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..

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bachelor in Human Geography (BSc) and Research Master Metropolitan Studies (MSc), University of Amsterdam. Ph.D., University of Kentucky Department of Geography, Dissertation: Social Space and Social Media: Analyzing Urban Space with Big Data. Currently Assistant Professor of Big Data and Human-Environment Systems in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at KU Leuven, he also taught at the University of Technology and Design, Singapore. His research explores the possibilities and limitations of big data, through quantitative analysis and visualization, to better understand how cities work. He has a particular interest in the practical application of these academic insights within urban planning and policy.

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).