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

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

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

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

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

Licence en lettres (Fribourg); PhD (Oxford); Habilitation venia legendi in Medieval English Literature and Language (Fribourg). Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the English Department at UNIL, where he is an active member of the Centre of Medieval and Post-Medieval Studies. Co-founder of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English. Specialised in late medieval and devotional literature, medieval religious writings for and by women, Chaucer and his fourteenth-century contemporaries. Edited, among other things: A Companion to “The Doctrine of the Hert”: The Middle English Translation and its Latin and European Contexts and The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age: Lost in Translation? (both with Christiania Whitehead, 2010), and Revisiting the Medieval North of England: Interdisciplinary Approaches (with Anita Auer, Camille Marshall and Tino Oudesljuis, 2019). He is editor of the book series “Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages” published by the University of Wales Press.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maria Chiara Tosi, BA+MA in Urbanism at Iuav University of Venice. PhD in Urbanism at La Sapienza University of Rome. Full Professor in Urban Design at Iuav University of Venice where she is also the Director of the School of Doctorate Studies. She has been the scientific coordinator of the Interreg Project CREW (Coordinated Wetland management in Italy-Croatia cross border region), and partner in the Interreg project DIVA (Development of ecosystems and value chains of innovation: support cross-border innovation through Creative Industries), and in the H2020 project CITIES 2030 Co-creating resIlient and susTaInable food systEms towardS FOOD2030 also funded by the European Commission. She is Iuav representative in Venice International University Academic Council, has been Expert for the Panel “Science and Technology of Constructions and the Built Environment” at the Research Foundation Flanders FWO-Belgium, and currently responsible for the Double Degree in Architecture with the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University. Her principal research interests focus on the study of the evolution of urban settlements and on the relationship between welfare policies and the city: on these topics she has undertaken various research projects. She is currently focusing on how the climate crisis affects both the physical and the socio-economic aspects of urban environments. Selected list of more recent publication since 2010: Wang L., Tosi M.C., et al, (2018), Walkable Cities in High Density China, Tongji University Press, Shanghai; Grulois G., Tosi M.C., Crosas C., (eds) (2018) Designing Territorial Metabolism, Jovis, Berlin; Tosi M.C., Turvani M.E., Munarin S., (2017) “Public Realm as City Welfare & Citizens Wellbeing: the case of Cao Yang - Shanghai” Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, Volume 41(2): 101–109; Munarin S., Tosi M.C., (2014) Welfare Spaces. On the Role of Welfare State Policies in the Construction of the Contemporary City, Trento-Barcelona, LastLib; Tosi M.C. (2013) Toward an Atlas of European Delta Landscape, Trento-Barcelona, LastLib.

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

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

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

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