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.

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.