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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laurea in Architecture (Politecnico, Milan); M.A. at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning (Princeton). Professor in History of Architecture and Urban History at Iuav. Teaching also at the University of Padova. Vice-coordinator of the board in the joint Ph.D. program Iuav/University of Verona/Ca’ Foscari in History of Arts. Member of the Steering Committee of the TPTIErasmus Mundus, European program with the Universities of Paris IV-Sorbonne Panthéon, of Evora and of Padova. Taught at the Politecnico of Milan and at Udine. Was President of the Italian Association of Urban History, Visiting Professor at Edinburgh, at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris), at Fudan University in Shanghai, and at CUJAE of La Habana. Fields of interest: architecture and the city; conservation and planning in 19th- 20th Centuries. Italy; Venetian architecture and urban design of the 19th-20th Centuries. Taught at VIU in Fall 1999, 2002, 2011-today. Publications in English include: “Venice. An architectural guide”, Arsenale, Venice 1993. Cristiano Guarneri, Ca’ Foscari University First degree in History and Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage (Iuav); Ph.D. in History of Architecture and City, Theories of Arts, Restauration (School for Advanced Studies in Venice). Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Architecture and History of Contemporary Architecture at Ca’ Foscari. Also teaches at the University of Padova. Also taught, as teaching assistant, at the University of Brescia. Was Research Fellow (assegnista) at Iuav and the University of Padova. Former researcher at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture (Università della Svizzera Italiana). Was Visiting Researcher at the Hermitage State Museum of Saint Petersburg. Areas of particular interest: the History of Italian Architecture and Saint Petersburg at the time of Peter the Great (doctoral dissertation was on the kunstkamera of Peter the Great). Was section curator of the exhibition Visualizing Venice: New Technologies for Urban History, Iuav University, Venice 2012.