Researcher (Assistant Professor) in Finance at Tor Vergata. Fields of teaching; Environmental and Resource Economics; Economic Growth, Sustainable Development and Climate Change; Economics of water resources; Public Economics; Advanced Public Economics; Green Finance. Research interests: Theory of incentives; environmental regulation under asymmetric information; climate and energy policies; waste policy in the face of illegal disposal and organized crime; emissions trading; eco-innovation; drivers of waste and environmental behaviour; green public procurement. He is Vice President and Council Member of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE). His latest work is a forthcoming article on “Corruption in Environmental Policy: the Case of Waste”, written with B.Cesi and M.Zoli for “Economia Politica”.

BA Political Science (Waseda); MA in International Relations (Yale); PhD in Regional Economics (Cornell); Juris Doctor in Public Administration Law and Civil Law (Tsukuba). Professor at the Waseda School of International Liberal Studies. Fields of teaching include: Introduction to Microeconomics, Microeconomics, Public Economics, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Law and Economics, Economic Development, Social Development, International Development Finance, International Cooperation. Previously taught at Meijigakuin University, Tokyo, and at the International University of Japan in Niigata. For a decade, before teaching, he worked first for the Japan’s Overseas Cooperation Fund and then for the World Bank, managing projects addressed to Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Interested in economic and social development, poverty reduction strategies and international responses to peace building, he conducted practical research intersecting Economics and Political Science. Publications include a Japanese translation of Amartya Sen’s Identity and Violence (Keiso Shobo) and Peace Building (Keiso Shobo).

Degree and Doctorate in Business Administration (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) with educational training at UCLA , Berkely. Researcher at the TeDis center, VIU, where he is involved in various European and Italian projects on Information and Communications Technologies (especially multi-media) applied to small and medium size enterprises (of Industrial districts). Author of "Il distretto tessile di Schio-Thiene-Valdagno) in G. Brunetti, S. Micelli, M. Minoja, La sfida delle tecnologie di rete: distretti Lombardi e Veneti a confronto, Franco Angeli, Milano 2002; "Internazionlizzazione dei sistemi locali di sviluppo – dalle analisi alle politiche", in E. Rullani, S. Micelli, M. Chiarvesio, G. Corò, Formez 2003. Redazione dei casi studio.

Dottorato in Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence. Permanent Researcher in Political Science at the Research Institute on Judicial Systems of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Bologna. Member of the Global Governance Programme Network and of the Center for Judicial Cooperation, European University Institute, Fiesole. Expert scholar for the Commission for the Efficiency of Justice of the Council of Europe. Was Scientific Coordinator and Lecturer at the Summer School in Public Policy of the University of Florence. Research interests: Public policy analysis; International Judicial Networks and Global Governance; Judicial System Reforms and Anti-Corruption Policies; EU enlargement.

Ph.D. in Architecture, City, and Design from Università Iuav di Venezia, is an Architect and Urban Planner. His research investigates climate adaptation planning approaches for cities and territories. He is a Planning and Climate Change LAB member and research facilitator at Iuav. Since March 2018, he has studied urban design processes and strategies based on international cooperation. Since July 2018, he has carried out several research fellowships funded by the EU investment programs Interreg Italy-Croatia, Interreg Italy-Slovenia, and the Life program aimed at updating territorial governance processes for the management of climate change impacts. He is a Climate Pact Ambassador and represents Università Iuav di Venezia at UNFCCC. Latest publications: 1. Il paradosso della città in contrazione: la disaggregazione urbana come occasione di resilienza. Carlo Federico dall'Omo, et al. (2022). PLANUM. 2. Multi-Risk Climate Mapping for the Adaptation of the Venice Metropolitan Area. Carlo Federico dall'Omo et al. (2021). SUSTAINABILITY. 3. Coastal areas in transition. Assessment integration techniques to support local adaptation strategies to climate impacts. Carlo Federico dall'Omo et al. (2020). Policy Brief. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. 4. Land–Sea Interaction: Integrating Climate Adaptation Planning and Maritime Spatial Planning in the North Adriatic Basin. Carlo Federico dall'Omo et al. (2020). SUSTAINABILITY.

B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. (Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg). Professor at the Department of Art History of EUSPb and at the Faculty of Foreign Art of Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg. At EUSPb he teaches "Analysis of the Painting" and "Semiotics of Arts". In 1992-2000 he lectured at Colleges and Universities of California, Colorado, Mississippi and was Visiting Professor at Connecticut College. His research interests include: Western European and Russian painting, Fine Art Theory, Biblical Iconography, Structural Methodology. Publications include books on Problems of Composition in 17th Century European Painting, on Pieter Bruegel, on French Painting viewed from Russia and on Masterpieces of Russian Paintings. He is also an artist himself.

BA Cultural and Political Studies, MA Sociology and Philosophy, PhD Human Geography, all University of Exeter. Currently Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. I have also worked at the University of Brighton, in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. My research specialisms include Infrastructure, deindustrialisation and change, and Geographies of authority and experience. My most recent publications are: Dawney,L. (2019). Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(1), 33-49; Dawney,L. (2021). The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39 (3), 405-422; Dawney,L. (2020). Figurations of Wounding: Soldiers’ Bodies, Authority, and the Militarisation of Everyday Life. Geopolitics, 25(5), 1099-1117.

BEc (Western Australia), BPhil (Oxford), PhD (Australian National University, Camberra). Professor of Economics at Duke, presently carrying out a research on Art and Economics at VIU TeDis Center. Previously taught at Monash University (Victoria, Australia) and at the University of Amsterdam. Was Adjunct-directeur, Economic Research Dep't of the ABN Bank, Amsterdam. Recent publications include: "Size and Taste. Taking the Measure of the History of Art Markets," in S.Cavaciocchi (ed.), Economia e Arte. Secc. XIII-XVIII (Florence: Le Monnier 2003), 78-91; "Auctioning paintings in late Seventeenth-Century London: Rules, Segmentation and Prices in an Emergent Market," in Victor A. Ginsburgh (ed.), Economics of Art and Culture (Amsterdam: Elsevier 2004) 97-128; "Visualizing the gains from trade, mid-1870s to 1962," with the assistance of E.Roy Weintraub, European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 10 (2004), 551-72; "Smith on Private Provision of the Arts," (with Jonathan A. Greene) in History of Political Economy 37 (2005), special issue on Economists' Cases for the Arts; "The History of Art Markets," (with Hans J. Van Miegroet), ch. 3 of Elsevie-North Holland Economic Handbook of Art and Culture, edited by Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby (2005); "Mapping Markets for Paintings in Europe, 1450-1750, edited with Hans J. Van Miegroet, Tunrhout: Brepols, 2006.

Adriana de Miranda is an architect and art historian, with a special interest in the history of Mediterranean architecture. She earned her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and was appointed as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received Master degrees in History of Medieval and Modern Art (Catholic University of Milan), in Quaternary Prehistory and Archaeology (University of Ferrara), Art History (University of Padova) and a laurea in Architecture (Polytechnic of Milan). Her research focuses on Cultural heritage preservation, Medieval and Renaissance history of art and architecture, Environmental design, Indigenous building and design traditions, pre-modern Mediterranean and Islamic landscape and architecture, historical water typologies and hydraulic devices.

Architect and Full Professor of Architecture at Iuav. Teaching interests: Foundations and Applications of Descriptive Geometry; Theory and History of Representation Methods; Architectural Drawing in Landscape Architecture. He has written books and essays on the theme of representation, the history of images and land art. Edited the critical edition of the works and treatises on perspective by friar Jean François Niceron (1613–1646), reconstructing – digitally and physically – the optical devices and tricheries designed by him. He is also the Scientific co-ordinator of the surveying program (with laser scanner technology) of the anamorphic paintings hosted in the Monastery of Trinità dei Monti (Rome). He curated exhibitions in Italy, Germany and Sweden.

PhD in international law, University of Padua, Italy, Associate professor of international law, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Member of the Academic Council, VIU, Venice, Italy, Delegate of the Rector for gender equality and for the Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
Affiliate to the Manchester international law Centre, UK.
Main interests of research: countering violence against women in international and European law, environmental law, rights of nature and ecocentric approaches to law.
She has been teaching at VIU since 2016, where she also started the Model European Union, a simulation of the activity of EU legislative bodies.
Among her publications, the book Violence against women’s health in international law, Manchester University press, 2020; a report for the European Commission on the criminalization of violence against women in 31 European States, 2021; the chapter Health, in Tipping Points in international law (J. Haskell and J. d’Aspremont eds), Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Roberto De Vogli is Associate Professor at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology of the University of Padua and Vice-Director of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua. He is also honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. In 2003 De Vogli earned his PhD on Public Policy and global health concentration at the School of Public Health Department of Community Health Sciences, University of California Los Angeles where he also earned MPH (Global Health concentration). He got the state license in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua after his laurea. His professional interests are: - Psychopathologies and Health Effects of the Global Economic Crisis; - Political Economy of Health and Sustainable Wellbeing; - Globalization and Social Determinants of Dietary Patterns and Obesity; - Psychosocial and Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Inequality and Health Behaviors

BA in Law (KU Leuven) & MA in Law (KU Leuven / Paris I – Pantheon-Sorbonne); PhD in Law with a comparative thesis on Authenticity problems in the art trade (KU Leuven); Post-doc as BAEF fellow with a comparative project on Provenance issues in the art trade (Stanford Law School - USA). Professor of Law (KU Leuven – Faculty of law). Visiting Professor of Law at China-EU School of Law (China University of Political Science and Law - Beijing). Main fields of teaching: Introduction to law, Legal Methodology, Comparative Law and Art & Cultural Heritage Law. Main fields of research: Art & Cultural Heritage Law (international art trade, auction houses, looted art, WWII, forgeries & fakes, heritage protection, museum management, liability of art experts, restitution of colonial heritage) & Comparative Law (small states, legal consequences of colonization, comparative private law).

Laurea at the Department of History of Ca' Foscari, where he teaches Economic History. In the previous years, he also taught Methodology of Historical research, Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences and Modern History. Was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1999 was visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology of UCLA and, in 2000, was visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics of Keio University, Tokyo. Member of the European and the American Social Science History Associations. His areas of interest include History of the Family, Historical Demography, Database development and applications to historical research, Multivariate exploratory data analysis, Event History Analysis, Social Network Analysis. He is currently involved in the Eurasia Project on Population and Family History, a multidisciplinary and comparative research network, with the cooperation of scholars from different European, American and Japanese Universities. Recent edited: with Marco Breschi and Pier Paolo Viazzo, Piccolo è bello. Approcci microanalitici alla ricerca storico-demografica, Udine: Forum 2003; and with Michel Oris, When Dad Died. Individuals and Families Coping with Distress in Past Societies, Bern: Peter Lang 2002. Chapters in collective volumes include: "Socio-economic Factors in Infant and Child Mortality: Venice in Mid-Nineteenth Century", in Marco Breschi and Lucia Pozzi (eds.), The Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Past European Populations, Udine – Sassari 2004; with Marco Breschi and Matteo Manfredini, "Mortality and Environment in Three Emilian, Tuscan and Venetian Communities, 1800-1883" and with Michel Oris and Marco Breschi, "Infant and Child Mortality", both in Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, James Lee, et al., Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900, Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press 2004.

Master in History of Modern Art (Ca’ Foscari), PhD in Theories and History of Arts (SSAV). Lecturer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where she’s a member of the Digital Humanities Labo. She’s Project Head of the Urban Reconstruction for the “Venice Time Machine” project and for “Replica”, the digitization of 1 million photos of works or Art in the Venice Cini Foundation. Was teaching Assistant in Urban History and History of Architecture at Iuav and Research Fellow at the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence. Taught at the VIU Summer School “Visualizing Venice” and was Coordinator of the Ca’ Foscari-EPFL Fall School in Digital Humanities. Author of essays about Venetian Art and Architecture in the ‘Long Renaissance’. Her research interests focus on the production and circulation of artistic and architectural knowledge in Europe between the 16th and 18th Centuries, with a stress on North- South relationships and influences.

Professor of English Literature at LMU, board member of the German Shakespeare Association, co-editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, and member of a DFG research group ("Beginnings in Modernity") and a research network ("Pluralization and Authority in Early Modern Europe"). He took his degrees in Berlin and Canterbury, UK, and has published widely in English, Postcolonial and Renaissance Studies. His monographs include: Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction. Uni-Wissen. Stuttgart: Klett 2008; Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture (Early Modern Literature in History). London, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan 2006; Caribbean-English Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures). London, New York: Routledge 2002, Paperback reissue 2006. He edited A History of Postcolonial Literature in 12½ Books (Handbücher zum literaturwissen-schaftlichen Studium, Bd. 8), Trier: WVT 2007 and (with Susanne Rupp) Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Bd. 86), ed. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi 2005.

Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua. Director of the MA Programme in EU policies, project-management and funding. Scientific Director of the Observatory on Sustainability, Equality and Justice (OSES-UNIPD). Was involved (as project leader or participant) in several research and cooperation projects concerning governance architectures and policy strategies in the EU. Research interests focus on policy design, implementation, learning and capacity-building in multi-level settings, with particular regard to EU policies for climate, regional and urban development, sustainability and eco-social transitions. Most recent publications include: (2022) “Catching up with the European Union’s recovery and resilience agenda: green transition reforms in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan”. Contemporary Italian Politics (with B.Cotta), (2021) “Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance”, Policy Sciences, 54(3), pp.507-528 (with A. Zito); (2021) “Governing by Enabling in Multilevel Systems: Capacity Building and Local Climate Action in the European Union”. Journal of Common Market Studies, pp.1475-1494 (with A. Prontera); (2020) “Experiments in EU climate governance: the unfulfilled potential of the Covenant of Mayors”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 20 (4), pp. 122-142 (with G.Acconcia, L.Bendlin, X.Ruis-Campillo).

MA and PhD in History of Art at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Chair of the Department of History of Art at EUSP. He is also Professor at the Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. Was Visiting Professor at Brown University (US) and at the University of Freiburg (Germany), research Fellow at Columbia University (US). Major areas of research: Russian-Western Art relations and influences; Problems of identity in Russian art in the 19th and 20th centuries; History of art criticism (Russian and Western); History of the 19th and 20th century art; Cultural history of Russian emigration after 1917; Relations of Russian literature and art in the early 20th century. Edited: Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1898-1936. A Critical Anthology. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.

Graduated from Oxford University. Teaches American Literature at Ca' Foscari. In recent years has taught on exchange schemes in Atlanta, Amsterdam, Oulu and Turku. Publications include: Giovane poesia inglese, an anthology of contemporary British poetry in collaboration with A. Scarsella (Treviso: Edizioni del Leone, 1996); A Study of the English Verb (Venezia: Supernova, 1994); Someone's Road Home: Questions of Home and Exile in American Narrative Poetry (Udine: Campanotto Editore, 2003). Main field of study is American poetry, and in this area he has published on Longfellow, Melville, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Anthony Hecht and Andrew Hudgins among others. He is also interested in the relationship between British and American writers and Italy and in this connection he has published on Shelley, Byron, Ruskin and Henry James. Has published four thrillers set in England and Italy (e.g. A Nice Steady Job. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994 and, set in Venice, Every picture tells a story. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991). Has translated widely from Italian. For The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing (Oxford University Press, 1999) wrote the entry on "Crime and Mystery Writing in Italy". He has also published on Raymond Chandler. For The Time-Out Guide to Venice he regularly writes and updates the "sightseeing" chapters on the sestieri of Venice and a chapter on the literary image of Venice. Current research projects include a study of metrical and stanzaic schemes in contemporary narrative poetry and the use of historical themes in American poetry.

Carola Drago has an MA in Asian Languages and Culture from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she is currently pursuing a Professional Master's Degree in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language and Promotion of Italian Culture. She has been teaching Italian with the Istituto Venezia since 2022. Through her own studies and experiences in language and cultural exchange, including being an active member of the Erasmus Student Network while a student, she has gained in-depth insights into language acquisition and learning and has become a gifted teacher.

Maîtrise (M.A.) of French Literature (Paris VIII, St. Denis), Dr. phil. in Romance Philology (LMU). Postdoctoral Assistant at the Institut für Romanische Philologie, LMU. Was assistant at Romanisches Seminar, University of Kiel (1996-2000) and postdoctoral fellow at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (2005-06). Current research on the relation between cartography and Spanish/Portuguese literature in the early modern period. Other fields of interest: theory of cultural space, subjectivity and self-practices, history of knowledge and film studies. Author of a study on literary writing and ascetics (Asketisches Schreiben: Rousseau und Flaubert als Paradigmen literarischer Selbstpraxis in der Moderne. Tübingen: Narr 2003). Co-editor of several books on the theory of cultural space (recently: Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2006), on hypermedia (Internet und Hypermedien in der Romanistik. Theorie – Ästhetik – Praxis. 2004. Suppl. of Philologie im Netz, 2004) and on autobiography and mediality (Automedialität. Subjektkonstitution in Schrift, Bild und neuen Medien. München: Fink - forthcoming). Articles on travel literature and maps in the early modern period, French literature of the 19th century, modern narrative in Latin America.

Doctor of Sciences in Chemistry (St. Petersburg Technological Institute). Researcher and lecturer, Interdepartmental Center “Petersburg Judaica” of EUSP. Taught Jewish ethnography, Jewish folklore, History of Yiddish Literature, History of Jewish Folkloristic and Ethnography, Russian-Jewish Literature at EUSP and at St. Petersburg State University. Took part in the foundation of St. Petersburg Jewish University (PJU), now St. Petersburg Institute of Judaica (PIJ), where he was Head of the Institute of Jewish Diaspora Research. Has done field works in Ukraine, Moldavia, Byelorussia, Baltic States, Central Asia, Caucasus and Romania. Worked on the ethnography and folk culture of Ashkenazim, Bukhara Jews, Mountain Jews, Georgian Jews, Russian Jewdaisers sects.