Gadi Algazi is a social historian, who teaches at the Department of History at Tel Aviv University and currently serves as director of the Minerva Center for German History there. His main fields of interest are the social and cultural history of Western Europe between 1350 and 1600, historical anthropology (especially the history of family, kinship and gender), the social history of colonialism in Israel/Palestine, particularly after 1948, and the history of science. Most recent publications: “Kepler’s Labors: Figurations of Scholarly Work c. 1600,” History of Science 61:4 (2023); “Nomadizing the Bedouin: Displacement, Resistance and Patronage in the Northern Negev under Israeli Rule, 1951/1952,” Journal of Palestine Studies 53:1 (2024); “The First Act in the Struggle of the Maʿbarot, 1951–1952: Contestation amid Subjection”, in Dafna Hirsch (ed.), Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives (New York, 2024).

BA, MA and PhD in Arabic Language and Literature (Hebrew University, Jerusalem). Associate Professor at the Department or Philosophy of TAU. Taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Was Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Carleton University of Ottawa and at Harvard, Priceton and Stanford Universities and Member of the advisory committee on graduate Islamic studies at Al-Qasimi Islamic College. Was advisor in peace negotiations for the Israeli Prime Minister. Author of Socrates in Mediaeval Arabic Literature, Leiden: Brill and Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991 (198 p); Socrates Arabus, Jerusalem, The Hebrew University Institute of Asian and African Studies, 1995, (413 pp); (with S. Abed), Al-Farabi's Philosophical Lexicon, Cambridge, The Gibb Memorial Trust, 2008, 2 vols. (1100 pp.). Most recent publications include: (2004) "Has Islam introduced a New Perception of Time?" Al-Usur al-Wusta, the Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists (University of Chicago), vol. 16, no. 2, pp.34-37; "Toward a Palestinian Arabic Emotive Lexicon: Invitation for Discussion". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 2005, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-13; (with Jeanne Brett), "Perceptions of Time and Their Impact on Negotiation in Arabic-Speaking Islamic World". Negotiation Journal, 23/1 (2007) 55-73; "Socrates in Arabic Tradition", The Blackwell Companion to Socrates, Ed. S. Ahbel-Rappe and R. Kamtekar, U. of Michigan, 2005, (pp. 317-336).

Degrees in History and Law, BA (Seoul National University, hereafter SNU), MA (SNU), MA (Regional Studies, Harvard University), Ph.D. in History of Korean-American Relations (SNU), and J.D. (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Previously he worked as a Junior Professor at the University of Tuebingen, Germany (April 2014 - October 2019). He came to Ca' Foscari in October 2019. He is doing a SPIN project titled "From European International Law to Asian One: Korean Experience, 1880s-1940s" (2021-23). Main teaching and research field: Modern Korean History, Law and Society, and International Law. Relevant publications in relation to teaching at VIU are “Modifying the Hague Convention?: US Military Occupation of Korea and Japanese Religious Property in Korea, 1945-1948,” Acta Koreana 21/1 (June 2018): 529-553 and “Historical Development of Judicial Independence in South Korea: Focus on Colonial and Post-Colonial Period,” in Sojin Lim and Niki J.P. Alsford eds., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea (Routledge, 2021), pp. 26-41, etc.

Geographer by higher education and traveller by passion, he had an international higher education, starting from a Fulbright scholarship at the University of California (USA), to continue into research (co-tutoring Ph. D) in Germany (at the University of Freiburg). Later on, during his international civil servant mandate at UNESCO, he obtained the International Certificate on Advanced Studies in Environmental Diplomacy at the University of Geneva. He served UNESCO (at the Venice Office and at the World Heritage Centre in Paris), dealing with the World Heritage Convention, the MaB Program and the Convention of Intangible Cultural Heritage. More recently, he initiated an international consultancy activity based on the issues of cultural and natural heritage management and he has coached the processes of UNESCO candidacies in various sectors (World Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Creative Cities) in different countries. Affiliated to the University of Padova, he does regularly lecture at the graduate level in various countries (University of Bethlehem, University of Freiburg, and University of Belgrade) on the topics of cultural and natural heritage, cultural diplomacy, international relationships and European Integration.

GBA in Commerce, MA in Law (Waseda). Professor, Waseda University School of Law. Member of the Task Force to design the Reformation of Personal Property Secured Transaction Laws for the Ministry of Justice of Japan. Was Visiting Scholar at the Columbia Law School and the University of Pennsylvania. Teaching Fields: Japanese Civil Law, Law of Obligations, Law of Secured Transactions, Mortgage Law and Comparative Studies with American Legal Issues. Published (in Japanese) book chapters, case reviews and articles in Law Journals. One of his main fields of research is that of mortgages and secured transactions in the United States and Japan, for which he was assigned a Waseda Research Award, also in recognition to his contribution to the international dissemination of Japanese Civil Law.

BA in Middle Eastern History and General History (TAU), PhD in History (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).
Full Professor at the Department of History and founder and Director of the Program on Renaissance Studies at Tau. Member of the editorial board of the "Mediterranean Historical Review" and "The Medieval Mediterranean". Member of the Commission for the Publication of Sources on Venetian History at the State Archives of Venice. Published extensively on Venetian overseas Possessions with particular focus on Cyprus and, more broadly, on the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Mediterranean World and on the Jews in the Levant and in Italy. Author of the books: Trading Nations. Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean (Brill, Leiden 1995), xi+237 pp.; Cyprus, The Franks and Venice(13th-16th Centuries) (Ashgate, London 2000) (Variorum Collected Studies Series CS 688), xii+332 pp.; The Italian Renaissance: The Emergence of a Secular Culture (Tel Aviv 2000), 144 pp. [in Hebrew].

B.A. in Political Science and General Studies, M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science (Hebrew University, Jerusalem). Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of TAU. Was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Research interests focus on the interrelations between Art and Politics, Political Thought, Intellectual History, Political Culture and Israeli Politics. Author of "The Jew as Destroyer of Culture in the National Socialist Ideology" in Patterns of Prejudice (1/1998). Publications in Hebrew include: Romanticism of Steel: Art & Politics in Nazi Germany (Magnes - The Hebrew University Press, 1999); The Labyrinth of Legitimacy: Referendum in Israel (Hakibutz Hameuhad, 1994) and -as editor- State and Religion Yearbook 1994-1995 (The Center for Progressive Judaism in Israel, Jerusalem 1996), She recently completed a book manuscript in Hebrew and English titled The Totalitarian Ideal: A Comparative Look at Politics and Art in Fascist Italy, Russia Under Stalin and Nazi Germany.

Member of the Fine Arts Department at Boston College since 1989. She has primarily taught Painting: foundations and advanced levels. She has received several grants and fellowships including, two awards from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation, two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a fellowship from The Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. Her work has been exhibited in New York, where she had four solo shows between 1985 and 1994, and in California, Boston, Florida, Pennsylvania and Ireland. Her work is in many prestigious collections. Mary received a BFA in painting from Boston University and a MED in Art Education from Lesley University. She also attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Laurea in Political Sciences (Milan), M.A. in African Studies (Soas, London), PhD in African History (Siena and Soas). General Secretary at VIU. Was advisor for The British Refugee Council, researcher and campaigner for Africa in the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, Head of Communications for Minority Rights Group International. Recently taught in the European Master in Mediterranean Intermediation at Ca' Foscari. Doctoral thesis focused on women's ownership and inheritance rights in the Fanti coastal areas of Ghana from the mid 1800s to the 1920s. Published, with M. De Ponte and E. Noli, Rights without peace. Human Rights and armed conflict, Florence, CEP, 1999 (in Italian). Forthcoming articles: 'Is this British Justice?' Perceptions of colonial justice in African newspapers published in the Gold Coast, 1874-1926, "Canadian Journal of African Studies" and Violations of fundamental rights against women and post-conflict settlements: the Liberian case in F. Declich (ed.), Women's rights five years after the Beijing Conference and the International Criminal Court.

Degrees in History and in Anthropology (Paris X); PhD in Sociology with an ethnographic thesis on Lega Nord activists (EHESS, Paris). Professor in Political Sociology at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques et Internationales (IEPI), University of Lausanne. Main Fields of Teaching: Political Sociology and Political Science (party politics, mobilizations, nationalism); Methodology (ethnographic and qualitative methods); Gender Studies (gender and political activism). Main Fields of Research: Political activism (party, unions, social movements); Gender and Politics; Race and Politics; Right-wing and conservative movements; Nationalism and identity-building; Ethnographic approaches (methodological and ethical questions).

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.

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. His research interests are also microbial adhesion to material surfaces related to food safety as well as physical description of the cities and societies.

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).

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).

Postdoctoral research fellow in International Law at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She holds a PhD in "Law, Market and Person", awarded by the Double PhD Program at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Astrakhan State University, where she developed an interdisciplinary research on international institutional law, with a focus on the European Union and Eurasian Economic Union. Her academic interests span from human rights law, with a particular focus on women's rights (particularly sexual and reproductive rights and the right to health) to international environmental law, with a focus on ecocentrism, sustainability and rights of animals. She is also interested in critical approaches to international legal studies, such as the feminist method and eco-centric approaches to law. She has published both in international and national journals on the above-mentioned topics, and has participated in international and national conferences presenting her research. She is also part of the winning Team WHALE who was awarded a Jean Monnet module in 2023 to establish the first course on animal rights and law at Ca' Foscari University (coordinator Prof. Sara De Vido).

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.

Carlo Federico dall'Omo, with a PhD in Architecture, City, and Design, specializes in managing climate change adaptation and the built environment. As the Research Manager at Iuav, Carlo oversees EU-funded projects in Horizon, Prima, Interreg, and Life programs, with a focus on territorial governance and climate resilience. He co-coordinates the UNESCO Chair in Heritage & Urban Regeneration and serves as a Climate Ambassador for the European Climate Pact. He is a member of the UNFCCC Roster of Experts on Climate Adaptation.

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.

BA in Cultural Heritage Conservation at Ca' Foscari University Venice, MA in Archaeological Sciences at the University of Padua, where he also pursued his PhD. Between 2020 and 2021, he held post-doctoral positions at the University of Padova on projects related to classical archaeology and archaeometry of ancient building materials. In 2022, he won a non-tenure track position as Researcher in Classical Archaeology funded by REACT EU funds, to study the use, origin, and material characteristics of stone and lithoid resources used in the Roman world, with a focus on their use in North-Eastern Italy. Since 2022, Simone Dilaria has been teaching at the University of Padova, in academic degrees relevant to his disciplinary scientific field of main expertise such as the Master's degree in Archaeological Sciences and the Master's degree (in English) Applied Sciences to Cultural Heritage: Materials and Sites.

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.

Kate Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Italian and Romance Studies at Duke University. Her research and teaching interests include early modern Italian literature, women’s and gender studies, and performance history. She earned her Ph.D. in 2020 from the University of California, Berkeley, her MA in Italian from New York University, and her BM in Music Performance from New York University. Dr. Driscoll is completing her first monograph, Tasso and Women Readers: Literary Hospitality in Early Modern Italy, which studies the professional partnerships Torquato Tasso (1544–95) shared with women writers, performers, and patrons. Her publications, including those forthcoming, appear in Renaissance Quarterly (2024), I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance (2024), California Italian Studies (2024), and edited volumes on early modern masculinities, Tasso and premodern music, and the Brill Companion to Ludovico Ariosto.

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.

(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.

Claudia Faraone is an architect, specialized in European urban and territorial design (EMU), holding a European PhD in urbanism and policy-making. She conducts research and teaching activities at various Italian and European architecture universities that deals with the process and outcomes of space production cultures within urban and territorial regeneration, reconstruction and innovation contexts. She combines research with professional activity and she is founding member and president of ETICity - Exploring Territories, Imagining the City association. She has authored and edited contributions in books and specialized journals, recently she wrote ‘Abitare collettivo. Temporalità, rigenerazioni e innovazioni urban(istich)e nell’area metropolitana veneziana’ (Aracne, 2023) and edited ‘Città e lavoro. Spazi, attori e pratiche della transizione tra Mestre e Marghera’ (Quodlibet, 2021). She showed her work at the Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2014, 2018) and La Spezia City Museum (2018).

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.

Currently an English language professor at University of Bordeaux, Faculty of Science and Technology. She holds an MSc in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Oxford, and a degree in Modern Languages and Literature from Venice Ca’ Foscari University. She has extensive experience teaching English for Specific Purposes in higher education settings, with a primary focus on English for Science and Technology. She is also involved in international programmes, including Virtual Exchange courses and Intercultural Communication training. Her teaching practice is informed by research on student-centred pedagogy, science communication in lingua franca settings and interculturality.

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.

Francesco Goglia is Associate Professor of Migration and Multilingualism at the University of Exeter. His research interests include multilingualism and language contact in immigrant communities, code-switching, language maintenance and shift, Italian and Italo-Romance dialects abroad. He has published chapters and articles on multilingualism among immigrant and diasporic communities in Italy, Portugal and Australia. In the last years, he has published extensively on the topic of onward migration and sociolinguistic issues. His research on this topic was supported by the Leverhulme Research Fellowship project ‘Onward migration from Italy to the UK: sociolinguistic implications’ (2019-2021).

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 on Contemporary Art, Religious Practice and Theory, Cultural Creativity, Anthropology of Catholicism, Urban Anthropology. 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 Practice 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.

Maria Gourieva received her PhD in Cultural Studies in 2010, has been teaching history and theory of photography and curatorial practices since 2013, currently at the European University at St Petersburg, Russia. Maria's academic interests are private photography, vernacular photography, social and cultural history of photography, methods of visual research. She received Soderholm grant from Finnish Photography Museum to research Finnish photography archives in 2014, and in 2023-24 she has researched late Soviet photography with a grant from V-A-C Foundation. Since 2015 Maria has co-organized After Post-Photography (www.after-post.photography) international conference at the European University.

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.

Felicity Hand is senior lecturer in British and American civilization and post-colonial studies in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She was visiting fellow at the Centre for Research in Asian Migration, University of Warwick, UK, in 1993 and at the Krishna Somers Centre for the Study of Diasporas, Murdoch University, Australia in August 2005. In January 2007 she will be visiting research scholar at the International Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India

Professor Harcourt is Director of the Centre for European Governance. She specialises regulatory change in digital markets and interested in solutions to regulatory problems based around the citizen/consumer and/or civil society voice. Alison has written on the regulation of traditional and new media markets and internet governance at EU and international levels contributing to the literature on agenda setting, regulatory competition, soft governance, Europeanisation and policy convergence. Recent projects include her ESRC funded project ‘International Professional Fora: a study in civil society participation in internet governance’ and ESRC Senior Fellowship on the UK in a Changing Europe programme.

BS in Engineering (Swarthmore College), MA and PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Washington). Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke. Published, among other things, Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1993 and, with Antonio Negri, the following four books: Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-form, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1994; Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2000; Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, Penguin, New York 2004; Commonwealth, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2009

Linguist and Translation studies scholar. She teaches “Armenian language” in DSAAM and “Translation & Migration” in the Master's degree program in Environmental Humanities at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests include theoretical linguistics, translation studies and diaspora literature. Her scientific background is characterized by multidisciplinary approaches beginning from her 1st and 2nd PhDs, respectively in Armenia and Italy, where she correlated Linguistics to Philology and Translation studies by analyzing Dante’s tense system in the Armenian translations of the Comedy. Author of 35 publications, including two books on trauma narratives through literature, memoirs and press, she has presented papers at international conferences in Armenia, Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Canada and USA. She has been a visiting professor at Yerevan State University, California State University Fresno, City University of New York and visiting scholar at UCLA.

Shinji Hasegawa is a Professor of International Business at Waseda University’s Faculty of Social Sciences. He earned his DEA in Economic Development from the University of Aix-Marseille II and received his doctorate in Management from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His current research focuses on the location strategies of multinational firms, the roles of multinational subsidiaries, foreign-owned firms in Japan, diversity management, sustainable management, multinational strategy and organization, international strategic alliances, and the theory of foreign direct investment. He has served for many years as a researcher and advisor to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Cabinet Office, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC, formerly the Export-Import Bank of Japan), the Institute for International Trade and Investment (ITI), and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). Since 2003, he has been a selection committee member for the French Government Scholarship Examination.

Degree in Human Geography (Tokyo University), Ph.D. in Informational and Economical Geography (with focus on the spatial impacts of the Informatization of the distribution system in Japan). Professor of Human Geography, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, where he has taught since the beginning of academic activities in 2004. Taught Urban Geography (especially the revitalization of city centers), Commercial Geography (in particular, the location of large scale shopping centers in suburban and their impacts on city centers), and Information Geography (especially regional development of the peripheral area using the broadband). Published on the change of Japan’s distribution system using ICT and on the impacts of broadband networks on the regions. Research and teaching interests include Urban Systems and Town Management, and the Spatial Impacts of Informatization.

First Degree in Social Science ( International Christian University), Master and Doctorate in Economics (Hitotsubashi University). Professor at the Graduate School and Faculty of Social Sciences at Waseda. Former Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Yokohama City University. Member of various Study Committees related to the Governments of Japan, of Metropolitan Tokyo and of Yokohama City. Director of Japan's Society of Local Government Finance. Books published include On the Taxation of Corporate Income (Dobunkan Publishing Company, 1991) and Local Government Finance, Theory, Institution and Empirical Analysis (Gyosei Publishing Company, 1999). Articles in academic reviews include: "Economicy of Scale in Prevision of Local Government Services", Economy and Trade Vol. 168, 1999; Financing of Local Public Corporations: the Case of Local Public Hospitals", Economy and Trade Vol. 172, 1996; "The Role of Public Sector In Human Capital Formation In the Development of Japanese Economy", Yokohama City University Academic Papers, Vol. 47, No. 1, 1996; "Decentralization and the Amalgamation of Local Authorities: Experiences of Japan and Economy of Scale in Providing Local Services", Waseda Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 24, Waseda University

Ph.D. in Ethnology (University of Göttingen). Professor at the LMU Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology. Lectured and/or held seminars on General Anthropology, Anthropology of South Asia, Visual Anthropology at the Universities of Göttingen, Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich, Copenhagen, Honolulu, Chennai. Was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Hawaii, Madras, Pondicherry and Utkal. Research interests and specialization: Visual Anthropology, Social Aesthetics, Anthropology of the Senses, Postcolonial Studies, Political Anthropology, Anthropological Theory. Fieldworks on the Tamils in Sri Lanka and on the Nilgiri in South India. Author of a number of scientific works on the Tamils and Nilgiri and of an introductory book on Ethnology (Ethnologie. Eine Einfuehrung, Göttingen 2011, 2nd edition 2019). Edited, with Philipp Zehmisch, “Manifestations of History: Time, Space and Community in the Andaman Islands”, Primus, New Delhi 2016.

Degree in Literary Theory (Leiden), PhD in the field of Poetry (Tilburg). Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at Tilburg University, where she is also Program Director of the Liberal Arts Bachelor and Member of the Board of the Department of Language and Culture. Her research focus is on Literary Theories and Attitudes of Reading, Rethoric and Semiotics, Postcolonialism and Modern Western Poetry. She wrote five books and numerous articles in these areas (Dutch) and was co-editor of four books on Poetry and Literary Theory. Most recent publication in English: "'18 October 1977': Poems and Paintings in Dialogue with History" in Kata Kulakova (ed.), Interpretations, European Research Project for Poetics and Hermeneutics, Vol. 2, Skopje 2008, pp. 185-205

(BA German and Italian, University of Oxford, 1996; PhD in Italian, University of Warwick, UK, 2003) is currently Professor of Film and Italian Studies at the University of Exeter. Previously she taught at the Universities of Leeds (as Lecturer) and Warwick in the UK (as a Graduate Teaching Assistant). She has also been a Visiting Professor at the Università la Sapienza in Rome (2018) and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles (2014). She has taught widely in Italian Studies and Film, with an emphasis on gender representation, particularly girlhood, and genre, particularly romantic comedy. She is leading a project on girlhood and teen audiences in Italy (A Girls' Eye View (exeter.ac.uk) in collaboration with Università la Sapienza in Rome. She has written books on the representation of prostitution in Italian cinema (Italy’s Other Women, Peter Lang, 2016) and postwar Italian cinema audiences (Italian Cinema Audiences, Bloomsbury, 2019). She is currently co-editing a volume on Italian Youth Television for Bloomsbury.

B. A. in Economics (Keio University, Tokyo), M. A. in Geology and Mineralogy (Kyoto), Doctor of Science (Kagoshima). Professor of Paleontology and Life History at the School of International Liberal Studies of Waseda. Taught at Teikyo University. Most recent publications include: (with Brinkman, D.B. and Danilov, I.G) "Distribution and biogeography of non-marine Cretaceous turtles", Russian Journal of Herpetology, 2000 (7):. 181-198, 12 figs.; (with R., Sakurai, K., Chitoku, T., Kawakami, G., and Kito, N.), "Anomalochelys angulata, an unusual land turtle of Family Nanhsiungchelyidae (Superfamily Trionychoidea; Order Testudines) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, North Japan", Russian Journal of Herpetology, 2001 (8):127-138; (with Tong, H.), "A new species of Tasbacka (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Paleocene of the Ouled Abdoun phoaphate basin, Morocco", Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2002 (5): 277-294; (with Tong, H), "Osteopygis (Testudines: Cheloniidae) from the Lower Tertiary of the Ouled Abdoun Phosphate Basin, Morocco", Palaeontology 2003 (46): 845-856

BA in Education with Physical Education and PhD in Education/Motor Control (University College of North Wales). Associate Professor at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. Interested in Education, Teaching and Learning, Motor Control and Comparative Culture. Member of the editorial board of "Classical Fighting Arts Magazine", and regular contributor to "Classical Fighting Arts" (US) and "Shotokan Karate Magazine" (UK). Recent publications include: Communication Beyond the Classroom in "The Japanese Association for Studies in English Communication Bulletin" (2002) 11 (1), p.123-132; Some Thoughts on Learning and Understanding in "Journal of Liberal Arts, Seijikeizai-Gakubu, Waseda University" (2004) 116, p.107-120. Forthcoming title: Experience: An Often Underestimated and Undervalued Part of the Teaching and Learning Process

BA in Comparative Literature and Sociology of Culture (Ljubljana). Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include questions of cultural identity, globalization, gender and media. More recently, she has been doing research on questions of multiculturalism, Europe and post socialism. Her publications include: "Globalization of Gender: ‘Ally McBeal’ in Post-Socialist Slovenia" (European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2005:2); with Denis Mancević, “Global News, Local Views: Slovene Media Reporting on 9/11” in T. Pludowski (ed.) How the World's News Media Reacted to 9/11: Essays from Around the Globe“(2007); "Engendering Borders : some critical thoughts on theories of borders and migration" (Klagenfurter Geographische Schriften, 2013, heft 19); "The post-national sexual contract: An examination" (Anthropological notebooks, 2017, vol. XXIII, no. 1).

BA and MA in English Language and Literature (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) and MA and PhD in English Linguistics from International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. Professor of Sociolinguistics at the Department or Philosophy of Waseda University, Tokyo. Her research focuses on English language issues at societal and global levels, and the historical context of the global development of English, status of English as a first and second language, and issues involving English that are currently developing in and across diverse societies. Was Associate Dean of Waseda University, Faculty of letters, Arts and Sciences. Was Visiting Professor at the Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has published more than 25 articles and presented papers in 60 conferences. She has received several grants and fellowships including, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is a multilingual person. She knows Bangla, English, Japanese, Hindi and Urdu. Along with teaching, she works as an interpreter and translator nationally and globally. She is a novelist, a travel writer and a poet. She travelled more than 100 countries in the world. Most recent publication includes: Hossain, T., (2016). Language rights: Implementing worldwide language rights and to promote social justice. In Mapping Human Rights and Subalterns in Modern India (pp. 105-116). Kalpaz Publications: New Delhi; Hossain,T. and Khan, A.A (2018). Rural Tourism Development in Bangladesh.ANE BOOKS: NEW DELHI; Hossain, T. (2017). Language Policy in Bangladeshi Education: Bengali and English Languages as a medium of Instruction, Vol. 32, (p-21-27), Nepalese Linguistics, Linguistics Society of Nepal; Hossain,T. and Khan, A.A (2021).The perspective of Religious and Spiritual Tourism in Bangladesh Vol.10, (p-57-77s), Association for Transcultural Studies, Waseda University; Hossain,T.&Khan, A.A. (2020). Vision of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and Aligarh Movement in India, Vol.7, (In press), Association for Transcultural Studies, Waseda University.

Full professor of English Literature at Ca' Foscari, where she is Vice Provost for International Relations. Taught at VIU in Fall 2005. Has been teaching courses on different topics, focusing mainly on Renaissance literature (Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre, Milton, Seventeenth-Century poetry, metaphysical poetry, etc.). Worked extensively on Sterne's novels, on Humour in Eighteenth-Century narrative, especially Smollett's and Austen's, and on Eighteenth Century linguistic theories, focusing on the relation between word and image. First studied Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English emblems, as mnemonic and rhetorical texts (Vis eloquentiae. Emblematica e persuasione, Sellerio, Palermo 1983), and more recently she has been concerned with a more general concept of "visuality", as a model of perception and representation. Also worked on Elizabethan theatre (Il teatro elisabettiano, Il Mulino, Bologna 1994), on neoclassical theatre (La scena trasformata. Adattamenti neoclassici di Shakespeare, Sansoni, Firenze 1985), and on the contemporary scene. Her research is at present focused on Seventeenth-Century literature. She planned six International Seminars on "The Orient in Western Arts (1700-2000)", which were realized in 2002 and 2003 in different Italian towns (Naples, Florence, Rome, and Venice), and co-edited the two volumes of the proceedings.

BA Psychology (Bar Ilan), MA and PhD in Psychology (TAU). Professor, TAU School of Education Department of Human Development and Education. He has extensive experience in prevention programs' development, implementation and evaluation, especially in the context of children and youth resilience promotion and substance abuse prevention. He is a consultant to major institutions in Israel, such as Israel Ministry of Education/Psych-Counseling Services, Israel Anti-Drug Authority, Israel Internet Association and Israel Defence Forces. Member of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR), American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for Stress and Anxiety Research (STAR). Was visiting professor at the Universities of British Columbia (Canada), Minnesota, Arizona (US) and Middlesex (UK). Won the International Collaborative Prevention Research Award for outstanding contributions to advancing the field of prevention science, issued by SPR and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Prevention issued by APA. He serves on the editorial boards of international journals. Among many publications, he co-edited Stress and Anxiety: Strategies, Opportunities and Adaptation, Logos Verlag 2016 and The Cambridge Handbook of International Prevention Science, Cambridge University Press 2017.

Member of the Commission for Research Planning and Chief administrator of the Center “Petersburg Judaica” at EUSP, where he taught “Jewish Life under Bolshevik’s Rule: Politics, Ideologies, Representations, 1920s-30s.”. He is coordinator of the Petersburg branch of the International archival project on Jewish documentary sources in depositories of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus carried out by the Russian State Humanitarian University (Moscow) and the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York). Fields of research include: History of the Russian Jewry, History of Jewish philanthropic organizations, History of the formation of Jewish archives in Russia, visual sources on the History of Jews in Russia from a visual anthropology perspective.

BA in History (Stanford), MPhil and PhD in History (NYU). Professor of History at BC, where she teaches courses on social movements, urban and working-class history, violence, and the American West and was Chair of the Department. Her work focuses on urban social relations in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century America. Earlier publications looked at internal migration during World War II, police brutality, and violence on the mining and cattle frontiers (eg Violence in the American West: The Mining and Range Wars, Bedford Books 2008 and Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City, Beacon Press 2003). Her latest book, The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area Since the 1960s (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), explores the history of new immigrants in greater Boston since the 1960s. She is currently the Director of Global Boston https://globalboston.bc.edu, a digital history project and website on Boston area immigration and its history.

BA in German (California Berkeley), MA in International Relations and Pacific Studies (California San Diego), PhD in Political Science (California Irvine). Associate Professor at Waseda, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, where he teaches courses in comparative politics, East Asian community, democratization and political parties. Was Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba and Visiting Researcher at the University of Milan. His research focuses on comparing ideological orientations, voting behavior and attitudes toward democracy, particularly in new democracies. He is a co-author of Why Policy Representation Matters (Routledge, 2015) and Generation Gap in Japanese Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Dr. Tanja Kamin is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies and head of Social psychology research center at the at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Her research is oriented towards critical studies of everyday life, which is seen as an intersection and confrontation of macro and micro politics. Her writings survey cultural capital, empowerment in relation to health (including digital health and questions of health literacy), food culture (with focus on sustainable food consumption), and arising prosumer culture in clean energy transitions. Her research is focused on understanding the origin and reproduction of social problems, as well as in finding ways to solve them. Her specialization is in the development of approaches for achieving behavioral and social change, particularly in the areas of health and healthcare, food and recently also in the area of clean energy.

B.A. in Theatre Arts, Poetics and Comparative Literature, M.A. and Ph.D. in Theatre Arts (TAU). President of the Israeli Centre of the International Theatre Institute (I.T.I.). Former Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at TAU, where he was also Theatre Manager and - for a long time - Professor. Was Visiting Professor at LMU. Main fields of teaching and research: Dramaturgy; Hebrew and Israeli Theatre and Drama; Holocaust Drama; Bible and Theatre; Israeli Women Playwrights; Experimental Israeli Theatre; German Drama and Theatre (especially: Enlightenment to Expressionism); Scandinavian Drama (Ibsen, Strindberg, Bergman); Play and Performance Analysis; Rhetoric and Reception Theory; Theory and Methodology of Drama Translation; Theatre and Education. Work experience includes: translating; writing poems and stage adaptations; acting in theatre, film and television features; directing theatre and radio plays. He was awarded the Norwegian Order of Merit for his translations of Ibsen’s work into Hebrew.

B.A. and M.A. in Commerce (Waseda), Ph.D. (Ohio State). Professor of Business History at the Faculty of Commerce at Waseda. Director of the Institute for China Business. Was Visiting Professor in several universities, in Malaysia, Mexico, Germany, Lithuania, England, Thailand and Uzbekistan. His fields of specialization are: Business History, Comparative Management, International Management and Marketing. Publications in English include: "Education and Training in the Development of Modern Corporations" , University of Tokyo Press 1993; "Historical Development of Japanese Management: An Overview", Sangnam Forum, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1998); "Movement of Japanese Companies into Europe", in The Hybrid Factory in Europe: Japanese Management and Production Systems Transferred, edited by H. Kumon and T. Abo, Palgrave McMillan 2004; "Japanese Enterpreneurs in a Historical Perspetive", in a collection of articles to clebrate Professor Kim Yong Rai's 60th birthday, Hobunsha 2006. Edited in Japanese (with Hiroki Shimamura and Tetsuzo Ymanamoto), "Sustainable Development: Japanese Economy in 2015, Toyokeizai Shinposha 2005.

DU in Mountain Medicine (Paris XIII), MD in Medical Studies (Amsterdam), PhD in Exercise Physiology (Free University, Amsterdam), PhD in Ethics (KU Leuven). Full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva and at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, where he is director of the Institute of Sport Sciences. Fields of teaching: exercise physiology, cardio-respiratory pathophysiology, nutrition, physical activity and health, ethics and philosophy of sport. Research directions: ethics of doping and anti-doping; neuromuscular physiology; the cardio-pulmonary phase at the onset of exercise; built environment and physical activity; acute mountain sickness; energy balance in humans. Author of over 250 publications in international journals. He is regular speaker and advocate for health promotion through physical activity. In the 1980s was Physician at the Pain Service of the Dutch Cancer Center "Antonie van Leeuwenhoekhuis", Amsterdam, and Physician at the Himalayan Rescue Association Aid-post in Manang, Nepal. In 2003 he was awarded a honorable distinction for the European Academic Software Award (EASA) for the www.universante.org project, an international on-line learning environment for students in public health.

MSc and PhD in Economics (Ljubljana). Associate Professor of Economics, University of Ljubljana. Was advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia on Economic Affairs, Economic policy and Infrastructure; Member of the OECD Global Strategy Group; visiting PhD student at Columbia. Areas of teaching: Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics, Comparative analysis of economic and business systems, Philosophy and Theory of Science in Economics and Business. Recent publications include Does sustainability pay off? A multi-factor analysis on regional DJSI and renewable stock indices, “Journal of Economic Research”, Vol. 32, 2019 (with Iskra Sokolovska); Economic freedom and growth across German districts, “Journal of institutional economics”, 2018, vol. 14, iss. 4 (with Rok Spruk).

PhD in Philosophy, Latin and Greek and Habilitation in Philosophy and History in the Renaissance (LMU). Has been Professor of Philosophy and History in the Renaissance at LMU until 2003, and Member of the Academic Council of VIU until 2001. Published Das Problem des frühen Humanismus. Seine philosophische Bedeutung bei Coluccio Salutati (Humanistische Bibliothek, I,1), München 1968; Theoretiker humanistischer Geschichtsschreibung im 16. Jahrhundert (Humanistische Bibliothek, II,4), München 1971 and Petrarca und die Geschichte. Geschichtsschreibung, Rhetorik, Philosophie im Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit (Humanistische Bibliothek I,25) München 1978. Most recent publications in English include: "Metaphysics or Empirical Science? The Two Faces of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century", in: Renaissance Readings of the Corpus Aristotelicum, Proceedings of the conference held in Copenhagen 23 - 25 April 1998, ed. Marianne Pade, Copenhagen 2001, 79 - 101; "Renaissance Humanism: the Rhetorical Turn", paper given at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, 27 - 29, March, 2003, e-version: www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/php/Kessler/Toronto2003.htm

B.A. (Wisconsin, Madison), M.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Rutgers). Professor of History at Duke. Member of faculty of the Duke Human Rights Center and co-director of the Duke Refugee Action Project. Has also been teaching to perspective humanitarian professionals and students volunteering for work in refugee camps in Slovenia, Bosnia and Croatia. Current president of the Berkshire Conference for Women Historians. Areas of research: contemporary Islamophobia; Nazi racial politics; genocide. Edited, with Renate Bridenthal, Becoming Visible: Women in European History, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1977 (reprinted totally revised in 1987). Author of Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, The Family, and Politics in Nazi Germany, New York: St. Martin's 1987 and London: Jonathan Cape, 1987 (revised German edition, Mütter im Vaterland 1989 translated into French, Japanese, Italian, & Dutch), which won several awards; The Nazi Conscience, Belknap, Harvard University Press. 2003 (translated in Spanish, Russian and Japanese). Latest articles include: "The Quest for a Respectable Antisemitism: Scholarship and the Spread of Racial Fear," in Das Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts, 2006; Unmasking Multiculturalism: Muslim Memoirs Probe the Limits of Tolerance, "Berlin Journal", Spring, 2006; "'Hijāb' A Word That Moves," in Gluck, Carol and Anna Tsing, eds., Words in Motion, an anthology sponsored by the SSRC, Duke University Press, 2007; "Two Tributaries and a Mainstream: Gender, Women and the History of Nazi Genocide," Hagemann, Karen and Jean Quataert, eds., Mainstreaming Gender History, New York: Berghahn, 2007 (German edition forthcoming).

Assistant Professor, Research fellow, at the Center for Environmental and Technological History, Department of History of the European University at St. Petersburg. Fields of interest: Russian History, 16th – 18th cc.: source study, methods of analysis of mass sources, environmental history, history of trade and prices, fisheries history, salt history, history of frontier zones, modernization projects.

Diploma (Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg), Doctorate and Habilitation in Historical Science (Russian Academy of Sciences). Professor at the Department of History and Member of the Academic Council at EUSP. Was Visiting Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Guest Lecturer at TAU. Teaching areas: Historical Anthropology; Historical Sociology; Historiography of Medieval and Early Modern Russia; Source Problems in Problems of Russian Medieval History; New Political History; Introduction to Comparative History. Research interests: East European medieval and early modern history (Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania); state building, patronage and clientele in comparative perspective; historical anthropology, microhistory, new political history; comparative history.

Diplomsoziologie (Bielefen), MA in History (John Hopkins), PhD (Bielefeld) with thesis on Scientific Racism and relationships among Eugenicists in the 20th century. Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher assistant) at the University of Munich, Institute of Sociology. Teaching and research interests in Sociology of Work, Sociology of Professions and Sociology of Organizations. Books published: The Nazi Connection. Eugenics, American macis and German National Socialism. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1994. (Japanese translation published in 1999); Wenn die Affen den Zoo regieren. Die Tücken der flachen Hierarchien, Frankfurt a.M.; New York: Campus; 5. Auflage; 1998 (first edition 1994). (Dutch translation published in 1997); Die Internationale der Rassisten. Der Aufstieg und Niedergang der internationalen Bewegung für Eugenik und Ressenhygiene im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Frankfurt a.M.; Campus, 1997; (with Gerhard Kullmann) Gruppenarbeit. München: Hanser, 1999; Das Regenmacher-Phänomen. Widersprüche und Aberglauben im Konzept der Lernenden Organisation. Frankfurt a.M.; new York: Campus, 2000.

Dr.phil. in Sinology. Professor of Chinese Studies, LMU. Visiting Professor at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Jishou University, China. Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. Published Die Lehren und die Entwicklung der „Taigu-Schule". Eine dissidente Strömung in einer Epoche des Niedergangs der konfuzianischen Orthodoxie, Wiesbaden, Harassowitz, 1996, and edited (with Th. Harnisch) China übersetzen, Bochum, Projekt Verlag, 2001. Recent Essays include „Die Entstehungsbedingungen des Romans Lin nü yu und die literarische Sphäre in Shanghai 1903", in Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 26, 2002, „'The Barbarians' Writing is like Worms, and their Speech is like the Screeching of Owls' – Exclusion and Acculturation in the Early Ming Period", in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 151/2, 2001, „Tears of Strength or Tears of Weakness: Lao Can youji and the Aporias of Political and Moral Commitment", in W. Kubin (ed.), Symbols of Anguish: In Search of Melancholy in China. Bern, Peter Lang, 2001, „Plurality and Confucian Orthodoxy: The Views of a Neglected Qing School of Thought", in Journal of Chinese Philosophy 26:1, (1999). Main fields of interest: Literary and intellectual history of late imperial and early republican China, nationalism in late imperial and contemporary China, views of the West in contemporary Chinese literature

BA in Economics (Keio University), MA in International Economics (Aoyama-gakuin University), and Ph.D. in Business and Commerce (Keio University). Current position: Professor at the Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University. Past positions: Associate Professor of the University of Tokyo, Associate Professor of Hitotsubashi University, and Economist at Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies, the Bank of Japan. Areas of specialization: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Health Economics. Recent publication include: “Why Do People Overwork at the Risk of Impairing Mental Health?” Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019 (co-authored), “Mental health effects of long work hours, night and weekend work, and short rest periods,” Social Science & Medicine, 246, 2020 (co-authored), “Working from home and productivity under the COVID-19 pandemic: Using survey data of four manufacturing firms” PLOS ONE, 16(12),2021 (co-authored).

PhD in Political Sciences and Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, where she teaches Politics of Human Rights, Policy Analysis and Introduction to Policy Analysis, Public Policy Evaluation, Public Administration Management and Professional Practice. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Zagreb. Fields of research: politics of human rights and democracy - policy analysis and public policy studies - public policy evaluation - governance and regulatory policies (regulatory impact assessment) - electoral studies and behavior - sport politics and policy studies. She is author or co-author of more than 300 publications, including 6 monographies.

Andrei Kuznetsov is a Russian researcher and educator in the field of sociology. His research interests are science and technology studies (STS), actor-network theory (ANT), mobilities research, history and theory of sociology. He received a Candidate of Science (Sociology) degree from Volgograd State University. From 2005 to 2019, he worked in the Department of Sociology at the same institution, where he taught a variety of courses in sociology and was a principal researcher in several research projects on mobilities and urban transport technologies. From 2014 to 2019 Andrei was a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Policy Analysis and Studies of Technologies (PAST-Centre) at Tomsk State University. There he helped to launch a new Master’s Program ‘Innovations & Society: Science, Technologies, Medicine’ based on the principles of problem-based learning. From 2019 to 2022 he was Associate Professor at ITMO University where he supervised the Master's Program "Science and Technology in Society", a double degree program in collaboration with the European University at Saint-Petersburg. And from 2019 to 2023 Andrei was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at European University at Saint Petersburg. He is the author of the ViaText project – an online environment for advanced reading for research. Andrei published numerous papers on ANT, STS, and urban mobilities. His latest works cover a wide range of topics such as self-driving cars, urban participation, sociology of scientific knowledge, technological accidents, and the heritage of Bruno Latour. Andrei loves chaotic hardcore and metalcore music and plays the guitar.

B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in Cultural Studies (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) PhD in Sociology (Bar-Ilan University). Senior Lecturer at the Women and Gender Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. She had been involved in various prestigious research projects, which merited international attention, praise, and materialized in publications in leading journals. Her current projects include independent and collaborative studies on friendships, aunthood, temporality, intimacy and affects. She is currently writing her next book on friendship temporalities.

BS in Political Science and Economics, MA and PhD in Economics (University of South Carolina at Columbia). Professor of the Practice in the Department of Economics at Duke, where she is Director in the Research in Practice Program. Fields: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Urban and Regional Economics. Research Interests: International Capital Markets and Finance, Macroeconomic Policy, Time Series Analysis, Economic Development, Emerging Markets, Causality Testing, Political Economy.

Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He holds a Ph.d in Government from Harvard University. He has just completed a book manuscript with Prof. Dennis Hale Entitled Keeping the Republic. His other books include Presidential Greatness, and The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions. His Articles include: “Megadisaster and Federalism,” The Executive in a Time of Terror, Transparency for What End?: Policing Politics in New York City, Governing Uncertainty: Environmental Regulation in the Age of Nanotechnology. He has taught for three summers at VIU.

A former corporate banker, management consultant and chartered auditor, he has been teaching sustainable finance at the University of Padua since 2009. He collaborates with the University's Centre for Human Rights and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Climate Justice. Founder and director of the university spin-off GeoAtamai Benefit Company for the measurement of environmental impacts.

BA and MA in History (Massachussetts), PhD in Latin American History (NYU). Professor of History at BC. Teaching areas: Modern and colonial Latin America; urban poverty; modernity; gender; social movements; religion and history; oral history. At present, her research focuses on a study of two very different Guatemalan artists, using their art, patrons and life stories to think about the history of twentieth-century Guatemala. Among her most representative publications in the field of Feminism "The Loneliness of Working Class Feminism" in The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women (1997).

Ilya Levin received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 1987 from the Institute of Computer Technologies, Latvian Academy of Science. From 1987 he was the Head of the Computer Science Department in the Leningrad Institute of New Technologies. Between 1993 and 1997, Ilya Levin was the Head of the Computer Systems Department at Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. In 1997, he was a Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department of the University of Massachusetts. For four years between 2003-2006, Ilya Levin was an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Bar Ilan University. In 2014 and 2018, he was a visiting professor at Venice International University and Aix-Marseille Université, France. Presently, Prof. Ilya Levin is a Full Professor in the School of Education of Tel Aviv University. His recent research interests include Computer Design, Philosophy of Digital Technology, Science and Technology Education. Prof. Levin is the author of around 200 research papers, both in Computer Engineering and Humanities. Among recent papers and books are: “Teaching machine learning in elementary school”, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (2022); “Culture and Society in the Digital Age”, Information (2021); “Science teachers' worldviews in the age of the digital revolution”, Teaching and Teacher Education (2019); “Optimizing STEM Education with Advanced ICTs and Simulations”, IGI Global (2017); “Digital Tools and Solutions for Inquiry-Based STEM Learning”, IGI Global (2017); “The Constructionist Learning Approach in the Digital Age”, Creative Education, (2017).

Laurea in Economia Politica (Bocconi), M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Decision Sciences (Stanford). Full Professor in Mathematical Methods for Economics at Ca' Foscari. Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics and Organization of the School of Advanced Studies in Venice. Was editor of "Decisions in Economics and Finance" (1999-2005). Fields of interest: Decision Analysis and Market Microstructure. Author of Teoria dei giochi, Milano: EtasLibri, 1995, his most recent publications include: (with S. Spaeter), "Distributions for the first-order approach to principal-agent problems", Economic Theory, 21, 2003, 167-173; (with S.DellaVigna) "Learning to make risk neutral choices in a normal world", Mathematical Social Sciences 41, 2001, 19-37; "Upper and lower bounds for expected utility", Economic Theory 16, 2000, 489-502; (with R.Bordley) "Decision analysis using targets instead of utility functions", Decisions in Economics and Finance 23, 2000, 53-74; "A language for the construction of preferences under uncertainty", Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fìsicas y Naturales 93, 1999, 439-450

Degree in “Discipline Economiche Sociali” (Bocconi); PhD (School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester). Professor of Economics at Bordeaux. Fellow of Bocconi’s International Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, and Strategy. Previously taught at the Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV and Brescia University. Research interests: Adoption of new technologies (Role of Users and Incremental Innovations; Entry/Exit and Adoption); Geography of Knowledge Diffusion (Localized Knowledge Spillovers; Migration and Innovation); Science-Technology Interaction (University-Industry Technology Transfer; Intellectual Property and Academic Research); Economics of Science (Academic labour market). Board Member of the European Policy for Intellectual Property, of which he was president. Edited Imprenditorialità accademica e scienza imprenditoriale: un’analisi multidisciplinare, Roma: Carocci, 2011. He is author (with V.Sterzi and M.Pezzoni) of Patent Management by Universities: Evidence from Italian Academic Inventions, “Industrial and Corporate Change”, Issue 2, April 2019.

Laurea triennale in Translation and Interpretation, English and Spanish (Ca’ Foscari), Laurea triennale in Public Relations (Udine), M.Sc. in Global Politics (Southampton). Lecturer in Italian Language and Culture at the Venice Institute. Teached Italian as a Foreign Language at VIU.

B.A. (Rosary College), M.A. (Claremont Graduate School), Ph.D. in French Literature (University of Michigan). Professor of French Studies and Chair of the Department of Romance Studies at Duke. Was Director of Center for French & Francophone Studies and for many years Director of the Duke-in-France program. Previously taught at Rice University. Her areas of interest include: 17th Century French Literature; Travel Writing; Early Modern Mediterranean Studies; History of Theater; The Epistolary Genre; Feminist Criticism; Theories of Genre. Her interests in the epistolary genre and in women's writing led to the publication of "Performing Motherhood: The Sévigné Correspondence" (University Press of New England, 1991). She has published articles on the writings of other seventeenth-century authors, including Mme d'Aulnoy, Marie de Gournay, Poullain de la Barre, Mme de Lafayette, Corneille, Boileau, Molière, and Racine. She has also published a book on the staging of exoticism in seventeenth-century France: "Orientalism and French Classical Drama" (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Her current research interests include travel accounts, questions of genre, feminist theory, and seventeenth-century French literature in a cultural studies context. In the context of her research on travel, she has published articles on Chardin, Galland, and Thévenot. Most recent articles on French travels to the Ottoman world are "Jean Thévenot: ethnographe des îles du Levant", Actes du CIR 17 : "L'Ile au XVIIe siècle: réalités et imaginaire », Centre International de Recherches sur le 17e siècle, (April, 2009) and "Le Mamamouchi" ou la colonisation de l'imaginaire français par le monde ottoman. « Théâtre en voyage », Presses universitaires de Paris - Sorbonne, 2009. Her current book project is entitled "Travel, or the Benefits of Discontent: Marseilles to Constantinople (1650-1700)".

Professor of Economics at Bordeaux, where he was Vice-president for Research. Former President of Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, where he was also Director of the master degree programme in Applied Economics and of the Research Team in Theoretical and Applied Economics. Research interests: technological and institutional change dynamics, especially related to their regional dimension and the evolution of the automobile industry. Teaching areas: Microeconomics, Organizational Economics and Economics of Innovation. His most recent publication, with C. Midler and B. Jullien, “Innover à l’envers. Repenser la stratégie et la conception dans un monde frugal”, Dunod, Paris (English translation to be published by Taylor & Francis) is a study of Renault’s Kwid project, which attempted to launch a new global, low-cost car for emerging markets. Already taught at VIU in Spring 2017. Participants in his course on “Innovation and Social Change” contributed towards the creation of VIU Student Social Committees.

Doctoraal examen (MSc) in Economics; doctoraal examen (MA) in Philosophy; PhD in Economics (University of Amsterdam). Full professor at the Centre Walras- Pareto for the History of Economic and Political Thought of UNIL. Previously taught at the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht. Courses taught (in French and English) about Micro-Economics, Macro-Economics, Qualitative Research Methods, Business Ethics, History and Methodology of Economics, and Epistemology. He is editor of the Cambridge Series Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics and regular referee for publications by major international academic publishers, such as Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge and Palgrave. Won the ESHET best book prize 2018 for “The Making of Experimental Economics: Witness Seminar on the Emergence of a Field”, Heidelberg: Springer, co-edited with Andrej Svorencík.

Laurea in Architecture (IUAV). Free-lance lecturer, for many years was teaching assistant (collaboratore alla didattica) in History of Architecture at IUAV. She is regular contributor to "La rivista di Engramma”, online journal of the Centro studi classicA of IUAV. Published a variety of essays on Modern and Contemporary Architecture, including Architectural Historiography and Education. Curator of the exhibition La luce, l’architettura, la città, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice 2005. She is professional consultant and historical researcher on buildings and architectural sites, especially in the context of restoration and valorization projects (eg Orto Botanico in Padua; Pio Loco delle Penitenti and San Nicolò di Lido in Venice). Among other things, she co-edited with M.Bandera the volume San Lazzaro degli Armeni. L'isola, il monastero, il restauro, Marsilio, Venice 1999.

BA (Columbia University), MA and PhD (University of Chicago) in socio-cultural Anthropology. Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University with additional appointments in Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Makhulu is also Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Has conducted research for over two decades in South Africa and is author of Making Freedom (Duke University Press 2015) about South Africa’s transition to democracy. Makhulu is also co-editor of a collection entitled Hard Work, Hard Times (University of California Press 2010), which examines African migration, the global search for livelihood, and questions of cultural resilience. A second monograph in preparation, tentatively entitled South Africa After the Rainbow and supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, looks at the rise of new social movements in South Africa—#FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall among them—against the backdrop of the state’s “capture.” Makhulu has published articles in Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA, served as special issue guest editor for South Atlantic Quarterly and special theme section guest editor of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Current course offerings include: the Black Radical Tradition, Decolonial Theory, Capitalism, African Climate Change.

Professor Hadas Mamane is head of the Environmental Engineering Program and the Water-Energy (WE) Lab, Tel Aviv University, Israel. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University, USA. Her research focuses on the disinfection and oxidation of contaminated water and wastewater and the conversion of agriculture and textile waste to valuable products by integrating solar light, UV light-emitting diodes (LED), ozone, photo-catalysis, and nanomaterials. She is passionate about developing decentralized, effective, scalable, point-of-use (POU) systems suitable for treating water and sewage ponds and providing safe water in rural and low-income areas. Prof Mamane was appointed as an adjunct faculty at the Faculty of Chemistry, IIT Madras, India. The WE lab is also engaged in educational services to the public on environmental topics.

Laurea in English and American Literature (Ca' Foscari). Professor of American Literature at Ca' Foscari, where she is also Chair of the American Studies Program and Director of the Higher Degree course in Literary Translation from English into Italian. Published, among other books, Invito alla lettura di Faulkner, Mursia, Milano 1976. Translated W. Faulkner, G. Stein, R. Jarrell and F.M. Ford. Recent interest has focused on the relation between art and literature, and on H. James, E. Wharton, and the reaction of American writers to Venetian painting. Publications include: the edition of James' Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro, London, Pushkin Press, 1998 (second edition June 2001); "Into Forbidden Ground: J.A.Symonds and Tiepolo" in John Addington Symonds. Culture and the Demon Desire, John Pemble ed., Macmillan, London 2000; "Tiepolo, Henry James, and Edith Wharton", in The Metropolitan Museum Journal, 33, 1998; "The Pastimes of Culture. The Tableaux Vivants of the British Expatriates in Venice in the 1880s and 1890s", in Textus, English Studies in Italy, XII (1999) 1; "Venetian Mirrors. Barrett or Browning as the artist?" in The Author as Character, P. Franssen and T. Hoenselaars eds., Associated University Presses, London 1999; "Intertextual Venice: Blood and Crime and Death Renewed in two Contemporary Novels", in Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds. English Fantasies of Venice, M. Pfister and B. Schaff (eds.), Rodopi, Amsterdam 1999.

Senior Lecturer at the Department of English of TAU. Author of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon: The Complete Annotations. Scarecrow Press, 2002; R eading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995. (paperback edition, 2001); The British and American Novel in the 20th Century: Critical Explication for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Tel Aviv: Everyman's University Press, 1985. Editor of A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, Rochester: Camden House/Boydell & Brewer, Inc., 2004 (slated for September). Among her articles is "Letting Her Speak: A Lifetime's Work" published in Notable Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice in Hemingway. Eds. Lawrence Broer and Gloria Holland. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2002. She is also in the International Advisory Committee of the Editorial Board of The Hemingway Review, since 1992.

Ilda Mannino is currently Scientific Coordinator of the Intensive Graduate Activities and of the TEN Program on Sustainability of the Venice International University. She is doctor in Environmental Science and did a post-doc period at the Center of Industrial Ecology of Yale University. Her current research interests focus on Sustainable Development, Science Communication, Green Economy, Industrial Ecology, Environmental Economy, Environmental Policy and Integrated Coastal Zone Management. She coordinates and is involved in research and education projects on these themes at international level. Among these, she is currently involved in the Horizon 2020 QUEST Project on Quality science communication within which collaborated to the development of the toolkit on quality science communication for scientists and the Recommendations for policy-makers. She is also part of the communication team of the MUHAI Project on Human Centric Artificial Intelligence. In 2015-2019 she participated in the H2020 Euclid Project on Integrated Pest Management in Europe and China. In September 2015-December 2016 she was capacity building team leader of the CAMP Italy project, on integrated coastal zone management. She was also involved in the CLIMA project on Capacity building in Cliate Change, within the EU Asia-Link Programme as tutor, 2006-2008. Since Fall 2021 she coordinates together with Alessandra Fornetti the GP course on Science Communication and Sustainability and since Spring 2009 she coordinates the course Globalization, Environment and Sustainable Development within the Globalization Program of Venice International University. She has taught and contributed to several master programmes and training with module on green economy and environmental economics and science communication.

Laurea in Civil Engineering and PhD in Hydrodynamics (Padova). Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment and at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Professor at the Department of Hydraulic, Maritime, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering of the University of Padova. Was Visiting Scientist at MIT. Research interests: bio-geomorphology of tidal environments; remote sensing in hydrology and tidal bio-geomorphology; fluvial geomorphology and theory of the hydrologic response; models and analysis of space-time precipitation; hydrometeorology; climatology.

Laurea in Moral Philosophy (Sapienza, Rome), MA in Gender Studies (Siena), MPhil and PhD in Gender and Ethnicity (Utrecht). Associate Professor in Sociology of Cultural Processes and Comunication at Ca' Foscari, where she leads "DomEQUAL: A Global Approach to Domestic Work and Social Inequalities", project involving research in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Member of the task-force on “Migrants, Migration and Integration” at the Italian Ministry of Research. Past Research Associate, Jean Monnet and Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Her research interests are on gender, ethnicity, labour and migration, with a focus on paid domestic work and home-care service. Author of books such as Black Girls. Migrant Domestic Work and Colonial Legacies, Brill, Boston, 2014. She coedited Domestic Workers Speak, Open Democracy, London 2017 and Transformations without Revolutions? How Feminist and LGBTQI Movements have Changed the World, "Zapruder World", 2015, vol. 2.

Dottorato in Regional Planning and Public Policies (IUAV). Researcher, Unesco chair on the Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants, at the Department of Planning of IUAV. Founder and coordinator of Urban_ID Network, a multidisciplinary network of jr researchers and scholars from all over the world working on the urban impacts of international migration. Was Marie Curie Fellow at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales of the Universidad Nacional de San Martin (IDAES/UNSAM), Buenos Aires, and at the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora (Mexico City). Current research interests: International migrants and the Right to the City; South to South international migration; Governing international migration in small-medium size cities; Transit Migration, Transit countries, Transit cities; Public space and intercultural cities. Recent case studies: Istanbul (Turkey); Tijuana (Mexico); small size cities in the Veneto Region (Italy).

Certificate in WTO Law (The Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations), Diploma (The Hague Academy of International Law), Dottorato in Diritto Civile (Bologna), Docteur en droit (Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne). Research Professor of International Law in the Department of Legal Sciences of Ca' Foscari, where he teaches Maritime and Comparative Law. Also instructor of International Law and International Business Transactions in the Vanderbilt and Widener University Law Schools programs in Venice. Taught International Trade Law at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Americas (Institut des Amériques) in the University of Paris III. Published extensively in Italian, French and Spanish. Publications in English include: International business law and international commercial arbitration : the Italian approach, in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Law Journal, Lloyd's of London Press, London, n.1, 1997 and, with Fabien Gélinas, The Unidroit Principles for International Commercial Contracts in ICC Arbitration, « The ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin », ICC Publ., v.10, n.2, Paris 1999.

Was born in Hiroshima. After 4 year undergraduate study in the French Department of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, he got his BA in 1989. He then went to France – where he spent 10 years – , obtained a MA in modern literature from l'Université de Provence in 1990. His master's thesis was on the French surrealist poet Paul Eluard. The same year he moved to Paris to keep on studying French modern and contemporary poetry and its relation with the fine arts, obtaining the DEA and a doctorat at Paris VIII (Modern Literature). Besides his studies he practiced engraving in the former Atelier 17 and continued personal research. He participated in several Salons in Paris. Was full-time lecturer of Japanese and temporary researcher at INALCO (Institut national des langues et des civilisations occidentales), where he worked on French modern poetry. Back to Japan in 2000, became Associate professor at Waseda School of Education in 2004, where he is now teaching French and Modern Art. His major interest is the status of poetical language and its relation with other modes of thinking such as philosophy or plastic art. Author of: La saisie de la matière dans la poésie d'André du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin et Philippe Jaccottet, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, Lille, 1999 ; « Figurer le vide (Dupin, Giacometti, Chillida) », Matière d'origine, Faire-Part, no 20-21, 2007, p. 148-162; « Penser et traduire : figurer et trans-figurer », in Michel Deguy, L'allégresse pensive, Paris, Belin, 2007, p. 465-477; « Philippe Jaccottet : le souffle et le chant de l'absence », Études françaises, Vol. 43-3, Université de Montréal, 2007, p. 91-108; « Paul Celan and the Poets of "L'Éphémère". Question of Translation », Celan-Studien, Nr. 9, 2007, Tokyo, p. 1-30 (in Japanese). He also co-wrote with F. Roussel the textbook of French Language Tome un, Tokyo 2004.

BA and MA in Political Science (University of Tokyo). His first professional appointment was Research Assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences (1972-1978) and during the term of that appointment, he got a scholarship from the French Government and studied at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) from 1974 to 1976. After a short appointment at the University of Tsukuba, he moved to Waseda University and has been teaching there political science and the history of political thought. From 1984 to 1986, he went to Yale University as a Fullbright researcher to do research on the Tocqeville papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. He passed the year 1999-2000 in Paris as an exchange professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Centre Raymons Aron). His major academic interst has always been in the study of Alexis de Tocqueville, but he has also written several articles on other issues: the French image of America, and the comparative study of intellectuals, the French, the American and the Japanese. He has been working on the translation of Democracy in America. The first two volumes, corresponding to the 1835 Democracy was published in 2005 and the next two volumes, the translation of the 1840 Democracy will appear in 2007. In 2005, he organized a major international conference celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Tocqueville. He is now working on the edition of the book based on the conference papers. In March 2007, he gave a lecture as an exchange professor at the Institut des Etudes de Sciences Politiques of Paris on "Tocqueville et le Japon."

Bachelor and Master in Economics (Waseda); D.Phil in Mathematical Economics (Oxford). Professor of Theoretical Economic Policy at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda. Previously taught at Osaka International University and Teikoku Women's College. Was Visiting Professor at Charles University in Prague; Portland State University; University of Cergy-Pontoise. Worked as Officer for the Monetary and Finance Section of the United Nation’s Conference of Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He is Managing director of the Japan Economic Policy Association and Chairman of the Waseda Teachers' Union. His academic fields are: Collective Choice Theory, Evolutionary Biology, Information Technology, Computer Network Systems, E-Commerce and E-Money, General Theory of Economics.

Christof Mauch is the Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a Professor (Chair) in American Cultural History and Transatlantic Relations at LMU Munich, and an Honorary Professor in Ecological History at Renmin University, Beijing, China. He studied History, Literature, Religion, Theology, Philosophy, Drama, and Languages at the University of Tübingen, King’s College London, Leo Baeck College London, and Universidad de Salamanca. Mauch received a Dr. phil. in Modern German Literature from Tübingen and a Dr. phil. habil. in Modern History from Cologne. He is a past President of the European Society for Environmental History (2011-2013) and a former Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. (1999-2007). Mauch is a Principal Investigator of several international research projects on topics such as Human-Wildlife Conflict, Environmental Humanities, Ecological Justice, the Military and the Environment, and Planetary Health.

A.B. (Cornell), Ph.D. in History of Science (Princeton), Postdoctoral year in History of Medicine (UCL, London). Professor Emeritus of History at Duke, where he is Director of Graduate Study, History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine Program and where he has been Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Human Values. Received the Dexter Award for outstanding achievement in the History of Chemistry and earned the Duke Alumni Association’s 2006 Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. Already taught at VIU in Spring 2010. Specialized in Intellectual History. Research interests include: History of Chemistry in 1700s and 1800s; History of Chemical Technology, focusing on munitions and explosives; History of Parapsychology and Marginal Science; Reception of Unconventional Science and Chemical Sciences in the Modern World. Current research: Alfred Nobel and his English colleagues and the development of explosives and munitions in the late 1800s.

LL.B. and LL.M. (Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law), LL.MM. and J.S.D. (Yale Law School). Daniel Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence at Tel Aviv University, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Law and where he teaches courses on contract law, jurisprudence, law and culture, and multiculturalism. Visiting Professor at Michigan, NYU and Cardiff Law Schools; visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Was awarded the Tel Aviv University Rector's Prize for Distinction in Teaching and the "Zeltner Prize for Excellence in the Law". He is author of breakthrough books such as The Decline of Formalism and the Rise of Values in Israeli Law (1993) and On Legal Education (2002). Edited four legal books, including Multiculturalism in a Democratic and Jewish State and Distributive Justice in Israel. Published over 60 articles and chapters in books in Israel, the United States and Britain (including at the law reviews of Yale and Michigan universities) in the areas of contract law, law and culture and multiculturalism. His book Law and Culture (400 pages) is due in November 2007 (Bar Ilan University Press). His book Law and Culture in Israel at the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century (400 pages) is due in February 2008 (Tel Aviv University Press). Member of the Committee on the Preparation of Israel's New Civil Code (headed by Professor Ahron Barak, President of the Israeli Supreme Court). Headed the Experts' Committee on Revision of Israel's Securities Law, Ministry of Justice. Was Chairperson of the Public Commission on the Rights of Performing Artists, Ministry of Justice

Doctorate in Law (Mainz), Diploma I in Comparative Law (Strasbourg), Diploma of the Bologna Center of the School for Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins), Diploma II in Comparative Law (Coimbra). Emeritus Professor in Political Science and Theory of Law at LMU and Rektor of the Munich School of Political Science (Hochschule für Politik, München). Already taught at VIU in Fall 2005. Among his monographs are Porträtgalerie der Politischen Denker, 2003; Die Zeichen der Natur, Insel, Frankfurt 2001; Über Prophetie und Politik. München 2000; Jean Bodin: Eine Einführung, Düsseldorf-Bonn 2000. Editor, among other things, of Politische Ökologie. Eine Einführung, Düsseldorf 1998 and Porträtgalerie der Politischen Denker, Berrn-Göttingen 2003. Publications in other languages include: Guerilla Warfare and International Law in "Law and State" Vol. 8 (1973) p.7–24; Ecologia y humanismo in "Humboldt 80" (1983), p.13–23; (with B.M.Malunat) Le mouvement écologique allemand, in "Futuribles" (June 1985) H. 89, p.94–98; International Environmental Policy as a Challenge to the National State in "AMBIO" Volume XV (1986) H.4, p.240–243; (with F.Kohout), "Dal diritto fondamentale dell'uomo al diritto fondamentale della natura" in P.Fois, La Garanzia dei Principi Fondamentali nell'Europa del Diritto, Sassari 1993; "Europe and the Atlantic Community in the Context of an Ecological World Order" in O.Höll (ed.), Environmental Cooperation in Europe. The political dimension, Boulder-Oxford 1994; "Dall´hortus conclusus medievale al moderno "parco paesaggistico"" in R.Colantonio, M.Lucchetti, A.Venturelli (ed.), Ambiente e invecchiamento, Milano 1999.

Degree in Philological Studies (Moscow Lomonosov State University) and Doctorate at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. Coca-Cola Chair in Visual Studies, Department of History of Art, at EUSP. Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Senior Research Associate at the Institute of World Culture of Moscow Lomonosov State University. Member of the Academic Council of VIU. Teaching career includes lectureships at the University of Naples (Orientale) and at the Centro per gli studi storici italo-germanici in Trent, Italy. Research interests: visual studies; topoi of Russian culture of the 18th-20th centuries; literary connections between Russia and Europe in the context of the history of ideas.

Laurea in Language Sciences (Ca' Foscari). Professor of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute. Teaches at VIU beginners and intermediate Italian courses since several semesters. Taught Italian at the Boston University Venice Program in 2011.

M.A., Dr.Phil. and Dr.Phil.Habil. in Philosophy (Muenchen). Interim Deputy for the Chair of Philosophy at LMU in 2008-2009. Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Department of Economics at the University of Innsbruck. Taught at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, at the Technical University of Munich, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet di Erlangen and the Universities of Minnesota and Bayreuth. Most recent publications in English include: Truth as perfect belief. On the Peircean conception of truth; in: Greiman, Dirk/Siegwart, Geo (eds.): Truth and Speech Acts; New York/London 2007; Agents in Discord. On Preference Aggregation under Uncertainty; in: Kanzian, C./Runggaldier, E. (Eds.): Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue. Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium Kichberg am Wechsel, Austria 2006, Frankfurt a.M. 2007. Other recent articles include: Globalisierung, Gerechtigkeit und öffentliche Güter; in: Eberharter, A./Exenberger, A. (Hg.): Globalisierung und Gerechtigkeit. Eine transdisziplinäre Annäherung; Innsbruck 2007. Forthcoming: Cooperation and Global Public Goods: Aspects of Fairness in International Relations; in: Marie-Luisa Frick/ Andreas Oberprantacher (eds.): Justice and Power in International Relations; Farnham, Ashgate.

Associate professor in Business Economics and Management and Chair of the Degree Program in International Management at Ca' Foscari University. Director of the TeDIS Center and former Dean of VIU. Coordinator of many national and international projects in the fields of ICT, local economic development and competitiveness of firms and regions. Research has been focusing on the impacts of information technologies on business competitiveness, internationalization of industrial districts and design; and more broadly on Production systems, Business administration and Internationalization strategies and upgrading processes of SMEs in global value chains.

After graduating from a single-cycle master's degree in Law at the University of Padova (Italy), she achieved a PhD in Law at the same University, with a thesis in Philosophy of Law (Biolaw and Bioethics), and she was admitted to the Bar. She is now a Researcher in Philosophy of Law at the Department of Private Law and Critique of Law of the University of Padova. She was also a research fellow at the University of Verona (Italy), on the field of Biolaw and Bioethics, and at the University of Trento (Italy), on the field of methodology of legal education. After teaching Legislation and Animal Protection at the Bachelor in Animal Care at the University of Padova, she currently teaches Legal Design at the Bachelor in Law and Technology, and Methodology and Legal Informatics at the Bachelor in Labour Consultant, both at the School of Law of the University of Padova. Her main fields of research are Critics of Law & Technology, on the one hand, and Biolaw and Bioethics, on the other. In this field, in 2012 she won the Ruffini Prize awarded by the Italian Accademia dei Lincei. Her current research interests deal with digital justice, online dispute resolution, legal design and the concept of lex informatica. Speaker at many national and international conferences, she has published many contributions in national and international publications. Among these: Mingardo L (2020). Giustizia digitale 'alternativa'. Scenari e riflessioni critiche sulle Online Dispute Resolution. Padova: Primiceri, ISBN: 97912202184054 2019; Mingardo L, Fuselli S (2018). Autonomy and Dementia. The Problematic Freedom of Health Care of Alzheimer’s Patients. L’Altro Diritto.Centro di documentazione su carcere, devianza e marginalità, p.53-69, ISSN: 1827-0565; Mingardo L (2015). Dialogue among Courts and Biolaw: Integration or Incorporation? In: (a cura di): Garcia San Jose D, Sanchez Patron JM, Torres Cazorla MI, Bioderecho Seguridad y Medioambiente. Biolaw Security and Enviroment. p. 19-31, Valencia:Tirant Lo Blanch, ISBN: 978-84-9086-530-9; Mingardo L (2015). Incontro alle Sirene. Autodeterminazione e testamento biologico. Napoli: ESI, ISBN: 978-88-495-3062-9

BA in Oriental Studies (Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia); MA in International Relations (University of Groningen, Netherlands). Senior Lecturer for the MA in Energy Politics in Eurasia at EUSP, where she teaches courses on Energy Security in Asia, Russian Gas Supply Strategies, Evolution of World Oil and Gas Markets, and the seminar on World Oil and Gas Affairs. She is also Analyst at the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) focusing on the Development of gas pricing mechanisms. She was Lecturer at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, based in Moscow. Was Visiting Lecturer at OSCE Academy in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and Visiting Fellow at the Energy Charter Secretariat (Brussels). She is author of several articles on the Energy Sector and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the “Security Index Journal: a Russian Journal on International Security”, published by the Russian Center for Policy Studies (Moscow).

Professor Yajun Mo is an Associate Professor of History at Boston College, specializing in modern Chinese history, gender studies, and urban history. She holds a BA in History from Fudan University, an M.Phil. in History from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and both an MA and PhD in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Albion College and Long Island University. Professor Mo’s research focuses on the intersections of tourism, gender, modernity, and urban life in 20th-century China, with a particular emphasis on cultural and social transformations. Her recent publication, Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949, explores the development of travel culture in modern China.

Laurea in Architecture (Iuav), Specialization Degree in Medieval and Early Modern History of Art (Cattolica, Milan), PhD in History of Architecture (Iuav). VIU Fellow. Teaches History of Architecture at the University of Trieste. Taught at VIU in 2000-2009 and in Fall 2017 and 2018. Was Visiting Professor at Duke. Carried out research with grants or fellowships from Harvard’s Houghton Library, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery in Washington. Was Research Fellow at Iuav and a researcher for the Superintendency of Venice. Fields of interest include: Italian Renaissance Architecture in its manifestations in Lombardy and Veneto, including Bramante’s and Bramantesque work in Lombardy, Palladio’s work and its reception in Italy and Europe until the 19th Century; Venetian Architecture; Religious Architecture; Architecture and Liturgy; the liturgical and civic uses of churches before the Tridentine Reform; the Villa; the Grand Tour; Architectural Drawing.

First Degree in English Literature (Essex) and in English Philology (UAB); Doctorado in English Philology (UAB). Professor of English at the Department of English Philology, UAB, which he directed between 1991 and 2001, and where he was director of Postgraduate Studies. Was Secretary of the Sociedad Española de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses (1994-2001). Already taught at VIU in Spring 2008. His major research interest has been in Scottish Literature, particularly the Romantic Era, and, more recently, the figure of Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857), an enigmatic liberal thinker and pioneer of female journalist. He is editor of her national tale Clan-Albin (1815) for the Association of Scottish Literary Studies (the first edition in over 150 years). Among his other publications are: A Hypertextual Approach to Scott's "Waverley", Barcelona 1998 and Working with Romanticism, Barcelona 1998. With Curbet, Hand and Martín, he was coordinator of the Introduction to English Literature, Barcelona 1999. With Aranzazu Usandizaga, he edited Dressing up for War: Transformation of Gender and Genre in the Discourses and Literature of War, Amsterdam and New York 2001 and Back to Peace: Recrimination and Reconciliation in the Postwar Period, Notre Dame 2007. Most recent publications include Strange, Stranger and Estrangement: English Visitors to Scotland in Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction, : Études Écossaises 11, , pp. 239-248, 2009. Forthcoming (with Cristina Pividori) "The Soldier as Good Samaritan: Bonding with the Enemy in John Pearman's The Radical Soldier's Tale" in Journal of War and Culture Studies.

Cosimo Monteleone is Associate Professor in Representation of Architecture and Descriptive Geometry at the University of Padua (IT). He is currently working on history of drawing and, in particular, in Renaissance perspective. He is a member of the international researches Visualizing Venice and Digital Bomarzo, indeed, his interest focuses also in new technologies – digital survey, 3D modeling, multimedia outputs and Augmented Reality – for displaying historical transformations of architecture, city and landscape. He is member of the National Technical Commettee UNI – UNI / CT 047 / GL 03 (Technical drawing for building and installation). He directed several digital and multimedia projects linked to historical and scientific exhibitions like, for example: Piero della Francesca. Il disegno tra arte e scienza (Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emila [IT] 2015); Daniele Barbaro (1514-70). Letteratura, scienza e arti nella Venezia del Rinascimento (Salone Sansoviniano, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice [IT] 2016); Build Upon Water: from the ‘Carità’ to the ‘Gallerie dell’Accademia’ (site-specific installation at the Gallerie dell’Accademia Museum in Venice [IT] since 2015). His several scientific essays focus on analysis and representation of architecture and art, and the application of science in art. He is also the author of three books titled: Frank Lloyd Wright. Geometria e astrazione nel Guggenheim Museum (Rome: Aracne 2013); La prospettiva di Daniele Barbaro. Note critiche e trascrizione del manoscritto It. IV, 39=5446 (Rome: Aracne 2020); Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective of 1568 (Cham: Springer 2021).

Doctor in Theology (Gregoriana, Rome) and in Philosophy (Barcelona). Full Professor (catedràtic) of Philosophy at UAB. Taught at VIU in the Undergraduate Program of Fall 2000. Author of various books, including: Filó d'Alexandria. La creació del Món i altres escrits, Laia, Barcelona, 1983; Las transformaciones del platonismo, Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1987; El desafio cristiano. Las razones del perseguidor, Anaya y Mario Muchnik, Madrid, 1992; Platón: de la perpejidad al sistema, Anthropos, Barcelona, 1995; Textos gnósticos. Biblioteca de Nag Hammadi, (with A. Piñero and F. García Bazán), 3 vols., Trotta, Madrid, 1997-99. Publications in English include: "Methodius of Olympus, Symposium III 4-8: an interpretation", in Studia Patristica XIII, ed. Elisabeth Livingstone, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1975, pp. 239-243; "Some epistemological notes on greek cosmologies", in Foundations of Big Bang Cosmology, ed. W. Meyerstein, World Scientific, Singapore, 1989, pp. 5-8; "Plato's Philosophy of Science and Trinitarian Theology", in Studia Patristica XX, Peeters, Lovaina, 1989, pp. 102-118; "The Social and Cultural Setting of the Coptic Gnostic Library", in Studia Patristica XXXI, Peeters, Leuven, 1997, pp. 464-481.

Paolo Moro is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the University of Padua (Italy), where he is the President of the Degree Course of Law 2.0 (Treviso Campus). PhD in Philosophy of Law, he is also a Lawyer qualified for the Supreme Court in Italy. He is Scientific Director of the Journal of Ethics and Legal Technologies (Padova University Press) and he has published various books, papers and chapters about Legal Rhetoric, Legal Informatics and TechnoLaw, Legal Education and Sports Law. He is Director of two second-level Masters at the University of Padua, dedicated to Metaverse and Legal Informatics and Teaching Law and Economics and he is the founder of CollectIUS, search, discussion and filing digital platform of TechnoLaw cases. He was Visiting Scholar in various universities in Europe and overseas (Kingston University of London, Universidad de Cordoba, Fordham University of New York, New South Wales University of Sydney, Australian National University of Canberra).

B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering (North Carolina State University); Master of Architecture (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). He served on the faculties of Virginia Tech, Westbrook College, and the University of New England before joining the Writing Program at Duke University in 2001 where he is Professor of the Practice in Writing. He served as Director of Writing in the Disciplines at Duke from 2006-2023. He is founder and director of the Text Recycling Research Project. His articles and essays related to the teaching of writing and text recycling (AKA “self-plagiarism”) have appeared in such publications as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Science, the Journal of College Science Teaching, European Science Editing, and Science and Engineering Ethics. He is coauthor (with Lynn Smith-Lovin) of Writing in Sociology: A Brief Guide (Oxford University Press). He is an internationally recognized scholar on the ethical, legal, and policy aspects of text recycling—the reuse of materials from one’s previously written documents. His other research interests include scientific writing and information literacy. In addition to courses in writing, he has taught courses in science, technology and society; physics; American architecture; and mathematics.

Master degree in Law and PhD in Public Law (Tor Vergata). Associate Professor of International Law at the Tor Vergata Department of History, Cultural Heritage, Education and Society. Taught International protection of cultural heritage at the European University in Rome. Alternate member of the Assembly of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, for which she acted as legal advisor, in several negotiations, conferences and meetings, in the field of international protection of cultural heritage and property, protection and promotion of diversity of cultural expression. Fields of teaching include: International Law; European Union Law; Private International Law; International Cultural Heritage Protection. Most recent publications include “Armenian Cultural Properties and Cultural Heritage: What Protection under International Law One Hundred Years Later?”, in Lattanzi F. and Pistoia E. (edited by), “The Armenian Massacres of 1915- 1916 a Hunderd Years Later. Open Questions and Tentative Answers in International Law”, Springer, 2018 and “Building Resilient Peace through the Respect of Cultural Heritage and Pluralism: A Task for UN Peacekeeping Forces to Be Carried out in Cooperation with UNESCO”, in Caracciolo I. and Montuoro U. (edited by), “New Models of Peacekeeping Security and Protection of Human Rights The Role of the UN and Regional Organizations”, Turin, 2018.

Degree in Geography and MA in Urban Geography (UAB). Professor of Urban Geography and Director of the Urban Planning Observatory at UAB. He is also Director of the Cerdà Postmetropolis International Congress and teaches for European programs like ‘Metropolis: The Experience of Cities in Art and Architecture’ (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) and ‘Management of The European Metropolitan Regions’ (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam). Already taught at VIU in Spring 2005 and Fall 2012. His professional experience includes both research and consulting work in different fields as urban demography, strategic planning and specific assessment in urban and cultural projects working for institutions like the International Olympic Committee. He has published articles in reviews on Urban Studies and Architecture and has participated in several collective books in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia and USA.

Francesco Musco is an urban planner and architect with a PhD in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is a Full Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Department of Architecture and Arts at Iuav. As Director of Research (2021-2027) and co-leader of the UNESCO Chair on Heritage and Urban Regeneration, Francesco focuses on integrating multidisciplinary approaches to spatial planning and sustainability, with emphasis on bottom-up public policies. He has led several EU-funded projects on climate adaptation and maritime spatial planning and plays a significant role in international research networks. Since November 2024 he is President of CORILA Consortium for coordination of research activities concerning the Venice lagoon system.

Emeritus Professor of Economics and Environmental Economics at Ca' Foscari University where he served as Dean of the Department of Economics and Member of the Academic Senate. Was Visiting Scholar at Cambridge and Yale and Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Melbourne and Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center. Former Dean of VIU. Was President of the VIU TEN Center in charge of the Sino-Italian Advanced Training Program on environmental management and sustainable development and of the Course for Sustainability targeting South-Eastern European countries. Member of various commissions, among which the supervision board of the Bank of Italy and Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice. His main research fields are Environmental and Resource Economics, Growth Theory, International Trade and the Chinese Economy. Author of a recent book on Xi Jinping's China (Eredi di Mao, Donzelli, Rome 2018). Teaches "Globalization, Environment and Sustainable Development" at VIU since Spring 2009.

Bachelor and MA in Commerce, Doctor of Science in Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (Waseda). Professor at the International School of Liberal Studies and at the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda. Was Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Institute for International Development. Specialization on Media Industrial Organization and om the Japanese Economy. Major publications in English include works on the digitalization of the Japanese Media and on Economic Reforms in Japan facing Globalization.

BA, MA, Dr in Economics (Waseda); Dr in Economics (Kyoto). Professor at the School of Political Science and Economics in Waseda. Teaching fields: Introductory Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Advanced Microeconomics, Game Theory, General Equilibrium Theory, Mathematics for Economics, Japanese Culture. Former Chair of the Graduate School of Economics at Waseda. Was member of the Committee for Certified Public Accountants of the Ministry of Treasure. Was also Executive member of the Mathematical Economics Association. Visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Southern California, Université Paris 1 and Renmin University in China. Forthcoming in 2019 is the second edition of his book in Japanese on “Standard Microeconomics”, written with T. Oginuma, and K. Araki.

B.A. and M.A. in History (TAU), PhD in History (Berkeley). Professor in the Department of History of TAU, where he was the head of the General B.A. and Interdisciplinary Studies program. He is also professor of History and member of the Academic Council at the Kibbutzim College of Education. Was visiting and associate professor at Toronto, UC Berkeley, and Cornell. Currently Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, where he heads the Political Education project. Since 2000, he is coordinating an Israeli team in the "Two Narratives project", writing a Palestinian-Israeli history textbook; and he was the scientific advisor for the writing of a history textbook designed for Arab students, citizens of Israel. Published in several languages books, articles, textbooks and instructors' manuals, including: The United States – An Ongoing Democracy [Hebrew], Tel Aviv, Open University Press, 2007; "The Dynamics of Identity Construction in Israel through Education in History", in Victor Rotberg and Debbie Wise eds., Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006; "John Brown Legacy of Martyrdom", in Paul Finkelman and Peggy Russo, eds., Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown, Athens Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2005; Reinhold Niebuhr and Non-Utopian Liberalism, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2002; with Esther Yogev, Histories: Towards a Dialogue with the Israeli Past [Hebrew], Bebal Publishers, Tel Aviv, 2002; The American Century [Hebrew], Tel Aviv: ministry of defense press, 1999; and Crown of Thorns - Political Martyrdom in America, New York, New York University Press, 1990.

BA (University of Oxford, History and Modern Languages), MA (Courtauld Institute of Art, History of Architecture), PhD (Courtauld Institute of Art, History of Art). I am a Professor and Head of Art History and Visual Culture, University of Exeter. I am currently Project Lead for two major digital art history research projects that inform some of my teaching florence4d.org and www.hiddencities.eu. I was previously Senior Lecturer in History of Architecture at the University of Bath (2009-2013) at Oxford Brookes University (2007-9) and Università degli Studi di Siena (2005-7). My research focuses on urban and architectural history of early modern cities, with a particular attention for public spaces in Italy on which I has written and published extensively. My most recent book, Street Life in Renaissance Italy (Yale UP, 2020) accompanies several edited collections involving comparative work on urban space. My first monograph, Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City (Yale UP, 2007) was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture.

is a graduate of the University of Oxford (Modern Languages), and has postgraduate qualifications from the Universities of Wales (Education) and Reading (Linguistics). He has a wide experience of English language teaching, in the UK, France, and Italy. His main teaching posts have been held at the Ecole Normale Superieure (France), and the Universities of Verona and Venice. He is at present Researcher in English Language at the Department of European and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari. His interests range from English language testing and assessment and teacher education to varieties of English and English as a World Language. He has written a number of English language courses for students in Italy, Germany, Poland and China. His research publications include articles on language testing, and early years language acquisition. As a long-standing correspondent for The Times Educational Supplement he has a special interest in the language of the media.

B.A. (Holy Cross College), M.A. (Middlebury College in Paris, France), Ph.D. (Yale). Professor of French at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Boston College. Also taught at Yale. He was professor at VIU, where he has organized BC Summer Schools for several years. Areas of specialization: post-romantic poetry and prose, literary criticism and theory, philosophical approaches to literature, and literary approaches to philosophy. Author of “Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading”, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991 and of “Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man”, New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Currently writing a book on why writers love Venice.

Laurea in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation (Padova); Magistrale in Translation and Cultural Mediation (Udine); Certificate as Teacher of Italian as Foreign Language (Perugia). At Padova and Udine she specialized in Russian and German languages and was trained as 'Russian as a Foreign Language' teacher at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. For several years she was teacher of Italian as a Foreign Language in Moscow at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and at the Centro Italiano di Cultura.

BS in Economics and Finance, MA in Business and Applied Economics (Pennsylvania), PhD in Management (Syracuse). Professor at the Organization Studies Department of the Carroll School of Management at BC. Works in the field of Organizational Ethics, Politics and Political Economy. Served as President of the Society of Business Ethics. Has consulted and done executive training in Asia, Europe, Latin and North America. His extensive bibliography includes works on Finance Capitalism and Ethics, and on Corruption in Financial Services and Corporations.

BA in Japanese Literature (Waseda University); MA (Waseda University); PhD (Waseda university). Professor of Department of Japanese Language and Literature at Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University. Was Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Faculty of Literature, Notre Dame Seishin University, and lecturer at Kure College of Technology. Researching and teaching 'The Tale of Genji' and other literary works of the Heian period. Published: Early modernism and The Tale of Genji Transcribed: Focusing on Vernacular Translations (Utsusareta Genji monogatari no kinsei: zokugo yaku o chūshin ni). Co-edited with Rebekah Clements. Benseisha, 2019. “Transformations in the Image of Murasaki Shikibu: Representations of Literary People” (Murasaki Shikibu zō no hen’yō: bun no hito no imēji). A History of Japanese “Bun” (Literature). Benseisha, 2017. Reception and Production of The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari no kyōyō to seisei). Musashino shoin, 2008.

Bachelor, Master and Doctor of Law (Waseda). Professor in Constitutional Law at Waseda, where he was Dean of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Director of the Institute of Social Sciences. He is National Bar Examiner for the Ministry of Justice of Japan. Was Visiting Professor at the Department of Law of the University of Tubingen, Germany. Areas of teaching include: Introduction to Public Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights in Contemporary Society, Comparative Constitutional Study, Introduction to EU integration. Fields of research include: Fundamental Theories on Human Rights, Constitution of the Welfare State, Sex Equality. Published numerous authoritative academic books and articles in Japanese, German and English. Author of a book explaining the Constitution to Japanese primary and middle school students.

BS and MA (Fordham), M.A. in African Area Studies and PhD in History (University of California, Los Angeles). Professor in History and (since 2006) African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College. In 1964-66 was Vice-Principal and History Master, Central Annang Secondary School, Nigeria. Books published include Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965: A Brief History with Documents, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007; Africa's Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002; 2d ed. 2008; Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Beyond the Bend in the River: A Labor History of Eastern Zaïre, 1870-1940, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1988; Trade Without Rulers: Pre-Colonial Economic Development in South-Eastern Nigeria. Oxford Studies in African Affairs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. He is co-author of The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997 (4th ed. 2007) and compiler and editor of The Atlantic Slave Trade. Problems in World History. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1994.

Massimiliano Nuccio is associate professor of business economics and management at the Venice School of Management of Ca’Foscari University of Venice where he is also director of Bliss Digital Impact Lab. His main research interests include, on the one hand, the cultural turn in urban and regional economies and, on the other hand, the digital transformation of work, firms and industries. Before Venice, he spent several years of research and teaching in Italy (University of Turin, Bocconi University of Milan) and abroad (University of Birmingham and Leuphana University of Luneburg). On the above topics, he published books and over 30 articles in international academic journals.

B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology (Emory), M.A. and PhD in Anthropology (Northwestern). Professor at the Departments of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology and English of Duke University and, as Adjunct, at the University of North Carolina Law School. Won two awards for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching at Duke. Member of the Board of the Advertising Educational Foundation. Already taught at VIU in Fall 2002. Major research includes fieldworks in Tanzania and projects on Language and Law, Ethnography of Economic Behaviour and Anthropology of Advertisement. Most recent books: Rules versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse, 1990; Fortune and Folly: The Wealth and Power of Institutional Investing, 1992; Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising, 1994; Just Words: Law, Language, and Power, 1998; A History of Theory in Legal Anthropology, 2002. He is editor of "The Chicago Series in Law and Society" (previously known as "Language and Legal Discourse Series") and of the "Advertising & Society Review", where he published contributions such as What is Advertising?" and A Brief History of Advertising in America (both in issue 6:3, 2005).

BA in English and Comparative Literature (Williams College), MA and PhD in English Language and Literature (Cornell University). Professor in the Department of English at Boston College. Was Lecturer at Cornell University. A former fellow of the National Humanities Center, the Cornell Society for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, he was, in 2020, the Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English at Williams College. His primary fields are the history of the novel, Victorian and modernist literature, queer theory, and film. He is the author of numerous articles and four books, including, most recently, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission (2015) and Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form (2021).

B.A. (Drake University), MA and PhD in Communication Studies (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Associate Professor of the Practice of Visual & Media Studies, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and Program in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures. Core Faculty, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Member, Duke Disability and Access Initiative. Steering Committee, Visualizing Venice / Visualizing Cities. Olson’s research and teaching seek to expand the creative, analytical, and critical repertoires of the arts and humanities through deep engagement with computer science, engineering, medicine, biology, and design. His essay “Hacking the Humanities: Twenty-first Century Literacies and the Becoming-Other of the Humanities” outlines this research agenda, synthesizing critical perspectives from media studies, performance studies, science-technology studies (STS), and cultural studies. Current projects include the development of 3D digital simulations and interactives for museums, an art-science laboratory initiative exploring the intersections among biology, chemistry, and the visual arts through the lens of “experiment,” and an ecocritical/critical disability studies framework for understanding the “Internet of Things.”

Laurea triennale in International Relations and Human Rights (Padova); Laurea specialistica in International Cooperation and Development (Bologna); Dottorato in Regional Planning and Public Policy (Iuav). Researcher at Iuav for the UNESCO Chair in Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants (SSIIM). Was Visiting Researcher at the Open University (UK), the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines ParisTech (France). Was policy consultant for the Department of International Cooperation and Development of the City of Padua. Areas of research covered include: cities and social cohesion; the urban inclusion of Mozambican migrants in Johannesburg; conflicts over public space in Padua and Venice; access to housing for migrants in Padua.

studied History, English and Philosophy at the universities of Freiburg, Glasgow and Pennsylvania. He has taught at the universities of Freiburg, Frankfurt and Munich in Germany, at the Université d'Orléans in France and at Elmira College, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the University of New Orleans in the US. Already taught in the VIU Semester Program of Spring 2001 and Fall 2006, courses on "The Americanization of Europe: a dream or a nightmare?", "Transatlantic Avantguards", "Americanism, Americanization, Anti-Americanism" and "Conspiracy Nation: Conspiracy Theories from the Illuminati to the X-Files". From 1981 until his retirement in 2005 he held the Chair in American Cultural History at the Amerika Institut, LMU Munich, a "reeducation" chair that was funded by American Foundations in 1949. Recent publications are on migration policy, Anti-Americanism, New Orleans and American Music. He is on the governing board of the "Rat für Migration", a migration policy institute in Berlin.

BA in Economics (Suleyman Demirel University, Almaty, Kazakhstan); MA in Economics (Charles University in Prague); PhD in Economics (Nova School of Business & Economics, Lisbon). Researcher, at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change at the ENI Enrico Mattei Foundation (FEEM) in Venice. Research interests: Environmental Valuation, Environmental and Resource Economics, Happiness Economics (Quality of Life), Applied Microeconomics, Microeconometric Analysis.

Claudia Padovani holds a PhD in International relations from the University of Padova. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Padova, department of Politics, law and International Studies. She is co-chair of the UniTWIN Network on gender media and ICT and participate in the IAMCR task Force of the Global Alliance for media and Gender. Furthermore, Padovani has coordinated several editions of the Global Media Monitoring Project since 2000. Padovani has also acted as senior researchers in projects conducted for the Euroepan Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) on Advancing Gender Equality in Decision Making in Media Organization; and coordinated projects funded by EU DG Justice on Advancing gender Equality in Media Industries and overcoming gender stereotypes in political coverage (see AGEMI Platform). She has taught at different Universities, including McGill in Montreal (2009-2010). Here main research interests concern International Communication and Global Communication Governance; Transformation of Global Governance processes (emphasis on public sphere, civil society organizations, multi-stakeholder approaches, women’s rights); Gendered dimensions of communication governance; Media gender equality; Trans-national social mobilizations on communication rights and digital transformations issues.

Hon. B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics (St. Petersburg State University), Hon. M.Sc. Economics (EUSP), PhD in Economics (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Associate Professor, Department of Economics at EUSP, where he teaches Macroeconomics and International Trade Theory. Main fields of research: Economic growth and distribution; Natural resources; Political economy and voting theory; Macroeconomic dynamics; Networks. Publications in English include: with K. Borisov, “Economic Growth and Property Rights on Natural Resources”, Economic Theory, 65 (2), 2018; with K. Borisov, and C. Puppe, “On Discounting and Voting in a Simple Growth Model”, European Economic Review, 94, 2017.

Dr Marc-William Palen is a historian at the University of Exeter. He joined Exeter’s Archaeology and History Department in Autumn 2013. He received a BA in Classics (2003), an MA in History (2009), and PhD in History (2011) from the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in the intersection of British and American imperialism within the broader history of globalization since c. 1800. He is particularly interested in comparing the British and American Empires from the mid-nineteenth century and, more broadly, in exploring how political economy, gender, humanitarianism, and ideology have reshaped the modern global order. He is the author of two books, The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, c.1846-1896 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Dr Palen believes that connecting the past with the present is an essential part of a historian's craft. He is co-director of the History and Policy Global Economics and History Forum in London, and contributed to the Mainz-Exeter Global Humanitarianism Research Academy. His commentary on historical and contemporary global affairs has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC, the BBC, the Conversation, the Australian, Newsweek, and Time, among others. He is also founding editor of the Imperial and Global Forum, the blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the University of Exeter.

Professor of Muslim Law and Law in Islamic Countries at the Faculty of Law of Tor Vergata, where he is director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies of the Islamic World and where he teaches Comparative Legal Systems and Muslim Law and Law in Islamic Countries. He is Legal Advisor to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on issues related to Islamic Countries and the application of Muslim Law. Has written many publications on Law of Islamic countries (including Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, the Arab world, the Horn of Africa) and more generally on Muslim Law, also in a comparative perspective. With L. Ascanio, he is author of a widely read book on the Shari’a published by Il Mulino of Bologna.

Degree and Diploma Advanced (GODDESS) in Fine Arts (Barcelona). Doctoral thesis in progress on "The surface in relation to the photographic image" (Barcelona). Teaches "Systems of representation (perspective as a drawing)" at the Departament de Didàctica de l'Expressió Musical, Plàstica i Corporal, in the Faculty of Education of UAB, where she is also member of a research group on Art Education. Painter. Exhibited her work in solo and collective shows in Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, Terragona, Santander, St.Cugat del Vallès, Lleida, Cantabria and Torroella de Montgrí.

BA and MA (Cambridge); MBA (Manchester); MA, MPhil and PhD (Columbia). Professor at the Department of History at Duke, where he was also director of the Asian Pacific Institute. Specialist in late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history, focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social change; Japanese rural society. Taught courses on: Ancient and Early Modern Japan; Emergence of Modern Japan; Japan Since 1945; East Asia’s Twentieth Century; East Asians Treaty Ports. Also held getaway seminars on “Grandparents”. Published books include: “The Merchants Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan” (Columbia UP, 2017) and “The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925 (University of California Press, 2009). With Emma Johnston, he is author of “Bull City Survivor: Standing up to a hard life in a Southern City” (MacFarland, 2013), a study of the social and economic conditions that led to the murder of Emma’s son, an African American victim of gun violence in Durham.

MA in Chinese Studies, MA in Japanese Studies, PhD course in Comparative Literature (Tokyo), PhD in Japanese Literature (INLCO, Paris). Professor at the School of Commerce, Waseda University. Taught at the Department of French Studies at the University of Saitama. She is author of Ecriture, lecture et poésie, Publications orientalistes de France, 1991. Articles published include: La peinture de lettrés : un exemple de ré-écriture de la poésie chinoise. L'album de peintures Dix fois pratique et dix fois propice de Ike no Taiga et Yosa Buson, "Ebisu-Etudes Japonaises", Numéro 25, numéro spécial "Écritures poétiques japonaises", 2000; Pour une introduction à la peinture de lettre, "文化論集 = The Cultural review", Sep-2002, vol. 21; Calligraphie et Inscription du poeme dans la peinture, "文化論集 = The Cultural review", Mar-2003, vol.22; Sceaux, signatures et noms de lettres. Le rapport de l'auteur a son oeuvre dans la peinture japonaise de lettre, "文化論集 = The Cultural review", Sep-2003, vol.23; Lire la poesie dans la peinture, "文化論集 = The Cultural review", Sep-2004, vol.25.

Associate Professor in History of Modern Art (i.e. Art from the 1400s to the 1800s) at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua, where she is also teaching Iconography and Iconology. Her fields of research: Venetian Pantings in the Cinquecento in connection to the Tridentine Iconography (Francesco and Leandro Bassano, Veronese and his followers); Ferrarese Paintings at the time of Ercole I, Alfonso I, Ercole II and Alfonso II (Boccaccio Boccaccino, Mazzolino, Garofalo, Dosso Dossi and his brother Battista, Pirro Ligorio, the Master of the twelve Apostoles, the graphic and pictorial work by Girolamo da Carpi).

Laurea in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (English, Spanish) and Dottorato in Linguistics, with a thesis on Intercultural Communication (Ca' Foscari). Lecturer in Intercultural Communication, Theory of Mass Communication, English Language at Ca' Foscari. Teaches English Language also at the University of Padova, and Intercultural Communication and Mass Media at University of Primorskem, Koper, Slovenia. Was Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil. She is in the Scientific Committee of two European projects, JEZIK LINGUA and EDUKA - educating for diversity. Main fields of interest: Intercultural Communication both in the educational and managerial contexts; Methodology of Cultural Aspects; the use of media and authentic materials in teaching Foreign Languages; Foreign Language (FL) methodologies; Mass Communication.

Degree in Mathematics (Padova), PhD in Mathematics for Economic Decisions (Trieste). Professor of Mathematical methods for economics and finance at Ca' Foscari. Also teaches for the Ph.D. in Economics and Organization of the School of Advanced Studies in Venice, based in San Servolo and taught Quantitative Methods for Economics for the VIU Master in Economics and Finance. Research interest is mainly focused on computational economics and finance. Most recent publication s include: "Static Hedging of Multivariate Derivatives by Simulation", European Journal of Operational Research, 166, 2, 507–519, 2005; with M. LiCalzi, "The allocative effectiveness of market protocols under intelligent trading", in C. Bruun (Ed.), Advances in Artificial Economics, Lect. Notes in Economics and Math. Sciences, Springer, 2006; with C. Agostinelli, "Hierarchical clustering by means of model grouping", in M. Spiliopoulou, R. Kruse, C. Borgelt, A. Nurnberger, W. Gaul (Eds.), From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge, Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, Springer, 2006. Forthcoming: with M. LiCalzi, "Simple market protocols for efficient risk sharing", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; with A. Dal Forno, "A comparison of different trading protocols in an agent-based market", forthcoming on Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2.

MA in Ancient Greek Literature and PhD in Philosophy (Tor Vergata). Professor of Classics, Department of Art, Literature and Philosophy, Tor Vergata, where he is Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre in Classics, Mathematics and Philosophy on Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World. Was scientific consultant in the field of Humanities computing at the Interdisciplinary Center of the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei. Was Research Fellow for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation both at LMU and the Academy of Sciences of Berlin-Brandenburg. Was Research Associate at Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine in UCL, London. Main fields of research include: Ancient Greek medicine (Temple medicine, Hippocrates, Galen, empiricism), the history of ideas, Ancient Greek philosophy and science, textual criticism and classical philology. He is also a recognized expert in humanities computing.

B.Sc. (Econ.) in History and Government (LSE), Laurea in History (Ca’ Foscari), Ph.D. in Italian Studies (Reading). Vice Dean, Director of the Globalization Program at VIU, where he has taught every semester since the beginning of academic activities in 1997. Scientific coordinator of the interdisciplinary professors’ and students’ Project at Global Governance, Tor Vergata, Rome. Was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the San Raffaele University in Milan. Taught Urban and Contemporary History at Iuav and Contemporary History at Ca’ Foscari. Was recognized Adjunct Associate Professor of European Studies at Duke (2011-2016). Published mostly on Venetian 19th- 21st Century Cultural and Social History, on the Methodology of Local and Urban History and of History of the Present. Research and teaching areas include Cinema and History, Italian Society, History of Historiography, Diaries and Historiography, Venice in the 21st Century.

Degree in History of Architecture and dottorato in History of Architecture and of Town Planning (IUAV). Was Visiting Student at Waseda. First Degree thesis on the history of the Ospedale degli Incurabili of Venice (1522-1567) and doctoral dissertion on Venetian Twentieth Century architect Carlo Scarpa and Japan. Forthcoming articles are on the history of the Incurabili, on the relationship between Charities and Venetian Patriciate at the beginning of the 1500's, on a Sixteenth Century Venice music collection and (with D.Calabi) on the history of the Venetian prostitutes' distric (1360 to 1600's).

Full Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium). He is holding the Chair of Social Security Law and the Chair of Comparative Law at the KU Leuven Law School. He is head of the Research Unit Europe and Social Security (RUESS) and Programme Director of the European Master Social Security. He is the founder and current Director of the Small Jurisdictions Research Group. He served also as Member of the Belgian Federal Parliament (including as the President of the Senate in 2010/2011) and as Vice-Rector of KU Leuven. In 2021 he became Member of the Belgian Constitutional Court.

Assaf Pinkus Full Professor of Art History at the Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University. He has received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2002, and been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Freiburg University, 2004-2006. His studies engage with medieval art, especially Gothic art and culture, workshop routines and economic models; patronage, narrative and spectatorship; non-religious response to medieval art; imagination and soma-aesthetics; violence imagery and, most recently – global history of giants. Author of: Patrons and Narratives of the Parler School (Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009); Sculpting Simulacra (Ashgate 2014); The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth (De Gruyter, 2020); Visual Aggression: Image of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany (appeared Penn State University Press, 2021); Giants in the Medieval City (forthcoming). Pinkus has been a recipient of several ISF grants, a Minerva grant from the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, GIF, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and others. His academic work has received several local and international prizes. Recently, he has been appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna.

B.A. in English Literature, MA in Renaissance English Literature, Ph.D. in English Literature (University of Sussex). From 1990 he taught at Waseda University where he is now Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, at the School of International Liberal Studies. Originally a researcher of English literature, after moving to Japan in 1980 he shifted his research interests to Japanese literature and intellectual history. His main interests are the reception of Japanese literature and thought in the world outside Japan, and especially the complex interplay between this reception and Japanese understanding of their own culture, and the survival and transformation traditional Japanese literary genres, and traditional Japanese culture more broadly, in the modern period. In particular, he is interested in the history of modern haiku.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at KU Leuven. He has BSc and MSc degrees in Geography and Urban Studies (University of Amsterdam) and a PhD in Geography from the University of Kentucky. He has taught courses on data science, spatial analysis, data visualization and urban geography at universities in Europe, the US and in Singapore. His research investigates the potential and limitations of novel data sources, computational techniques and visualization to analyze spatial inequalities, with a specific focus on how human mobility sometimes helps to overcome inequalities and sometimes worsens them.

head of the Chaim Rozenberg School for Jewish Studies and of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at TAU, where she is the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Racism and anti-Semitism. She is also member of the Yad-Vashem Scientific Advisory Board and of the Board of the International Center for Holocaust Studies. Served as head of the Department of Jewish History in 2000-2003. Was awarded TAU's Faculty of Humanities best teacher for 2004. Was a Fellow-Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University and of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University; Visiting Professor at Harvard (Fall 1999) and Visiting Scholar at NYU (winter 2004). Author of The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David, The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and The Holocaust, 1939-1945, Harvard University Press, 1990 (the Hebrew version of the book won the Yad Ben-Zvi Award and the Kubowitzki Award). Editor of the original (Tel Aviv, 1988) Hebrew version of Avraham Tory's Surviving the Holocaust. The Kovno Ghetto Diary (Harvard University Press, 1990) and since 1994, with Roni Stauber, of the TAU annual "Anti-Semitism Worldwide". Author of Beyond the Corporeal. The Life and Times of Abba Kovner, Am Oved and Yad-Vashem, 2000, in Hebrew, which received the Zandman Award and the Buchman Award. Other publications include The Jewish Press in Eretz Israel and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (with Mordechai Naor, 2002, essays) and Between the Star of David and the Yellow Star-The Jewish Community in Palestine and the Holocaust 1939-1945 (with Yehiam Weitz, 2002, Documents).

BA in Archaeology and History (Jerusalem); MA in Urban and Regional Studies (The Technion, Haifa); PhD in Geography (LSE). Professor of Geography at TAU, where he is Head of the City Center, Head of the Environmental Simulation Laboratory and Head of the Environment and Society Graduate Program. Fields of teaching: Space, Place and Environment; Cognitive Geography; Social Geography of Israel; Planning Theory; Environmental Systems; Environmental Cognition. He is specialized in: Urbanism; Theories of complexity and self-organization; Cognitive geography and mapping; Socio-spatial change; Spatial and regional archaeology. His current research is on the city as a complex self-organizing system; Interrepresentation networks and the construction of cognitive maps. Among other things he was Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. His professional experience includes serving as Planning Advisor for the Arab sector at the Planning Authority of the Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem in 1977-79. Most recent publications include: with E.Stolk, “Complexity, Cognition Urban Planning and Design” (Springer, 2016).

Bachelor at the College of Arts and Sciences, Master in Higher Education Administration and Doctor of Law (Boston College). Professor of the Practice at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Fields of teaching: Insurance Law; Introduction to Ethics; Introduction to Law and the Legal Process; Law and Ethics; Business Law; Managing in the Legal and Ethical Environment of Business. He is also a Private Legal Consultant specialized in employment, human resources, insurance, and other legal issues confronted by individuals, start-up companies and socially conscious organizations. Among other things, he is licenced to practice Law in the US Supreme Court and, since 1996, he has been awarded highest ranking for ethical standards and professional abilities as an attorney by the most authoritative Law Directory (Martindale-Hubbell).

Doctor in Catalan Philology (UAB). Professor of Catalan Language and Literature at the Department of Catalan Philology, UAB, where he is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences. Main research fields: social and aesthetic issues in Catalan literature at the turn of the 19th to 20th century; the rising to the social scale in the European literature of the 19th century, with special focus on the role of industrial towns such as Barcelona; the political transition to democracy and its reflection on literature.

BA (Minnesota), BD, MA and PhD (Chicago). Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Boston College. Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Associate Editor of Human Studies and member of the Editorial Board of Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche. President of the Graduate Program in Political Philosophy and Human Rights at LUISS, Rome. His publications include: Reading Habermas. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990 (also translated into French and Italian); Universalism vs. Communitarianism in Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990 (also translated in Japanese); Handbook of Critical Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996. With Richard Kearney he is author of Continental Aesthetics: An Anthology, Romanticism to Postmodernism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2001. With James Swindal he edited Jürgen Habermas, London: Sage Publications, 2002 (four volumes) and Critical Theory: Historical Perspectives, London: Sage Publications, December 2003 (four volumes). Publications on Marx include: "The Symbolism of Marx: From Alienation to Fetishism," Cultural Hereneutics, 1975, 3: 41-55; "The Marxist Critique of Phenomenology," Dialectics and Humanism, 1975, II, 4: 59-70; "Marx's Attitude Toward Religion," Listening, 1978, 13:1, 27-37; "Marx: On Labor, Praxis and Instrumental Reason," Studies In Soviet Thought, 1979, 18:1. Forthcoming: "What is Neoconservatism?" for Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (English edition).

Born in Moscow. Studied philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Starting from 2018 - associated professor at Stasis Center for Practical Philosophy at Hebrew University at Saint Petersburg. Published articles and books in English, Hebrew and Russian. Main fields of interest: modern philosophy, continental philosophy, philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Marion, speculative realism, philosophy of coincidence, Jewish mysticism.

Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities, University of Perugia (2001); Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Siena (2005) (with distinction); Postdoctoral degree in Anthropology, University of Perugia (Jan. 2006-Dec. 2007). Since 2021 Tenure-track assistant professor in Gender Studies at Università IUAV di Venezia. Member of the Equal Opportunity Committee (CUG) of Università IUAV di Venezia as a substitute member (teaching staff); Member of the Phd Committee Social Sciences: interactions, communication, cultural constructions, University of Padua; Research group collaborator of SLAN.G: Slanting Gaze on Social Control, Labour, Racism and Migration, Department FISPPA, University of Padua. Research Fellow on the topic of “Health, participation and social capital” University of Perugia (2010-2013); Research Fellow on the topic of “Migration and Occupational Health” University of Padua (2019-2020); Scholarship researcher on the topic of “Migrant women and oncological illness” University of Padua (2020-2021). Main Fields of Teaching: Gender Studies, Anthropology of Migrations, Anthropology of Labour; Anthropology of Health. Main Fields of Research: gender inequalities in the global economy, gendered patterns of labour recruitment and discipline, transnational mobility and commodification of reproductive labour, and the gendered effects of international mobility of capital. “Making Things Beautiful and Doing them well. Discourses around Aesthetics, Labour Discipline, and Value in Global Production”, Sociétés et Représentations, forthcoming 2023. “Gender and Labor in Supply Chains Capitalism: a Review”, Current Sexual Health Reports, 14 (3), 2022. “Working on Margins: An Anthropological Analysis of the Italian Supply Chains in two Eastern European Countries”, Journal des Anthropologues, 160-161, 2020, pp. 73-88. “Commodity Fetishism Again. Labour, Subjectivity and Commodities in “Supply Chains Capitalism”, Open Cultural Studies, 2, 2018, pp. 353-362.

Professor, Waseda University School of Law. Courses taught include: Legal and Business Ethics, Women and the Law, Internet for Legal Research, Cyberlaw and E-commerce, Legal English. General editor of "Cybercrime and Security" (Oceana Publications, New York), a 3-volume series on law and security issues worldwide. The series includes contributions from 25 countries worldwide, and is an ongoing looseleaf service. Other Cyberlaw-related publications include: chapters in World Online Business Law, Oceana Publications, August 2004; regular contributions to World eBusiness Law Report (online subscription publication); "The Incremental Development of Internet-based Legal Research for Japanese Law Students," Horitsu Jihou (Japanese law journal – in Japanese), March 2002. Also, she is co-author with Dr. Irene McLaughlin et al., of "Virtual Sexuality in the Workplace," in Sex and the Internet: a Guide for Clinicians, edited by Dr. Al Cooper, Brunner/Mazel/Routledge, June 2002. With attorney Akira Kawamura, she is editor of Law and Business in Japan – New Edition, Commercial Law Centre, Inc., Tokyo, February 2002. Author of chapters: "Dispute Resolution in Japan and with Japanese Parties" and "Annex: Japan on the Internet: Legal, Business and Government News Sources Online".

Licence en lettres (Fribourg); PhD (Oxford); Habilitation venia legendi in Medieval English Literature and Language (Fribourg). Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the English Department of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is an active member of the Centre of Medieval and Post-Medieval Studies. Co-founder of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English. Specialized in late medieval and devotional literature, medieval religious writings for and by women, Chaucer and his fourteenth-century contemporaries. Co-edited, among other things: A Companion to “The Doctrine of the Hert”: The Middle English Translation and its Latin and European Contexts, The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age: Lost in Translation? (2010), Revisiting the Medieval North of England: Interdisciplinary (2019), Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England (2020), Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England (2022). He is the author of Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Song (2001) and Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100-c. 1530. He is co-editor of the book series “Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages” published by the University of Wales Press.

Laurea in Architecture and dottorato in History of Architecture (Iuav). Was Maître de conférence (Lecturer) in the MA programme at the Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris, teaching fellow at Harvard and teaching assistant at Iuav and the University of Ferrara. Taught at VIU in the Fall semesters of 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Contributed to the exhibition Palladio nel Nord Europa. Libri, viaggiatori e architetti organised by the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio of Vicenza (CISA). Author of: "Loreto, Leo X and the fortifications on the Adriatic coast against the Infidel", in Italy and the European Powers: the Impact of War, 1503-1530, edited by Christine Shaw, Leiden: Brill 2006, pp. 57- 65; La crociera e la facciata di Santa Maria di Loreto: problemi di ridefinizione in "Annali di Architettura", XV, 2003; "Modelli e reinterpretazioni: Borromini e l'altare cosmatesco di S. Maria Maddalena a S. Giovanni in Oleo", in Atti del Convegno "Borromini e l'universo barocco", (Roma, 13-15 Gennaio 2000), Milano: Electa 2000, pp. 162-65 and Borromini restauratore: S. Giovanni in Oleo e S. Salvatore a Ponte Rotto, in "Annali", X, 1998, pp.203-220. Also variously contributed to the catalogue of the exhibition for the 4th centenary of the birth of Borromini edited by Richard Bösel and Christoph L. Frommel, Borromini e l'universo barocco, (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institut, Istituto Austriaco di Studi Storici) Milano: Electa 1999. Forthcoming: "Santa Maria di Loreto dans les descriptions du XVème au XVIIIème siècles. De L'écriture sacrée à la figuration profane", in Images de la cathédrale dans la littérature et dans l'art : entre imaginaire et réalité, edited by Françoise Michaud-Fréjaville, Tours and "An Early Modern Town of Pilgrimage: burgo cappellae nostrae Sanctae Mariae de Loreto", in The Tales of the City: Outsiders' Descriptions of Cities in the Early Modern Period, edited by F.J. Nevola and F. Bardati, Ashgate: Oxford. Current projects are on Italian 16th-17th Century sketchbooks in French collections; the production and circulation of Architectural Prints in Europe in the 16th Century; "foreigners" in 15th and 16th Century Venetian painting.

B.A. and M.A. in English (Occidental College), Ph.D. in English (U.C. Berkeley). Professor at Boston College. Taught at Radcliffe Consortium and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Teaching areas include: Contemporary Literary/Cultural Theory; Modern and Contemporary; Women Writers and Feminist Theory; Modern European Novel; Modern British Novel; Theory of Modernism; James Joyce; Milan Kundera; Mourning and Melancholia; Psychoanalysis and the Modernist Novel; Film and Psychoanalysis; Lacan and Foucault; The Contemporary International Novel; Film and Film Theory; Resisting the Society of the Spectacle: Kristeva and Agamben. Books published: James Joyce and the Law of the Father, Yale UP, 1989; Melancholics in Love: Representing Women's Depression and Domestic Abuse, Rowman and Littlefield, Feb. 2000; Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory, Stanford UP, 2006. Latest articles include: The Use of Perversion: "Secretary" or "The Piano Teacher"? in "Lacanian Ink" (internet pub.), spring 2004; "Black and Blue: Kieslowski's Melancholia," in Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis, ed. Tina Chanter and Ewa Ziarek, SUNY Press, 2005, pp. 193-207; Sebald's "Punctum": Awakening to Holocaust Trauma in "Austerlitz" in "European Journal of English Studies", vol. 9, no. 3, Dec. 2005, pp. 301-22 (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals) Routledge, Special issue, titled Intimate Transfers, edited by Maria Margaroni; A Radical Ethical Imperative: Sublimation Love, "Journal of Lacanian Studies", vol. 4, no. 1, summer 2006, pp. 159-77 (review-article on Joan Copjec's Imagine There's No Woman); "Kristeva's Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) Drive" in Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Kristeva, ed. Kelly Oliver, SUNY Press, 2008.

Dr Reza is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences (CBS) in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS). She received her PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2017. She is an elected Senator (2022-2026) and sits on the University Education Board- Taught Programmes. As the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead on the Department Leadership Team, Dr Reza works with Directors at a strategic level to embed EDI across CBS. As the Year 2 Lead for the Medical Science Programme, she provides leadership and oversight to Academic Tutors and Module Leads. She is the Module Lead and tutor on core and optional modules. She provides post-graduate supervision to students on the Masters in Clinical Education, Masters in Extreme Medicine and Masters in Healthcare Leadership and Management programmes. Dr Reza has garnered well-rounded expertise in advising strategies and policies for EDI boards, centering ethnic minority student retention, progression and sense of belonging. She is the Race Equality Resource Officer for Exeter Medical School and leading the anti-racist and decolonization movement.

B.S. in Biology (State University of New York), Ph.D. in Ecology (University of Tennessee). Professor of Resource Ecology, and Director of the Duke University Wetland Center in the Nicholas School of the Environment. Among other things he is Scientific Advisor, USAID restoration of Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes. Areas of expertise: wetland ecology, biogeochemistry, coastal zone management, ecology, environmental chemistry, soil science, water quality, restoration of wetland functions and structure on the landscape. Also interested in effects of climate change on wetland processes, and in invasive species.

Graduated at the LMU Faculty of Law where he is now Professor of Law. Expert in Legal History of the Ancient World, in Private Law, Bulgarian Economic Law and Comparative Law. Before teaching at LMU he taught at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg (1979), Regensburg (1979-81), Hannover (1981/82), Munich (1982-94) and Erlangen (1994-97). Was visiting Professor at the University of Kyoto/Japan (1983-85), at the Meiji University of Tokyo (1998) and at the Seikei University/Tokyo (2000). Had lecturing commitments in various other Japanese universities and was Senior Teaching Fellow at the Centre for the Advanced Study of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford (1999). Has been Resident Legal Advisor to the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria, managing the Legal consultance Program as part of the Technical Assistance loan of the Word Bank, appointed by Harvard University (Sofia, 1992-1994); Legal Consultant to the Ministry of Justice of Bulgaria, drafting a land registration law and amendments to the substantive law on immovable property, including mortgage law (1994-98), sponsored by the Ministry of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany. Published articles on German-Japanese comparative law, on the law of privatization in Bulgaria. Edited a collection of Bulgarian laws concerning the economic sector.

Laurea in History (Ca' Foscari), MA and PhD in Religious Studies (California, Santa Barbara). Professor in Indology at the Department of Euro-Asian Studies of Ca' Foscari University. Publications include: The Life and Teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi (New York: State University of New York Press, 1993; indian edition that same year); Dattatreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatara. A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-Faceted Hindu Deity (New York: State University of New York Press, 1998; published in India in 2000). Edited (with Romano Mastromattei), Shamanic Cosmos: From India to the North Pole Star (New Delhi: Venetian Academy of Indian Studies and D. K. Printworld (P)Ltd. - Venetian Academy of Indian Studies Series No. 1, 1999) and Dattalahari: L'onda di Datta by Daladanamuni (Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 1999).

Alessandro Rippa is Freigeist-Fellow and Project Director, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, where he is project director of the research group “Environing Infrastructure: Communities, Ecologies, and China’s ‘Green’ Development in Contemporary Southeast Asia,” sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation. Together with his team of three, he focuses on the environmental components of Chinese large-scale infrastructure development in Southeast Asia. Prior to joining the RCC, Alessandro obtained his PhD in social anthropology from the University of Aberdeen in 2015 and held postdoctoral positions at LMU Munich and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Alessandro’s research interests coalesce around three major trends in the social sciences today: the social and environmental impact of infrastructure development, the flow of commodities across national boundaries, and the role of informal markets in processes of globalization. He has pursued these interests in the ethnographic contexts of western and south-western China, particularly at China’s borders with Pakistan, Myanmar, and Laos. His current research focuses on the analysis of the social and environmental consequences of Chinese investments in Myanmar, and explores new theoretical approaches for the study of large-scale infrastructure. Alessandro is also working on an ethnographic film on hunting and re-wilding in his native region of northern Italy.

BA in French and German (Cambridge), MA in German (Minnesota), PhD in German (Yale). Professor of German Literature at Duke. Member of the editorial board of the "German Quaterly". Taught at Yale University. Was president of the Kafka Society of America and of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He is author of, among other things: Rilke in Transition: An Exploration of His Earliest Poetry, Yale University Press 1970; Kafka's Narrative Theater, Pennsylvania State University Press 1974; Narratives of Ecstasy: Romantic Temporality in Modern German Poetry, Wayne State University Press 1987. Edited Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Trial, Prentice-Hall 1976; Contemporary German Poetry, special issue of "Studies in Twentieth Century Literature", Vol. 21, no. 1 (Winter 1997); A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka, Camden House 2002. Translated: Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography, by Bernd Witte. Wayne State University Press 1991; The New Trial, by Peter Weiss. Duke University Press 2001.

BA and MA in Sociology (La Sapienza, Rome); PhD intensive program in Migrations, Diversity and Identity (Bilbao and Bradford); PhD in Sociology (Padova). Professor of Sociology of Culture at Padova, where he teaches Sociology of Communication, Cultural Transformations, and for a graduate lab on Cultural Mediation. Sits on the Padova University Boards of the PhD Program in “Social Sciences: Interaction, communication, cultural construction”, of the Master in “European Islam Studies” and the Master in “Gender and Violence”. Fields of research: Identity, Cultural Pluralism, Integration, Migrations and Identity, Intercultural Dialogue, “Spectacular” Subcultures and Sociological Theory. Wrote on ISIS Terrorism as a ritual process and cultural trauma. He is author of a book on the Paris attacks, “Fra Voltaire e Jihad. Gli attentati di Parigi come dramma sociale e trauma culturale”, published by Mimesis in 2017.

BA in Asian Studies (Australian National University); MA (Japan Women's University); PhD (Cambridge). Associate Professor at the School of Law of Waseda University, where she is also Adjunct Professor in the School of International Liberal Studies. Was lecturer at the Japanese Studies Centre of the University of Wales, Cardiff, and Secretary of the European Association for Japanese Studies. Published: Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 28, Michigan 2000. Translated: with introduction, notes, and bibliography, Masuda Sayo's Autobiography of a Geisha, Columbia University Press, New York 2003 (paperback edition by Vintage, London 2004 and 2006). She is also author of: A Single White Chrysanthemum for General Macarthur: Meeting Masuda Sayo, "Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan", fourth series, vol. 19 (2005); Prostitutes against the Prostitution Prevention Act of 1956, "U.S.-Japan Women's Journal", no. 23 (2002); "Memoirs of a Real Geisha: Masuda Sayo's Geisha: Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle", in Across Time and Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women's Texts, edited by Janice Brown and Sonja Arnzten, University of Alberta, Edmonton 2002.

MA and PhD (kandidat nauk) in Russian history (European University at St.Petersburg). Associate Professor at the Department of History of EUSP. Main Fields of Teaching: Memory studies, Media and Memory, History of Civil Society in Imperial Russia. Author of textbook Historical Memory. An Introduction, 2019; books The Russian society in the mirror of revolutionary terror. 1879-1881, 2014, Chaterina Yourievsky, 2017 [in Russian]. Main Fields of Research: Memory Studies, History of reading, history of populist’s movement in Imperial Russia.

MA in Indology (Köln) and PhD in Modern Hindi Literature (SOAS). Hindi Lecturer at the Department of Indological and Iranian Studies, LMU. Taught at SOAS (University of London), was Research fellow for the RWLE Möller Foundation and researcher/advisor for a radio feature on the South Asian Diaspora in the UK for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Her research interests include genre criticism and narrative theory, modern Hindi literature, literary communities and canon formation, Hindi popular cinema, representation of religious space in Iranian and Hindi cinema and nationalism in Hindi films.

Emmanuelle Sauvage currently is an associate professor in Cross-Cultural & International Management at Bordeaux University School of management (IAE). She holds a PhD in International Management, a Master degree in Translation and Interpretation, a degree in Economics from London School of Economics and a Spanish Law degree. After a first professional activity within the UN as an interpreter, which led her to developed a great interest for the understanding of intercultural synergies, she joined the Academia and achieved a PhD in International Business using anthropological and ethnographic approaches. Her main focus is related to cross-cultural encounters and the dynamics of human interaction within international environments. She is also interested in the linguistic dimension of those encounters and in the hidden prints left by culture on language. More recently she started new research related to CSR and to the relationship to work of young generations such as Millenials.

Professor Savage is a historian at Boston College where he teaches courses in Modern Irish, British and Atlantic World history. He also collaborates with colleagues in the Departments of Fine Arts, Philosophy and English to teach a variety of interdisciplinary courses that explore the intersection of art, memory, narrative and history. Savage has been awarded Visiting Professorships at Trinity College Dublin; Queens University, Belfast; the University of Galway and the University of Edinburgh where he held a Leverhulme Fellowship. He is an award winning author who has published six books and a number of articles and chapters exploring contemporary Irish, British and Atlantic World history. His most recent book Northern Ireland, the BBC and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

Dottorato in History and criticism of Arts and Music at the University of Padua. Taught History of Art at the Universities of Naples and Padua. Worked for the Regional Board of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Environmental Conservation in Naples. Specialist in Renaissance painting in Venice and Northern Italy (esp. Ferrara, Brescia and Bergamo); Dosso Dossi, Moretto, Romanino and Moroni in particular. She has reserached cases of patronage, notably by Alfonso I d'Este and by religious confraternities.

BA in Anthropology with a focus on Genetics and Physical Anthropology (University of Perugia), MA in Anthropology comprising a research period in Egypt (University of Milan-Bicocca), Marta holds a PhD at the University of Bayreuth in co-Tutelle with the University of Milan-Bicocca in Anthropology and African Studies. She is currently PostDoc at Cà Foscari University of Venice under the frame of the ERC Project HealthXCross, inquiring the emergence of microbiome research in North Africa and its social, political, and racial implications. She was PostDoctoral Fellow under the ERC project SWAB (Shadows of Slavery in West Africa and Beyond) at the University of Milan-Bicocca and her PhD and PostDoc research engaged with the legacy of slavery in Southern Tunisia and inquired the Black minority in the country and phenomena of racism. Author of “Becoming the ‘Abid. Lives and Social Origins in Southern Tunisia” (2020, Ledizioni). She has also carried out researches on the Egyptian diaspora in Italy, focussing on ageing trajectories and care practices among Egyptian migrants during the COVID period and the protracted lockdowns, with a focus on gender coordinates. She has taught a course on African Cultures and Societies at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She has worked in a microbiology lab at the University of Milan as a project writer and project manager, after completing a training on EU projecting at the CEERNT (Centre Européen d’Etudes Recherche et Nouvelles Technologies) in Brussels.

David Schaad is a licensed professional engineer in 49 states, a Board-Certified Environmental Engineer with specialties in both Hazardous Waste Management/Site Remediation and Water Supply/Wastewater Engineering, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, a licensed contractor and a qualifier in Building, Highways and Public Utilities in the State of North Carolina, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. With an undergraduate degree from Denison University, a Masters from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a doctorate from Duke University, Dr. Schaad began the first stage of his career working for various firms including: Parsons Engineering Science, Marshall Miller and Associates, Appian Consulting Engineers, AMEC, and Donan Engineering. During that time Dr. Schaad helped lead teams of resourceful and dedicated engineers who tackled a variety of challenging and innovative technical projects (hazardous waste and water/wastewater) for a diverse set of clients including the Norfolk Southern and CSX Railway Companies, the North Carolina and Virginia Departments of Transportation, and North Carolina State University (NCSU), among others. After a successful decade and a half as a design engineer, Dr. Schaad transitioned into investing in the next generation of leaders by becoming a Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he could assist future engineers in developing their design skills and ability to move from thinking to conceptualization to implementation. He helped establish Duke Engineers for International Development (https://sites.duke.edu/deid/), which is a student group that works in collaboration with local partners to address identified community needs. He is the faculty director of the Thomas Katsouleas Grand Challenge Scholars Program at Duke University

He has a PhD in Economics and a Research Accreditation in Management. He is Associate Professor International Management at the University of Bordeaux, Program Director of the Master “International Management and Commerce” at the University Business School (IAE Bordeaux) as well as Vice-President of the Scientific Association Atlas-AFMI (Francophone Association of International Management). He was Associate Professor at Kedge Business School (2010-2016) and at University of Poitiers (1996-2006) and former responsible of the University Cooperation at the French Embassy in Lebanon (2006-2009). He teaches International Management, International Human Resources Management, Strategic Management, International CSR, Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods. He last researches deal with Internationalisation of eco-innovative SMEs, Regional headquarters of French multinational companies in Asia, Chinese multinational companies in France, Control in French subsidiary networks in Asia and Human Resource Management in Asian Subsidiaries by French and Japanese MNCs, which are published in international rated P2P academic journals.

Prediploma in Chemistry, Diploma in Biology (both TUM Munich), PH.D. in Humanbiology (MPG -> LMU Munich), Habilitation and full Venia Legendi in Psychology (LMU Munich). Was appointed Professor (LMU Munich) in 2014. Scientific director of LMU counseling unit for gifted children, scientific coordinator of school psychology and the program “Coaching in Complex Systems” with diverse seminars at San Servolo (LMU -> VIU). Published mostly on Aggression, Peergroups, Development in Childhood/Adolescence and Bullying. Research and teaching areas include Developmental-, Differential-, Social- and Counseling Psychology with special focus on individual vs. group concepts, roles in groups, group dynamics, dominance and prevention concepts.

Laurea and PhD in History of Architecture and Urbanism (Iuav). Studied at the Technical University in Delft (The Netherlands) and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal. Teaches History of Contemporary Architecture and History of Architecture at the Faculty of Industrial Design at Iuav and in San Marino. Also teaches at the University of Bologna and the Politehnika of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Her publications include: "The Other History of English Modernism", Daidalos , n. 74, 2000; "Peruvians Make Lima: Third Generation for the Third World", in Architektur Aktuell, n. 245, settembre 2000; The Ethics of the Perception in the "Machine Ages", in Medium Architektur. Zur Krise der Vermittlung, G. Zimmermann, N. Korrek Eds., vol. I, Weimar 2003; "Un'opera aperta degli Smithson a Bad Karlshafen", in Casabella, LXVIII, ottobre 2004, n. 726; "Villa Madama" and "Cappella Paolina in Vaticano", in Andrea Palladio e la cultura della villa. Da Petrarca a Carlo Scarpa, edited by G. Beltramini, H. Burns, Venezia 2005; "Oltre il museo: Alexander Dorner e l'architettura inglese del secondo dopoguerra", in Studi su Carlo Scarpa 2000-2003, edited by Kurt W. Forster e Paola Marini, Venezia 2005; "Le residenze di Alessandro Farnese sul Lago di Bolsena", in Atti del convegno Maisons des champs dans l'Europe de la Renaissance, edited by M. Chatenet, C. Mignon, Paris, 2006; "Gianni Berengo Gardin. Reportage su Carlo Scarpa / Fotografie 1966-1972" (exhibition and catalogue), Quaderni del Museo Palladio 8, 2006; Profilo biografico di Adolf Loos; Ambienti di una metropoli: i negozi e i locali pubblici, in Adolf Loos 1870-1933 / Architettura Utilità e Decoro, edited by R. Bösel, V. Zanchettin, Milano 2006; "Peter e Alison Smithson / Hunstanton Secondary Modern School 1949-1954. English Thoughts", Casabella 750-751, dicembre 2006 - gennaio 2007.

B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy, M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature (The Hebrew University ). Associate Professor in Theatre Studies and former Head of the School of Graduate Studies of the Faculty of Arts at Tel-Aviv University, and life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the author of Experiments in Stage Satire (Peter Lang, 1987), on Ben Jonson's Comical Satires, and of a study of the theatrical space from a feminist perspective, Woman's Theatrical Space (Cambridge University Press, 1994). She has edited, with Peter Holland, The Play Out of Context (CUP, 1989) and Reading Plays (CUP, 1991). In Hebrew, she has published a study of, and co-translated Adam de la Halle's Le Jeu de la feuillée (Jerusalem, Carmel, 1999). She has published over fifty essays on Elizabethan theatre, intertextuality, Shakespeare, Stoppard, Pinter and others, and is currently preparing a book on Harold Pinter. She has taught as Visiting Professor at universities in North Carolina, Rome and Beijing. She has organized several international conferences on theatre and was a fellow at Salzburg Seminar in the session on "Shakespeare Around the Globe", in the year 2000.

B.A. and M.A. in Economics (Seoul National University) and Ph.D. in Economics (University of Rochester). Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics of Korea University. Was Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Texas A&M University and Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of Soongsil University. Research interests focus on Time Series Econometrics, Climate Data Analysis, Forecasting, Applied Econometrics. Publications include Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution on Health Risk in Korea: A Spatial Panel Model Assessment (Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, 2021), Nonlinear Impact of Temperature Change on Electricity Demand: Estimation and Prediction Using Partial Linear Model (Korean Journal of Applied Statistics, 2019), Transaction Costs and Nonlinear Mean Reversion in the EU Emission Trading Scheme (Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 2015), and Testing for two-regime Threshold Cointegration in Vector Error Correction Models (Journal of Econometrics, 2002).

Francesca Setiffi is an associate professor of sociology in the FISPPA Department at the University of Padova. Her main research interests concern consumer culture, sustainability, organizations and digital transformation. During her academic career she was part of four research projects, and she has coordinated three projects (Padova and Ca’ Foscari). She has held visiting positions at the University College of London, Boston University, Brown University, and Universität Graz (Institut für Soziologie). She serves as the coordinator of the Third Mission Commission at the FISPPA Department, and she is the coordinator of the “Cultural Pluralism, Social Change, and Migrations” (MA). She coordinates the Erasmus Programme for two courses: “Sociological Sciences” (BA) and Cultural Pluralism, Social Change, and Migrations” (MA). She is the professor in charge of seven Erasmus agreements. She is member of the executive board of the Ph. D. Programme in Social Sciences and she is elective member of the Processes and Cultural Insititutions section of the Italian Sociological Association. Since 2012, she has been a member of the Observatory of Consumer Strategies of Italian Families (Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona) and she is member of the group work of the Observatory on sustainability, equality and social justice (SPGI Department, University of Padova).

B.A. and M.A.in History (Hebrew University Jerusalem), Ph.D. (Université de Provence I), Habilitation in Medieval History (Aix/Paris). Smart Family Distinguished Professor of Judaica at Duke. Taught at the Universities of Toronto, Haifa and Nice. Books published in English include: Jews, Medicine and Medieval Society Berkeley, 1994; Shylock Reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending and Medieval Society, Berkeley, 1989. Edited (with S. Simonsohn), Vols. 4 and 12 of Michael. On the History of the Jews in the Diaspora, Tel-Aviv 1976 and 1991. Articles published include : "Church Articles: Pawns in the Hands of Jewish Moneylenders" in M.Toch (ed), Wirtschaftsgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Juden, Munich, 2008, Pp.93-102 and "Community and Super-Community in Provence in the Middle Ages" in Ch.Cluse et al. (ed.), Juedische Gemeinden und ihrer christlicher Kontext in kulturraumlich vergleichener Betrachtung. Hannover, 2006, Pp.441-448.

is an Associate Professor of Italian at Boston College. Her specialty is Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on lyric poetry, rhetoric, and historical linguistics. An English major at Wesleyan University, she pursued graduate studies in Medieval Romance Literature at Boston College and La Sapienza in Rome. She has edited troubadour lyrics in Bruckner, M., Shepard, L., and White, S., Songs of the Women Troubadours. [New York & London Garland Publishing, 1995; paperback 2000], and published a book on Medieval Latin political rhetoric, entitled, Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century. [New York & London. Garland Publishing, 1999]. She is currently working on a book about the family as it is protrayed in Renaissance comedy. In February 2000, she began a public reading of the Divine Comedy at Boston College, which is now at the midpoint of the Comedy. Laurie Shepard lives with her husband, two sons, and a shaggy dog in Newton, Massachusetts. She enjoys the Italian language, cooking and eating with family and friends, discussing politics, reading, music, gardening, and hiking.

Doctorate in Philosophy, Political Science and History (Erlangen). Privatdozent of Political Philosophy and Theory at LMU and Lecturer of Political Theory at the Bavarian School of Public Policy (HfP). Was Guest Professor at the Universities of Innsbruck, Passau and Turin. He is author of several publications, including monographs on Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean- Paul Sartre, Hannah Arendt. Produced discussion programs for a number of German radio stations. His interests include 19th and 20th Century Philosophy and the Philosophy of German idealism; Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Technology.

(Laurea) B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences (Ca' Foscari) and PhD in Environmental System Modelling (Padova). Research scientist at the Nicholas School of the Environment (Duke) where she teaches “Remote sensing of Coastal Environments” and “Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing”. For ten years (2001-2011) she coordinated the remote sensing of the Venetian lagoon for the Venice Water Authority. Research interests: remote sensing applied to vegetation mapping, soil studies, hydrology, tidal morphology and coastal water quality; remote sensing and GIS applied to the identification of illegal landfills and contaminated sites; hyperspectral imagery analysis; large-scale multi-criteria analysis (GIS); salt marsh evolution modelling; relationship between wetlands morphology and vegetation.

B.Sc. in Mathematics (St. Petersburg State University), .M.Sc. in Economics (European University at St. Petersburg), Ph.D. in Economics (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of EUSPb. Was Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Postdoctoral reseacher at Humboldt University in Berlin. Research and teaching interest focused on Economics, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Marketing Science. Publication includes “An Infinite Horizon Differential Game of Optimal CLV-Based Strategies with Non-atomic Firms” (in: Recent Advances in Game Theory and Applications, 2016. With Lianos G.), “Customer Acquisition and Customer Retention in a Competitive Industry”, in: Rediscovering the Essentiality of Marketing, 2015. With Lianos G.), “Do we go shopping downtown or in the ‘burbs?”(in Journal of Urban Economics, 2015. With Ushchev P., Thisse J.), “Customer flow: evaluating the long-term impact of marketing on value creation” (in Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 2013. With Tretyak O.)

BA and MA in Modern and Medieval Languages (University of Cambridge). Since 1983 he is Professor at Waseda University, where, until 2010, he was Dean of the School of International Liberal Studies, in which he teaches a variety of courses including a seminar in Linguistic and Cultural Understanding. Previously taught at Tsukuba University. Has a long experience of teaching English in Japan. Publications include: Cultural Images, Kaitakusha 1986; Cultural Awareness, Kirihara 1988; Let's Count in English, Macmillan LanguageHouse 1989; Professor Snowden's English Conversation, Sogo Horei 1993; Writing English at University, Nan'undo 2002; English Numbers for you, Nokko Enterprises 2002 (translated into Chinese and Korean) and a number of Dictionaries and English Language Textbooks and articles on English Studies in Japan. He is also author of: Postscript: Passion and Professionalism, in Education Across Borders. Politics, Policy and Legislative Action, Fegan, James and Field, Malcolm H. (Eds.), Springer 2009; Norbert Elias: an unwitting member of a generation of globalizers, in Norbert Elias and globalization: sport, culture and society, Akira Ohira (ed.), DTP 2009.

B.E.& M.S. in Electronic Engineering (Tokyo University of A & T), Dr. Eng. in A lied Electronic Engineering (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Dr. Med in Medical Science (Tohoku), Dr. Phrm.Sci (Science University of Tokyo), and Dr. Edu. (Waseda). Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies and Associate Dean of International Affairs, at Waseda where he is also director of the Clinical Education and Science Research Institute. Founder of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and of the Center for Advanced Research of Biomedical Engineering. Also taught at the School Medicine of the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, at the Toin University of Yokohama and at the University of Northern California. Received various awards, authored or co-authored publications and proceedings mainly in Bio-acoustics, Medical imaging and instrumentation, Tissue characterization, Pharmaceutical engineering, Drug Delivery System, Nanotechnology; Education and Psychology, Education technology, Motivation mechanisms and Field study on Higher education. Among his publications: My reborn by Soetanto's Effect, the infinite human potential educational system. (H. Watarai) Boundary Vol.15-1, 1999; Human Resource Development and Education: Japan and the World. Challenges and Prospects for Economic and Industrial Policy in the 21st Century: Building a Competitive, Participatory Society, The Industrial Structure Council, METI Secretary Office, 2000; Field study on the higher education in the turbulent phases, Part 7: Spiral effects and kansei education gained from class by the interactive communication method. Toin Research Bulletin Vol.8, 2001.

Licence and Maîtrise in Philosophy (Paris-Sorbonne), PhD in Philosophy (Poitiers). Professor in the Department of Philosophy, at BC. Previously taught at the Universities of Lille, Brussels and Louvain. Main field of research (and of teaching): Medieval and Modern Philosophy. Especially interested in Modern Scholastic and its influence on 17th C. thought (mostly Cartesianism, Pierre Bayle). Favorite subjects: Metaphysics (the problem of time, the concept of representation), Natural Philosophy (intensification of forms), Theories of Soul, and Ethics. With Pierre Magnard, Olivier Boulnois and Bruno Pinchard he edited La demeure de l'être. Autour d'un anonyme. Etude et traduction du Liber de Causis, Vrin, Paris 1990; with Zénon Kaluza, La servante et la consolatrice. La philosophie dans ses rapports avec la théologie au Moyen Age, Vrin, Paris 2002. Publications in English include:The Question of Intensive Magnitudes according to some Jesuits in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, "The Monist", vol. 84 n° 4 (“Physics before Newton”), 2001, pp.582-616; Why did Plato write ?, in J.A. Draper (ed.), Orality, Literacy and Colonialism in Antiquity, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Litterature (Semeia Studies, 47), 2004, pp. 83-91; Was the eye in the tomb? On the Metaphysical and historical interest of some strange quodlibetal questions, in Schabel, Christopher (ed.), Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages. The Fourteenth Century, Leiden-Boston: Brill 2007; Pierre Bayle, in L. Foisneau (ed.), Dictionary of the 17th C. French Philosophers, London, Thoemmes Press / New York, Continuum, 2008. Forthcoming book: La Représentation. Etude d'une catégorie de l'imaginaire philosophique.

B.A and M.A from the University of Haifa, Israel; Ph.D. in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Social Work at Tel-Aviv University, where she is also Head of the Adler Research Center for Child Welfare and Protection. Research focuses on traumatic stress and especially on the psychological sequel of combat stress reactions, war captivity and the Holocaust. She published six books on psychic trauma related issues. She has also published over 250 articles and more than 50 chapters. She was a member of the Editorial board of the "Journal of Traumatic Stress" and she is currently with the editorial board of "The Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss". Former member of the DSM-4 Advisory sub committee for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) . She earned numerous Israeli and international awards and research grants including the Laufer Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the field of PTSD by the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies.

Paolo Sommaggio has been an Associate Professor since 2005 (confirmed in 2008). He is qualified as a Full Professor (ASN 28/03/2017) of Philosophy of Law at the University of Padua where he teaches Ethics and Commons. He is President of the Degree Course of Third Sector Jurist (Non-profit Counselor). PhD in Philosophy of Law, he is also a Lawyer qualified for the Supreme Court in Italy. He published various books, papers, and chapters about Legal Reasoning, Biolaw, Legal Education, and Philosophy of Law. He was a Visiting Scholar at various universities in Europe and overseas (among others, Kingston University of London, University of Surrey, Columbia University NY, University of Zurich, University of Granada). He is a member of the teaching staff PhD School of Law at the University of Padua, the Postgraduate School for Legal Professions of the Universities of Trento and Verona, and he also teaches in the Forensic schools of Trento, Brescia, Bolzano, Pordenone, and Belluno. He is a member of the scientific committee of the editorial series “Diritto Moderno ed Interpretazione Classica” (FrancoAngeli), “Jura. Temi e problemi del diritto” (ETS) and “Quadrato delle Opposizioni” (Mimesis). Currently, he is teaching at the University of Padua and is a consultant for the Italian Ministry of Justice.

Associate Professor of ethno botany at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She is the holder of ERC Starting Grant (grant agreement No 714874) awarded by the SH5 panel in 2016 and is currently researching local ecological practice in Eastern Europe, leading the team consisting of four researchers and three PhD students. She received the PhD in Semiotics and Cultural Theory (2010) from the University of Tartu and has an educational background in pharmacy and environmental sciences. She had a researcher position in Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia until spring 2017. She is the author of over fifty peer-reviewed articles in international journals covering a variety of fields, yet many of them are leading journals in their domains.

BA, Sorbonne; MA, Denis Diderot; PhD, Duke University. Currently associate professor of comparative literature at Duke University, Stan works in the areas of twentieth- and twenty-first century comparative literature (in English, French and German), the intersection of literature and moral philosophy, critical theory, and the sociology of intellectuals. Before joining Duke’s English Department, she was assistant professor at Leiden University College the Hague, Netherlands, where she also directed the Brill-Nijhoff Writing Institute. At Duke, Stan teaches courses on comparative modernism across the arts, political theater, community and migration, historical fiction, theory and the contemporary world. Between 2017 and 2020, she was co-director of the Mellon project Representing Migration Humanities Lab.

BA in Anthropology (Chicago), MA and PhD in Anthropology (Stanford). Professor at the Duke University Department of Cultural Anthropology, of which he was Chair. Was Co-convenor, Franklin Humanities Institute Working Group on Sports, 2010-2011 and Faculty Director, Duke Human Rights Center, 2004-2010. Main areas of research and teaching: Latin America (especially Peru); Native North America; United States. Main fields: Cultural theory; nationalism and globalization; social movements; history of anthropology, memory and human rights; indigenous culture and politics; sports and society. Most recent book: The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal, Duke University Press, Durham 2012. Was editor of Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology, Duke University Press, Durham 2015 and author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last ‘Wild’ Indian, Norton, New York, 2004.

MA in Scottish Literature and History (Glasgow); PhD in Scottish Literature (Glasgow). Senior Lecturer at the English Department of UNIL, where she was Head of Department and she is director of the first year Literature Program. Her research interests include Scottish Literature (especially twentieth century); early modern poetry (especially the poetry of John Donne); and J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. She is director of the SNSF-funded project “Space, Place and Image in the Poetry and Prose of John Donne” and President of the John Donne Society for the year 2017-18. She is author of Peter Pan’s Shadows in the Literary Imagination, Routledge, NY and London 2012 (on the origins and textual history of Barrie’s book) and of Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2008 (on the representation of Scotland as a woman). Teaching fields of interest include Early Modern Print Culture in the Digital Age and Shakespeare in Performance, which were themes of MA Seminars taught at UNIL.

B.A in Geography (Bochum), M.A in Geography (Paris); Ph.D in Geography (Paris). Full Professor specialising in Tourism, Mobilities and Urbanities at UNIL. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Mondes du tourisme and heads the Swiss graduate school in digital studies. His research mainly relates to the modalities of inhabiting in contemporary social figurations in which mobility and digitality play a predominant role. Publications in English include Progress in French Tourism Geographies. Inhabiting Touristic Worlds, Springer, 2021; ‘Discursive Construction of a Destination. Urban Transition Through Tourism in Ticino. Between 1980s and 2010s’, Mondes du tourisme, 2021; ‘Reconstructing the globalisation of tourism: A geo-historical perspective’, Annals of Tourism Research, 2014; ‘Tourism as complex interdisciplinary research object’, Annals of Tourism Research, 2012.

BA in Languages & Linguistics (Queensland); MA in Applied Linguistics (Bond); MA in Education (Southern Queensland); PhD in Applied Linguistics (Queensland). Professor at Waseda where he teaches English Language and Applied Linguistics subjects, including second language acquisition, second language teaching methodology, and computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Also Director of Research in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at the Waseda Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies. Research interests include computer mediated communication, mobile learning, and the role of technology in the language learning process. He is editor-in-chief of “The JALT CALL Journal” and the “Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics”. He is co-author of CALL Dimensions (2006) with Mike Levy. He is editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning, and author of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Contexts & Challenges (both forthcoming with Cambridge University Press).

BA in Political Sciences and International Relations and MA in Institutions and Politics of Human Rights and Peace (Padova); First Level Master Degree in Immigration, Migration Phenomena and Social Transformations (Ca’ Foscari); PhD in Social Sciences: Interactions, communication, cultural constructions (Padova). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, where she co-teaches the course on “Food and Wine History, Anthropology and Society”. Research Fellow at the Franco Demarchi Foundation, Trento, with a project on refugees and asylum seekers. Past experience as a Social Worker with asylum seekers. Was Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth of the School of Education of the University of Sheffield.

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Philosophy Department at Boston College, where he has taught since 2013. He teaches a wide range of courses, including Perspectives on Western Culture, Playing God: Technology and the Human Condition, and How to Save the World: Ethics of Climate Change. In addition to teaching, he is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Evolution, a think tank focused on political polarization; host of the podcast Wisdom at Work: Philosophy Beyond the Ivory Tower, a show that interviews people who translate philosophy into careers outside academia; and writes about the connections between politics, philosophy, and culture in his blog the Dao Du Jour at www.davidestorey.com.

Professor in Orchestral Conducting at the 'Benedetto Marcello' Conservatory in Venice. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, of English and German parents. Completed his organ diploma in Cape Town South Africa, where he was engaged in professional music, playing percussion and piano and directing and training the chorus for opera and choral performances. Studied conducting in Madrid and completed an M-Mus at the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Trinity College of Music in London and has performer's diplomas from The Royal Schools of Music in London and the University of South Africa. After graduating from the University of London he was awarded an Italian Government Scholarship by the Italian Institute of Culture in London and studied at the Conservatory of Music in Milan. Worked as assistant conductor at the Monte Carlo Opera House and has collaborated with the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Covent Garden Opera House in London, and the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. Has conducted at festivals all over the world such as those in Ann Arbor (MI), Charleston (SC), Edinburgh, Berlin, Paris, and the Biennale in Venice, Italy. Gian Carlo Menotti, composer and founder of the Spoleto Festival, invited him to be the assistant music director at his festivals in Italy and the USA. Summers conducted opera in Europe, the USA and South Africa. His first CD, issued by Brilliant, conducting the complete guitar concertos of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, was awarded a 5-star rating by the two principal music magazines in Italy, "Amadeus" and "Musica".

MA in History and Ph.D. in Early Modern History. She is professor of Early Modern History and she is the vicedirector of researches in her Department. Especialized in the History of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment, she has published a book entitled L'església catalana sota la monarquia dels Borbons. La catedral de Girona en el segle XVIII (Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona, 1999) and the biography of the Catalan enlightened philosopher Francesc Xavier Dorca i Parra in a collective book entitled Girona a l'Època de la Il×lustració (C.E.H.S., Girona, 2001). Among other essays, she has also treated the disarming of Catalans after the War of the Spanish Succession in an article entitled "La política armamentística de los Borbones en Cataluña tras la Guerra de Sucesión" (Investigaciones Históricas, 21, 2001, pp. 103-131) and the role of Spanish women during the Eighteenth Century in another article entitled "La situació femenina en l'Antic Règim" (Revista de Catalunya, 174, june 2002, pp. 25-50). At the present time, she is engaged in a project about the overlapping between powerful families and institutions in a space of power as was the cathedral of Girona.

Laurea in Architecture and Dottorato in History of Architecture (Iuav). Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua. Also teaches for the Joint Master of Economics and Techniques for the Conservation of the Architectural and Environmental Heritage between Iuav and the Nova Gorica Politechnic. Previously taught History of Architecture and Urban History at Iuav. Taught at VIU in Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2002 and Spring 2013. Fields of Research: History of Architecture, Architectural and Urban History of the Early Modern Times; Late Medieval-Early Modern public buildings and spaces in Europe; Andrea Palladio; Minor Renaissance Courts.

B.A. in Philosophy (Dallas), M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy (Texas, Austin). Professor of Philosophy at BC. Areas of specialization: Medieval Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy and Literature, Theories of the Passions. Areas of competence: Modern Philosophy, Literary Theory, Ethical Theory. Books published include: Logic, Theology and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille: Words in the Absence of Things. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006; Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the Word, The Catholic University of America Press, 2012.

B.A. in English (Williams College); M.A. in English (Indiana); M.A. and Ph.D. in English (Rochester). Assistant Research Professor, Visual Studies and New Media, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, at Duke, where she is Program Director for Information Science + Information Studies. Also teaches in the Visualizing Venice VIU Summer School. Previously taught at Stanford University, where she was Academic Technology Manager, Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Fields of teaching at Duke include: “Computational Media”; “Digital Durham”; “Digital Places and Spaces”; “Perspectives on Information Science and Information Studies”; “Gender and Digital Culture”.

Degree in Philosophy and Law (Amesterdam University), PhD in Law, with a thesis on the Concepts of Ideals in Legal Theory (Tilburg). Senior Lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence of the Erasmus Law School, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Taught Law at Tilburg. Apart from research, that focuses on the ideals in Law, she works on the development of a pragmatic legal theory and on research on the importance of Literature for Law. In her research, her focus is on Law in relation to other disciplines, such as Ethics, Philosophy and Literature. She has published in both international and national journals and in collections. Most recent publication in English: Does the concept of Law needs officials, "Problema: Anuario de Filosofia y Teoria del Derecho", 2008, pp. 157-183.

BA in History and Political Science and MA in History (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), PhD in African History (School of Oriental and African History, University of London). Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History of TAU, where he is the Head of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research. Publications include: The Making of Zimbabwe: Decolonization in Regional and International Politics, London, 1990; Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: the Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump, London, 1996; Kenya: a Colonial History (Hebrew), Open University, Tel-Aviv, 1980; and, with G. Zabar-Friedman, Kenya: From White Settlement to Independent State (Hebrew), Open University, Tel-Aviv, 1997. Also author of: 'Nationalism, nation-buiding and society in Africa: fateful connections', Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, 1994, pp.83-92; 'Nationalism or tribalism: the evolution of ethnic consciousness among the Cape Afrikaaners in the late 19th century' Nations and Nationalism, 1995, pp.221-242 and 'Culture and Politics in Africa: Legitimizing ethnicity, rehabilitating the post-colonial state', Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 2 (3), 1996, pp.360-380.

BA and PhD in Social Anthropology (LSE). Professor in Cultural Anthropology, at Ca' Foscari; Adjunct Senior Lecturer at The School of Social Science of The University of Queensland. Was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in association with The Australian National University of Canberra, Australia and Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sidney, Australia. Recent fieldwork includes a research on Italian Migrants in North Queensland, on indigenous songs, paintings and dance from Northeast Arnhem Land in Australia, and on The representation of Australian Indigenous art in Italy. Recent publications in English include: "Showzoff and Positivity. It's Funny How Irony works, eh?", in Richard Bell Positivity, R. Leonard ed. , Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 2007, pp. 21-25; "Personal Acquaintance: Essential Individuality and the Possibilities of Encounters", in Moving Anthropology Critical Indigenous Studies. T. Lea, E. Kowal and G. Cowlishaw eds., Darwin: Darwin University Press 2006, pp.18-36; (with J. Wallace), "Towards an Experiential Archaeology. From Site to Place Through the Body", in The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies: Essays on Aboriginal History, D. Bruno, I. McNiven and B. Barker eds., Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press 2006, pp. 204-223; "Against Domestication. The Art of Encounter", in The Politics of Art, The Art of Politics. The Place of Indigenous Contemporary Art, Fiona Foley ed., Gold Coast: Keeaira Press 2006, pp. 65-72; "Responsibility of Performance. The Interweaving of Politics and Aesthetics" in Intercultural Contexts, in Visual Anthropology Review, Special Issue, Françoise Dussart ed., University of California Press 2005, pp. 47-62.

B. Mus. (Music Academy, Jerusalem), B.A. and M.A. (Dept. of Musicology, TAU), Ph.D. (Dept. of Musicology & Medieval Studies, U.C. Berkeley). Professor of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts of TAU, where she teaches History of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Music. In 2009-2011 she was awarded the Yad Hanadiv Grant for Innovation in Teaching. Author of Noting Music Marking Culture: The Intellectual Context of Rhythmic Notation ca. 1250-1400. Musicological Studies and Documents, 46. Holzgerlingen, Hänssler Verlag, American Institute of Musicology, 1999. Articles published include: "The Transition from the Ars Antiqua to the Ars Nova: A Revolution or Evolution," Musica Disciplina, 46 (1992): 79-104; "Jehan de Meur's Rhythmic Theory and the Mathematics of the Fourteenth Century," Tractrix, 5 (1993): 17-43; "The Image of Music and the Body of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages: Rhythmic Procedures as Cultural Representation," Science in Context, 9 (1996): 121-136; "Monteverdi, Foucault and the Transition from Renaissance to Baroque," Orbis musicae 13 (2003), 73-80; and, with Raz Chen Moris, "Music, Mathematics and the Rejection of Pansemioticism in the Renaissance,'' in Musique et Mathematique à la Renaissance, ed. Philippe Vendrix. Épitome musical: Center for Renaissance Studies at Tours, Minerve, Paris, 2008.

Doctorate in Law (Mainz), Diploma I in Comparative Law (Strasbourg), Diploma of the Bologna Center of the School for Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins), Diploma II in Comparative Law (Coimbra). Rektor of the Munich School of Political Science. Among his latest monographs are Über Prophetie und Politik. München 2000 and Jean Bodin: Eine Einführung, Düsseldorf-Bonn 2000. Editor, among other things, of Politische Ökologie. Eine Einführung, Düsseldorf 1998 and Porträtgalerie der Politischen Denker, Berrn-Göttingen 2003. Forthcoming: (with B.Mayerhofer) Die Himmelsleiter. Stufen zum Paradies, Frankfurt and Mitte und Maß als Leitbild des Humanismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart, München-Paderborn. Publications in other languages include: Guerilla Warfare and International Law in “Law and State“ Vol. 8 (1973) p.7–24; Ecologia y humanismo in “Humboldt 80“ (1983), p.13–23; (with B.M.Malunat) Le mouvement écologique allemand, in “Futuribles“ (June 1985) H. 89, p.94–98; International Environmental Policy as a Challenge to the National State in “AMBIO“ Volume XV (1986) H.4, p.240–243; (with F.Kohout), “Dal diritto fondamentale dell’uomo al diritto fondamentale della natura“ in P.Fois, La Garanzia dei Principi Fondamentali nell’Europa del Diritto, Sassari 1993; “Europe and the Atlantic Community in the Context of an Ecological World Order“ in O.Höll (ed.), Environmental Cooperation in Europe. The political dimension, Boulder-Oxford 1994; “Dall´hortus conclusus medievale al moderno "parco paesaggistico"“ in R.Colantonio, M.Lucchetti, A.Venturelli (ed.), Ambiente e invecchiamento, Milano 1999.

BA in Sociology, Religion (Emory and Henry College, Virginia); MS in Agricultural Education (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University); MA and PhD in Religious Studies (University of North Carolina). Professor of the Practice of Cultural Anthropology and Documentary Studies at Duke, where he was director of the Undergraduate Certificate in Documentary Studies and of the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship Program. He is a filmmaker, photographer, oral historian and writer. Taught courses include: Politics of Food, Documenting Religion, Fieldwork Practicum and Social Activism and its Motivations. Research is centered on critical food studies, immigration, farmworkers. Regional areas of interest: Latin America and the US South. His documentary “The Guestworker/Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte” traveled to the Berlin Film Festival. His latest book “Border Odyssey: Travels Along the US/Mexico Divide” is an ethnography about a journey along the 2,000 mile border between US and Mexico.

Diploma in French Language and Civilization and Master’s Degree in Commercial Law (St. Petersburg State University); certificates in Economics of Climate Change (Cambridge) and European Corporate and Commercial Law (Leuven). Executive director of the Energy Policy Research Center at EUSP. For many years he served at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, becoming Head or Manager of Sustainable Energy Finance Programs in the Middle East and North Africa (based in Rabat) and in Europe and Central Asia (based in Moscow). Areas of Expertise: Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Energy, Climate Finance. His publications include: “Bank Financing of Energy Efficiency Projects: practical recommendations and examples”, with Elena Shonya, IFC (World Bank Group), 2012.

Maria Chiara Tosi, PhD in Urbanism, is Full Professor in Urban Design at Iuav University of Venice where she is also the Director of the School of Doctorate Studies. She has been part of numerous national and international research projects on the study of the morphology and evolution of urban settlements. She is Iuav representative in Venice International University Academic Council, has been Expert for the Panel “Science and Technology of Constructions and the Built Environment” at the Research Foundation Flanders FWO-Belgium, and currently responsible for the Double Degree in Architecture with the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University.

BA in Physics (Harvard College), MA and PhD in Economics (Harvard University. Professor of Economics at Duke. Interested in a variety of fields (financial policy, development economics, macro and microeconomics) and particularly International Economics (trade and finance). Was Consultant to the World Bank (1982-1997). Editor of Economics Reading Lists, Course Outlines, Exams, Puzzles and Problems Chapel Hill, Eno River Press, September 1995, 6765 pages, 25-volume set of teaching materials (now in its fourth edition). His latest articles include: "Protectionism, Labor Mobility, and Immiserizing Growth in the Developing Countries", (with J. Gilbert). Economic Letters, March 2002, 135-140 and "Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions", (with R. Gibbs and O. Gokcekus) Journal of Policy Reform, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2002, 127-132. Forthcoming: "The Public Choice Approach to Protectionism", (with W. H. Kaempfer and T. D. Willett) in the Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Charles K. Rowley (ed.) Routledge, 19 pp. And "Rational Pessimism: Predicting Equity Returns by Tobin's q and Price/Earnings Ratio" (with M. Harney), in The Journal of Investing, 20 pp.; "School Choice: Money, Race and Congressional Voting on Vouchers" (with O. Gokcekus and J. J. Philips) Public Choice, 20 pp

BA hon. and MPhil in History (Birmingham); PhD with thesis on the Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951 (Cambridge). Professor in Modern History, History Department, University of Exeter, where he is Director of the Centre for Imperial and Global History. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and member of the editorial board of "Parliamentary History". Historian of Britain in its global and imperial context in the period from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day. Particularly interested in the rhetorical dimensions of politics, economics and empire. Worked on the thought of John Maynard Keynes, the writings of H.G. Wells, Britain’s role in international trade negotiations and the history of UN, the rhetorical culture of the House of Commons and the print culture surrounding general elections. He is an expert on the life, career and reputation of Winston Churchill. His book "Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness" was the winner of the Times Higher Education Young Academic Author of the Year Award in 2007. Other books published include "The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches" (OUP, 2013) and "Winston Churchill: A Life in the News" (OUP, 2020). Recent fields of teaching include "Churchill and the Empire 1874-1965", "News, Media and Communication" and "Interpreting British Party Politics 1906-1979".

Graduation in Fine Arts and PhD in Art, Culture and Education (Barcelona). Assistant professor in Education to Visual Arts (UAB). Recent publications include: 'Art Interpretation as Subject Constitution. A research on the Role of Critical Art History in Teacher Education', The Journal of Art and Design Education, vol. 23, nº1, 2004; 'Perturbar la historia del arte desde el lugar de la espectadora. Las aportaciones de Pollock y Bal a los estudios visuales'. Mujer y cultura visual, num. 0; 'La Interpretación del arte moderno como producción narrativa. Una investigación interdisciplinar desde la historia crítica del arte y la educación artística'. Enseñanza de las ciencias sociales. Revista de investigación ICE-UB/ICE UAB, num 3, March 2004; and (with Montse Rifà), 'Mr. Blanc contra els ravals de la col•lecció: gènere i diferència al MACBA', El Pou de lletres, , Summer 2000. Currently working on a critical edition and Spanish translation of a collection of articles by Griselda Pollock, which cover her career to the present times, and a book on critical art histories and posthistorical theories.

Laurea (B.A.) in Political Sciences (University of Turin). Professor of Political Economy and Economic Policy at Iuav, Department of Design & Planning in Complex Environment. She is Iuav representative in the VIU Board of Directors. Previously taught at the University of Turin and was Researcher at the University of Urbino. Was Visiting Scholar at the University of Stanford, MIT, Columbia and Tsinghua. She has contributed to several research areas such as Labor Market Studies, New Institutional Economics, Economics of Innovation and Industrial Organization. Present research interests: Sustainable Development and City Economics; Regional and Urban Economics; Economics of Innovation and Creativity; New Institutional Economics. She has collaborated with the VIU TEN Center and the Italian Ministry of Environment, in the framework of the Sino-Italian Program for the Cooperation and the Promotion of Sustainable Development in China.

Associate Professor of Fashion History and Theory at the Università Iuav di Venezia. She has a background in contemporary art history and works at the interface between visual studies and design history. From 2019, she has been undergoing the research “Fashion Futuring”, which intends to investigate the present-day fashion cultures and their implications on environmental sustainability and social change. Her recent books include Time in Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Remanufacturing Italy (Mimesis, 2020).

Francesco Vacchiano obtained is PhD in Anthropology at the University of Turin in 2008. Originally trained in clinical psychology (and later specialized in family therapy), since 1997 he has been a member of the Frantz Fanon Centre of Turin (an outpatient clinic for the mental health of refugees and immigrants), where he intervened as a therapist, researcher and trainer. He is currently Associate Professor at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice, where he also teaches Medical Anthropology and Anthropology of Africa, and Adjunct Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). He is also a member of the IMEDES (Instituto Universitario de Investigación sobre Migraciones, Etnicidad y Desarrollo Social) of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and of the Research Institute for International Studies (University Ca' Foscari of Venice). His multidisciplinary approach encompasses the fields of anthropology and ethnopsychology and his research interests focus on migration, medical and psychological anthropology, European borders and boundaries (particularly in the Mediterranean area), institutions and politics of citizenship and social transformations related to globalization. His areas of ethnographic interest are Southern Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa and, since 2016, Mozambique, where he leads a research project on traditional medicine and psychiatry. He has also intervened as a consultant in initiatives of social and community intervention in Italy, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia and Portugal.

PhD in Cultural Anthropology (Utrecht University). Professor of Anthropology of Religion at the Department of Religious Studies, Tilburg. Professor and researcher in the South Africa Netherlands research Programme on Alternatives in Development. Conducted ad still conducts field studies among the Kapsiki/Higi in North Cameroon and North-Eastern Nigeria and the Dogon of Mali, observing the dynamics of their religion for the past thirty years, publishing extensively on the topic. Research and publication topics also include: Western fundamentalism and the ups and downs of apocalyptic discourses; comparative apocalyptic movements; local impact of tourism in Africa.

Dr van der Merwe is a social historian and interdisciplinary scholar currently affiliated with the department of General Linguistics and the International Office at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. As senior lecturer, he specialises in the development and teaching of various interdisciplinary modules. His doctoral thesis focussed on the social history of recorded popular Afrikaans music. This served as the basis for his book, On Record: Popular Afrikaans Music and Society, 1900-2017. He has also worked on a number of historical documentaries, including a recent award winning series on the early life of Nelson Mandela. His most recent research focuses on the impact of music streaming platforms on popular youth culture among different linguistic groups in Africa.

Doctorate in Andragology (Free University of Amsterdam). Vice-Dean of Liberal Arts at Tilburg University, where she teaches Sociology at the Department of Social-Cultural Sciences and is Director of the Major in Social Science in the Bachelor Program of Liberal Arts. Among the courses, which she established and taught are: Culture and Mental Illness, Gendered Bodies and Film (at Bachelor level); Leisure, Identity and Consumerism, Gender and Education, Modernities , Identities and Evil (at Master Level). She edited (with Marrie Bekker and Ine Vanwesenbeeck), Feminist Utopias in a Postmodern Era, Tilburg, The Netherlands: Tilburg UP, 1997 and (with Joke J. Hermsen) Sharing the difference: Feminist debates in Holland, Routledge, London and New York, 1991.

Full Professor of Philosophy at Tilburg, where he has been Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy. Was Visiting Professor at the University of the Dutch Antil¬les, at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), at the University of Transkei (South Africa), at Krasnoyarsk State University (Russian Federation), at Tomsk State University and at the Annual Course School of Human Rights Research in Utrecht. Edited and translated in Dutch, among other things, Jean Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract". Edited (with Sacha Prechal) The Coherence of EU Law. The Search for Unity in Divergent Concepts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, xlii - 531 pp. Other publications in English include: 'The Coalition of the Willing. Or: Can Sovereignty Be Shared?' in Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network 12, 2005, nr. 4, 443-464; 'Questioning the Law.? On Heteronomy in Public Autonomy.' In: A. Schaap (ed), Law and Agonistic Politics. Farnham – Burlington, Ashgate, 2009, pp. 119-131; 'Migrants, Humans, and Human Rights: The Right to Move as the Right to Stay.'In: H.K. Lindahl (ed), A Right to Inclusion and Exclusion? Normative Fault Lines of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009, pp. 161-182; (with J.B.M. Vranken), 'Morality Incorporated? Some Peculiarities of Legal Thinking.' In: Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie: 38 (2009), nr . 2, pp. 136-146. (Special Issue: H. Lindahl – E. Claes (eds.), Philip Pettit and the Incorporation of Responsibility: Legal, Political and Ethical Perspectives).

B.A. (Rhodes College), M.Div. (Princeton Theological Seminary), M.A. in Asian Studies (Hawaii). Professor at the Waseda School of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Published extensively (in Japanese) on the American South, including a History of Black Americans. Author of books in English on Japanese History and Religion. He translated from Japanese to English Ryu Keiichiro, Sakura Momoko, Mori Ogai and Takagi Toshiko.

Chiara Velicogna is an architect by training and holds a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism. She graduated at Iuav University of Venice in Architecture for Heritage Preservation with a thesis on Venetian bridges, focusing on the XVI century Ponte delle Guglie. Her research interests are varied and range from the Venetian Renaissance to contemporary architecture. She has been the recipient of a research fellowship at Iuav University in 2023, where she has been working as teaching assistant; she is also a teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano. She has co-tutored two international summer schools on Venice in 2019 and 2023, as well as working as an independent researcher. She is a member of the editorial committee of the “Engramma” journal since 2020.

Graduated from the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) of Trieste, degree in Conference Interpreting – English, French, and Italian. She has 15 years of experience as a professional interpreter and translator in a wide variety of fields, such as law, technology, and cinema, and taught all levels of Italian at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. Laura particularly enjoyed interpreting at cultural events, contributing to the spread of Italian culture in California. She is currently pursuing a Professional Master’s degree at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Laurea (Ca' Foscari). Full Professor in History of the institutions of the Near and Middle East at Ca' Foscari. Was Professor in Afghan and Iranian Language and Literature and Chairman of the School of Oriental Languages and Literatures at the same University. Carried out extensive research in Iran, Afghanistan and USSR. Lectured at Columbia, SUNY and Georgetown University. Already taught at VIU in Spring 2000, Spring 2001 and Fall 2003. He is author of Afghanistan 1973-1978: dalla Repubblica Presidenziale alla Repubblica Democratica, Venezia 1979; Asia occidentale, Istituto Geografico De Agostini, Novara 1983; Iran e Afghanistan, Editori Riuniti, Roma 1986; Istituzioni del mondo musulmano, Einaudi, Torino 1996; Tra veli e turbanti. Uomini e donne nei mondi dell'Islam, Marsilio, Venezia 2000; Venezia e l'origine della stampa in caratteri arabi, Poligrafo, Padova 2001; Islam. Fede, legge e società, Giunti, Firenze 2003. Publications in English include: A guide to the "Documents of the Nest of Spies", in "The Afghanistan Forum (New York), Occasional Papers n. 26", August 1986; Transitions in cultures: Gharbzadegi versus Orientalism - and after?, in "Annali di Ca Foscari" (Venezia), 1986, n.XXV, 3, (s.o. 17), pp. 159-167 (also in Transitional Periods in Iranian history, Actes du symposium de Fribourg-en-Brisgau, 1987, pp. 253--254.); The Perception of History In A Buffer State: The Afghanistan Case, in "The East and the Meaning of History, International Conference, (23-28 november 1992)", Roma 1994, pp. 381-395; Hisba: Religious Duty or Practical Job? Some Considerations on an Islamic Institution Between Morals and Markets, in "Annali di Ca' Foscari", XXXVII, 3 (s.o. 29) , 1998, pp. 67-96.

Laurea in Languages and Language Sciences and Magistrale in Translation and Cultural Mediation (Ca' Foscari). Teaches Italian as Foreign Language at Istituto Venezia. She is a free-lance translator from English and German to Italian.

Degree and Ph.D. at the Department of Modern French Literature (Valenciennes). Professor of French Language at Waseda. Main field of study: Post-war French modern poetry, specifically the transitive aspect of the poem and the ethical values attached. Author of books onAndré du Bouchet (André du Bouchet et l'écriture du simple, Lille 2002) and René Char (Sortir, René Char et la rencontre du dehors, Tsukuba 2002). He is author, with Hiroshi Yamada, of a text on how to write in French. Among his publications are articles on la littérature engagée from Dreyfus to Sartre and on the New Lyricism of Pierre Chappuis, Nicolas Pesquès and Jean-Michel Maulpoix. As a Member of the C.S.C. (Civil Society, the State and Culture in Comparative Perspective, Special Research Project of the University of Tsukuba) he is co-directing a research project on the relationship between the community and writing in France since 1945.

M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Yale), Dr. phil. (Konstanz), Dr. phil. habil. in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena). Since 2004 Professor and Chair of Comparative and French Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Previously taught at the Universities of Hanover and Jena, full professor at the universities of Hamburg and Zurich. Was Visiting Lecturer at HU and FU Berlin, EHESS Paris, NYU New York, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), University of Chicago, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Publications on: Fashion; Gender politics; Gustave Flaubert. Author of Fashion Zeitgeist. Trends and Cycles in the Fashion System, Oxford/New York: Berg 2005. Most recently: Ver-kleiden. Was wir tun, wenn wir uns anziehen, ed. Astrid Kury, Thomas Macho and Peter Strasser, Unruhe Bewahren, Vienna; Salzburg: Residenz Verlag 2022. 93 p.; Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond. The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern, with Michèle Lowrie, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 360 p.

(born 1945, Dr.phil., Dr.phil.habil.), Full Professor at the University of Munich (Lehrstuhl I) is founder and speaker of the Munich Research Center in Ethics (MKE). He has published on Kant and Wittgenstein, on the philosophy of language and action, on ethics and the theory of rationality. He recently published "Die Moeglichkeit des Guten. Ethik im 21. Jahrhundert" (2006), "Ludwig Wittgenstein" (22004) and "Solipsismus und Sprachkritik. Beiträge zu Wittgenstein" (2009). He is presently involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects on, e.g., normative changes in the second modernity (DFG, Sonderforschungsbereich 538, "Reflexive Modernisierung"), volition and action (VolkswagenStiftung, Max Planck Institut für Psychologische Forschung), and paternalism (DFG-Projekt in cooperation with the Munich Faculty of Law). He was member of the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1997-2003), is member of a number of committees in higher education, and is member of the board of universities in Germany (Universitaetsrat Schleswig-Holstein, Hochschulrat Univ. of Bayreuth). He is Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada).

Diploma in Economics (St. Petersbug State University), MSc in Business Administration (Stockholm), MA and PhD in Economics (EUSP). Professor and Deputy Head of the Economics Department at EUSP. Formerly Visiting Scholar at UCL and Visiting Researcher at the Bank of Finland and at the Oesteuropa Institut in Regensburg. Teaching experience in the field of Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Consumer Behaviour, Economics for Energy Markets; Financial Management, Monetary Policies, Monetary Theories. Publications in English include Creating a Eurasian Union: Economic Integration of the Former Soviet Republics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; and in Russian Theory of money: lessons from the crisis, EUSP press, 2013.

BA and MA in Economics (Waseda), MA in Economics (University of Toronto). Professor of Economics at the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda. Was Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Scholar at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy of George Mason University. Among his publications in Japanese are: "Lessons from History: Learning from the Great Depression and the Showa Crisis of the 1930s" in Iwata, Kikuo (eds.) Towards a Regime Switching of Japanese Monetary Policy, Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbun-sya, 2003; "The Great Depression, FRB and the Economists: Linking the History of Macroeconomic Thought with Macroeconomic History" "'The Lost Thirteen Years': Economic Policy Discussion during the Showa Depression Era," and (with Asahi Noguchi) "International Views on the Great Depression," in Iwata, Kikuo (eds.) The Showa Depression, Tokyo: Tokyo Keizai Shimpo-sya, 2004, which was awarded the Nikkei Prize in Excellent Book in Economics.

B.A. in English and French (Trinity College, Hartford), M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. (Columbia). Professor at the English Department of BC. Teaching expertise on eighteenth and nineteenth-Century British Literature, Feminist Theory, Women’s Studies, Critical Theory.She has published on eighteenth-century women writers, eighteenth-century consumer culture, and most recently on the way that the British slave trade has been remembered and represented in the popular imagination. Among her publications: The British Slave Trade and Public Memory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006; Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping and Business in the 18th Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997; Their Fathers’ Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity, Oxford University Press, 1991.She has beenthe editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory.

BA (Earlham College), MA (Bread Loaf School of English, Middlesbury College), PhD in English (Columbia). Associate Professor of English at BC, where he was Director of American Studies (1987-89) and where he teaches courses on American Literary History and African American Writing (1860-1960). He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the James Fenimore Cooper Society. Author of Early Cooper and His Audience, Columbia University Press 1986. Forthcoming: Introduction to Mark Twain "Huckleberry Finn", Toby Press.

BA in Political Science (Western Washington), MA and PhD in Political Science (Washington). Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at Duke. Previously taught at Fairfield University. Already taught at VIU in Fall 2006. Research and teaching interests in: Women’s Studies; Feminist Theory; Women and Politics; Contemporary Political Theory; Poststructuralist Theory; Marxist Theory; History of Political Theory; Ancient and Modern Political Thought. Author of Constituting Feminist Subjects, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1998. Edited, with Michael Hardt, The Jameson Reader, Blackwell, Oxford 2000. Other publications include: “`Hours for What we Will’: Work, Family and the Movement for Shorter Hours,” Feminist Studies, volume 35, number 1, 2009, 101-127; “Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics,” Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, volume 7, number 1, February 2007, 233-249; “The Refusal of Work as Demand and Perspective”, in Resistance in Practice: The Philosophy of Antonio Negri, edited by T. S. Murphy and A-K. Mustapha, Pluto Press, London 2005; “Subject for a Feminist Standpoint”, in Marxism Beyond Marxism, edited by S. Makdisi, C. Casarino, R. Karl, Routledge, New York 1996; “Feminist Standpoint Theories and the Return of Labor”, in Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order, edited by A. Callari, C. Biewener, and S. Cullenberg, Guilford Publications, New York 1995. Forthcoming book: The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries, Durham: Duke University Press.

Mark Wenig is a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. His research interests are on remote sensing of air pollutants and other atmospheric parameters with the aim to further the understanding of the anthropogenic impact on the environment, especially the climate system and the atmospheric composition. He first studied physics at the University of Münster, and for his graduate studies, he attended the University of Heidelberg, where he received his PhD degree in environmental physics focusing on satellite retrieval algorithms to determine the global distribution of atmospheric pollutants. He continued to work with space-born spectroscopic measurement techniques at the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for five years in Greenbelt, Maryland. When he took up a professorship at City University of Hong Kong, he broadened his research area and developed different ground based instrumental setups to analyze urban air quality. He stayed in Hong Kong for 5 years before he moved back to Germany. Besides his research he is interested in getting to know foreign cultures. Having lived on three different continents gave him the opportunity to experience diverse ways of life. His teaching philosophy is based on his experience that each student has their own cultural and academic background, and aims at providing all students an interesting learning experience.

BA in English (Reed College), MA in Anthropology and Education, PhD in Anthropology (Columbia). Lecturing Fellow at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Lecturer on the Culture and Practice of Capoeira for the Duke Dance Program. She was director of the Duke in Ghana Summer Study Abroad Program in 2010 and 2011, where she taught “Expressive Culture of the African Diaspora” and “Ethnographic Fieldwork Methods”. Her major field of research is Capoeira, Race and Politics in Brazil.

Christiania Whitehead is currently a Privat-Docent and Swiss National Science Foundation senior research fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, working in the domain of Medieval English literature. She teaches Middle English literature regularly at the universities of Lausanne, Bern and Geneva. Prior to this, until 2019, she was Professor of Middle English Literature at the University of Warwick, England. Her recent publications include The Afterlife of St Cuthbert: Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and, co-edited with Denis Renevey and Hazel Blair, Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England: New Directions (Brepols, 2022).

is Professor of Jurisprudence and Rethoric at the Law School of Tilburg University, where he currently is the Dean of the Liberal Arts Bachelor. He is also Tilburg representative in the VIU Academic Council. His research interests include Legal Rethoric and Semiotics, Law and Literature, Legislative Studies and the Rule of Law. He wrote six books and numerous articles in these areas (in Dutch) and edited books on the relevance of the Legal Theory of Lon Fuller and on the social and symbolic effects of legislation (in English). Between 1998 and 2006 he was a Member of the Senate of the Netherlands. His most recent publication in English is Reading Vico for the School of Law, "Chicago-Kent Law Review", Vol. 83/3, 2008.

Takashi Yaekura, Ph.D. is a Professor at the School of Commerce, Waseda University where he teaches financial accounting. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Tokyo (1986), MBA from Cornell University (1991) and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001). He has taught at the International University of Japan, the University of Tsukuba, and Hosei University before joining Waseda. As a researcher, he is interested in empirical (archival) research in financial accounting, especially in, but not limited to, global settings. Of particular research interest are information structure and its empirical implications, security valuation, and market efficiency. He loves classical music, especially opera.

Dr. Mitsuru Yamada is a professor of International Relations, Faculty of Social Science, Waseda University, Japan. He specializes in peacebuilding of post-conflict countries in Asia based on Interntional Relations. He also has many experiences in the area of international cooperation, such as NGO for development & peacebuilding, Election monitoring observers, Japanese ODA monitoring, other social activities. He is now president of Japan Society Studies for Humanitarian Action Studies. He wrote many books and papers regarding peacebuilding, refugees, development, and social activities. Finally, he gained bachelor's degree from Chuo University in Japan, MA degree from Ohio University in the US, and Ph.D. from Kobe University in Japan.

BA (Drama Department, Bristol), PhD in Theatre Arts (Carnegie-Mellon). Professor of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University. Was also Professor of Scriptwriting at the Jerusalem School of Film and Television (1994-2000) and artistic director of the Habimah National Theatre (1975-77) and the Khan Theatre at Jerusalem (1984-1987). Directed a wide range of plays in theatres of Europe, US and Israel (from Seneca to Shakespeare, and from Ibsen to Lorca). Produced various adaptations, designs and translations for the stage: including adaptation and design of the Anna Frank's Diaries and the translation of The Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello. He directed and was scriptwriter for movies, such as Heat (short, 2002 productions) and Farenheim (TV Featurette, 2002 productions, screened by Israel TV in 1971). He is also author of poems, such as those collected in City Engeneers (2001), and The Siren Drill of Migrane (2002).

B.A in Political Economy (Turin), M.A. in International Economics, M.A. and Ph.D. in History (Johns Hopkins). Professor of Social Sciences, Economics and History at Duke. He is Associate Director of the Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS) where he co-chairs with Geri Gereffi the seminar on Globalization, Governance and Development. He has been consultant of the World Bank. Areas of Interest: Economic History, Financial History, History of Development, International Political Economy, Emerging Markets, Public Policy, and History of Globalization (16th century – present). Fields of teaching include: the International Economy from 1850 to the present; History of Financial and Monetary Crises; Globalization and History; Finance, Trade, Institutions and Emerging Markets.

Assistant Professor in Geophysics at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His research interests span several aspects of the physics of climate, including understanding of natural climate variability, numerical climate modeling and paleoclimatology, with a special focus on volcanic impacts on climate and society. At Ca ‘Foscari, he teaches the course “The climate system and its variability” at the Master’s degree program in Environmental Humanities as well as other courses concerned with climate and Earth system dynamics at the Master and PhD level. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Ca’Foscari University of Venice and has been affiliated to the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change and to the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. He has authored and co-authored over sixty peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals on climatology, atmospheric physics and oceanography.

She graduated from Università Iuav di Venezia with a Master's thesis on the Byzantine facies of St Mark in Giovanni and Gentile Bellini's "La Predica di San Marco ad Alessandria d'Egitto" and a PhD on the history of Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas. Her interests focus in general on cultural history and her research mainly on Warburgian studies, the survival of antiquity in the Renaissance, and the relationship between image and word. She is a teaching assistant at the Universities of Venezia and Padova, as well as a member of the Centro Studi ClassicA and the Seminario Mnemosyne. She is a member of La Rivista di Engramma journal editorial board since 2021, for which she has edited several monographic issues. She has recently published: Mnemosyne 46. The Florentine Nymph's Step, Venezia 2024.

Diploma of the Academy of European Law (Florence); Diploma of International Humanitarian Law (ICRC, Geneva); Diploma of the Academy of International Law (The Hague); LL.M European University Institute (Florence); MA, MLaw, PhD in International Relations (St. Gallen). Professor of International Public Law at UNIL. Was, among other functions covered, Senior Officer at the Secretariat of the European Free Trade Association. Areas of research: International Economic Law, International Public Law, LGBTI Law (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Minorities). Author or editor of books and articles published in several languages (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish). Currently working on a monograph on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law from an International and Comparative Perspective.

Magister Artium and Dr. phil. in Philosophy (Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn). Professor of Philosophy at LMU, where he was Chair of the Philosophy Department and Associate Dean at the Faculty of Philosophy, Logic, Theory of Science and Religion Studies. Previously taught at Grinnell College and at the University of Iowa. Was Visiting Professor at the University of Padova and he is in the Advisory Board for Studies in Western Philosophy at Tsinghua. Areas of specialization: Kant and German Idealism; 19th Century Philosophy; 20th Century Continental Philosophy. Areas of competence: History of Modern Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Music; Philosophy of Literature. Book publications in English include: Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy. The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998; paperback 2002); Res publica. Plato’s “Republic” in Classical German Philosophy (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2014); (ed., with Phillip Cummins) Minds, Ideas, and Objects. Essays on the Theory of Representation in Modern Philosophy (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1993); (ed., with David Klemm) Figuring the Self. Subject, Individual, and Others in Classical German Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997); (ed. and transl.) Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); (ed. and transl. with Daniel Breazeale) Johann Gottlieb Fichte, The System of Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005); (ed., with Robert B. Louden) Immanuel Kant, Anthropology, History, and Education (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback 2011).

Laurea in Architecture (Politecnico, Milan); M.A. at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning (Princeton). Professor in History of Architecture and Urban History at Iuav. Teaching also at the University of Padova. Vice-coordinator of the board in the joint Ph.D. program Iuav/University of Verona/Ca’ Foscari in History of Arts. Member of the Steering Committee of the TPTIErasmus Mundus, European program with the Universities of Paris IV-Sorbonne Panthéon, of Evora and of Padova. Taught at the Politecnico of Milan and at Udine. Was President of the Italian Association of Urban History, Visiting Professor at Edinburgh, at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris), at Fudan University in Shanghai, and at CUJAE of La Habana. Fields of interest: architecture and the city; conservation and planning in 19th- 20th Centuries. Italy; Venetian architecture and urban design of the 19th-20th Centuries. Taught at VIU in Fall 1999, 2002, 2011-today. Publications in English include: “Venice. An architectural guide”, Arsenale, Venice 1993. Cristiano Guarneri, Ca’ Foscari University First degree in History and Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage (Iuav); Ph.D. in History of Architecture and City, Theories of Arts, Restauration (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.