(Laurea) B.A. in Languages and Culture of Asia and Africa (L’Orientale, Naples); (Laurea Magistrale) M.A. in Language Sciences (Ca’ Foscari).
Specialized in Italian as a Foreign Language, English, German and Amharic. Spent periods of study in Hamburg and Addis Ababa. Professor of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute.

MA in Architecture (Iuav); EMU–Joint European Postgraduate masters’ degree in Urbanism (KU Leuven, TU Delft, UPC Barcelona); European PhD in Urban Planning (Roma Tre). Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Architecture and Arts, Iuav, where she is involved in the Interreg Project DIVA “Development of Innovation Eco-Systems and Value Chains: supporting cross-border innovation through creative industries” and member of the Citylab Research Cluster. Founding member and coordinator of Venice local unit of ETICity – Exploring Territories, Imagining the City - urban researchers association. Member of the research network Reseau LIEU (Logiques Identités Espaces Urbanités). She has been part of national and international researches in Italy, Belgium and UK. Research outcomes have been publications, exhibitions and audio-visual productions dealing with cultures of production and regeneration of urban space and its practices, specifically changing territories after great socio-economic transformations (Rome and Veneto region) and after natural disasters (Skopje and L’Aquila). Some have been exhibited at Venice Architecture Biennale (2014, 2018). She has extensive experience in teaching Urban Design and Planning at Iuav and Roma Tre University, organizing field trips and seminars, theoretical and methodological classes, carrying students along the creative process for architectural and urban enquiry and projects.

B.A in Geography, Sociology and Anthropology and M.A in Geography (TAU); Ph.D in Social Administration & Geography (LSE). Associate Professor specialising in Environmental Justice, Human Rights and Planning, Gender and Planning at TAU, where she is the Head of the PEC - Planning for the Environment with Communities – Lab. Professional Consultant on regional and environmental development, social aspects of planning, gender planning. Was Head of the Women and Gender Studies Program at TAU. She is one of the founders and past-Chairs of Bimkom-Planners, Israeli non-profit organization seeking to enhance the link between Human Rights, Social Justice and the planning process. Her research mainly relates to social and human rights aspects of planning, gender planning, globalisation and its affects on the built environment. She is editor of Gender, Planning and Human Rights, Routledge, London 1999. Publications in English include The Global City and the Holy City: Narratives of Knowledge, Planning and Diversity, Pearson, London 2004; 'The Right to the Gendered City: different formations of belonging in Everyday life' The Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 14(3), 2005, pp. 217–231; "Identity Issues and Local Governance: Women's Everyday Life in the City", Social Identities, Vol. 11 (1), 2005, pp. 23-39.

Viviana Ferrario, PhD, is professor of Landscape Geography at the Iuav University di Venice, where she coordinates the research unit CULTLAND - Cultural Landscape since 2016. She is member of the scientific committee of the International Library of Agriculture “La Vigna” and member of the Scientific Committee of the Alpine Adriatic Rector Conference. She is the President of the Comelico-Dolomites Foundation. Active in the field of landscape studies, she coordinates research about rural landscape transformations, with reference to agricultural change, urbanization, heritagisation. Among her publications: Ferrario V., Letture geografiche di un paesaggio storico. La coltura promiscua della vite nel Veneto, Cierre, 2019; “Learning from agricultural heritage? Lessons of sustainability from Italian ‘coltura promiscua’”, Sustainability, 13(16), 8879.

Kurt Feyaerts (1968) is full professor in Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at KU Leuven, where he teaches courses in German linguistics and proficiency, but also ‘Multimodality’ and a course on ‘Humor and creativity in language’. In 1997 he obtained his PhD in Linguistics at KU Leuven with a dissertation on the role of metonymy as a basic mechanism of creativity construal in German. Kurt’s initial research expertise is situated in the domain of cognitive linguistics (focus on construal mechanisms like metaphor, metonymy, viewpoint), where the communicative usage event in its complexity and richness takes center stage rather than the language system per se.
A second research focus is oriented towards human interaction as a complex multimodal process, in the analysis of which not only verbal, but also non-verbal signals like hand and head gestures, body posture, facial expression and gaze are involved as meaningful elements. In this regard, a specific research topic - in collaboration with LUCA School of Arts at KU Leuven - concerns the (inter)disciplinary analysis of (non-)verbal communication among performers during a music performance. A more recent research focus concerns the analysis of Linguistic Landscapes, investigating, among other things, to what extent (architectural) space and materialities represent important resources for the process of meaning coordination.
He recently (co-)supervised four PhD projects on (i) Aspects of depiction in face-to-face interaction (Huichieh Hsu), (ii) Eye gaze in musical interaction (Sarah Vandemoortele), (iii) Foreigner talk (Valentijn Prové, ongoing), and (iv) The multimodal expression of stance in musical instructions (Katharina Meissl, ongoing).

Laurea in Communication sciences (Padova), Dottorato di eccellenza in Network Economy and Knowledge Management (SSAV). Ricercatore in Business Economics and Management at Ca' Foscari. Researcher at TeDis Center of VIU. Coordinator of the Globalization Program of the SHSS. Was Visiting PhD student at the Industrial Performance Center of MIT. Main teaching fields: Operations Management, E-Business, Knowledge Economics, Business Economics and Management, Networks and Business Strategies, International Management. Published (with S. Micelli and D. Bedin), NetGlobo: Un nuovo modello a rete per i processi di internazionalizzazione, Franco Angeli, Milano 2008. Publications in English include: (with E. Di Maria) (2008) "Communities of Consumption and Made in Italy", Industry & Innovation, vol. 15 (2): 179-197 Special issue on Managing Open Innovation through Online Communities; (with A. Forte) (2004) "Re-Use of Solutions and Open Source Software in Public Administrations", in Di Maria, E., Micelli, S. (eds), Online Citizenship, Springer-Verlag, NY; (with M. Bettiol) (2009) "The impact of Web 2.0 Technologies on Marketing Strategies: an Exploratory Study on SMEs in Made in Italy", Proceedings of the 8th International Marketing Trends Congress, January 16th-17th, ESCP-EAP, Paris, France; (with E. Di Maria) (2007), "Communities of Consumption and Made in Italy", paper presented at the EURAM Annual Conference, Current Management Thinking: Drawing from Social Sciences and Humanities to Address Contemporary Challenges, Paris, 16-19 May 2007; (with P. Legrenzi, S. Micelli and M. Bettiol), (2004), "Design and Competitiveness: the Case of Italian Industrial Districts", working paper presented at the second National conference of the Association for cognitive sciences (AISC), Work and Cognitive Sciences: Environments, Technologies, Activities, Ivrea, 19-20 march 2004.

Laurea in Modern Languages and Literature (Roma), PhD in Comparative Literature (Illinois). Professor at the Department of Romance Studies, Duke University. Already taught at VIU in Spring 2001 and Fall 2004. Her interests include: Renaissance literature, theater, women's study, early modern medicine, and psychonalysis. She has written on femininity and power in Renaissance discourses, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto (Stanford, 1992) and on issues of masculinity and paternity, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (Duke, 2003). Editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (Duke, 1999); and co-editor of two collections of essays, Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (Princeton, 1994) and Generation and Degeneration (Duke, 2001). Also published the critical edition of a 16th century Italian chivalric romance, Moderata Fonte's Tredici canti del Floridoro (Mucchi, 1995), and of the only prose romance written by a woman in the Renaissance, Giulia Bigolina's Urania (Bulzoni, 2002 - forthcoming in English as Urania, a Romance printed by University of Chicago Press). She is co-editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Laurea in Asian Languages and Literatures with focus on Japanese Language and Culture (Ca' Foscari). Lived and worked in Tokyo in 2001-2002. Specialized in Italian as a Foreign Language (Itals and Cedils Certificates, Ca' Foscari), in teaching Italian to learners with Dyslexia (Masterclass, Ca' Foscari) and in the use of Theater techniques in language teaching. Instructor of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute. Taught at the "L. Heilmann" Inter-faculty Centre for Applied and Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Bologna. Taught beginners and intermediate Italian courses at VIU until Spring 2013.

Robin Fleming is Professor of History at Boston College. She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She writes and teaches Roman and early medieval history, migration and mobility, material culture, and historical archaeology. She is the author of Kings and Lords in Conquest Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Domesday Book and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Britain after Rome (Penguin, 2010), the Material Fall of Roman Britain (University of Pennsylvania, 2021), and has just completed a book on dogs in Roman Britain. She has been awarded a Guggenheim, has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and The Radcliffe Institute, and is a MacArthur Fellow. She is President of the Medieval Academy of America.

Alessandra Fornetti is Executive Director of the TEN Program on Sustainability at the Venice International University (VIU), Italy. With a humanities background, she has been working for almost two decades in the field of sustainable development, promoting international projects on capacity building, communication and dissemination with experiences in China, East Europe and Central Asia. In her role as Executive Director, she promotes the dialogue among the different stakeholders to support the creation of knowledge networks bridging research, policy makers, entrepreneurs and the wide public. As Coordinator of H2020 project QUEST – Quality and Effectiveness in Science and Technology Communication she has been leading an interdisciplinary group of scholars and professionals investigating and supporting quality science communication in different media, such as journalism, social media and museums for scientists and communicators. She is currently involved in a number of projects and initiatives on science communication and, more widely, on the communication of research results in a variety of field including Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Heritage and Climate change.

MSc and PhD in Economics (Waseda University). Associate Professor of Economics, Waseda University. Areas of teaching: Microeconomics, Applied Microeconometrics, Health Economics. Recent publications include (1) Shen, Y., Fu, R., and Noguchi, H. (2021). COVID‐19's lockdown and crime victimization: The state of emergency under the Abe administration. Asian Economic Policy Review, 16(2), 327-348.; (2) Fu, R., Noguchi, H., Kawamura, A., Takahashi, H., and Tamiya, N. (2017). Spillover effect of Japanese long-term care insurance as an employment promotion policy for family caregivers. Journal of health economics, 56, 103-112.

B.A. in English Literature and M.A. in Psychology (Waseda), Ph.D. in Speech and Language Pathology (Northwestern University, Illinois). Full Professor of Psychology, Department of Literature of Waseda University. Was Visiting Researcher in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegi-Mellon University and Researcher at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. Member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Japanese Society for Neuropsychology and the Japanese Society for Disorders of Higher Cortical Functions. Publications include: Language and Brain: Text Book for Education through Broadcasting, 2007; Understanding neuropsychological writing disorders from computational theory of cursive handwriting, "Journal of Clinical Neurology", 2007; Introduction to logical argumentation, NHK Book Publishing Co. 2002; Introduction to logical thinking and expression, NHK Book publishing Co. 2005; Fundamental rules for logical dialoge, Chikuma Book Publishing Co. 2007.

B.S. in Agricultural Sciences (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), M.S. in Applied Economics and Statistics and Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Economics (University of Minnesota). Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Waseda, where he is Director of the Waseda Organization for Japan-US Studies. Previously taught at Yokohama City University. Teaches Agricultural and Food Economies, Introductory Macroeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics at Undergraduate level; Eurasian Area Studies at Postgraduate level. Research interest on Developing and Transition Economies as well as Agricultural and Food Economies. More recent publications include: (with M.Voros), "Case of Agricultural Production", in Michael Bourlakis, "Intelligent Agrifood Chains and Networks", Blackwells, Oxford 2009; (with K.Palanisami and M.Ranganathan), "Stabilization Value of Groundwater in Tank Irrigation Systems", Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, 63/1,126-134, 2008; (with S.Archibald, Z.Bochniarz, T.Srebotnjak), "Transition and Sustainability: Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve for Water Pollution in 25 Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States", Environment Policy and Governance, 19/2,73-98, 2009; and "Productivity Growth in New Members of the EU" (paper presented at the Mini-Symposium of the 27th International Conference organized by the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Beijing, China, August 15-21, 2009). He is also author, with B.Senauer, of "Reducing Obesity: What Americans can learn from the Japanese", Choices, American Agricultural Economic Association, The Fourth Quarter, 265-269, 2006.

B.A. in Sociology (Notre Dame), M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. in Sociology (Yale). Professor, Department of Sociology, at Duke where he was director of the Markets & Management Studies Program. Interested in Sociology of Development; Organization Theory and Multinational Corporations; Economic Sociology; Political Economy; Research Methods in Macrosociology; Social Change; Latin America; East Asia. Fluent in Spanish. Co-director of the Global Value Chains Initiative, an international research workshop supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Sociology. Has conducted and still conducts consulting activities for UN agencies and other international institutions such as the World Bank and the WHO. Recent books include: Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia (Princeton University Press, 1990), co-edited with Donald Wyman; Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (Praeger Publishers, 1994), co-edited with Miguel Korzeniewicz; The Value of Value Chains: Spreading the Gains from Globalisation (special issue of the IDS Bulletin, vol. 32, no. 3, July 2001), co-edited with Raphael Kaplinsky; Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA (Temple University Press, 2002), co-edited with David Spener and Jennifer Bair; Latin America in the 21st Century: Toward a New Sociopolitical Matrix (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003), co-edited with Manuel Antonio Garretón, Marcelo Cavarozzi, Peter S. Cleaves, and Jonathan Hartlyn.

Laurea in Architecture (IUAV). Professor in Architectural Restoration at IUAV, VIU Fellow, Vice-Director of the Shangai Jiao Tong University International Research Center for Architectural Heritage Conservation. Former member of the VIU Academic Council and former Professor and Chair of Architectural Restoration at Iuav.. Visiting Professor at the Schools of Architecture of the Universities of Tokyo, Jerusalem, and East London where he was responsible for the M.Sc. in Architectural Conservation. Has conducted research in Armenia, Japan and Nepal. World Heritage City nomination consultant in Nepal, Republic of Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Moldova, for Unesco; expert for the restoration of Ekmekcizade Caravanserai (Edirne, Turkey) for the European Commission. Professional work in Venice include: the restoration of St. Mark’s clock-tower; the restoration and reuse of the water cistern of the Fondaco dei Turchi.

Full Professor of Environmental Economics at the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari, and Dean of VIU from 2016 to 2022. Previously taught at the Universities of Padua and Milan. His research focuses on sustainability science, valuation methods, the integrated assessment and management of natural resources, focusing on water and agriculture, local to regional scales, and the interactions with global change drivers (climatic and socio-economic). Recent collaborations and consultancies include institutions such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, World Bank, WWF. In Italy he cooperates with the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and other research centres and public administrations. Teaching areas: Natural Resources Management and Climate Change; Economics of the Environment; Methods of Spatial Analysis; Adaptive Management of Agro-ecosystems.

Diploma in Architecture (Technische Universität Berlin); Master of Science (Columbia University, New York); architect in USA, Italy and Germany; Ph.D. in Architecture Theory and Aesthetics (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Fellow in residence at the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche (Weimar); he taught at Bauhaus-Univeristät Weimar, Universität Karlsruhe, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Waseda-Bauhaus School in Saga; since 2003 Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Architecture at the G-International Studio of Waseda University in Tokyo. Author of The Return of the Repressed – Towards a Critical Theory of Ornament in Architectural Modernism (in German, Weimar 2003) and Venice Is Not Fallen From Heaven (in German, Tübingen 1988); co-editor (with Gerhard Schweppenhäuser) of the book series Philosophische Diskurse (presently 5 volumes, Weimar 1999-2002); editor of Dis-Oriented: Japan, the West and The Concept of Aestheticentrism (in German, Weimar 1998). Other publications include Exoticism Reversed – On Japanese Theme Parks (2003); Weltausstellungen – Die Erfindung der Architektur als Massenmedium (2002); Vom speechact zum sketchact – Architektur als Technik des Körpers (2002) "...Bis zum Umgekehrten hindurch..." – Nietzsche und die Physiologie der Architektur (2001); Japanese Theme Parks (2000). Forthcoming Nietzsche: Nihilism, Décadence and the Physiology of Architecture.

BA in Modern Languages and Literatures (University of Padua), MA in Linguistics (University of Manchester), PhD in Linguistics (University of Manchester). Associate Professor of Migration and Multilingualism in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Exeter. His research and teaching interests are societal multilingualism, language maintenance and shift, and language contact in immigrant communities in particular in Italy, UK, East Timor and Australia. His current research, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, focuses on the process of onward migration from Italy to the UK and its sociolinguistic implications. Latest publications include: “Italian-Bangladeshis in London: Onward Migration and its Effects on Their Linguistic Repertoire”, Languages, 6(3) (2021); “Onward migration from Italy to the UK: reshaped linguistic repertoires and the role of English”, in Meierkord C, Schneider E (Eds.) World Englishes at the Grassroots, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, (2021): 255-271; Co-edited with Matthias Wolny “Italo-Romance dialects in the linguistic repertoire of immigrants in Italy”, Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities (2022).

BA in English Literature (College of the Holy Cross), MA and PhD in English Literature (University of Connecticut). Full Professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of UAB, where he is Director of the Institute for International and Intercultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies. He was UAB representative in the VIU Board of Governors. Already taught in the VIU Semester Program in Fall 1999. Translated Chinese classics (e.g. Sunzi and Laozi) into Catalan. Latest works include: «Modernidad versus postmodernidad en China», Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 63.(2003): 9-32; «La cultura china en el diálogo Oriente/Occidente».Temas para el debate, 125.(2005): 31-34; «Socio-cultural aspects of the relationship between the EU and East Asia, with particular reference to China». Asia Europe Journal 4. (2006): 265-294; «Xina: Tradició, modernitat i ideologia a l'era de la globalització. El buidatge ideològic del pensament tradicional i la crisi del buit ideològic».dcidob. pensament i religió a l'Àsia. (2006): 9-13; «The modernisation of China and the Chinese critique of modernity». Revista HMiC: Història Moderna i Contemporània 4.(2006). With Ó. Pujol he is author of «Sistemes de pensament, religions i ideologies a Àsia. Una mirada més enllà del pensament euroamericà». dcidob. pensament i religió a l'Àsia, 99 (2006): 4-8.

Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy and German Literature (LMU); studies in Religious Sciences (La Sapienza, Rome); PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (LMU). Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of LMU, where she is Erasmus Coordinator. Fields of interest: Anthropological Perspectives Anthropology, Cultural Creativity, Anthropology of Catholicism, Afro- American Religions. Regional areas of interest: Latin America, Caribbean (in particular Cuba), Mediterranean (in particular Southern Italy and Spain). She is author of books on Cultural Creativity in the legendary cult of the Madonna dell’Arco in Naples and on Modern Art and Religious Cults in Cuba.

MA in English Literature and PhD in the Humanities (TAU). Professor, Department of English and American Studies at TAU. Formerly Visiting Scholar at Stanford and Princeton. Her fields of interest are Narrative theory, Postmodernism, Genre Theory, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science and Literature, Urban Studies, Multiculturalism, the Victorian Novel, Charles Dickens. One of her most recent books is Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature, New York: Routledge, 2014.

Maîtrise de Philosophie and Doctorat des lettres (Sorbonne), Doctor en Filosofia (Barcelona). Professor of Philosophy at UAB. Taught at the Universities of Dijon, Paris III and Basque Country. He is coordinator of the International Ontology Congress, vicepresident of the Iberian Society of Greek Philosophy and member of the École Doctorale of the University of Paris X. He is head of a research program on "The Real and the Virtual" from the point of view of the Classical Philosophy, sponsored by the Consejo General de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica. Won the Anagrama Essay Prize with Filosofía, el saber del esclavo, Anagrama, Barcelona 1989 and the Espasa de Ensayo Prize with Entre Lobos y autómatas: la causa del hombre, Madrid 2006. Among his most recent books are: El drama de la Ciudad Ideal, Rev. Ed. Taurus Bolsillo, Madrid 1996; La tentación pitagórica. Síntesis, Madrid 1998; Los ojos del Murciélago. Seix Barral, Barcelona 2000. Publications in English include: as editor, Physis (From Greek thought to Quantum Mechanics), Ontological Studies/Cuadernos de Ontología, S.Sebastián 2002 and, as author, "Quantum Physis and the problem of the ontological priority between continuous quantity and discrete quantity" in M. Ferrero (ed.) Quantum Physis. Kluwer, Netherlands 1997; El hombre un animal singular, La Esfera de los Libros Madrid 2005.

B.A. in Psychology and Sociology (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at TAU, where he co-chairs the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Ecology and Society. Taught and did research at Indiana University-Bloomington, Free University-Berlin, Max-Planck Institute for Education and Human Development, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Editor of "Environmental Politics" and Associate Editor of "Society and Natural Resources". Chair of the High School Curriculum Committee for the Social Sciences by appointment of Israel's Minister of Education. Research and teaching subjects include Sustainable Development, Globalization, Social Psychology, Public opinion and Environmentalism, Survey Research, Environmental and Medical Sociology. Author of a great number of monographs and research reports. Edited (with E. Yuchtman-Yaar and B. Strümpel) Socioeconomic change and individual adaptation: comparing East and West, Jai Press, Greenwich, Conn., 1994. Latest books in English include Sustainable society: toward the reconciliation of societal affluence and human survival, Routledge, London/New York, 1999. Main work in progress: Environmentalism and Environmental Awareness in International Context.

Jean-Christophe Graz is Professor of international relations at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, co-founder of the Centre of International History and Political Studies of Globalization (CRHIM), and, currently, Vice-Dean for research, ethics and doctoral schools at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. He has worked for the last twenty years on regulation issues in global political economy. His research focuses on transnational private governance, international standards, service offshoring, and more recently on labour and sustainability standards, risk and uncertainty, and platform capitalism. He most recent book is The Power of Standards: Hybrid authority and the Globalisation of Services (Cambridge University Press, 2019 – Open Access), for which he received the Joan Robinson Prize for the best monograph from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE).

BSc in Economics and trade (University of Trieste), MSc in Political Economy of Transition in Europe (London School of Economics), PhD in Social and Political Sciences (European University Institute). Igor Guardiancich is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies (SPGI) of the University of Padua. He has worked in academic institutions (University of Michigan, University of Southern Denmark, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Central European University, Scuola Normale Superiore, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) as well as in international organizations and NGOs, such as the International Labour Organization, European Commission, European Trade Union Institute, the Observatoire social européen, and so on. Guardiancich’s research is focused on political economy, public and social policy, European integration, transition in Central and Eastern Europe, social dialogue and industrial relations. His work includes the monograph Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis published by Routledge in 2013, and the volume co-edited together with Oscar Molina in 2017 for the ILO, entitled Talking through the Crisis: Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations Trends in Selected EU Countries. In addition to these books, he has published in highly ranked international peer-reviewed journals, such as European Union Politics, Governance, Journal of Common Market Studies, Regulation & Governance, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics and several others.

First degree in History and Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage (Iuav); Ph.D. in History of Architecture and City, Theories of Arts, Restoration (School for Advanced Studies in Venice). Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Architecture and History of Contemporary Architecture at Ca’ Foscari. Also teaches at the University of Padova. Also taught, as teaching assistant, at the University of Brescia. Was Research Fellow (assegnista) at Iuav and the University of Padova. Former researcher at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture (Università della Svizzera Italiana). Was Visiting Researcher at the Hermitage State Museum of Saint Petersburg. Areas of particular interest: the History of Italian Architecture and Saint Petersburg at the time of Peter the Great (doctoral dissertation was on the kunstkamera of Peter the Great). Was section curator of the exhibition Visualizing Venice: New Technologies for Urban History, Iuav University, Venice 2012.

Laurea with thesis in Photogrammetry (IUAV), Doctorate in Geodetic and Topographical Sciences (Politecnico, Milan). Professor of Topography and Cartography at IUAV, where he is Director of the Master in Digital Architecture and of the Photogrammetry and Cartography Labs. Taught at VIU in Fall 2012. Involved in research activities at the Department of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography at the Aristole University of Thessaloniki and at the National Hellenic Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage. Completed surveys of monuments in Italy and abroad, such as the Arena of Verona, the Arsenale and St. Mark's Square in Venice. Executed digital photoplanes of Venice and Milan, and the archaeological map of the city of Laodicea (Turkey). He works on organizing GIS and transmitting numerical cartography in networks. Also designs and creates software for handling digital images, photogrammetry and topography.

Laurea in Economics and Master in Economics of Local Development (Ca' Foscari). Doctoral student in Business Sciences (Udine). Taught "Regional Integration and Development in the Mediterranean Basin" for the Euro-Mediterranean School (ALTIS) and worked as tutor for the Master in Economic Sciences at Ca' Foscari. Was Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Tourism and Leisure of the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona and at the Center for Globalization, Governance, and Competitiveness (CGGC) of Duke University. Author of "Integrazione economica e benefici politici: un bilancio del partenariato euromediterraneo", Economia e Società Regionale, no. 98 (2), 2007, pp. 97-120. Research experience includes an Economic Report on the Footwear District of the Brenta River (March 2007), based on direct interviews, for the "Challenge Project" (Veneto Region). Among other things, he took part in the Summer School on Latin American Economies, organized in Santiago of Chile (summer 2004) by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and volunteered in several relief expeditions to a refugee camp in Bosnia-Hercegovina in 2000-2001.

Laurea in Architecture (IUAV), PhD in Architectural and Urban History (SSAV-Duke). Adjunct Professor at the University of Padua, where he teaches Architectural History. Also teaches at the University of Verona. His research concentrates on the fields of Italian Medieval Architecture, Renaissance Venetian Architecture, Early Modern Religious Architecture (in particular Benedictine) and Theology of Landscape. Publications include Tintoretto e l’architettura, Marsilio, Venezia 2018 (with Marsel Grosso) and “Research on lost buildings in Venice : the cathedral of San Pietro di Castello”, in Visualizing Venice, mapping and modeling time and change in a city, edited by Kristin L. Huffman, Andrea Giordano and Caroline Bruzelius, Abingdon, Routledge, 2019.

Assistant professor for Modern History at the History Department of the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland. He is member of the board of the Swiss Rural History Society. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the History of the Family, of Kinship and of Social Movements. In 2022 he has published a book on a new social history of sexuality in modern Europe. Since the beginning of 2020 he is leading a research project on the history of catholic confraternities in the alpine region (1700-1850). He is currently the chairman of the scientific council in a research project on the history of sexual abuse in the Swiss Catholic Church since 1950.