Speakers 2013
Marina Calloni (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
Since 2002 she is full professor of social and political philosophy at the national University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan, Department of Sociology and Social Research. After a laurea (MA) in Philosophy at the University of Milan, she received a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Pavia, and a Ph.D. in Social and Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence. She was a research fellow at the University of Frankfurt (working by Jürgen Habermas) and for six years senior researcher at the Gffender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science in London. In 2011 she thought political theory at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), thanks to a distinguished chair offered by the Fulbright Commission.
Eileen Hunt Botting (University of Notre Dame)
I am a political theorist currently finishing my second book, Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights, for Yale Press (expected 2014). I am also editing a scholarly edition of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for Yale Press (expected 2013). My other books are Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family (SUNY, 2006); Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Penn State, 2009), co-edited with Jill Locke; and the first scholarly edition of Hannah Mather Crocker's Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, co-edited with Sarah L. Houser (NEHGS Press, 2011). I guest edited the January 2006 issue of American Behavioral Scientist on "The End of Enlightenment?", a collection of recent essays by political theorists and intellectual historians on the legacies of the European Enlightenment for modernity. My articles on women, rights, religion, and the family in modern political thought, in Western and non-Western contexts, have been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, History of European Ideas, Women's Studies Quarterly, and The Review of Politics. I contributed chapters on Paine, Wollstonecraft, the Federalist-Antifederalist debate, Tocqueville, and Rawls for Yale's Rethinking the Western Tradition series and Penn State's Feminist Interpretations series. My research and advising interests, looking forward, will focus on the idea of human rights (especially children's human rights); women's leadership roles and practices in comparative perspective; and issues in applied ethics concerning medicine, health care, disability, and the family.
Maurizio Albahari (University of Notre Dame)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). Following his quinquennial Laurea in Letters (University of Florence, Italy) Albahari received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Irvine and held research fellowships at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (University of California at San Diego) and at the Erasmus Institute (University of Notre Dame). He recently edited a migration-themed issue of Italian Culture (Vol. 28, 2010) and completed his first book, titled Borders Adrift: Mediterranean Migrations of Sovereignty and Salvation. His current research seeks to recast the theoretical understanding of ‘integration’ through an ethnographic approach attentive to the political aesthetics of citizenship and migration.
Lorenzo Bagnoli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
After my degrees in Political Science (1992) and in Geography (1996) at the University of Genoa, at the same University I attended the specialisation course in “International cooperation for development” of the Faculty of Political Science (1999) and I obtained the Ph.D. in “Geographic- environmental and cartographical sciences” (2002). Since 2001 to 2007 I taught Geography in the Italian senior high schools, and since 2007 to now I am researcher in Geography at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Milano-Bicocca. My principal interests are about the geography of tourism, especially in its historic-geographical dimension, the geography of heritage and the history of cartography.
Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College)
I am currently a Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College where I have been teaching since 1991. I am the author of three books and the editor of one. I have also published several scholarly essays, book chapters, and book reviews. My research focuses on Continental philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of terrorism. In all of my work, I have tried to open new channels of communication between competing philosophical schools and lineages, including the analytical and Continental traditions, deconstruction and Critical Theory. In order to intensify this exchange, I pioneered the scholarly interview as a new philosophical genre.
Ida Castiglioni (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She is a member of the faculty of sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she designed and currently teaches the intercultural relations curriculum for the graduate program in public policy and social service administration, and she is also a faculty member of the Institute for Somatic Psychology in Milan and Rome. She is co-director of the Intercultural Development Research Institute (I.D.R.I.), based in Portland, Oregon and Milano, Italy.
Eva Cantarella (Università di Milano)
She is Professor of Roman law at the University of Milan, where she teaches also Ancient Greek Law. She lectures at many universities in Europe and the United States. She has been appointed Global Professor at New York University Law School. Her main research interests are ancient law, the legal and social history of sexuality, women's conditions, criminal law and capital punishment. She has written many books, which have been translated into several languages, among them: Norma e sanzione in Omero. Contributo alla protostoria del diritto greco (1979); L'ambiguo malanno. Condizione e immagine della donna nell'antichità greca e romana (1981), Tacita Muta: la donna nella città antica (1985), Secondo natura. La bisessualità nel mondo antico (1988); I supplizi capitali in Grecia e a Roma (1991), Pompei. I volti dell'amore (1998)
Paolo Corvo (University of Gastronomic Sciences)
He is researcher in General Sociology at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. He received his undergraduate degree in Humanities and his PhD in Sociology and Social Research Methods from the Sacred Heart Catholic University in Milan. There he taught Social Politics at the Piacenza campus, Sociology of Tourism in Milan and Brescia, and General Sociology and Environmental Sociology in Brescia. Professor Corvo previously worked in research and training on tourism and local development, processes of globalization and civil society, cultural dynamics, and non-profit sector. His is also the national oordinator of the research group on sociology of tourism and is a member of the editorial committee for the “Turismo, Consumi, Tempo Libero” series from Franco Angeli, working also with the journals Studi di Sociologia and Tourism Management. Professor Corvo is member of many national (AIS and AIQUAV) as well as international associations (ISA, ESA, ISQOLS).
Paolo Costa (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)
Paolo Costa (Milan 1966) is a Senior Researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy) and he's currently a fellow of the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. He is the author, among other things, of "Un'idea di umanità: etica e natura dopo Darwin" (Bologna 2007) and "A Secular Wonder" (in G. Levine, ed., "The Joy of Secularism", Princeton 2011). He has just finished writing a book that will be published by Feltrinelli in the coming months.
Cornelius F. Delaney (University of Notre Dame)
He is full professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He was president af the American Catholic Philosophical Assiociation (1985) e of the C. S. Peirce Society (1986). From 1983 to 1985 he was member of the Executive Committee of the American Philosophical Association. His areas of interest are: Pragmatism, Political Philosophy and Legal Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy. He ha authored the books: Science, Knowledge, and Mind: A Study in the Philosophy of C.S. Peirce (1993) and Mind and Nature: A Study of the Naturalistic Philosophies of Cohen, Woodbridge, and Sellars (1969). He has edited many collective volumes, including: The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate (1993) and Science and Reality (1984).
Elena dell’Agnese (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She associate professor of Geography, and teaches courses on Political Geography and Geography of Development at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She also coordinates a post-graduate program in Tourism and Development. Her research interests are focused on political geography and gender issues (nation building processes and regional iconographies in Europe and in Asia; European borders and their role as identity markers; cities as symbolic landscapes and political places/spaces; the political geography of masculinity). She has been working on rural and urban deprivation, and she is also interested in urban developments and transformations. Since 2004, Elena dell’Agnese is a member of the Steering Committee of the Commission on Political Geography of IGU (International Geographical Union).
Carla Facchini (Università of Milano-Bicocca)
She is full Professor of Sociology of the Family and President of the Faculty of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca. She is Coordinator of the Social Work Course, University of Milano-Bicocca and she is President of the National Observatory or the Students and the Graduates in Social Work, by the Departement of Sociology of Milano Bicocca. She is professor of ‘Social gerontology’ at the post-graduate School of Geriatrics at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Milano Bicocca and at the Master de ‘Gérontologie sociale’, Université de Marseille. She is co-president of the national Assembley of the Presidents of the Courses of Social Work. From 1996, she is Professor at the DESS (from 2008 Master) of Social Gerontology", University of Marseille. She is Member of the Doctorate in Sociology and social Research of the University Milano Bicocca and of the Scientific Committee of the AIS section 'Social policy.
Roberta Garbo (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Sciences and Education. Her main research interests are teacher education, education and disabilities, design of pedagogical integration
Nancy Hirshmann (Univeristy of Pennsylvania)
She is professor of political science and Graduate Chair at The University of Pennsylvania, and currently Vice President of the American Political Science Association. Her books include Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, and The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, which won the Victoria Schuck prize for the best book on women and politics. She is also co-editor of several collected anthologies, including Disability, Citizenship, and Belonging: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (forthcoming 2014) and Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe. She has published many articles in journals and edited volumes, and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Princeton University for Center for Human Values.
Regina Kreide (University of Gießen)
Regina Kriede is currently a Full Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Institute of Political Science at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her areas of specialization include social and political theory, political philosophy, history of ideas, social theory and philosophy of law, theories of human rights, (global) justice, equality and (transnational) democracy, feminist theory, policy-research, and qualitative methods. Kriede has authored
numerous articles for the Journal for Human Rights and Polar, and additionally is the editor of a book series on “Political Sociology” with Nomos publisher (together with Andrew Arato and Hauke Brunkhorst).
Marialuisa Lavitrano (Università of Milano-Bicocca)
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Immunology at the Medical School of University of Milano-Bicocca. She is Rector's Delegate for International Affairs.
Carmen Leccardi (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Full professor of the Sociology of Culture. Main research interests: cultural change, cultural production and industry with specific reference to the experience of time (even in terms of different forms of responsibility), youth and gender studies, qualitative methods of research.
Stefano Marras (Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca)
He is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Milano-Bicocca, studying street food trades in developing countries (Street Food Global Network). In 2008 he obtained a Ph.D. in Urban Sociology, focusing on urban refugees. That same year, he started the Map Kibera Project in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2010-2011, he has been Fulbright Research Scholar at the Department of Sociology of the New York University. As a photographer, while carrying out academic research, he has done photographic works in Italy, Sudan, Kenya, Paris, New York, Eastern Europe, South America.
Vincenzo Matera (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
He is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Milano Bicocca University. He has carried out fieldwork in South Italy, Indonesia, Uganda, Milan urban contexts; his main research interests are in anthropological theory, with special reference to ethnographic writing, memory and identity, anthropology of communication. He is member of the Executive Committee of AISEA (Italian Association of Ethno-Anthropological Studies) and of the Editorial Board of a) Archivio Antropologico del Mediterraneo (Palermo University); b) Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa (Il Mulino); c) Annuario di Antropologia (Milano Bicocca University). He is editor of a series of books named Studi Sociali (Utet University Press). He has written several monographs and papers, and counts more than 80 publications. Recently, Il concetto di cultura nelle scienze sociali contemporanee, ed., Utet Università, Torino, 2008; with M. Kontopodis Doing Memory, Doing Identity. Politics of the Everyday in Contemporary Global Communities (OUTLINES, 2, 2010); 2012 (con Fabietti U. e Malighetti R.), Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all’antropologia, Nuova Edizione, Bruno Mondadori, Milano (translated into croatian: Uvod U ANtropologiju. Od Lokalnog do globalnog, Belgrad: Clio); 2012, Dialoghi culturali, Archetipo libri, Bologna. He is carrying out a research project named “Culturalmente”, an ethnographic study of the practices of art in Milan performed by migrant communities and migrant artists: painters, dancers, traditional performers, writers, musicians and other contemporary artists. How is art accomplished in migration contexts? Importantly, with anthropology’s comparative perspective, this question accentuates the fact that despite common ideas against migrants in Italian society, migration could be an important source of cultural richness. The project is funded by the Fondazione Cariplo.
Enzo Mingione (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been Dean of The Faculty of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Coordinator of the EU Research Training Network URBEUROPE (Urban Europe Between Identity and Change) and Coordinator of the European Doctorate Urbeur “Urban and Local European Studies”, University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been constantly involved with international and Italian scientific journals and research groups and a consultant of the European Commission. He is among the founder editors of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Inchiesta and of the European Journal of Space and Development, Trustee of the Foundation of Urban and Regional Studies, President of the Fondazione Bignaschi, Milano (Foundation for the assistance and study of the aged). His main fields of interest are poverty, social exclusion, informal sector, unemployment, economic and urban sociology. Among his many international publication: Fragmented Societies (1991); (Ed) Urban poverty and the Underclass (1996), Sociologia della vita economica (1997) and (with Enrico Pugliese) Il lavoro (2010).
Roberto Miraglia (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca. His main research areas poverty, social exclusion, informal sector, unemployment, urban and economic sociology.
Cenise Monte Vicente (Children’s Rights News Agency)
She is a Brazilian Psychoanalyst. She graduated in Social Psychology at the Instituto de Psicologia of the Universidade de São Paulo. Between 1991 and 1992 she worked as Municipal Secretary of Social Assistance for the City of Campinas. Between 1991 and 1995 she was Assistant Professor of Criminal Psychology at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras of the Universidade de São Paulo. She has been Executive Coordinator of different social organizations (as Instituto Ayrton Senna, Programa Banco na Escola, São Paulo’s Unicef Regional Office and Rede Social São Paulo’s Envolver Program) and participated in Human rights advocacy organizations (Comissão Teotônio Vilela de Direitos Humanos; She is President of the Council at the Agência de Notícia dos Direitos da Infância/Children’s Rights News Agency, Adviser for Fundação Casa/São Paulo, and Adviser for the Querô project/Cinema and audiovisual workshops). She has widely published on children’s rights, with special attention to the Brazilian case.
Giovanni Moro (Fondaca, Roma)
Sociologist of political phenomena and of organizations, he carries out research, training, cultural dialogue and advice on citizenship and related issues suchs as civic activism in public policies, new forms of governance and corporate responsibility. He is president of FONDACA – Active Citizenship Foundation since its establishment, in 2001. He teaches Political Sociology at the Faculty of Education of Roma Tre University and since 2011 he is visiting professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Gregoriana University of Rome.
He published many books, among them: Manuale di cittadinanza attiva" (1998), PlusValori. La responsabilità sociale d'impresa (with Alessandro Profumo, 2003), Azione civica (2005), La società civile tra eredità e sfide. Rapporto sull'Italia del Civil Society Index (with Ilaria Vannini, 2008), Cittadini in Europa (2009, English edition 2012) and La moneta della discordia. L'euro e i cittadini dieci anni dopo (2011).
Silvia Mugnano (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She is Assistant Professor in Urban Sociology at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. Her research interests are hausing issues, partecipation processes, urban transformations and creative industry.
Elżbieta H. Oleksy (University of Łódź)
She is Full Professor of Humanities at the University of Łódź. She chairs the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies and is Founding Director of Women’s Studies Centre. She was Founding Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies (2000-2008). She authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited twenty-four books and over a hundred chapters and articles in the field of gender studies, visual culture and literature. Her recent publications include two edited books: The Limits of Gendered Citizenships. Contexts and Complexities (Routledge, 2011) and Intimate Citizenships. Gender, Sexualities, Politics (Routledge, 2008), as well as the review article “Intersectionality at the crossroads,” Women’s Studies International Forum 34, 2011: 263-270 and the chapter “Intersectionality and pedagogy. From movies to the classroom,” in Educational Inequalities in Schools of Higher Education, ed. Kalwant Bhopal and Uvanney Maylor (New York: Routledge, in print). She holds Knight’s Cross of the Republic of Poland. In 2007 she received the Medal of Merit from the City Council of Łódź. (www.eoleksy.uni.lodz.pl)
Louis Quagliata (Next, Boston)Raised in the U.S. and Italy, with a humanistic education as a graduate of the Lyceum Tasso, and holder of degrees in physics and engineering from MIT and Harvard, Louis Quagliata worked at the Watson Laboratory of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (today the Draper Laboratory) before returning to Italy where he was founder, partner, and CEO of International Technology Partners, a general manager for ILVA-Finsider, then fifth-largest steel producer in the world (1991-1993), and founding partner of Booz Allen & Hamilton (1994-2000). From 2001 he pioneered and was director until 2007 of the Collegio di Milano, a live-in college, based on the American liberal-arts model operating within the Italian public university system. Since 2008, he has been piloting experiments in international/global education.
Patrick O'Mahony (University of Cork)
He received his doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 1991 and spent the next seven years as Director of the Centre for European Social Research before taking up a position as lecturer in Sociology at UCC in 2000. His theoretical interests cover a wide span but are currently focused on questions of public participation and the public sphere. He has wide-ranging methodological expertise in a variety of research approaches and techniques. He has conducted and coordinated wide-ranging research, primarily focused on questions of environment, the societal implications of new technology and identity and ideology in Ireland and internationally. He is currently working on a book on the Public Sphere of Biotechnology in Britain and Ireland and the UK.
Fabio Quassoli (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
He is Associate Professor at the Departiment of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca, where he teachs “Qualitative research methodology” in the BA course in sociology and “Intercultural relations” in the MA course in Sociology. His main research interests are: intercultural communications, multiculturalism, sociology of immigration, social construction of crime and devance, security policies and social exclusion.
Davide Rampello (Expo 2015)
He currently works for Expo 2015 S.p.A. He has been Professor at the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione (IULM), at the University of Padua and at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. In 1972 he began his professional career at RAI. Between 1980 and 1986, he was artistic director of Canale 5. Between 1992 and 1994 (and again in 2010), he was artistic director of the Venice Carnival. As managing director and artistic director of Società Grandi Eventi (Fininvest Group), he created and staged major art and culture shows and events, including the Francis Bacon exhibition, the Peter Greenaway exhibition, the Tintoretto "Portraits" exhibition, the Paul Gauguin exhibition and the Leonardo da Vinci “Leicester Code” exhibition. Between 2002 and 2003, he was communication, image promotion and cultural events manager of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In 2007, he was director and artistic director of the celebrations for the sixtieth anniversary of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. Since 2003, he has been Chairman of the Triennale Foundation of Milan. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Italian Design Council; since 2008 Vice President of Federculture and since 2009 a director of Lungarno Alberghi. Since 2010, he has been Chairman of Cinesicilia and a member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the ISTAT national statistics conference. Mr. Rampello serves as Director of Telecom Italia Media SpA and as Director of FullSix SpA. He was curator and co-curator of various art and dress exhibitions, editorial director of the journal Gourmet from 1990 to 1996 and author of the book La Venezia di Vivaldi (Venice 2004). In 2007, he was co-author of the book Famiglia Spa (Il Sole 24 ore).
Marco Rasconi (Comune di Milano)
He is bookkeeper at the Cooperativa Sociale Spazio Aperto in Milan. He graduated in Business Administration. Since 1998 he is member of the Unione Italiana Lotta alla Distrofia Muscolare Sezione di Milano, and since 2003 he is President. Since 2010 he is President of LEDHA Milano - Coordinamento Milanese per i diritti delle persone con disabilità. At LEDHA he conducts since 2011 “CPV - Centro Progetto di Vita”. Since 2011 he is President of the Consulta Cittadina per le Persone con Disabilità del Comune di Milano.
Tanja Sekulic (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
PhD in Sociology at the University of Milan, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she teaches Political Sociology of Europe and Sociology of Education. Main fields of her research are: Europe/Europes: European integrations in polycentric perspective; new wars and contemporary conflicts, crimes of war and genocide studies; democratic transition of post-totalitarian regimes and new forms of totalitarianism.
Giorgia Serughetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
University degree in Political Philosophy, MA in Sociology, PhD in Cultural Studies, since 2007 she has been working in Rome as a social researcher, regularly collaborating with Associazione Parsec (non-profit organisation for social research and intervention) and doing theoretical and empirical research for universities, government agencies and NGOs. Research issues: immigration and asylum, trafficking and prostitution, gender, social exclusion, social policies, policies for equal opportunities. Since 2006 she been collaborating with the University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research. In 2013 she has authored the book Uomini che pagano le donne. Dalla strada al web: i clienti nel mercato del sesso contemporaneo (Ediesse).
Tracey Skillington (University of Cork)
She is a lecturer in sociology in the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork. She is also a Co-Editor of the Irish Journal of Sociology (Manchester University Press). Forthcoming publications include the following: Climate Justice & Human Rights (Palgrave Macmillan); 'UN genocide commemoration, transnational scenes of mourning and the global project of learning from atrocity', British Journal of Sociology (December edition, 2013); 'Remembrance and beyond: Holocaust memory in lived time', in Seymour, David & Wodak, Ruth (eds) The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge); 'The borders of contemporary Europe: Territory, justice, rights', in Isyar, Bora & Czaijka, Agnes (eds) Europe After Derrida (Edinburgh University Press); 'Climate change and the human rights challenge: Extending justice beyond the borders of the nation state', The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 16. No. 8 (Routledge).
Rita Tersilla (Sarti del Gusto)
Chef of the web cooking channel of Gruppo Editoriale l’Espresso. Passionate about food and wine, founded in 2008 “Sarti del Gusto”, a firm organizing food and wine tastings and events for large and medium size business company and for tourism sector. From June 2012 chef of the web cooking channel "La Cucina D" of the Gruppo Editoriale l’Espresso. Author of Street Food - Cibo di strada a tavola published by "Il mio libro - l'Espresso" on 2012 Lover of “food heritage” and in particular of street food, as a way of eating remained virtually unchanged over time.
Debora Tonelli (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)
Debora Tonelli, Ph.D. in Political Philosophy (Rome Tre University) and PhD in Theology (Westfählische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), is a permanent researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trient, Italy). Her main research interest is the legacy of biblical tradition in modern political thought. She is currently working on violence in biblical and political traditions in the context of interreligious dialogue. She teaches Biblical Studies at the School of Religious Sciences of Trient. Selected publications: Il Decalogo. Uno sguardo retrospettivo (2010); ed. of Teologia e spazio pubblico, monographic number of Sociologia. Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali (2/2011); “Literary images. The “go on the stage” of the divine violence in Ex 15, 1-18”, in D. Pezzoli-Olgiati – C. Rowland (edd.), Approaches to Visuality in Religion (2011).
Magdalena Żardecka-Nowak (University of Rzeszów)
PhD, Professor at the Rzeszów University (Uniwersytet Rzeszowski – UR). She graduated in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski - KUL). She dealt with contemporary philosophy, social philosophy, ethics and political philosophy. Her publications focus on the theory of justice (Rawls), liberalism (Berlin, Gray), communitarianism (MacIntyre, Taylor, Walzer, Sandel), discourse ethics (Apel, Habermas), philosophy of dialogue (Levinas), American neopragmatism (Rorty), new trends in psychoanalysis (Lacan), structural constructivism (Bourdieu), theory of power and domination (Foucault). She has attended numerous academic conferences and symposiums. Currently she focuses on the latest concepts of subject and authenticity. In her free time she is interested in film, theatre and arts.
Glora Zavatta (Expo 2015)
Gloria Zavatta works for Expo 2015 S.p.a., the organization in charge of designing, planning and managing the Universal Exposition of Milan which will be held in 2015. Currently she is Sustainability Leader in the Business Operations Department, responsible for the development of Expo 2015 integrated management system and particularly for green procurement, CO2 emissions evaluation and compensation, EHS audits at the worksite, waste management and sustainable reporting. From March 2011 to July 2012 she also was Partnership development and support for the Agor-food sector within the Marketing Department and from October 2009 to March 2011 she was responsible for the Agro-food Area in the Theme Development and Institutional Relations Department. From 1995 until 2010 she has been working for ERM (Environmental Resources Management), a leading global provider of environmental, safety and social consulting services, as Associate Partner, based in Milan. Shea has more than 20 years’ experience on a wide range of projects for numerous Italian and international organizations, such as: Edison, Eni, Unicredit Group, Intesa San Paolo, IIC, WB, TOROC, Metropolitana di Roma, Dexia Crediop, Parmalat, Ferrero, Saras, Freudenberg. She has been working on integrated management systems, workplace risk assessments, environmental assessments, training, Agenda 21 process, Corporate Social Responsibility and reporting. In the 1998 - 2000 she has worked for ERM in the Buenos Aires office as the Managing Director Assistant. In the 1988 - 1994 she has worked for Lombardia Risorse S.p.A.
Zuckert Catherine (University of Notre Dame)
She is Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She also currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Review of Politics. Her main research interests are the history of political philosophy and the relation between literature and politics. Among her several publications: Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form (1990), (ed.)Understanding the Political Spirit: From Socrates to Nietzsche (1989). Zuckert. Zuckert has received several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the Bradley and Earhart Foundations. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, has been listed in several editions of Who’s Who in America, and was selected as a member of the Templeton Honor Role in 1998.
Since 2002 she is full professor of social and political philosophy at the national University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan, Department of Sociology and Social Research. After a laurea (MA) in Philosophy at the University of Milan, she received a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Pavia, and a Ph.D. in Social and Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence. She was a research fellow at the University of Frankfurt (working by Jürgen Habermas) and for six years senior researcher at the Gffender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science in London. In 2011 she thought political theory at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), thanks to a distinguished chair offered by the Fulbright Commission.
Eileen Hunt Botting (University of Notre Dame)
I am a political theorist currently finishing my second book, Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights, for Yale Press (expected 2014). I am also editing a scholarly edition of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for Yale Press (expected 2013). My other books are Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family (SUNY, 2006); Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Penn State, 2009), co-edited with Jill Locke; and the first scholarly edition of Hannah Mather Crocker's Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, co-edited with Sarah L. Houser (NEHGS Press, 2011). I guest edited the January 2006 issue of American Behavioral Scientist on "The End of Enlightenment?", a collection of recent essays by political theorists and intellectual historians on the legacies of the European Enlightenment for modernity. My articles on women, rights, religion, and the family in modern political thought, in Western and non-Western contexts, have been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, History of European Ideas, Women's Studies Quarterly, and The Review of Politics. I contributed chapters on Paine, Wollstonecraft, the Federalist-Antifederalist debate, Tocqueville, and Rawls for Yale's Rethinking the Western Tradition series and Penn State's Feminist Interpretations series. My research and advising interests, looking forward, will focus on the idea of human rights (especially children's human rights); women's leadership roles and practices in comparative perspective; and issues in applied ethics concerning medicine, health care, disability, and the family.
Maurizio Albahari (University of Notre Dame)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). Following his quinquennial Laurea in Letters (University of Florence, Italy) Albahari received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Irvine and held research fellowships at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (University of California at San Diego) and at the Erasmus Institute (University of Notre Dame). He recently edited a migration-themed issue of Italian Culture (Vol. 28, 2010) and completed his first book, titled Borders Adrift: Mediterranean Migrations of Sovereignty and Salvation. His current research seeks to recast the theoretical understanding of ‘integration’ through an ethnographic approach attentive to the political aesthetics of citizenship and migration.
Lorenzo Bagnoli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
After my degrees in Political Science (1992) and in Geography (1996) at the University of Genoa, at the same University I attended the specialisation course in “International cooperation for development” of the Faculty of Political Science (1999) and I obtained the Ph.D. in “Geographic- environmental and cartographical sciences” (2002). Since 2001 to 2007 I taught Geography in the Italian senior high schools, and since 2007 to now I am researcher in Geography at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Milano-Bicocca. My principal interests are about the geography of tourism, especially in its historic-geographical dimension, the geography of heritage and the history of cartography.
Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College)
I am currently a Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College where I have been teaching since 1991. I am the author of three books and the editor of one. I have also published several scholarly essays, book chapters, and book reviews. My research focuses on Continental philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of terrorism. In all of my work, I have tried to open new channels of communication between competing philosophical schools and lineages, including the analytical and Continental traditions, deconstruction and Critical Theory. In order to intensify this exchange, I pioneered the scholarly interview as a new philosophical genre.
Ida Castiglioni (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She is a member of the faculty of sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she designed and currently teaches the intercultural relations curriculum for the graduate program in public policy and social service administration, and she is also a faculty member of the Institute for Somatic Psychology in Milan and Rome. She is co-director of the Intercultural Development Research Institute (I.D.R.I.), based in Portland, Oregon and Milano, Italy.
Eva Cantarella (Università di Milano)
She is Professor of Roman law at the University of Milan, where she teaches also Ancient Greek Law. She lectures at many universities in Europe and the United States. She has been appointed Global Professor at New York University Law School. Her main research interests are ancient law, the legal and social history of sexuality, women's conditions, criminal law and capital punishment. She has written many books, which have been translated into several languages, among them: Norma e sanzione in Omero. Contributo alla protostoria del diritto greco (1979); L'ambiguo malanno. Condizione e immagine della donna nell'antichità greca e romana (1981), Tacita Muta: la donna nella città antica (1985), Secondo natura. La bisessualità nel mondo antico (1988); I supplizi capitali in Grecia e a Roma (1991), Pompei. I volti dell'amore (1998)
Paolo Corvo (University of Gastronomic Sciences)
He is researcher in General Sociology at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. He received his undergraduate degree in Humanities and his PhD in Sociology and Social Research Methods from the Sacred Heart Catholic University in Milan. There he taught Social Politics at the Piacenza campus, Sociology of Tourism in Milan and Brescia, and General Sociology and Environmental Sociology in Brescia. Professor Corvo previously worked in research and training on tourism and local development, processes of globalization and civil society, cultural dynamics, and non-profit sector. His is also the national oordinator of the research group on sociology of tourism and is a member of the editorial committee for the “Turismo, Consumi, Tempo Libero” series from Franco Angeli, working also with the journals Studi di Sociologia and Tourism Management. Professor Corvo is member of many national (AIS and AIQUAV) as well as international associations (ISA, ESA, ISQOLS).
Paolo Costa (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)
Paolo Costa (Milan 1966) is a Senior Researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy) and he's currently a fellow of the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. He is the author, among other things, of "Un'idea di umanità: etica e natura dopo Darwin" (Bologna 2007) and "A Secular Wonder" (in G. Levine, ed., "The Joy of Secularism", Princeton 2011). He has just finished writing a book that will be published by Feltrinelli in the coming months.
Cornelius F. Delaney (University of Notre Dame)
He is full professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He was president af the American Catholic Philosophical Assiociation (1985) e of the C. S. Peirce Society (1986). From 1983 to 1985 he was member of the Executive Committee of the American Philosophical Association. His areas of interest are: Pragmatism, Political Philosophy and Legal Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy. He ha authored the books: Science, Knowledge, and Mind: A Study in the Philosophy of C.S. Peirce (1993) and Mind and Nature: A Study of the Naturalistic Philosophies of Cohen, Woodbridge, and Sellars (1969). He has edited many collective volumes, including: The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate (1993) and Science and Reality (1984).
Elena dell’Agnese (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She associate professor of Geography, and teaches courses on Political Geography and Geography of Development at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She also coordinates a post-graduate program in Tourism and Development. Her research interests are focused on political geography and gender issues (nation building processes and regional iconographies in Europe and in Asia; European borders and their role as identity markers; cities as symbolic landscapes and political places/spaces; the political geography of masculinity). She has been working on rural and urban deprivation, and she is also interested in urban developments and transformations. Since 2004, Elena dell’Agnese is a member of the Steering Committee of the Commission on Political Geography of IGU (International Geographical Union).
Carla Facchini (Università of Milano-Bicocca)
She is full Professor of Sociology of the Family and President of the Faculty of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca. She is Coordinator of the Social Work Course, University of Milano-Bicocca and she is President of the National Observatory or the Students and the Graduates in Social Work, by the Departement of Sociology of Milano Bicocca. She is professor of ‘Social gerontology’ at the post-graduate School of Geriatrics at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Milano Bicocca and at the Master de ‘Gérontologie sociale’, Université de Marseille. She is co-president of the national Assembley of the Presidents of the Courses of Social Work. From 1996, she is Professor at the DESS (from 2008 Master) of Social Gerontology", University of Marseille. She is Member of the Doctorate in Sociology and social Research of the University Milano Bicocca and of the Scientific Committee of the AIS section 'Social policy.
Roberta Garbo (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Sciences and Education. Her main research interests are teacher education, education and disabilities, design of pedagogical integration
Nancy Hirshmann (Univeristy of Pennsylvania)
She is professor of political science and Graduate Chair at The University of Pennsylvania, and currently Vice President of the American Political Science Association. Her books include Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, and The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, which won the Victoria Schuck prize for the best book on women and politics. She is also co-editor of several collected anthologies, including Disability, Citizenship, and Belonging: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (forthcoming 2014) and Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe. She has published many articles in journals and edited volumes, and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Princeton University for Center for Human Values.
Regina Kreide (University of Gießen)
Regina Kriede is currently a Full Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Institute of Political Science at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her areas of specialization include social and political theory, political philosophy, history of ideas, social theory and philosophy of law, theories of human rights, (global) justice, equality and (transnational) democracy, feminist theory, policy-research, and qualitative methods. Kriede has authored
numerous articles for the Journal for Human Rights and Polar, and additionally is the editor of a book series on “Political Sociology” with Nomos publisher (together with Andrew Arato and Hauke Brunkhorst).
Marialuisa Lavitrano (Università of Milano-Bicocca)
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Immunology at the Medical School of University of Milano-Bicocca. She is Rector's Delegate for International Affairs.
Carmen Leccardi (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Full professor of the Sociology of Culture. Main research interests: cultural change, cultural production and industry with specific reference to the experience of time (even in terms of different forms of responsibility), youth and gender studies, qualitative methods of research.
Stefano Marras (Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca)
He is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Milano-Bicocca, studying street food trades in developing countries (Street Food Global Network). In 2008 he obtained a Ph.D. in Urban Sociology, focusing on urban refugees. That same year, he started the Map Kibera Project in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2010-2011, he has been Fulbright Research Scholar at the Department of Sociology of the New York University. As a photographer, while carrying out academic research, he has done photographic works in Italy, Sudan, Kenya, Paris, New York, Eastern Europe, South America.
Vincenzo Matera (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
He is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Milano Bicocca University. He has carried out fieldwork in South Italy, Indonesia, Uganda, Milan urban contexts; his main research interests are in anthropological theory, with special reference to ethnographic writing, memory and identity, anthropology of communication. He is member of the Executive Committee of AISEA (Italian Association of Ethno-Anthropological Studies) and of the Editorial Board of a) Archivio Antropologico del Mediterraneo (Palermo University); b) Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa (Il Mulino); c) Annuario di Antropologia (Milano Bicocca University). He is editor of a series of books named Studi Sociali (Utet University Press). He has written several monographs and papers, and counts more than 80 publications. Recently, Il concetto di cultura nelle scienze sociali contemporanee, ed., Utet Università, Torino, 2008; with M. Kontopodis Doing Memory, Doing Identity. Politics of the Everyday in Contemporary Global Communities (OUTLINES, 2, 2010); 2012 (con Fabietti U. e Malighetti R.), Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all’antropologia, Nuova Edizione, Bruno Mondadori, Milano (translated into croatian: Uvod U ANtropologiju. Od Lokalnog do globalnog, Belgrad: Clio); 2012, Dialoghi culturali, Archetipo libri, Bologna. He is carrying out a research project named “Culturalmente”, an ethnographic study of the practices of art in Milan performed by migrant communities and migrant artists: painters, dancers, traditional performers, writers, musicians and other contemporary artists. How is art accomplished in migration contexts? Importantly, with anthropology’s comparative perspective, this question accentuates the fact that despite common ideas against migrants in Italian society, migration could be an important source of cultural richness. The project is funded by the Fondazione Cariplo.
Enzo Mingione (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been Dean of The Faculty of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Coordinator of the EU Research Training Network URBEUROPE (Urban Europe Between Identity and Change) and Coordinator of the European Doctorate Urbeur “Urban and Local European Studies”, University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been constantly involved with international and Italian scientific journals and research groups and a consultant of the European Commission. He is among the founder editors of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Inchiesta and of the European Journal of Space and Development, Trustee of the Foundation of Urban and Regional Studies, President of the Fondazione Bignaschi, Milano (Foundation for the assistance and study of the aged). His main fields of interest are poverty, social exclusion, informal sector, unemployment, economic and urban sociology. Among his many international publication: Fragmented Societies (1991); (Ed) Urban poverty and the Underclass (1996), Sociologia della vita economica (1997) and (with Enrico Pugliese) Il lavoro (2010).
Roberto Miraglia (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca. His main research areas poverty, social exclusion, informal sector, unemployment, urban and economic sociology.
Cenise Monte Vicente (Children’s Rights News Agency)
She is a Brazilian Psychoanalyst. She graduated in Social Psychology at the Instituto de Psicologia of the Universidade de São Paulo. Between 1991 and 1992 she worked as Municipal Secretary of Social Assistance for the City of Campinas. Between 1991 and 1995 she was Assistant Professor of Criminal Psychology at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras of the Universidade de São Paulo. She has been Executive Coordinator of different social organizations (as Instituto Ayrton Senna, Programa Banco na Escola, São Paulo’s Unicef Regional Office and Rede Social São Paulo’s Envolver Program) and participated in Human rights advocacy organizations (Comissão Teotônio Vilela de Direitos Humanos; She is President of the Council at the Agência de Notícia dos Direitos da Infância/Children’s Rights News Agency, Adviser for Fundação Casa/São Paulo, and Adviser for the Querô project/Cinema and audiovisual workshops). She has widely published on children’s rights, with special attention to the Brazilian case.
Giovanni Moro (Fondaca, Roma)
Sociologist of political phenomena and of organizations, he carries out research, training, cultural dialogue and advice on citizenship and related issues suchs as civic activism in public policies, new forms of governance and corporate responsibility. He is president of FONDACA – Active Citizenship Foundation since its establishment, in 2001. He teaches Political Sociology at the Faculty of Education of Roma Tre University and since 2011 he is visiting professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Gregoriana University of Rome.
He published many books, among them: Manuale di cittadinanza attiva" (1998), PlusValori. La responsabilità sociale d'impresa (with Alessandro Profumo, 2003), Azione civica (2005), La società civile tra eredità e sfide. Rapporto sull'Italia del Civil Society Index (with Ilaria Vannini, 2008), Cittadini in Europa (2009, English edition 2012) and La moneta della discordia. L'euro e i cittadini dieci anni dopo (2011).
Silvia Mugnano (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She is Assistant Professor in Urban Sociology at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. Her research interests are hausing issues, partecipation processes, urban transformations and creative industry.
Elżbieta H. Oleksy (University of Łódź)
She is Full Professor of Humanities at the University of Łódź. She chairs the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies and is Founding Director of Women’s Studies Centre. She was Founding Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies (2000-2008). She authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited twenty-four books and over a hundred chapters and articles in the field of gender studies, visual culture and literature. Her recent publications include two edited books: The Limits of Gendered Citizenships. Contexts and Complexities (Routledge, 2011) and Intimate Citizenships. Gender, Sexualities, Politics (Routledge, 2008), as well as the review article “Intersectionality at the crossroads,” Women’s Studies International Forum 34, 2011: 263-270 and the chapter “Intersectionality and pedagogy. From movies to the classroom,” in Educational Inequalities in Schools of Higher Education, ed. Kalwant Bhopal and Uvanney Maylor (New York: Routledge, in print). She holds Knight’s Cross of the Republic of Poland. In 2007 she received the Medal of Merit from the City Council of Łódź. (www.eoleksy.uni.lodz.pl)
Louis Quagliata (Next, Boston)Raised in the U.S. and Italy, with a humanistic education as a graduate of the Lyceum Tasso, and holder of degrees in physics and engineering from MIT and Harvard, Louis Quagliata worked at the Watson Laboratory of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (today the Draper Laboratory) before returning to Italy where he was founder, partner, and CEO of International Technology Partners, a general manager for ILVA-Finsider, then fifth-largest steel producer in the world (1991-1993), and founding partner of Booz Allen & Hamilton (1994-2000). From 2001 he pioneered and was director until 2007 of the Collegio di Milano, a live-in college, based on the American liberal-arts model operating within the Italian public university system. Since 2008, he has been piloting experiments in international/global education.
Patrick O'Mahony (University of Cork)
He received his doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 1991 and spent the next seven years as Director of the Centre for European Social Research before taking up a position as lecturer in Sociology at UCC in 2000. His theoretical interests cover a wide span but are currently focused on questions of public participation and the public sphere. He has wide-ranging methodological expertise in a variety of research approaches and techniques. He has conducted and coordinated wide-ranging research, primarily focused on questions of environment, the societal implications of new technology and identity and ideology in Ireland and internationally. He is currently working on a book on the Public Sphere of Biotechnology in Britain and Ireland and the UK.
Fabio Quassoli (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
He is Associate Professor at the Departiment of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca, where he teachs “Qualitative research methodology” in the BA course in sociology and “Intercultural relations” in the MA course in Sociology. His main research interests are: intercultural communications, multiculturalism, sociology of immigration, social construction of crime and devance, security policies and social exclusion.
Davide Rampello (Expo 2015)
He currently works for Expo 2015 S.p.A. He has been Professor at the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione (IULM), at the University of Padua and at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. In 1972 he began his professional career at RAI. Between 1980 and 1986, he was artistic director of Canale 5. Between 1992 and 1994 (and again in 2010), he was artistic director of the Venice Carnival. As managing director and artistic director of Società Grandi Eventi (Fininvest Group), he created and staged major art and culture shows and events, including the Francis Bacon exhibition, the Peter Greenaway exhibition, the Tintoretto "Portraits" exhibition, the Paul Gauguin exhibition and the Leonardo da Vinci “Leicester Code” exhibition. Between 2002 and 2003, he was communication, image promotion and cultural events manager of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In 2007, he was director and artistic director of the celebrations for the sixtieth anniversary of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. Since 2003, he has been Chairman of the Triennale Foundation of Milan. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Italian Design Council; since 2008 Vice President of Federculture and since 2009 a director of Lungarno Alberghi. Since 2010, he has been Chairman of Cinesicilia and a member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the ISTAT national statistics conference. Mr. Rampello serves as Director of Telecom Italia Media SpA and as Director of FullSix SpA. He was curator and co-curator of various art and dress exhibitions, editorial director of the journal Gourmet from 1990 to 1996 and author of the book La Venezia di Vivaldi (Venice 2004). In 2007, he was co-author of the book Famiglia Spa (Il Sole 24 ore).
Marco Rasconi (Comune di Milano)
He is bookkeeper at the Cooperativa Sociale Spazio Aperto in Milan. He graduated in Business Administration. Since 1998 he is member of the Unione Italiana Lotta alla Distrofia Muscolare Sezione di Milano, and since 2003 he is President. Since 2010 he is President of LEDHA Milano - Coordinamento Milanese per i diritti delle persone con disabilità. At LEDHA he conducts since 2011 “CPV - Centro Progetto di Vita”. Since 2011 he is President of the Consulta Cittadina per le Persone con Disabilità del Comune di Milano.
Tanja Sekulic (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
PhD in Sociology at the University of Milan, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she teaches Political Sociology of Europe and Sociology of Education. Main fields of her research are: Europe/Europes: European integrations in polycentric perspective; new wars and contemporary conflicts, crimes of war and genocide studies; democratic transition of post-totalitarian regimes and new forms of totalitarianism.
Giorgia Serughetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
University degree in Political Philosophy, MA in Sociology, PhD in Cultural Studies, since 2007 she has been working in Rome as a social researcher, regularly collaborating with Associazione Parsec (non-profit organisation for social research and intervention) and doing theoretical and empirical research for universities, government agencies and NGOs. Research issues: immigration and asylum, trafficking and prostitution, gender, social exclusion, social policies, policies for equal opportunities. Since 2006 she been collaborating with the University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research. In 2013 she has authored the book Uomini che pagano le donne. Dalla strada al web: i clienti nel mercato del sesso contemporaneo (Ediesse).
Tracey Skillington (University of Cork)
She is a lecturer in sociology in the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork. She is also a Co-Editor of the Irish Journal of Sociology (Manchester University Press). Forthcoming publications include the following: Climate Justice & Human Rights (Palgrave Macmillan); 'UN genocide commemoration, transnational scenes of mourning and the global project of learning from atrocity', British Journal of Sociology (December edition, 2013); 'Remembrance and beyond: Holocaust memory in lived time', in Seymour, David & Wodak, Ruth (eds) The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge); 'The borders of contemporary Europe: Territory, justice, rights', in Isyar, Bora & Czaijka, Agnes (eds) Europe After Derrida (Edinburgh University Press); 'Climate change and the human rights challenge: Extending justice beyond the borders of the nation state', The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 16. No. 8 (Routledge).
Rita Tersilla (Sarti del Gusto)
Chef of the web cooking channel of Gruppo Editoriale l’Espresso. Passionate about food and wine, founded in 2008 “Sarti del Gusto”, a firm organizing food and wine tastings and events for large and medium size business company and for tourism sector. From June 2012 chef of the web cooking channel "La Cucina D" of the Gruppo Editoriale l’Espresso. Author of Street Food - Cibo di strada a tavola published by "Il mio libro - l'Espresso" on 2012 Lover of “food heritage” and in particular of street food, as a way of eating remained virtually unchanged over time.
Debora Tonelli (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)
Debora Tonelli, Ph.D. in Political Philosophy (Rome Tre University) and PhD in Theology (Westfählische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), is a permanent researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trient, Italy). Her main research interest is the legacy of biblical tradition in modern political thought. She is currently working on violence in biblical and political traditions in the context of interreligious dialogue. She teaches Biblical Studies at the School of Religious Sciences of Trient. Selected publications: Il Decalogo. Uno sguardo retrospettivo (2010); ed. of Teologia e spazio pubblico, monographic number of Sociologia. Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali (2/2011); “Literary images. The “go on the stage” of the divine violence in Ex 15, 1-18”, in D. Pezzoli-Olgiati – C. Rowland (edd.), Approaches to Visuality in Religion (2011).
Magdalena Żardecka-Nowak (University of Rzeszów)
PhD, Professor at the Rzeszów University (Uniwersytet Rzeszowski – UR). She graduated in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski - KUL). She dealt with contemporary philosophy, social philosophy, ethics and political philosophy. Her publications focus on the theory of justice (Rawls), liberalism (Berlin, Gray), communitarianism (MacIntyre, Taylor, Walzer, Sandel), discourse ethics (Apel, Habermas), philosophy of dialogue (Levinas), American neopragmatism (Rorty), new trends in psychoanalysis (Lacan), structural constructivism (Bourdieu), theory of power and domination (Foucault). She has attended numerous academic conferences and symposiums. Currently she focuses on the latest concepts of subject and authenticity. In her free time she is interested in film, theatre and arts.
Glora Zavatta (Expo 2015)
Gloria Zavatta works for Expo 2015 S.p.a., the organization in charge of designing, planning and managing the Universal Exposition of Milan which will be held in 2015. Currently she is Sustainability Leader in the Business Operations Department, responsible for the development of Expo 2015 integrated management system and particularly for green procurement, CO2 emissions evaluation and compensation, EHS audits at the worksite, waste management and sustainable reporting. From March 2011 to July 2012 she also was Partnership development and support for the Agor-food sector within the Marketing Department and from October 2009 to March 2011 she was responsible for the Agro-food Area in the Theme Development and Institutional Relations Department. From 1995 until 2010 she has been working for ERM (Environmental Resources Management), a leading global provider of environmental, safety and social consulting services, as Associate Partner, based in Milan. Shea has more than 20 years’ experience on a wide range of projects for numerous Italian and international organizations, such as: Edison, Eni, Unicredit Group, Intesa San Paolo, IIC, WB, TOROC, Metropolitana di Roma, Dexia Crediop, Parmalat, Ferrero, Saras, Freudenberg. She has been working on integrated management systems, workplace risk assessments, environmental assessments, training, Agenda 21 process, Corporate Social Responsibility and reporting. In the 1998 - 2000 she has worked for ERM in the Buenos Aires office as the Managing Director Assistant. In the 1988 - 1994 she has worked for Lombardia Risorse S.p.A.
Zuckert Catherine (University of Notre Dame)
She is Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She also currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Review of Politics. Her main research interests are the history of political philosophy and the relation between literature and politics. Among her several publications: Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form (1990), (ed.)Understanding the Political Spirit: From Socrates to Nietzsche (1989). Zuckert. Zuckert has received several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the Bradley and Earhart Foundations. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, has been listed in several editions of Who’s Who in America, and was selected as a member of the Templeton Honor Role in 1998.
Speakers 2012
Marina Calloni (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
Since 2002 she is full professor of social and political philosophy at the national University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan, Department of Sociology and Social Research. After a laurea (MA) in Philosophy at the University of Milan, she received a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Pavia, and a Ph.D. in Social and Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence. She was a research fellow at the University of Frankfurt (working by Jürgen Habermas) and for six years senior researcher at the Gffender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science in London. In 2011 she thought political theory at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), thanks to a distinguished chair offered by the Fulbright Commission.
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Eileen Hunt Botting (University of Notre Dame)
Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science. Political theorist who is currently working on a book on how Mary Wollstonecraft and J.S. Mill shaped the development of the modern concept of women's human rights. She is editing a scholarly edition of Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Yale, 2013). She also co-edited with Sarah Houser a scholarly edition of Hannah Mather Crocker's Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston (NEHGS Press, 2011).
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John Agnew (University of California, Los Angeles)
He is currently Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1975 until 1995 he was a professor at Syracuse University in New York. Dr. Agnew teaches courses on political geography, the history of geography, European cities, and the Mediterranean World. From 1998 to 2002 he chaired the Department of Geography at UCLA. He has written widely on questions of territory, place, and political power. He has also worked on issues of "science" in geography and how knowledge is created and circulates in and across places. He is best known for his work completely reinventing "geopolitics" as a field of study and for his theoretical and empirical efforts at showing how national politics is best understood in terms of the geographical dynamics of "places" and how they are made out of both local and long-distance determinants. One of his best known books is "Place and Politics" (1987). Another is "Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics" (2003). Much of his empirical research involves Italy, Greece, and the United States. For the year 2008–9, John Agnew was President of the Association of American Geographers, the main professional organization for academic geography in the United States. He was associate editor of the flagship journal of the association, Annals of the Association of American Geographers and was co-editor of the international journal Geopolitics with David Newman from 1998 to 2009. He is now editor in chief of the forthcoming journal, "Territory, Politics, Governance" published by Routledge.
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Maurizio Albahari (University of Notre Dame)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). Following his quinquennial Laurea in Letters (University of Florence, Italy) Albahari received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Irvine and held research fellowships at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (University of California at San Diego) and at the Erasmus Institute (University of Notre Dame). He recently edited a migration-themed issue of Italian Culture (Vol. 28, 2010) and completed his first book, titled Borders Adrift: Mediterranean Migrations of Sovereignty and Salvation. His current research seeks to recast the theoretical understanding of ‘integration’ through an ethnographic approach attentive to the political aesthetics of citizenship and migration.
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Valentina Anzoise (Università di Venezia)
Research Fellow at Università Ca Foscari di venezia. She obtained her PhD degree in the interdisciplinary doctoral programme on the Information Society at the University of Milano-Bicocca. During her degree and PhD thesis, she carried out research adopting both qualitative and visual methods. Recently she has focused her research on social communication, identity, environmental issues, representation of political land- scapes and contested places. Since 2003 she has collaborated with the visual research lab, where she is responsible for various didactic labs teaching visual techniques applied to social research and tourism students. She also teaches a course in Sociology at the European Institute of Design in Milan and is author of various documentaries. Her research interests include visual sociology, visual methodology, visual and environmental perception, urban sustainability, ecotourism and sustain- able tourism, contested places and the role of social and territorial borders in the construction of identity.
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Andrew Burridge (University of Durham)
Research Associate at the International Boundaries Research Unit, Department of Geography, Durham University, Andrew completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Southern California in 2009, and holds a BA in Urban Planning and Development from the University of Melbourne, Australia, 2003. He has conducted extensive research in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, concerned specifically with impacts of border securitization practices upon undocumented migrants and local communities on both sides of the international boundary.
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Lorenzo Bagnoli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
After my degrees in Political Science (1992) and in Geography (1996) at the University of Genoa, at the same University I attended the specialisation course in “International cooperation for development” of the Faculty of Political Science (1999) and I obtained the Ph.D. in “Geographic- environmental and cartographical sciences” (2002). Since 2001 to 2007 I taught Geography in the Italian senior high schools, and since 2007 to now I am researcher in Geography at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Milano-Bicocca. My principal interests are about the geography of tourism, especially in its historic-geographical dimension, the geography of heritage and the history of cartography.
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Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College)
I am currently a Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College where I have been teaching since 1991. I am the author of three books and the editor of one. I have also published several scholarly essays, book chapters, and book reviews. My research focuses on Continental philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of terrorism. In all of my work, I have tried to open new channels of communication between competing philosophical schools and lineages, including the analytical and Continental traditions, deconstruction and Critical Theory. In order to intensify this exchange, I pioneered the scholarly interview as a new philosophical genre.
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Joseph Buttigieg (University of Notre Dame)
His main interests are modern literature, critical theory, and the relationship between culture and politics. In addition to numerous articles, Buttigieg has authored a book on James Joyce's aesthetics, A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective. He is also the editor and translator of the multi-volume complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, a project that has been supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Several of his articles on Gramsci have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. He was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society of which he is president. The Italian Minister of Culture appointed him to a commission of experts to oversee the preparation of the "edizione nazionale" of Gramsci's writings. Buttigieg serves on the editorial and advisory boards of various journals, and he is a member of the editorial collective of boundary 2.
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Anna Casaglia (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano Bicocca. Her doctoral research concerned the consequences of Cyprus partition on the city of Nicosia. Her research interests involve divided cities, territorial dimension of ethno-national conflicts, borders and identity, representation and social perception of urban space, analysis of the borderscape.
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Ida Castiglioni (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She is a member of the faculty of sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she designed and currently teaches the intercultural relations curriculum for the graduate program in public policy and social service administration, and she is also a faculty member of the Institute for Somatic Psychology in Milan and Rome. She is co-director of the Intercultural Development Research Institute (I.D.R.I.), based in Portland, Oregon and Milano, Italy.
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Elena dell’Agnese (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
She associate professor of Geography, and teaches courses on Political Geography and Geography of Development at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She also coordinates a post-graduate program in Tourism and Development. Her research interests are focused on political geography and gender issues (nation building processes and regional iconographies in Europe and in Asia; European borders and their role as identity markers; cities as symbolic landscapes and political places/spaces; the political geography of masculinity). She has been working on rural and urban deprivation, and she is also interested in urban developments and transformations. Since 2004, Elena dell’Agnese is a member of the Steering Committee of the Commission on Political Geography of IGU (International Geographical Union).
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Carla Facchini (Università of Milano-Bicocca)
She is full Professor of Sociology of the Family and President of the Faculty of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca. She is Coordinator of the Social Work Course, University of Milano-Bicocca and she is President of the National Observatory or the Students and the Graduates in Social Work, by the Departement of Sociology of Milano Bicocca. She is professor of ‘Social gerontology’ at the post-graduate School of Geriatrics at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Milano Bicocca and at the Master de ‘Gérontologie sociale’, Université de Marseille. She is co-president of the national Assembley of the Presidents of the Courses of Social Work. From 1996, she is Professor at the DESS (from 2008 Master) of Social Gerontology", University of Marseille. She is Member of the Doctorate in Sociology and social Research of the University Milano Bicocca and of the Scientific Committee of the AIS section 'Social policy.
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Regina Kreide (University of Gießen)
Regina Kriede is currently a Full Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Institute of Political Science at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her areas of specialization include social and political theory, political philosophy, history of ideas, social theory and philosophy of law, theories of human rights, (global) justice, equality and (transnational) democracy, feminist theory, policy-research, and qualitative methods. Kriede has authored
numerous articles for the Journal for Human Rights and Polar, and additionally is the editor of a book series on “Political Sociology” with Nomos publisher (together with Andrew Arato and Hauke Brunkhorst).
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Marialuisa Lavitrano (Università of Milano-Bicocca)
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Immunology at the Medical School of University of Milano-Bicocca. She is Rector's Delegate for International Affairs.
Carmen Leccardi (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Full professor of the Sociology of Culture. Main research interests: cultural change, cultural production and industry with specific reference to the experience of time (even in terms of different forms of responsibility), youth and gender studies, qualitative methods of research.
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Stefano Marras (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Since 2011, he is Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Milano-Bicocca, studying street food trades in developing countries (Street Food Global Network). In 2008 he obtained a Ph.D. in Urban Sociology, focusing on urban refugees. That same year, he started the Map Kibera Project in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2010-2011, he has been Fulbright Research Scholar at the Department of Sociology of the New York University. As a photographer, while carrying out academic research, he has done photographic works in Italy, Sudan, Kenya, Paris, New York, Eastern Europe, South America.
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Cristiano Mutti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Ph.D. in Information Society. Since 2002, Research Assistant at the Visual Research Centre of the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca. Research Interests: Visual Research; Cultural Studies; Information Society and Innovation; Environmental Perception and Communication; Bottom-up and interdisciplinary approaches; Qualitative and participatory techniques of research.
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David Newman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Israeli political geographer and academic. Professor in the Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev He is founder of and Professor in the Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. A political geographer, David Newman has published widely on territorial dimensions of the Israel-Palestine conflict. His work has focused on issues relating to borders and settlements. In addition to his academic writing, Newman has published op-eds on related issues in a variety of newspapers, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian. Professor Newman has been co-editor of the international journal Geopolitics (see url below) since 1999.
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Louis Quagliata (Columbia University)
Raised in the U.S. and Italy, with a humanistic education as a graduate of the Lyceum Tasso, and holder of degrees in physics and engineering from MIT and Harvard, Louis Quagliata worked at the Watson Laboratory of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (today the Draper Laboratory) before returning to Italy where he was founder, partner, and CEO of International Technology Partners, a general manager for ILVA-Finsider, then fifth-largest steel producer in the world (1991-1993), and founding partner of Booz Allen & Hamilton (1994-2000). From 2001 he pioneered and was director until 2007 of the Collegio di Milano, a live-in college, based on the American liberal-arts model operating within the Italian public university system. Since 2008, he has been piloting experiments in international/global education.
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Tanja Sekulic (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
PhD in Sociology at the University of Milan, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she teaches Political Sociology of Europe and Sociology of Education. Main fields of her research are: Europe/Europes: European integrations in polycentric perspective; new wars and contemporary conflicts, crimes of war and genocide studies; democratic transition of post-totalitarian regimes and new forms of totalitarianism.
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Giorgia Serughetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
University degree in Political Philosophy and MA in Sociology, since 2007 I've been working in Rome as a social researcher, regularly collaborating with Associazione Parsec (non-profit organisation for social research and intervention) and doing theoretical and empirical research for universities, government agencies and NGOs. Research issues: immigration and asylum, trafficking and prostitution, gender, social exclusion, social policies, policies for equal opportunities. Since 2006 I've been collaborating with the University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research, and I'm PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of Palermo, working on gender and prostitution (final dissertation to be discussed in March 2012).
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Tamara Shaya (University of Notre Dame)
M.A. in Peace Studies Candidate at the University of Notre Dame. Communications specialist with experience in the non-profit and cause marketing world. Enjoy leading teams, executing peace mediations, implementing visions, and analyzing processes to make them better. Interested in higher education, government, social justice, and non-profits. Hope to make a positive difference in society, while being challenged in my own personal learning. Study and research interests: Middle Eastern affairs, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Relationship between Christians and Muslims, Writing/Producing/Editing, Public Speaking, Coordination/Organization, Leadership, Marketing, Strategic Planning.
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María Teresa Vicente Mosquete (University of Salamanca)
Adelina von Fürstenberg (Art for The World)
Granddaughter of the Armenian architect Dikran Kalfa Cüberyan, Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg-Herdringen is an international and renowned curator and one of the field's pioneers in broadening contemporary art. A Swiss citizen, Armenian origin, born in Istanbul, married when she was still at the university to the photographer Graf Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen. Director of Art for the World, she is one of the first curators who showed an interest in non-European artists, thus opening the way for a multicultural approach in art. She is also a curator who took a more global and flexible approach to contemporary art exhibitions, in bringing art in spaces such as monasteries, medersas, large public buildings, squares, islands, parks, etc. Her objective is to give a larger context for visual art in making it a more vigorous part of our lives, in creating a more vivid dialogue for it with other arts, and relating it more to worldwide social issues.
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