DeBoeck (2017).
Most recent publications include: Narrative of vicarious experience in broadcast news. Journal of Pragmatics (2020), Good professional reasons for bad journalism practice: Inventing audience contributions in a live Tv debate. Journalism Practices (2019), Analyzing new media and social media as interactive spaces. In Discourses of social Media: Public, Political and Media stakes, 25-42 (2017).

BA and MA (UNIL); DPhil in Social Anthropology (UNIL). Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Slav and South Asian Languages and Civilization section, and at the Faculty of Theology, Interdisciplinary Center of History and Science of Religion. Was Head of the Department of languages and civilisations of South Asia and Coordinator of the Interfaculty Department of the Study of religions. Was Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, in Northern India. Among her teaching fields: Hinduism in South Asia and Hindu Literature. Fields of Research: Hindu Language and Literature; Comparative History of Religions; Religions of Contemporary India and Hinduism, including History of Yoga.

Laurea (MA) in Scienze Politiche (Padua). PhD student in Regional Planning and Public Policies at Iuav. Was Research fellow (assegnista) at the Department of Management at Ca’ Foscari, studying Social Innovation in the Venetian metropolitan welfare system. Works as social entrepreneur for Sumo Social Cooperative in Venice, doing research, development and project management on: youth policies, welfare, social innovation, work-life balance, education, employment policies, networking and participatory action research. In this field he also acts as freelance consultant. Interests and publications revolve around Social Innovation in Welfare Systems and Labour Policies, and intersections between Social Innovation and Cultural Innovation.

B.A. in Social Work (Ulyanovsk State University, Russia), MA in Sociology (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia), Candidate of Sciences in Economic Sociology (Higher School of Economics, Russia) and PhD in Public Policy and Management (Ohio State University). Dean of the Department of Sociology, Associate Professor of Sociology and Head of the Center for Science and Technology Studies at European University at St. Petersburg. Formerly Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, University of Aarhus and University of Helsinki. Teaching experience in the field of Comparative Political Economy, Public Policy and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Specialist in Russian innovation and technological policies, university governance, economic regimes in Russian localities. Has been a principal investigator for a number of research projects on technological and innovation policies, industry-university R&D collaborations and university governance in Russia. Publications include chapter on Russian housing and utility sector reform in “Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia” (2011) and several articles on Russian innovation sector: “Innovation by coercion: Emerging institutionalization of university-industry collaborations in Russia” (2016), “Creativity vs commercialization: Russian engineers, their Inspiration and innovation process” (2022) and on political theory of blockchain: “Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and Res Publica” (2022). Currently interested in analysis of Russian climate policy and explore the history of Soviet geoengineering projects and current impact of Russian climate scientists on climate policy in the country.

Dorian Canelas taught two special topics courses at Venice International University in the Spring 2024: Sustainable Development of Medicine and Health in Venice and System Level Thinking in Color: from Venetian Glass to the Evolution of Paints, Fabrics, and Fashion. She has been teaching general, organic, and analytical chemistry for over twenty years. She has received numerous researches, education, and leadership awards, such as the 2020 Marcus Hobbs Award for significant, long-term contributions to the American Chemical Society and the 2017 David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. She has more than 40 scholarly publications and patents, and her active research involves studying implementation of student-centered pedagogies in large-sized gateway courses, creating curricular pathways to increase undergraduate retention in science tracks, and developing online courses and resources. Relevant interests include the development of soft or transferable skills through science coursework, the study of best practices for science-career retention for students from historically marginalized groups, and the evolving status of online learning in higher education. Her work has been funded by grants from the Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining the faculty of Duke University’s Department of Chemistry in 2009, she taught chemistry courses at North Carolina State University and held research-intensive positions for several years in both academia and industry. Canelas received a B.S. In Chemistry from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and a Ph.D. In Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lauree Triennale and Magistrale in Anthropology (Bologna); PhD in Social Sciences (Padova). Research Fellow at Ca' Foscari. Teaching experience at the Universities of Bologna, Milan and Padova. Research fields: socio-anthropological approaches to homosexuality and masculinities in Sub-Saharian Africa, social construction of gender and sexuality, international migrations, human rights, multiculturalism, stigma management, multiple discrimination, social exclusion, queer perspectives, qualitative and intesectional methodology. Both his Triennale thesis on homosexuality in Africa and his Magistrale thesis on homosexuals of African origin resident in Italy won the Baiocchi prize as best dissertation. He is consultant and tutor for people and organizations of the third sector on LGBTQ issues in Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon) and on the condition of LGBT migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Italy.

B.A. in Spanish and M.A. in Spanish Literature and Linguistics (Pacific Union College), Ph.D. in Medieval Spanish Literature (University of California, Berkeley), Ph.D. (Graduate Theological Union at the Dominican School of Theology; University of California, Berkeley). Professor of Hispanic Studies at Boston College, where he is Co-founder and Co-director of the Jewish Studies Program. Among other things, he was Visiting Research Scholar at the Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, and Visiting Research Associate at Westfield College, University of London, Summer. His research interests are in Medieval religious and intellectual history, Medieval Jewish-Christian relations, Paleography and textual criticism. Recent publications include: "Playing and Praying: What's Luck Got to Do with It?" In: Alan Wolfe and Erik C. Owens, eds. Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2009, pp. 291-97, 439-40; "Alborayque". 2 Vols. 1: Estudio preliminar, edición y notas. 2: Facsímil. Biblioteca de Barcarrota, no. 6. Editora Regional de Extremadura. 2005; "'Alea Jacta Est': At the Gaming Table with Alfonso the Learned." The Journal of Medieval History 24 (1998): 333-45. With Carlos Alvar and José Manuel Lucía Megías he is editor of "Alfonso de Valladolid" [A Study of His Hebrew and Spanish Manuscripts]. In Diccionario filológico de literatura medieval española. Eds.. Madrid Castalia, 2002 (140-52).

B.A. in Art History and Music (Occidental College), M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History (Indiana University). Teaches "The Arts of Venice During the Golden Age" for the Colgate University Venice Study Group. Was Lecturer at the Boston University Venice and Padua Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Connecticut College Venice Program. Was Visiting Lecturer at Stanford. In 2005-2006 already taught at VIU for the Summer Graduate Seminar in the Humanities on Tradition and Circulation of Knowledge, 1605-1797. Among her publications is "La pala ritrovata: Una rivisitazione della Pala d'altare di Bartolomeo Montagna, già nella Chiesa di San Marco a Lonigo", in Arte Documento: Storia e tutela dei Beni Culturali, vol. 20 (2004): 112-117. She has manuscripts in progress on In the Shadow of Venice: Defining Bartolomeo Montagna and Artistic Identity in Early Modern Vicenza and on Consumption, Pleasure and Seriality: The Early Modern Globalization of Copies in the Venetian Art Market.

He graduated in Economics at the University of Venice in 1992 and holds a Ph.D. in Economic History at the University of Verona (IT). After a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Economic History at the University of Padua, IT (2003-2005), David Celetti worked as researcher at the Universities of Padua (Economic History), of Hertfordshire, UK (Economic History), at the Kazakh National University “Al’ Farabi” of Almaty, KZ (Macroeconomic within the EU SilkRoad Program). Currently Research Professor (RTD/B) at the University of Padua (IT), teaching in Local Development and “Techniques Patrimoine, Territoires de l’Industrie” international Master Programs. David Celetti has been visiting professor at the Universities of Wuhan (PRC), Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan), Rudny Industrial Institute (Kazakhstan), Bukhara State University (Uzbekistan), Ural Federal University (Russian Federation). His research interests are focused on the regional development with a view to industrialization processes, to the relation between agriculture and industry, rural and urban spaces, on economic convergence and divergence on regional and global scale. His research has been presented in over 100 international scientific conferences in Europe, the USA, South Africa, Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, and China. Member of the scientific board of the review Вестник КазНУ (Серия экономическая). [Bulletin KazNu, Series Economics], of numerous scientific associations, and of the Board of the AIPA (Italian Association for Industrial Archeology). Author of 4 scientific monographies and over 70 articles and contributions.

Full Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Università Iuav di Venezia and at Università di Catania, teaching “Iconology and the Classical Tradition” and “Dramaturgy and the origins of Theatre”. She has a degree in Classical Literature and Specialization in Classical Philology (Università di Padova), and a PhD in Greek and Latin Philology (Università Urbino). She is also Director of classicA, Iuav’s Centre for Research and Studies on Architecture and the Classical Tradition; Director of “La Rivista di Engramma”; Member of the Board of the International Association of Renaissance Studies “Artes Renascentes”; Italian representative of Arc-Net (European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama) and Italian member for the International network “Diazoma Association” (based in Athens, aiming to the revival of the ancient theater buildings, with Greece and Spain). Research interests in Ancient Theatre (structures of Greek Tragedy; political functions of Greek Drama; revival of Classical Drama in the 20th century); Renaissance Art and Culture, and the dynamics of the Classical Tradition and its Afterlife in Western Art and Literature; a special focus on the methodology of Aby Warburg and Mnemosyne Atlas.
Among her books:
- Aby Warburg and Living Thought, Ronzani Editore, Dueville 2022
- Three Ladies, Three Medals (Cecilia Gonzaga, Isabella d’Este, Elisabetta Gonzaga), Peeters, Leuven 2023 (in print).

Laurea in Lettere (ie Humanities) and Master in Italian as a Foreign Language ITALS (Ca' Foscari). Teacher of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute since 2012.

Ph.D. (Columbia University). Professor at the Department of History, Duke University, where he is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Main scholarly interest: issue of race and gender equality. His dissertation and first book focused on the changing social and economic roles of American women in the fifty years after the woman suffrage amendment. Subsequent books compared the patterns of race and gender discrimination in America. His book on the origins of the sit-in movement in North Carolina helped to re-orient scholarship on civil rights toward social history and community studies. He has written two books on the history of post-World War II America and a biography of the liberal crusader Allard Lowenstein. The author of eight books overall, he has received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981) for Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1980) and the Sidney Hillman book award (1994) for Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1993). Recent Publications include Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America, Harvard University Press, 2005 and American Liberalism in the 20th Century. Columbia University Press, 2003.

Edward K. Chan is professor of American Studies at Waseda University in Japan. His research and teaching interests cut across 20th- and 21st-century U.S. American literary, film, and popular culture, with special emphasis on race, utopian fiction, and transnational perspectives on U.S. American culture (especially its relationship with Japanese culture). From 2003 to 2011, he taught English and American Studies and directed the Interdisciplinary Studies degree program at Kennesaw State University. From 2008 to 2009, he taught at Kobe College (Japan) as the Bryant Drake Guest Professor. He earned a doctorate in American literature from the University of Rochester, a master’s degree in English from California State University, Fullerton, and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Riverside.

Laurea in Lettere, with specialization in History of Art (Ca' Foscari). Professor of Venetian Art History in the Venice Semester Program of Wake Forest University. Taught for the Department of History of Art at Ca' Foscari and, in Fall 1997, at VIU, where she also taught in the Duke in Venice Summer Program. Was C.N.R.- N.A.T.O. Research Fellow at the Department of History of Art, University of Oxford. Research focus include: Venetian Renaissance Printing; Titian's printing, drawings and paintings; the Scuole Grandi and in particular the Scuola Grande of San Rocco.

Degree in Philosophy (La Sapienza); International Master Course– second level – in “Cultural and Religious Sciences” (Roma Tre); European Ph.D. in “Philosophy and Theories of Human Sciences” (Roma Tre and SOAS London). Adjunct Professor in Gender Studies at Tor Vergata, where she teaches “Transnational Feminists’ and Women’s Movement” and taught “Intercultural Pedagogy”. Was Professor of Intercultural Philosophy and Gender Studies at Roma Tre. Also taught at La Sapienza, the Urbaniana and the University of Hanoi, Vietnam. Specialized in Intercultural Philosophy, History of Religions, Cultures of South East Asia and Gender Studies in post-colonial and trans-cultural perspectives. Carried out several research and development projects on Gender in Vietnam. Teaches and practices martial arts (Kung Fu-Wu Shu, Taijiquan and Muay Thai) and acts as consultant to international ONGs.

DBA, MA and Ph. D. in Sociology (Seoul National University). Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, Korea University, where he is Director of the Institute of Social Research. President of the Korean Social History Association and Chief Editor of the “Journal of Memory & Vision”. Was Visiting Scholar and Lecture at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington and Visiting Fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Areas of interest: Historical Sociology, Social Thought. Global and Cultural Sociology, International Relations. Among his many publications is: Demilitarizing Politics in South Korea: Towards a Positive Consolidation of Civilian Supremacy, “Advances in Military Sociology”, Vol. 12B, 2009, pp. 527-555. He translated into Korean: Zygmund Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Pierre Bordeau, Michel Foucault, Juergen Habermas and others.

Doctor degree (Freiburg), Master in Law (Michigan), Habilitation (Augsburg). Professor Emeritus at LMU where he was Professor (Chair) of Civil Law, Labour Law and Private International Law, Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty and Member of the Senate. Was LMU representative on the VIU Academic Council. Previously taught in Augsburg and Goettingen, where he was Dean of the Law Faculty. Was Visiting Professor at the University of Nanjing (China), at University College, London and at the China University of Politics and Law, Beijing. Was Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies in European and Comparative Law, Oxford, England. He is Member of the “Deutscher Familiengerichtstag” and chairman of its “Children´s Rights Comittee”. Member of various law Associations, he is Expert at the “Round Table on Child Abuse”, established by the German Government 2010. He is Editor of the Family-Law-Volumes of the largest German Commentary on Civil Law. Taught at VIU in Fall 2010.

BA (Department of Japanese, Ohio State University), MA (Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii), Ph.D. (Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Hawaii). Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Waseda. Fields of specialization: Japanese Literature and Cultural History, Comparative Culture. Author of "Western Images of Japan", Part I "Looking and Laughing at Japan" and Part II "The Mysteries of Japan", in "The Waseda Journal of General Sciences", Vol. 50 (1996), pp.1-34 and Vol. 56 (1999), pp.1-46; "Western Images of China: Recent Travel Accounts", "Western Images of Asia: Popular Accounts of Korea 1882-1914" and "Western Images of Asia: Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril" in "Waseda Studies in Social Sciences" Vol.2, no.1 (2001) and no.2 (2002), Vol.3 no.2 (2003);"Inages of Japan in Recent Western Films" in "The Possibilities of Comparative Culture", edited by Ikeda Masayuki and Koga Katsujiro, Seibundo Publishing, Tokyo 2007.

BA and MA in Counselling and Art History (TAU); PhD in Art History (TAU). Professor in the Department of Art History and in the Department of East Asian Studies at TAU. Was Visiting Lecturer at the Villa i Tatti Harvard Center of Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Main field of teaching and research: Renaissance Art History. Another field of interest is History of Indian Art. Author of Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art, Leiden, Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, October, 2008. Most recent articles include: "The Enigma of Carpaccio's Venetian Ladies," Renaissance Studies, vol. 19, no.2, April 2005, 150-184; "The Image of the Divine in Indian Art Catalogue of the exhibition: Touching the Divine, Sacred Images in Traditional and Contemporary Indian Art, Treasures from the Wilfred Israel Museum of Oriental Art and Studies, and the Israel Museum, September, 2008; "Changing Functions of the Canine Image in Venetian Religious Paintings of the Sixteenth Century," Ikon, Journal of Iconographic Studies, 2, Rijeka, 2009, 277-286; "The Animal Triad of Capital Sins in Franciscan Iconography," Ikon, Journal of Iconographic Studies, 3, Rijeka, 2010, 189-198.

B.A. in History and M.A. in Immigration Studies (Ca' Foscari)and Ph.D. in Sociology. Assistant Professor in Sociology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches courses on Neoliberal Policies and Globalization. Areas of interest: globalization; race and ethnic relations, immigration; multiculturalism; indigenous communities; rural sociology; labor relations; social movements. She has lived for several years in the United States and has travelled extensively through Asia and the Americas doing research and social work in the rural peripheries in order to assess the impact of globalization on labor. The notion of labor is her main research interest. She has published extensively on issues related to labor conditions in the rural peripheries and in the West, looking at the effects of neoliberalism on subjectivity. Currently, her main research interests focus on the impact of neoliberalism and austerity in the public sphere, particularly regarding reproduction and education. As part of her sociological work, she produced black and white photographs, portraying poverty and the homeless in Atlanta and the life of Mexican farm-workers in the US and Mexico, which were exhibited by social institutions or in the event of symposiums.

Dr. Timothy Cooper is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, based in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cornwall Campus. He studied for his BA in Modern History at St Edmund Hall in the University of Oxford and completed a PhD at St John’s College in the University of Cambridge on the political history of London’s working-class suburbs. He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, St Andrews and Exeter. He is a social historian with a particular interest in popular ideas about, and everyday engagements with, nature and the environment. He has published in the journals Environmental History and Environment and History on the history of oil spill disasters, using oral history methods to understand the sensory and embodied politics of these events in the UK and is presently completing a book on the Torrey Canyon oil spill of 1967.

Member of the Fine Art Department at Boston College where he has taught studio art classes since 1982. He was the Chief Curator at the B.C. McMullen Museum of Art for sixteen years, where he organized many exhibitions. He has received many grants and Fellowships for his artwork including; a Fulbright Grant to Italy, a National Endowment of the Arts grant, The Massachusetts Artists Foundation grant, two Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo Ireland. His work has been exhibited in New York, Boston and Chicago. He received his BFA from Tufts University and a Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where he also did graduate studies and was awarded The Clarissa Bartlett traveling scholarship. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine where he learned the fresco painting technique.

BA in Business Economics, MA in Administration and Control (Ca' Foscari), PhD in Regional Planning and Public Policies (IUAV). Post-doc research fellow at IUAV with a project on Sustainable Planning and Creative Communities: the introduction of Digital Start Ups in the Venice Region. She also worked as research fellow at the Urbanus Research Bureau (URB) in Shezhen, China and contributed to the background report for the OECD Territorial Review on the Venice Metropolitan Area. Among her publications is an essay on Creative City Development In Globalization Process written with Zhou Jing and published by "Planners".

Laurea in History (Ca' Foscari) and dottorato in Social and Economic History of Europe, with thesis on the War of Cyprus and the Ottoman rule over the island (Ca' Foscari and EHSS). Ricercatrice of Turkish Language and Literature at Ca' Foscari. Lectured at the College de France (2003), at LMU (2005), at the University of Cyprus (2003) and the University of Ancona (2007). Published several articles in Italian and international reviews and coedited, with Markus Koller, a volume in honour of Suraiya Faroqhi (Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community, Brill, Leiden 2008). Member of the Association of Ottoman Social and Economic History. Speaks, writes and reads in Italian, English, French and Turkish.

Laurea (Ca' Foscari), MA and PhD in Archaeology (University College, London). Lecturer (ricercatore) in Classical Archaeology at the Department of Sciences of Antiquity and the Near East of Ca' Foscari. Current fields of research include: private architecture in the Roman Empire; the space of imperial cult; Roman military architecture; symbolism in private art and cognitive archaeology; Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique ceramics; pottery analysis and quantification; relationship between material culture and context; theories and methods of archaeological research.
Among her publications are: Late Roman imported and locally produced pottery from Hierapolis (Pamukkale, Turkey): preliminary evidence, "Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta" 36, Abingdon 2000; Perspectives on pottery production and exchange in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia: the common Wares from Hierapolis, Phrygia, in J.Ma. Gurt I Esparraguera, J. Buxeda I Garrigòs and M.A. Cau Onitiveros (eds.), LRCW I. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry, British Archeological Report, International Series 1340, Oxford 2005. Forthcoming: Continuity and Change in Late Roman Mid-Byzantine Hierapolis (Turkey): the Ceramics from the town houses, "Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta" 39, Abingdon.

Lisa Cuklanz is a Professor of Communication at Boston College, and served as department chairperson from 2007-2019. She received a BS from Duke University, and an MA and PhD in Communication from the University of Iowa. Prof. Cuklanz teaches courses in gender and communication, media studies, and film. Her research focuses on gender and violence in media and culture including US prime time television, documentary film, and mainstream news. She has published numerous books, articles, and chapters including All-American TV Crime Drama: Feminism and Identity Politics in “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” (with Sujata Moorti: IB Tauris, 2017) and Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements (with Heather McIntosh: Bloomsbury, 2015).