Visiting Professors

BA in Middle Eastern History and General History (TAU), PhD in History (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).
Full Professor at the Department of History and founder and Director of the Program on Renaissance Studies at Tau. Member of the editorial board of the "Mediterranean Historical Review" and "The Medieval Mediterranean". Member of the Commission for the Publication of Sources on Venetian History at the State Archives of Venice. Published extensively on Venetian overseas Possessions with particular focus on Cyprus and, more broadly, on the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Mediterranean World and on the Jews in the Levant and in Italy. Author of the books: Trading Nations. Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean (Brill, Leiden 1995), xi+237 pp.; Cyprus, The Franks and Venice(13th-16th Centuries) (Ashgate, London 2000) (Variorum Collected Studies Series CS 688), xii+332 pp.; The Italian Renaissance: The Emergence of a Secular Culture (Tel Aviv 2000), 144 pp. [in Hebrew].

BA, MA and PhD in Arabic Language and Literature (Hebrew University, Jerusalem). Associate Professor at the Department or Philosophy of TAU. Taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Was Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Carleton University of Ottawa and at Harvard, Priceton and Stanford Universities and Member of the advisory committee on graduate Islamic studies at Al-Qasimi Islamic College. Was advisor in peace negotiations for the Israeli Prime Minister. Author of Socrates in Mediaeval Arabic Literature, Leiden: Brill and Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991 (198 p); Socrates Arabus, Jerusalem, The Hebrew University Institute of Asian and African Studies, 1995, (413 pp); (with S. Abed), Al-Farabi's Philosophical Lexicon, Cambridge, The Gibb Memorial Trust, 2008, 2 vols. (1100 pp.). Most recent publications include: (2004) "Has Islam introduced a New Perception of Time?" Al-Usur al-Wusta, the Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists (University of Chicago), vol. 16, no. 2, pp.34-37; "Toward a Palestinian Arabic Emotive Lexicon: Invitation for Discussion". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 2005, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-13; (with Jeanne Brett), "Perceptions of Time and Their Impact on Negotiation in Arabic-Speaking Islamic World". Negotiation Journal, 23/1 (2007) 55-73; "Socrates in Arabic Tradition", The Blackwell Companion to Socrates, Ed. S. Ahbel-Rappe and R. Kamtekar, U. of Michigan, 2005, (pp. 317-336).

B.A. in Political Science and General Studies, M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science (Hebrew University, Jerusalem). Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of TAU. Was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Research interests focus on the interrelations between Art and Politics, Political Thought, Intellectual History, Political Culture and Israeli Politics. Author of "The Jew as Destroyer of Culture in the National Socialist Ideology" in Patterns of Prejudice (1/1998). Publications in Hebrew include: Romanticism of Steel: Art & Politics in Nazi Germany (Magnes - The Hebrew University Press, 1999); The Labyrinth of Legitimacy: Referendum in Israel (Hakibutz Hameuhad, 1994) and -as editor- State and Religion Yearbook 1994-1995 (The Center for Progressive Judaism in Israel, Jerusalem 1996), She recently completed a book manuscript in Hebrew and English titled The Totalitarian Ideal: A Comparative Look at Politics and Art in Fascist Italy, Russia Under Stalin and Nazi Germany.

Member of the Fine Arts Department at Boston College since 1989. She has primarily taught Painting: foundations and advanced levels. She has received several grants and fellowships including, two awards from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation, two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a fellowship from The Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. Her work has been exhibited in New York, where she had four solo shows between 1985 and 1994, and in California, Boston, Florida, Pennsylvania and Ireland. Her work is in many prestigious collections. Mary received a BFA in painting from Boston University and a MED in Art Education from Lesley University. She also attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Laurea in Political Sciences (Milan), M.A. in African Studies (Soas, London), PhD in African History (Siena and Soas). General Secretary at VIU. Was advisor for The British Refugee Council, researcher and campaigner for Africa in the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, Head of Communications for Minority Rights Group International. Recently taught in the European Master in Mediterranean Intermediation at Ca' Foscari. Doctoral thesis focused on women's ownership and inheritance rights in the Fanti coastal areas of Ghana from the mid 1800s to the 1920s. Published, with M. De Ponte and E. Noli, Rights without peace. Human Rights and armed conflict, Florence, CEP, 1999 (in Italian). Forthcoming articles: 'Is this British Justice?' Perceptions of colonial justice in African newspapers published in the Gold Coast, 1874-1926, "Canadian Journal of African Studies" and Violations of fundamental rights against women and post-conflict settlements: the Liberian case in F. Declich (ed.), Women's rights five years after the Beijing Conference and the International Criminal Court.

Laurea (Iuav), Doctorate in Geodetic and Topographical Sciences (Politecnico, Milan). Works at the Photogrammetry Laboratory of Circe, at Iuav, where she teaches "Survey" and "Processing Systems of Information". Author of more than 70 publications on Topographic and Cartographic topics. She was involved in research on "Digital Survey Methodologies, GIS and Multimedia Network for Architectural and Environmental Heritage" (Politecnico, Milan), "Survey and representation of Carlo Scarpa's works at Fondazione Querini Stampalia" (Querini Foundation and Iuav), “Archaeological and architectural survey and three-dimensional modeling systems” and "Digital memory of geometric forms. 3D scanners and digital photogrammetry: examination of systems for conducting surveys, for creating virtual models, for reproduction, for conservation and for the re-updating of objects"(Iuav).

Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, with focus on English, Chinese, German and French (Florence). Instructor of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute, where she has taught Chinese and American students.

Laurea in Architecture (Florence), BSc in Archeology (Haifa). Head of the program on Built Heritage Conservation Studies in the Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University, where he is also Lecturer and Tutor in the affiliated Conservation Studio. Founder of an independent architects’ studio specializing in the planning of preservation and restoration of historic sites, acting throughout Israel. In 2008, he and his planning partners, architects Lior Zionov and Lior Vitkin, won the first place at an open architects’ competition for the planning of the Umm al-Fahm Museum of Contemporary Art. Recent book: A Time for Conservation, in which he questions how we should cope with the memory of a place and how we assimilate the past in the contemporary environment, using his own professional experience in Israel.

BSc in Medical Sciences and Doctor of Medicine (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology); certified in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Tmuroth School) and in Clinical Hypnosis (American Society for Clinical Hypnosis); European Master in Bioethics (Leuven). Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, TAU. Full time experience as a Senior Physician (consultant) in the Department of Internal Medicine, including consultations to surgical departments and other clinical services; Member of the Ethics Committee at the Meir Hospital; Member of the editorial board, "Medicine Healthcare and Philosophy" (Kluwer/Springer) and editor of the "Journal of the Israeli Society for Palliative Medicine". Publications include: "Human rights and bioethics", Journal of Medical Ethics, 34:379-83 (2008); "Responsibility as a meta-virtue: truth-telling, deliberation and wisdom in medical professionalism", Journal of Medical Ethics 35:153-8 (2009); "Persuasion as respect for persons: an alternative view of autonomy and of the limits of discourse", Journal of Medical Philosophy, 26:13-33 (2001); "Nozick's experience machine and palliative care: revisiting hedonism", Medical Health Care Philosophy, 12:399-407 (2009); "The dilemma of good clinical practice in the study of compromised standards of care", Crit. Care, 14:176 (2010).

Degrees in Engineering (St Petersburg State Academy of Cooling and Food Technologies) and in Art History and Theory (St Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture); M.A. in Art History (EUSPb); Ph.D. in Art History (State Russian Museum). Professor at the Department of Art History of EUSP. Courses taught include: “Principles of architectural analysis“, “Architecture as Communication“, “History of Russian Architecture”. Research interests: Russian and Western architecture of the 20th century, classical tradition in architecture, architectural competitions, theory and rhetoric of architecture and architectural discourse, professional thought in architecture, interrelations between professional and social values. Among his publications: St Petersburg Neoclassical Architecture of the 1900s to 1910s as Reflected in the Mirror of Architectural Competitions: Word and Form (St Petersburg, 2010, in Russian).

Laurea in English Language and Literature (Ca' Foscari), Dottorato in English Literature (Pisa and Florence). Associate Professor in English and Post-colonial Literature at Ca' Foscari. Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages (Italian Studies), Wake Forest University, Venice Program. Editorial secretary of "Il Tolomeo", journal of Post-colonial Literatures in English and French. Taught at VIU in Spring 2002, Fall 2004 and Spring 2007. Was visiting Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz; Member of the Board of the Jewish Community of Venice, 1994-1998 and secretary of AISLI, the Italian association of postcolonial studies (2003-06). Main fields of interest: Shakespeare and post-colonial theory and literature. Author of La metamorfosi di Otello. Storia di una etnicità immaginata, Graphis, Bari 2000; Poeti indiani del Novecento di lingua inglese (an anthology of Indian poetry in English, which he edited and translated), Supernova, Venice 1998; and (with Alberto Toso Fei) of Shakespeare in Venice. Exploring the City with Shylock and Othello, Elzeviro, Treviso 2007. Coedited (with Simona Bertacco and Rosanna Bonicelli) In that Village of Open Doors. Atti del I congresso dell'AISLI, Cafoscarina, Venezia 2002; An Academic and Friendly Masala (co-editor Flavio Gregori), Cafoscarina, Venezia 2005 and (with Roberta Cimarosti), Bullets of the Brain. Experiments with Shakespeare, Cafoscarina, Venezia 2006. Most recent publications in English include: 2008 "Traffic in the Jungle: Teachers, Lawyers, Animals in Three Kipling Films", reprinted in Considering Children's Literature. A Reader, Andrea Schwenke Wyile & Teya Rosenberg, eds., Peterborough, Ontario, Broadview Press; 2007 "Heart of Darkness and the Postcolonial Process", in Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), eds. Cordula Lemke & Claus Zittel, Berlin, Weidler Buchverlag, 2007, pp. 187-216; 2006 "'Funny, you don't look hybrid!': Jewish Memory Revisualized", in Postcolonial Studies: Changing Perceptions, a cura di Oriana Palusci, Trento, Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento.

B.A. in Political Science (Wake Forest), M.A. in African Studies and Ph.D. in English (Yale). Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the English Department of Duke. Member of the Modernist Studies Association committee on Interdisciplinary Studies and Fellow in the British American Partnership. Involved in organising a series of working conferences on the Black British arts scene with the Tate Galleries and the universities of East London and Duke. Was Assistant Professor of English at Yale where he co-curated an exhibition on three Black British artists at the University Art Gallery (title: The Unmapped Body). Author of Out of Place: Englishness, Empire and the Locations of Identity, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999); edited Atlantic Genealogies, a special edition of the "South Atlantic Quarterly" (Spring, 2002). Forthcoming work include: Shades of Black: The London Renaissance, a collection of essays on the black arts scene in post-war Britain, co-edited with Sonia Boyce and David A. Bailey and Afterlives of Romanticism, a special edition of the "South Atlantic Quarterly", co-edited with Jennifer Kennedy and Anne Rowland (Summer 2003).

Master's degree and Doctorate in Theology (Leiden). Born in former Dutch New Guinea as son of a missionary preacher and a medical nurse. Today is Professor of Religious Studies, especially of Islam, and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, in the Faculty of Humanities, at Tilburg University, where he is also a Member of the Board of the Centre for Intercultural Ethics and a Member of Babylon, Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society. In 1989–1991 was University lecturer for the Indonesian-Netherlands Islamic Studies Program of Leiden University, seconded to the Islamic State University at Yogyakarta, Central Java. His research is focused on Islam and religious pluralism; Islam and multiculturalism; inter-religious dialogue between Islam and Christianity. He is a specialist in the field of Islam in Indonesia, Morocco and the Netherlands. Publications in English include: The rupture between the Muhammadiyah and the Ahmadiyya, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 161:2/3 [2005], pp. 210-246 and A Pillar of Social Harmony: The Study of Comparative Religion in Contemporary Indonesia, in G.A. Wiegers in association with J. Platvoet (ed.): Modern Societies and the Science of Religions (Studies in the History of Religions 95), Leiden: Brill 2002, pp. 331-349. Other publications include: Moslims in een westerse samenleving. Islam en ethiek (with Gerard Wiegers), Zoetermeer: Meinema 2008; Les musulmans d'Indonésie, Turnhout: Editions Brepols 2003; Islam in hoofdlijnen, Zoetermeer: Meinema 2002; Grondleggers van het Geloof. De levensverhalen van Mozes, Boeddha, Jezus en Mohammed (with M. de Jonge, P.S. van Koningsveld, K. van der Toorn and T.E. Vetter), Amsterdam: Prometheus 1997; L'image d'Idrîs II, ses descendants de Fâs et la politique sharîfienne des sultans marînides, Leiden: E.J. Brill 1989, reprinted in 1997.

Laurea (Ca’ Foscari), Diploma in Directional Development (Bocconi, Milan). Professor of Business Administration at Ca’ Foscari. Promoter and Chairman of the Master degree in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities. Coordinator of the Planning and Control Area within the Master in Cultural and Environmental Heritage Management, held in cooperation with the École Superieure de Commerce, Paris. Was a member of the regional board for improvement of standards in museums. Research interests focus on planning and control systems (especially in cultural organizations), accountancy, Information Technology, management and behaviour, and distance learning processes through the Internet.

Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, with focus on English, Chinese, German and French (Florence). Professor of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute, specialized in teaching to Chinese and American students. Already taught Italian for Foreigners at VIU since a couple of years.

Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Cassino, where she teaches Microeconomics Theory and Industrial Economics. Already taught at VIU in Spring 1999 and 2006.
Her research interests range from game theory and the evolution of institutions, to firm structure and the role of innovation both on the product side and in the form of the ways in which consumers elect creatively to use products, analysing the characteristics of creative goods and the limits of the traditional economic framework in explaining choices concerning goods and activities of this type. Her most recent project and book is The Active Consumer. Among her recent publications are: (with Daniela Federici) Cities are Fun. Aesthetic Preferences and Urban Landscapes (paper presented at a conference "Policies for Happiness" Siena 14-17 June 2007); Time and Preference in Cultural Consumtion, in Hutter M. and D. Throsby (eds.), Value and Valuation in Art and Culture, Cambridge 2007; If Happiness is so important, Why do we know so little about it?, in L. Bruni and P. Porta (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of Happiness, London 2006.

BA, MA and PhD in Historical Geography (University of Jerusalem). Professor in the Department of Geography and Human Environment, at TAU. Published extensively on 19th-20th Century Historical Geography of Palestine and Israel, with particular interest in: the Historical Geography of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; Boundary formation in Modern Palestine and Israel; Geographical analysis of Palestine under British rule; Ideology and Landscape in a Historical Perspective; Wood, Trees and Forestation policies in Palestine and Israel.

Master's Degree in History (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen and Universiteit van Amsterdam); PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Professor, Tilburg University, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Sociology, where he is also Postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the project ‘Town and Countryside: the Dynamic Symbiosis’ and Professor at a funded chair for the regional history and ethnology of Brabant. He is member and president of the editorial board of Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek and member of the editorial boards of Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis and of In Brabant, journal for regional history, ethnology and heritage. Recent publications include: Maakbaar erfgoed. Perspectieven op regionale geschiedenis, cultureel erfgoed en identiteit in Noord-Brabant (Tilburg: Stichting ZHC, 2009) and Do ut des. Gift Giving, Memoria, and Conflict Management in the Medieval Low Countries. Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen 104 (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren 2007).

Diploma of Economist-Mathematician and Phd in Mathematics (Leningrad),  Doctor of Science in Economics (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). Professor at the EUSP Department of Economics, where he was Dean in 2008-2010. Research Interests: Economic growth and inequality, Natural resource and environmental economics, Political economy. Areas of Teaching: Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Economic Growth; International Economics ; Mathematical Economics.

Laurea in Ancient Greek Literature (Ca' Foscari), International Doctorate in Classical Philology (Trent and Lille III), Doctorate in Cognitive and Brain Sciences - Language, Interaction and Computation (Trent). Researcher at Institute of Computational Linguistics of CNR. Visiting lecturer at the University of Liepzig and Visiting Lecturer at Tufs University. He was Programmer and Assistant for digitization of Latin texts at the University of Padua. Main fields of research: Formal and Computational Philology, Corpus Analysis, and Greek Philology.

PhD in Philosophy (Université de Louvain); PhD Homoris Causa in Theology (University of Helsinki). Professor in Theology and Director of the Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology at Boston College. Previously taught at Siena College, St. Bonaventure University, The University of the South. Was Visiting Professor at SUNY, Buffalo; Yale University; and the Sorbonne. President of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Vice-President of Société internationale pour l'étude de la philosophie médiévale. Resarch interest: Medieval Philosophy and Theology, especially 13th and 14th centuries. Author of very successful textbooks on Protestantism, Chistianity, Judaism, the last two of which were also translated in Japanese.

B.A. (Laurea) in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Ca’ Foscari), doctorate (Dottorato) in Francophone Literature (Bologna). Specialized in Language Teaching with Advanced Technology (Ca’ Foscari), he is member of the management staff and instructor of Italian for foreigners at the Venice Institute. Teaching Assistant in Francophone Literature at Ca’ Foscari, with special interest in Black Africa. He is author of several articles on African Francophone Literature. Coordinates the Italian as a Foreign language courses at VIU since Fall 2001.

Bachelor (Laurea triennale) in Marketing and Business Management, master (Laurea specialistica) in Economics and Management of Networks (Ca' Foscari), PhD in Business Administration (Verona). Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Management at Ca' Foscari. Visiting researcher at the Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness at Duke. Research interest: Global Value Chains, Organizational structure, Global Production Networks, Outsourcing. Author of a comparative study on local production systems of North Carolina and North-Eastern Italy and global competition.

B.A. in Spanish and M.A. in Spanish Literature and Linguistics (Pacific Union College), Ph.D. in Medieval Spanish Literature (University of California, Berkeley), Ph.D. (Graduate Theological Union at the Dominican School of Theology; University of California, Berkeley). Professor of Hispanic Studies at Boston College, where he is Co-founder and Co-director of the Jewish Studies Program. Among other things, he was Visiting Research Scholar at the Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, and Visiting Research Associate at Westfield College, University of London, Summer. His research interests are in Medieval religious and intellectual history, Medieval Jewish-Christian relations, Paleography and textual criticism. Recent publications include: "Playing and Praying: What's Luck Got to Do with It?" In: Alan Wolfe and Erik C. Owens, eds. Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2009, pp. 291-97, 439-40; "Alborayque". 2 Vols. 1: Estudio preliminar, edición y notas. 2: Facsímil. Biblioteca de Barcarrota, no. 6. Editora Regional de Extremadura. 2005; "'Alea Jacta Est': At the Gaming Table with Alfonso the Learned." The Journal of Medieval History 24 (1998): 333-45. With Carlos Alvar and José Manuel Lucía Megías he is editor of "Alfonso de Valladolid" [A Study of His Hebrew and Spanish Manuscripts]. In Diccionario filológico de literatura medieval española. Eds.. Madrid Castalia, 2002 (140-52).

B.A. in Art History and Music (Occidental College), M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History (Indiana University). Teaches "The Arts of Venice During the Golden Age" for the Colgate University Venice Study Group. Was Lecturer at the Boston University Venice and Padua Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Connecticut College Venice Program. Was Visiting Lecturer at Stanford. In 2005-2006 already taught at VIU for the Summer Graduate Seminar in the Humanities on Tradition and Circulation of Knowledge, 1605-1797. Among her publications is "La pala ritrovata: Una rivisitazione della Pala d'altare di Bartolomeo Montagna, già nella Chiesa di San Marco a Lonigo", in Arte Documento: Storia e tutela dei Beni Culturali, vol. 20 (2004): 112-117. She has manuscripts in progress on In the Shadow of Venice: Defining Bartolomeo Montagna and Artistic Identity in Early Modern Vicenza and on Consumption, Pleasure and Seriality: The Early Modern Globalization of Copies in the Venetian Art Market.

Ph.D. (Columbia University). Professor at the Department of History, Duke University, where he is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Main scholarly interest: issue of race and gender equality. His dissertation and first book focused on the changing social and economic roles of American women in the fifty years after the woman suffrage amendment. Subsequent books compared the patterns of race and gender discrimination in America. His book on the origins of the sit-in movement in North Carolina helped to re-orient scholarship on civil rights toward social history and community studies. He has written two books on the history of post-World War II America and a biography of the liberal crusader Allard Lowenstein. The author of eight books overall, he has received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981) for Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1980) and the Sidney Hillman book award (1994) for Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1993). Recent Publications include Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America, Harvard University Press, 2005 and American Liberalism in the 20th Century. Columbia University Press, 2003.

Laurea in Lettere, with specialization in History of Art (Ca' Foscari). Professor of Venetian Art History in the Venice Semester Program of Wake Forest University. Taught for the Department of History of Art at Ca' Foscari and, in Fall 1997, at VIU, where she also taught in the Duke in Venice Summer Program. Was C.N.R.- N.A.T.O. Research Fellow at the Department of History of Art, University of Oxford. Research focus include: Venetian Renaissance Printing; Titian's printing, drawings and paintings; the Scuole Grandi and in particular the Scuola Grande of San Rocco.

Doctor degree (Freiburg), Master in Law (Michigan), Habilitation (Augsburg). Professor Emeritus at LMU where he was Professor (Chair) of Civil Law, Labour Law and Private International Law, Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty and Member of the Senate. Was LMU representative on the VIU Academic Council. Previously taught in Augsburg and Goettingen, where he was Dean of the Law Faculty. Was Visiting Professor at the University of Nanjing (China), at University College, London and at the China University of Politics and Law, Beijing. Was Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies in European and Comparative Law, Oxford, England. He is Member of the “Deutscher Familiengerichtstag” and chairman of its “Children´s Rights Comittee”. Member of various law Associations, he is Expert at the “Round Table on Child Abuse”, established by the German Government 2010. He is Editor of the Family-Law-Volumes of the largest German Commentary on Civil Law. Taught at VIU in Fall 2010.

BA (Department of Japanese, Ohio State University), MA (Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii), Ph.D. (Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Hawaii). Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Waseda. Fields of specialization: Japanese Literature and Cultural History, Comparative Culture. Author of "Western Images of Japan", Part I "Looking and Laughing at Japan" and Part II "The Mysteries of Japan", in "The Waseda Journal of General Sciences", Vol. 50 (1996), pp.1-34 and Vol. 56 (1999), pp.1-46; "Western Images of China: Recent Travel Accounts", "Western Images of Asia: Popular Accounts of Korea 1882-1914" and "Western Images of Asia: Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril" in "Waseda Studies in Social Sciences" Vol.2, no.1 (2001) and no.2 (2002), Vol.3 no.2 (2003);"Inages of Japan in Recent Western Films" in "The Possibilities of Comparative Culture", edited by Ikeda Masayuki and Koga Katsujiro, Seibundo Publishing, Tokyo 2007.

BA and MA in Counselling and Art History (TAU); PhD in Art History (TAU). Professor in the Department of Art History and in the Department of East Asian Studies at TAU. Was Visiting Lecturer at the Villa i Tatti Harvard Center of Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Main field of teaching and research: Renaissance Art History. Another field of interest is History of Indian Art. Author of Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art, Leiden, Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, October, 2008. Most recent articles include: "The Enigma of Carpaccio's Venetian Ladies," Renaissance Studies, vol. 19, no.2, April 2005, 150-184; "The Image of the Divine in Indian Art Catalogue of the exhibition: Touching the Divine, Sacred Images in Traditional and Contemporary Indian Art, Treasures from the Wilfred Israel Museum of Oriental Art and Studies, and the Israel Museum, September, 2008; "Changing Functions of the Canine Image in Venetian Religious Paintings of the Sixteenth Century," Ikon, Journal of Iconographic Studies, 2, Rijeka, 2009, 277-286; "The Animal Triad of Capital Sins in Franciscan Iconography," Ikon, Journal of Iconographic Studies, 3, Rijeka, 2010, 189-198.

B.A. in History and M.A. in Immigration Studies (Ca' Foscari)and Ph.D. in Sociology. Assistant Professor in Sociology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches courses on Neoliberal Policies and Globalization. Areas of interest: globalization; race and ethnic relations, immigration; multiculturalism; indigenous communities; rural sociology; labor relations; social movements. She has lived for several years in the United States and has travelled extensively through Asia and the Americas doing research and social work in the rural peripheries in order to assess the impact of globalization on labor. The notion of labor is her main research interest. She has published extensively on issues related to labor conditions in the rural peripheries and in the West, looking at the effects of neoliberalism on subjectivity. Currently, her main research interests focus on the impact of neoliberalism and austerity in the public sphere, particularly regarding reproduction and education. As part of her sociological work, she produced black and white photographs, portraying poverty and the homeless in Atlanta and the life of Mexican farm-workers in the US and Mexico, which were exhibited by social institutions or in the event of symposiums.

Member of the Fine Art Department at Boston College where he has taught studio art classes since 1982. He was the Chief Curator at the B.C. McMullen Museum of Art for sixteen years, where he organized many exhibitions. He has received many grants and Fellowships for his artwork including; a Fulbright Grant to Italy, a National Endowment of the Arts grant, The Massachusetts Artists Foundation grant, two Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo Ireland. His work has been exhibited in New York, Boston and Chicago. He received his BFA from Tufts University and a Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where he also did graduate studies and was awarded The Clarissa Bartlett traveling scholarship. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine where he learned the fresco painting technique.

BA in Business Economics, MA in Administration and Control (Ca' Foscari), PhD in Regional Planning and Public Policies (IUAV). Post-doc research fellow at IUAV with a project on Sustainable Planning and Creative Communities: the introduction of Digital Start Ups in the Venice Region. She also worked as research fellow at the Urbanus Research Bureau (URB) in Shezhen, China and contributed to the background report for the OECD Territorial Review on the Venice Metropolitan Area. Among her publications is an essay on Creative City Development In Globalization Process written with Zhou Jing and published by "Planners".

Laurea in History (Ca' Foscari) and dottorato in Social and Economic History of Europe, with thesis on the War of Cyprus and the Ottoman rule over the island (Ca' Foscari and EHSS). Ricercatrice of Turkish Language and Literature at Ca' Foscari. Lectured at the College de France (2003), at LMU (2005), at the University of Cyprus (2003) and the University of Ancona (2007). Published several articles in Italian and international reviews and coedited, with Markus Koller, a volume in honour of Suraiya Faroqhi (Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community, Brill, Leiden 2008). Member of the Association of Ottoman Social and Economic History. Speaks, writes and reads in Italian, English, French and Turkish.

Laurea (Ca' Foscari), MA and PhD in Archaeology (University College, London). Lecturer (ricercatore) in Classical Archaeology at the Department of Sciences of Antiquity and the Near East of Ca' Foscari. Current fields of research include: private architecture in the Roman Empire; the space of imperial cult; Roman military architecture; symbolism in private art and cognitive archaeology; Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique ceramics; pottery analysis and quantification; relationship between material culture and context; theories and methods of archaeological research.
Among her publications are: Late Roman imported and locally produced pottery from Hierapolis (Pamukkale, Turkey): preliminary evidence, "Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta" 36, Abingdon 2000; Perspectives on pottery production and exchange in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia: the common Wares from Hierapolis, Phrygia, in J.Ma. Gurt I Esparraguera, J. Buxeda I Garrigòs and M.A. Cau Onitiveros (eds.), LRCW I. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry, British Archeological Report, International Series 1340, Oxford 2005. Forthcoming: Continuity and Change in Late Roman Mid-Byzantine Hierapolis (Turkey): the Ceramics from the town houses, "Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta" 39, Abingdon.

Degree and Doctorate in Business Administration (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) with educational training at UCLA , Berkely. Researcher at the TeDis center, VIU, where he is involved in various European and Italian projects on Information and Communications Technologies (especially multi-media) applied to small and medium size enterprises (of Industrial districts). Author of "Il distretto tessile di Schio-Thiene-Valdagno) in G. Brunetti, S. Micelli, M. Minoja, La sfida delle tecnologie di rete: distretti Lombardi e Veneti a confronto, Franco Angeli, Milano 2002; "Internazionlizzazione dei sistemi locali di sviluppo – dalle analisi alle politiche", in E. Rullani, S. Micelli, M. Chiarvesio, G. Corò, Formez 2003. Redazione dei casi studio.

Dottorato in Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence. Permanent Researcher in Political Science at the Research Institute on Judicial Systems of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Bologna. Member of the Global Governance Programme Network and of the Center for Judicial Cooperation, European University Institute, Fiesole. Expert scholar for the Commission for the Efficiency of Justice of the Council of Europe. Was Scientific Coordinator and Lecturer at the Summer School in Public Policy of the University of Florence. Research interests: Public policy analysis; International Judicial Networks and Global Governance; Judicial System Reforms and Anti-Corruption Policies; EU enlargement.

B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. (Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg). Professor at the Department of Art History of EUSPb and at the Faculty of Foreign Art of Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg. At EUSPb he teaches "Analysis of the Painting" and "Semiotics of Arts". In 1992-2000 he lectured at Colleges and Universities of California, Colorado, Mississippi and was Visiting Professor at Connecticut College. His research interests include: Western European and Russian painting, Fine Art Theory, Biblical Iconography, Structural Methodology. Publications include books on Problems of Composition in 17th Century European Painting, on Pieter Bruegel, on French Painting viewed from Russia and on Masterpieces of Russian Paintings. He is also an artist himself.

BEc (Western Australia), BPhil (Oxford), PhD (Australian National University, Camberra). Professor of Economics at Duke, presently carrying out a research on Art and Economics at VIU TeDis Center. Previously taught at Monash University (Victoria, Australia) and at the University of Amsterdam. Was Adjunct-directeur, Economic Research Dep't of the ABN Bank, Amsterdam. Recent publications include: "Size and Taste. Taking the Measure of the History of Art Markets," in S.Cavaciocchi (ed.), Economia e Arte. Secc. XIII-XVIII (Florence: Le Monnier 2003), 78-91; "Auctioning paintings in late Seventeenth-Century London: Rules, Segmentation and Prices in an Emergent Market," in Victor A. Ginsburgh (ed.), Economics of Art and Culture (Amsterdam: Elsevier 2004) 97-128; "Visualizing the gains from trade, mid-1870s to 1962," with the assistance of E.Roy Weintraub, European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 10 (2004), 551-72; "Smith on Private Provision of the Arts," (with Jonathan A. Greene) in History of Political Economy 37 (2005), special issue on Economists' Cases for the Arts; "The History of Art Markets," (with Hans J. Van Miegroet), ch. 3 of Elsevie-North Holland Economic Handbook of Art and Culture, edited by Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby (2005); "Mapping Markets for Paintings in Europe, 1450-1750, edited with Hans J. Van Miegroet, Tunrhout: Brepols, 2006.

Architect and Full Professor of Architecture at Iuav. Teaching interests: Foundations and Applications of Descriptive Geometry; Theory and History of Representation Methods; Architectural Drawing in Landscape Architecture. Author of books and essays on the theme of representation, the history of images and land art. Edited the critical edition of the works and treatises on perspective by friar Jean François Niceron (1613–1646), reconstructing – digitally and physically –  Niceron's design of  optical devices and tricheries. Scientific co-ordinator of the surveying program (with laser scanner technology) of the anamorphic paintings hosted in the Monastery of Trinità dei Monti (Rome). Curator of numerous exhibitions in Italy, Germany and Sweden.

Laurea at the Department of History of Ca' Foscari, where he teaches Economic History. In the previous years, he also taught Methodology of Historical research, Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences and Modern History. Was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1999 was visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology of UCLA and, in 2000, was visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics of Keio University, Tokyo. Member of the European and the American Social Science History Associations. His areas of interest include History of the Family, Historical Demography, Database development and applications to historical research, Multivariate exploratory data analysis, Event History Analysis, Social Network Analysis. He is currently involved in the Eurasia Project on Population and Family History, a multidisciplinary and comparative research network, with the cooperation of scholars from different European, American and Japanese Universities. Recent edited: with Marco Breschi and Pier Paolo Viazzo, Piccolo è bello. Approcci microanalitici alla ricerca storico-demografica, Udine: Forum 2003; and with Michel Oris, When Dad Died. Individuals and Families Coping with Distress in Past Societies, Bern: Peter Lang 2002. Chapters in collective volumes include: "Socio-economic Factors in Infant and Child Mortality: Venice in Mid-Nineteenth Century", in Marco Breschi and Lucia Pozzi (eds.), The Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Past European Populations, Udine – Sassari 2004; with Marco Breschi and Matteo Manfredini, "Mortality and Environment in Three Emilian, Tuscan and Venetian Communities, 1800-1883" and with Michel Oris and Marco Breschi, "Infant and Child Mortality", both in Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, James Lee, et al., Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900, Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press 2004.

Dottorato in Theories and History of Arts (Iuav). Teaching Assistant in Urban History and History of Architecture at Iuav and Research Fellow at the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence. Author of essays and articles about Venetian Art and Architecture during the “Long” Renaissance. She was involved in teaching at the VIU Summer School “Visualizing Venice: The Ghetto of Venice”. Her research interests are focused on the production and circulation of artistic and architectural knowledge in Europe between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, with a particular emphasis on North-South relationships and influences.

Professor of English Literature at LMU, board member of the German Shakespeare Association, co-editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, and member of a DFG research group ("Beginnings in Modernity") and a research network ("Pluralization and Authority in Early Modern Europe"). He took his degrees in Berlin and Canterbury, UK, and has published widely in English, Postcolonial and Renaissance Studies. His monographs include: Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction. Uni-Wissen. Stuttgart: Klett 2008; Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture (Early Modern Literature in History). London, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan 2006; Caribbean-English Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures). London, New York: Routledge 2002, Paperback reissue 2006. He edited A History of Postcolonial Literature in 12½ Books (Handbücher zum literaturwissen-schaftlichen Studium, Bd. 8), Trier: WVT 2007 and (with Susanne Rupp) Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Bd. 86), ed. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi 2005.

graduated from Oxford University. Teaches American Literature at Ca' Foscari. In recent years has taught on exchange schemes in Atlanta, Amsterdam, Oulu and Turku. Publications include: Giovane poesia inglese, an anthology of contemporary British poetry in collaboration with A. Scarsella (Treviso: Edizioni del Leone, 1996); A Study of the English Verb (Venezia: Supernova, 1994); Someone's Road Home: Questions of Home and Exile in American Narrative Poetry (Udine: Campanotto Editore, 2003). Main field of study is American poetry, and in this area he has published on Longfellow, Melville, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Anthony Hecht and Andrew Hudgins among others. He is also interested in the relationship between British and American writers and Italy and in this connection he has published on Shelley, Byron, Ruskin and Henry James. Has published four thrillers set in England and Italy (e.g. A Nice Steady Job. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994 and, set in Venice, Every picture tells a story. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991). Has translated widely from Italian. For The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing (Oxford University Press, 1999) wrote the entry on "Crime and Mystery Writing in Italy". He has also published on Raymond Chandler. For The Time-Out Guide to Venice he regularly writes and updates the "sightseeing" chapters on the sestieri of Venice and a chapter on the literary image of Venice. Current research projects include a study of metrical and stanzaic schemes in contemporary narrative poetry and the use of historical themes in American poetry.

Maîtrise (M.A.) of French Literature (Paris VIII, St. Denis), Dr. phil. in Romance Philology (LMU). Postdoctoral Assistant at the Institut für Romanische Philologie, LMU. Was assistant at Romanisches Seminar, University of Kiel (1996-2000) and postdoctoral fellow at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (2005-06). Current research on the relation between cartography and Spanish/Portuguese literature in the early modern period. Other fields of interest: theory of cultural space, subjectivity and self-practices, history of knowledge and film studies. Author of a study on literary writing and ascetics (Asketisches Schreiben: Rousseau und Flaubert als Paradigmen literarischer Selbstpraxis in der Moderne. Tübingen: Narr 2003). Co-editor of several books on the theory of cultural space (recently: Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2006), on hypermedia (Internet und Hypermedien in der Romanistik. Theorie – Ästhetik – Praxis. 2004. Suppl. of Philologie im Netz, 2004) and on autobiography and mediality (Automedialität. Subjektkonstitution in Schrift, Bild und neuen Medien. München: Fink - forthcoming). Articles on travel literature and maps in the early modern period, French literature of the 19th century, modern narrative in Latin America.

BA (Political Science and History Departments, Boston College), PhD (Political Science Department, Columbia University). Associate Professor at the Political Science Department of Boston College. Is Faculty Associate at Harvard. Was Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami (Ohio) and Georgetown Universities. Current research focuses on Capital, Coercion and Post-Communist States. A book on the topic is forthcoming. Is author of Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2000 and coeditor of Shaping the Economic Space in Russia: Policy-making, Institutions, Actors (Ashgate Publishers, 2000). Most recent contributions include: "Capacity, Consent and Tax Collection in Post-Communist States," in Capacity and Consent: Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2007), D. Brautigam, O. Fjeldstad and M. Moore, eds. "Building Fiscal Capacity," in The State After Communism, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), Timothy Colton and Stephen Holmes, eds.; "The Russian Tax Police," Post-Soviet Affairs (December 2002); "Politics of Revenue Extraction in Post-Communist States: Poland and Russia Compared," Politics and Society (December 2002)
"Networks, Bureaucracy and the Russian State," in Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks (Ashgate Publishers, 2001), Klaus Segbers, ed.; "Institutional Legacy of the Old Regime as a Constraint to Reform: The Case of Fiscal Policy," in Shaping the Economic Space in Russia, Easter and Harter, eds.

 

Diploma (Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg), Doctorate and Habilitation in Historical Science (Russian Academy of Sciences). Professor at the Department of History and Member of the Academic Council at EUSP. Was Visiting Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Guest Lecturer at TAU. Teaching areas: Historical Anthropology; Historical Sociology; Historiography of Medieval and Early Modern Russia; Source Problems in Problems of Russian Medieval History; New Political History; Introduction to Comparative History. Research interests: East European medieval and early modern history (Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania); state building, patronage and clientele in comparative perspective; historical anthropology, microhistory, new political history; comparative history.

Diplomsoziologie (Bielefen), MA in History (John Hopkins), PhD (Bielefeld) with thesis on Scientific Racism and relationships among Eugenicists in the 20th century. Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher assistant) at the University of Munich, Institute of Sociology. Teaching and research interests in Sociology of Work, Sociology of Professions and Sociology of Organizations. Books published: The Nazi Connection. Eugenics, American macis and German National Socialism. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1994. (Japanese translation published in 1999); Wenn die Affen den Zoo regieren. Die Tücken der flachen Hierarchien, Frankfurt a.M.; New York: Campus; 5. Auflage; 1998 (first edition 1994). (Dutch translation published in 1997); Die Internationale der Rassisten. Der Aufstieg und Niedergang der internationalen Bewegung für Eugenik und Ressenhygiene im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Frankfurt a.M.; Campus, 1997; (with Gerhard Kullmann) Gruppenarbeit. München: Hanser, 1999; Das Regenmacher-Phänomen. Widersprüche und Aberglauben im Konzept der Lernenden Organisation. Frankfurt a.M.; new York: Campus, 2000.

Dr.phil. in Sinology. Professor of Chinese Studies, LMU. Visiting Professor at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Jishou University, China. Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. Published Die Lehren und die Entwicklung der „Taigu-Schule". Eine dissidente Strömung in einer Epoche des Niedergangs der konfuzianischen Orthodoxie, Wiesbaden, Harassowitz, 1996, and edited (with Th. Harnisch) China übersetzen, Bochum, Projekt Verlag, 2001. Recent Essays include „Die Entstehungsbedingungen des Romans Lin nü yu und die literarische Sphäre in Shanghai 1903", in Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 26, 2002, „'The Barbarians' Writing is like Worms, and their Speech is like the Screeching of Owls' – Exclusion and Acculturation in the Early Ming Period", in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 151/2, 2001, „Tears of Strength or Tears of Weakness: Lao Can youji and the Aporias of Political and Moral Commitment", in W. Kubin (ed.), Symbols of Anguish: In Search of Melancholy in China. Bern, Peter Lang, 2001, „Plurality and Confucian Orthodoxy: The Views of a Neglected Qing School of Thought", in Journal of Chinese Philosophy 26:1, (1999). Main fields of interest: Literary and intellectual history of late imperial and early republican China, nationalism in late imperial and contemporary China, views of the West in contemporary Chinese literature

B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in Cultural Studies (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) PhD in Sociology (Bar-Ilan University). Assistant Professor, NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, at Tel-Aviv University. Work in progress on Single Women Contesting Culture; Single Women and the Problem of Self-Determination; “Why are they still single?" Rethinking Famillial Hegemonic Norms. Research and Teaching Interests: Singlehood, Sociology of the Family, Social Time, Popular Culture, Feminist Theory, Feminist Cultural Studies, Globalization and Self-Help Culture.

BS in Political Science and Economics, MA and PhD in Economics (University of South Carolina at Columbia). Professor of the Practice in the Department of Economics at Duke, where she is Director in the Research in Practice Program. Fields: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Urban and Regional Economics. Research Interests: International Capital Markets and Finance, Macroeconomic Policy, Time Series Analysis, Economic Development, Emerging Markets, Causality Testing, Political Economy.

BA and MA in History (Massachussetts), PhD in Latin American History (NYU). Professor of History at BC. Teaching areas: Modern and colonial Latin America; urban poverty; modernity; gender; social movements; religion and history; oral history. At present, her research focuses on a study of two very different Guatemalan artists, using their art, patrons and life stories to think about the history of twentieth-century Guatemala. Among her most representative publications in the field of Feminism "The Loneliness of Working Class Feminism" in The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women (1997).

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Leningrad Transport Engineering University), Postgraduate Studies in Mathematics (Leningrad State University), Ph.D. in Computer Engineering  (Latvian Academy of Sciences). Professor and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Education at the School of Education of TAU. Member of the Academic Council of the Holon Institute of Technology. Taught in a variety of institutions in Russia and Israel. Was Visiting Researcher at the University of Massachusetts  and Visiting Fellow at the University of Boston. At TAU teaches courses such as "Advanced Computer System Topics" and "Technology, Education and Culture". Research interests include: Computer Design, Human Concepts Learning, Information Society and Technology Education. He is author an outstanding number of papers on Computer Engineering and Education. 

Laurea in Economia Politica (Bocconi), M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Decision Sciences (Stanford). Full Professor in Mathematical Methods for Economics at Ca' Foscari. Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics and Organization of the School of Advanced Studies in Venice. Was editor of "Decisions in Economics and Finance" (1999-2005). Fields of interest: Decision Analysis and Market Microstructure. Author of Teoria dei giochi, Milano: EtasLibri, 1995, his most recent publications include: (with S. Spaeter), "Distributions for the first-order approach to principal-agent problems", Economic Theory, 21, 2003, 167-173; (with S.DellaVigna) "Learning to make risk neutral choices in a normal world", Mathematical Social Sciences 41, 2001, 19-37; "Upper and lower bounds for expected utility", Economic Theory 16, 2000, 489-502; (with R.Bordley) "Decision analysis using targets instead of utility functions", Decisions in Economics and Finance 23, 2000, 53-74; "A language for the construction of preferences under uncertainty", Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fìsicas y Naturales 93, 1999, 439-450

B.A. (Rosary College), M.A. (Claremont Graduate School), Ph.D. in French Literature (University of Michigan). Professor of French Studies and Chair of the Department of Romance Studies at Duke. Was Director of Center for French & Francophone Studies and for many years Director of the Duke-in-France program. Previously taught at Rice University. Her areas of interest include: 17th Century French Literature; Travel Writing; Early Modern Mediterranean Studies; History of Theater; The Epistolary Genre; Feminist Criticism; Theories of Genre. Her interests in the epistolary genre and in women's writing led to the publication of "Performing Motherhood: The Sévigné Correspondence" (University Press of New England, 1991). She has published articles on the writings of other seventeenth-century authors, including Mme d'Aulnoy, Marie de Gournay, Poullain de la Barre, Mme de Lafayette, Corneille, Boileau, Molière, and Racine. She has also published a book on the staging of exoticism in seventeenth-century France: "Orientalism and French Classical Drama" (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Her current research interests include travel accounts, questions of genre, feminist theory, and seventeenth-century French literature in a cultural studies context. In the context of her research on travel, she has published articles on Chardin, Galland, and Thévenot. Most recent articles on French travels to the Ottoman world are "Jean Thévenot: ethnographe des îles du Levant", Actes du CIR 17 : "L'Ile au XVIIe siècle: réalités et imaginaire », Centre International de Recherches sur le 17e siècle, (April, 2009) and "Le Mamamouchi" ou la colonisation de l'imaginaire français par le monde ottoman. « Théâtre en voyage », Presses universitaires de Paris - Sorbonne, 2009. Her current book project is entitled "Travel, or the Benefits of Discontent: Marseilles to Constantinople (1650-1700)".

Laurea in English and American Literature (Ca' Foscari). Professor of American Literature at Ca' Foscari, where she is also Chair of the American Studies Program and Director of the Higher Degree course in Literary Translation from English into Italian. Published, among other books, Invito alla lettura di Faulkner, Mursia, Milano 1976. Translated W. Faulkner, G. Stein, R. Jarrell and F.M. Ford. Recent interest has focused on the relation between art and literature, and on H. James, E. Wharton, and the reaction of American writers to Venetian painting. Publications include: the edition of James' Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro, London, Pushkin Press, 1998 (second edition June 2001); "Into Forbidden Ground: J.A.Symonds and Tiepolo" in John Addington Symonds. Culture and the Demon Desire, John Pemble ed., Macmillan, London 2000; "Tiepolo, Henry James, and Edith Wharton", in The Metropolitan Museum Journal, 33, 1998; "The Pastimes of Culture. The Tableaux Vivants of the British Expatriates in Venice in the 1880s and 1890s", in Textus, English Studies in Italy, XII (1999) 1; "Venetian Mirrors. Barrett or Browning as the artist?" in The Author as Character, P. Franssen and T. Hoenselaars eds., Associated University Presses, London 1999; "Intertextual Venice: Blood and Crime and Death Renewed in two Contemporary Novels", in Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds. English Fantasies of Venice, M. Pfister and B. Schaff (eds.), Rodopi, Amsterdam 1999.

Senior Lecturer at the Department of English of TAU. Author of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon: The Complete Annotations. Scarecrow Press, 2002; R eading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995. (paperback edition, 2001); The British and American Novel in the 20th Century: Critical Explication for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Tel Aviv: Everyman's University Press, 1985. Editor of A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, Rochester: Camden House/Boydell & Brewer, Inc., 2004 (slated for September). Among her articles is "Letting Her Speak: A Lifetime's Work" published in Notable Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice in Hemingway. Eds. Lawrence Broer and Gloria Holland. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2002. She is also in the International Advisory Committee of the Editorial Board of The Hemingway Review, since 1992.

(Laurea) Bachelor in Environmental Science (Ca' Foscari). Scientific Coordinator of Research and Advanced Training in Environmental Management at the VIU TEN Center. Teacher in the Postgraduate program EDUCOM@MED, education on Coastal Management for the Mediterranean. Her Teaching topics include Industrial Economics and Industrial Ecology at the Scuola di alta specializzazione ambientale (ASA) of the Veneto Agency for Environmental Protection. Former Ca' Foscari Tutor within the Euro-Asian research and training in Climate change Management (CLIMA). Post-doctoral research conducted at the Center of Industrial Ecology, Yale University. Her present research interests focus on Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Industrial Ecology.

Laurea in Civil Engineering and PhD in Hydrodynamics (Padova). Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment and at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Professor at the Department of Hydraulic, Maritime, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering of the University of Padova. Was Visiting Scientist at MIT. Research interests: bio-geomorphology of tidal environments; remote sensing in hydrology and tidal bio-geomorphology; fluvial geomorphology and theory of the hydrologic response; models and analysis of space-time precipitation; hydrometeorology; climatology.

Dottorato in Regional Planning and Public Policies (IUAV). Researcher, Unesco chair on the Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants, at the Department of Planning of IUAV. Founder and coordinator of Urban_ID Network, a multidisciplinary network of jr researchers and scholars from all over the world working on the urban impacts of international migration. Current research interests: International migrants and the Right to the City; South to South international migration; Governing international migration in small-medium size cities; Transit Migration, Transit countries, Transit cities; Public space and intercultural cities.

Certificate in WTO Law (The Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations), Diploma (The Hague Academy of International Law), Dottorato in Diritto Civile (Bologna), Docteur en droit (Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne). Research Professor of International Law in the Department of Legal Sciences of Ca' Foscari, where he teaches Maritime and Comparative Law. Also instructor of International Law and International Business Transactions in the Vanderbilt and Widener University Law Schools programs in Venice. Taught International Trade Law at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Americas (Institut des Amériques) in the University of Paris III. Published extensively in Italian, French and Spanish. Publications in English include: International business law and international commercial arbitration : the Italian approach, in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Law Journal, Lloyd's of London Press, London, n.1, 1997 and, with Fabien Gélinas, The Unidroit Principles for International Commercial Contracts in ICC Arbitration, « The ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin », ICC Publ., v.10, n.2, Paris 1999.

was born in Hiroshima. After 4 year undergraduate study in the French Department of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, he got his BA in 1989. He then went to France – where he spent 10 years – , obtained a MA in modern literature from l'Université de Provence in 1990. His master's thesis was on the French surrealist poet Paul Eluard. The same year he moved to Paris to keep on studying French modern and contemporary poetry and its relation with the fine arts, obtaining the DEA and a doctorat at Paris VIII (Modern Literature). Besides his studies he practiced engraving in the former Atelier 17 and continued personal research. He participated in several Salons in Paris. Was full-time lecturer of Japanese and temporary researcher at INALCO (Institut national des langues et des civilisations occidentales), where he worked on French modern poetry. Back to Japan in 2000, became Associate professor at Waseda School of Education in 2004, where he is now teaching French and Modern Art. His major interest is the status of poetical language and its relation with other modes of thinking such as philosophy or plastic art. Author of: La saisie de la matière dans la poésie d'André du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin et Philippe Jaccottet, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, Lille, 1999 ; « Figurer le vide (Dupin, Giacometti, Chillida) », Matière d'origine, Faire-Part, no 20-21, 2007, p. 148-162; « Penser et traduire : figurer et trans-figurer », in Michel Deguy, L'allégresse pensive, Paris, Belin, 2007, p. 465-477; « Philippe Jaccottet : le souffle et le chant de l'absence », Études françaises, Vol. 43-3, Université de Montréal, 2007, p. 91-108; « Paul Celan and the Poets of "L'Éphémère". Question of Translation », Celan-Studien, Nr. 9, 2007, Tokyo, p. 1-30 (in Japanese). He also co-wrote with F. Roussel the textbook of French Language Tome un, Tokyo 2004.

BA and MA in Political Science (University of Tokyo). His first professional appointment was Research Assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences (1972-1978) and during the term of that appointment, he got a scholarship from the French Government and studied at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) from 1974 to 1976. After a short appointment at the University of Tsukuba, he moved to Waseda University and has been teaching there political science and the history of political thought. From 1984 to 1986, he went to Yale University as a Fullbright researcher to do research on the Tocqeville papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. He passed the year 1999-2000 in Paris as an exchange professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Centre Raymons Aron). His major academic interst has always been in the study of Alexis de Tocqueville, but he has also written several articles on other issues: the French image of America, and the comparative study of intellectuals, the French, the American and the Japanese. He has been working on the translation of Democracy in America. The first two volumes, corresponding to the 1835 Democracy was published in 2005 and the next two volumes, the translation of the 1840 Democracy will appear in 2007. In 2005, he organized a major international conference celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Tocqueville. He is now working on the edition of the book based on the conference papers. In March 2007, he gave a lecture as an exchange professor at the Institut des Etudes de Sciences Politiques of Paris on "Tocqueville et le Japon."

Bachelor and Master in Economics (Waseda); D.Phil in Mathematical Economics (Oxford). Professor of Theoretical Economic Policy at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda. Previously taught at Osaka International University and Teikoku Women's College. Was Visiting Professor at Charles University in Prague; Portland State University; University of Cergy-Pontoise. Worked as Officer for the Monetary and Finance Section of the United Nation’s Conference of Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He is Managing director of the Japan Economic Policy Association and Chairman of the Waseda Teachers' Union. His academic fields are: Collective Choice Theory, Evolutionary Biology, Information Technology, Computer Network Systems, E-Commerce and E-Money, General Theory of Economics.

A.B. (Cornell), Ph.D. in History of Science (Princeton), Postdoctoral year in History of Medicine (UCL, London). Professor Emeritus of History at Duke, where he is Director of Graduate Study, History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine Program and where he has been Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Human Values. Received the Dexter Award for outstanding achievement in the History of Chemistry and earned the Duke Alumni Association’s 2006 Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. Already taught at VIU in Spring 2010. Specialized in Intellectual History. Research interests include: History of Chemistry in 1700s and 1800s; History of Chemical Technology, focusing on munitions and explosives; History of Parapsychology and Marginal Science; Reception of Unconventional Science and Chemical Sciences in the Modern World. Current research: Alfred Nobel and his English colleagues and the development of explosives and munitions in the late 1800s.

LL.B. and LL.M. (Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law), LL.MM. and J.S.D. (Yale Law School). Daniel Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence at Tel Aviv University, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Law and where he teaches courses on contract law, jurisprudence, law and culture, and multiculturalism. Visiting Professor at Michigan, NYU and Cardiff Law Schools; visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Was awarded the Tel Aviv University Rector's Prize for Distinction in Teaching and the "Zeltner Prize for Excellence in the Law". He is author of breakthrough books such as The Decline of Formalism and the Rise of Values in Israeli Law (1993) and On Legal Education (2002). Edited four legal books, including Multiculturalism in a Democratic and Jewish State and Distributive Justice in Israel. Published over 60 articles and chapters in books in Israel, the United States and Britain (including at the law reviews of Yale and Michigan universities) in the areas of contract law, law and culture and multiculturalism. His book Law and Culture (400 pages) is due in November 2007 (Bar Ilan University Press). His book Law and Culture in Israel at the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century (400 pages) is due in February 2008 (Tel Aviv University Press). Member of the Committee on the Preparation of Israel's New Civil Code (headed by Professor Ahron Barak, President of the Israeli Supreme Court). Headed the Experts' Committee on Revision of Israel's Securities Law, Ministry of Justice. Was Chairperson of the Public Commission on the Rights of Performing Artists, Ministry of Justice

Doctorate in Law (Mainz), Diploma I in Comparative Law (Strasbourg), Diploma of the Bologna Center of the School for Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins), Diploma II in Comparative Law (Coimbra). Emeritus Professor in Political Science and Theory of Law at LMU and Rektor of the Munich School of Political Science (Hochschule für Politik, München). Already taught at VIU in Fall 2005. Among his monographs are Porträtgalerie der Politischen Denker, 2003; Die Zeichen der Natur, Insel, Frankfurt 2001; Über Prophetie und Politik. München 2000; Jean Bodin: Eine Einführung, Düsseldorf-Bonn 2000. Editor, among other things, of Politische Ökologie. Eine Einführung, Düsseldorf 1998 and Porträtgalerie der Politischen Denker, Berrn-Göttingen 2003. Publications in other languages include: Guerilla Warfare and International Law in "Law and State" Vol. 8 (1973) p.7–24; Ecologia y humanismo in "Humboldt 80" (1983), p.13–23; (with B.M.Malunat) Le mouvement écologique allemand, in "Futuribles" (June 1985) H. 89, p.94–98; International Environmental Policy as a Challenge to the National State in "AMBIO" Volume XV (1986) H.4, p.240–243; (with F.Kohout), "Dal diritto fondamentale dell'uomo al diritto fondamentale della natura" in P.Fois, La Garanzia dei Principi Fondamentali nell'Europa del Diritto, Sassari 1993; "Europe and the Atlantic Community in the Context of an Ecological World Order" in O.Höll (ed.), Environmental Cooperation in Europe. The political dimension, Boulder-Oxford 1994; "Dall´hortus conclusus medievale al moderno "parco paesaggistico"" in R.Colantonio, M.Lucchetti, A.Venturelli (ed.), Ambiente e invecchiamento, Milano 1999.

Laurea in Language Sciences (Ca' Foscari). Professor of Italian as a Foreign Language at the Venice Institute. Teaches at VIU beginners and intermediate Italian courses since several semesters. Taught Italian at the Boston University Venice Program in 2011.

M.A., Dr.Phil. and Dr.Phil.Habil. in Philosophy (Muenchen). Interim Deputy for the Chair of Philosophy at LMU in 2008-2009. Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Department of Economics at the University of Innsbruck. Taught at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, at the Technical University of Munich, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet di Erlangen and the Universities of Minnesota and Bayreuth. Most recent publications in English include: Truth as perfect belief. On the Peircean conception of truth; in: Greiman, Dirk/Siegwart, Geo (eds.): Truth and Speech Acts; New York/London 2007; Agents in Discord. On Preference Aggregation under Uncertainty; in: Kanzian, C./Runggaldier, E. (Eds.): Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue. Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium Kichberg am Wechsel, Austria 2006, Frankfurt a.M. 2007. Other recent articles include: Globalisierung, Gerechtigkeit und öffentliche Güter; in: Eberharter, A./Exenberger, A. (Hg.): Globalisierung und Gerechtigkeit. Eine transdisziplinäre Annäherung; Innsbruck 2007. Forthcoming: Cooperation and Global Public Goods: Aspects of Fairness in International Relations; in: Marie-Luisa Frick/ Andreas Oberprantacher (eds.): Justice and Power in International Relations; Farnham, Ashgate.

Associate professor in Business Economics and Management and Chair of the Degree Program in International Management at Ca' Foscari University. Director of the TeDIS Center and former Dean of VIU. Coordinator of many national and international projects in the fields of ICT, local economic development and competitiveness of firms and regions. Research has been focusing on the impacts of information technologies on business competitiveness, internationalization of industrial districts and design; and more broadly on Production systems, Business administration and Internationalization strategies and upgrading processes of SMEs in global value chains.

Laurea in Architecture (IUAV), Postgraduate Specialization Degree in History of Art (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), PhD in History of Architecture (IUAV). Teaches at VIU since 2000. Has been Research Fellow in History of Architecture at IUAV (2000-2004; 2006-2008). Was Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke (2003), Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow and Millon Architectural Guest Scholar at CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington (2005-2006), and Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard (2008). Main fields of interest Renaissance architecture and the architecture of Venice. Recent publications include: Il convento della Carità e Andrea Palladio. Storie, progetti, immagini, Sommacampagna: Cierre 2005; "Recinzioni con colonne nelle chiese veneziane. Tradizioni, revival, sopravvivenze," in Lo spazio e il culto. Relazioni tra l'edificio ecclesiale e suo uso liturgico dal XV al XVII secolo, ed. J. Stabenow, Venezia: Marsilio 2006, 181-208; "'El tempio di sovra:' note sulla storia e sul significato del coronamento mistilineo nell'architettura veneziana", Zbornik za umetnostno Zgodovino", XLII, 2006, 47-76; "Qualche tassello nella storia di Ca' Trevisan a Murano", in Andrea Palladio 1508 - 2008. Il Simposio del Cinquecentenario, Venezia: Marsilio 2008. Forthcoming publications: "The Imaginative Creation of a Builder Patron Saint: The Venetian "Rediscovery" of Magnus", in Faith and Fantasy in the Early Modern World, Toronto: Toronto University Press; "I disegni architettonici di Antonio Visentini (1688-1782): un corpus autografo inedito e una produzione con un'etichetta da riconsiderare", in "Porre un limite all'infinito errore". Studi in onore di Christof Thoenes, symposium proceedings, IUAV; "«Palladio must have had a strange predilection for porticoes...»: rilievi e critica delle facciate delle chiese palladiane fra Sei e Ottocento", in Architettura delle facciate: le chiese di Palladioa Venezia, eds. Malvina Borgherini, Andrea Guerra and Paola Modesti, IUAV-Marsilio. She has been co-curator of the exhibition Architettura delle facciate: le chiese di Palladio a Venezia, IUAV (Dec 2008-Jan 2009).

First Degree in English Literature (Essex) and in English Philology (UAB); Doctorado in English Philology (UAB). Professor of English at the Department of English Philology, UAB, which he directed between 1991 and 2001, and where he was director of Postgraduate Studies. Was Secretary of the Sociedad Española de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses (1994-2001). Already taught at VIU in Spring 2008. His major research interest has been in Scottish Literature, particularly the Romantic Era, and, more recently, the figure of Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857), an enigmatic liberal thinker and pioneer of female journalist. He is editor of her national tale Clan-Albin (1815) for the Association of Scottish Literary Studies (the first edition in over 150 years). Among his other publications are: A Hypertextual Approach to Scott's "Waverley", Barcelona 1998 and Working with Romanticism, Barcelona 1998. With Curbet, Hand and Martín, he was coordinator of the Introduction to English Literature, Barcelona 1999. With Aranzazu Usandizaga, he edited Dressing up for War: Transformation of Gender and Genre in the Discourses and Literature of War, Amsterdam and New York 2001 and Back to Peace: Recrimination and Reconciliation in the Postwar Period, Notre Dame 2007. Most recent publications include Strange, Stranger and Estrangement: English Visitors to Scotland in Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction, : Études Écossaises 11, , pp. 239-248, 2009. Forthcoming (with Cristina Pividori) "The Soldier as Good Samaritan: Bonding with the Enemy in John Pearman's The Radical Soldier's Tale" in Journal of War and Culture Studies.

Doctor in Theology (Gregoriana, Rome) and in Philosophy (Barcelona). Full Professor (catedràtic) of Philosophy at UAB. Taught at VIU in the Undergraduate Program of Fall 2000. Author of various books, including: Filó d'Alexandria. La creació del Món i altres escrits, Laia, Barcelona, 1983; Las transformaciones del platonismo, Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1987; El desafio cristiano. Las razones del perseguidor, Anaya y Mario Muchnik, Madrid, 1992; Platón: de la perpejidad al sistema, Anthropos, Barcelona, 1995; Textos gnósticos. Biblioteca de Nag Hammadi, (with A. Piñero and F. García Bazán), 3 vols., Trotta, Madrid, 1997-99. Publications in English include: "Methodius of Olympus, Symposium III 4-8: an interpretation", in Studia Patristica XIII, ed. Elisabeth Livingstone, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1975, pp. 239-243; "Some epistemological notes on greek cosmologies", in Foundations of Big Bang Cosmology, ed. W. Meyerstein, World Scientific, Singapore, 1989, pp. 5-8; "Plato's Philosophy of Science and Trinitarian Theology", in Studia Patristica XX, Peeters, Lovaina, 1989, pp. 102-118; "The Social and Cultural Setting of the Coptic Gnostic Library", in Studia Patristica XXXI, Peeters, Leuven, 1997, pp. 464-481.

Degree in Geography and MA in Urban Geography (UAB). Professor of Urban Geography and Director of the Urban Planning Observatory at UAB. He is also Director of the Cerdà Postmetropolis International Congress and teaches for European programs like ‘Metropolis: The Experience of Cities in Art and Architecture’ (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona) and ‘Management of The European Metropolitan Regions’ (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam). Already taught at VIU in Spring 2005 and Fall 2012. His professional experience includes both research and consulting work in different fields as urban demography, strategic planning and specific assessment in urban and cultural projects working for institutions like the International Olympic Committee. He has published articles in reviews on Urban Studies and Architecture and has participated in several collective books in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia and USA.

Full Professor of Economics and Environmental Economics at Ca' Foscari University. Visiting Scholar at Cambridge and Yale. Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Melbourne and Johns HopkinsUniversity, Bologna Center. Former Dean of VIU. President of the VIU TEN Center in charge of the Sino-Italian Advanced Training Program on environmental management and sustainable development and of the Course for Sustainability targeting South-Eastern European countries. Member of different commissions, among which the supervision board of the Bank of Italy and Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice. His main research fields are Environmental and Resource Economics, Growth Theory, International Trade. Main Research fields: Environmental and Resource Economics, Growth Theory; International Trade.

Bachelor and MA in Commerce, Doctor of Science in Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (Waseda). Professor at the International School of Liberal Studies and at the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda. Was Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Institute for International Development. Specialization on Media Industrial Organization and om the Japanese Economy. Major publications in English include works on the digitalization of the Japanese Media and on Economic Reforms in Japan facing Globalization.

B.A. and M.A. in History (TAU), PhD in History (Berkeley). Professor in the Department of History of TAU, where he was the head of the General B.A. and Interdisciplinary Studies program. He is also professor of History and member of the Academic Council at the Kibbutzim College of Education. Was visiting and associate professor at Toronto, UC Berkeley, and Cornell. Currently Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, where he heads the Political Education project. Since 2000, he is coordinating an Israeli team in the "Two Narratives project", writing a Palestinian-Israeli history textbook; and he was the scientific advisor for the writing of a history textbook designed for Arab students, citizens of Israel. Published in several languages books, articles, textbooks and instructors' manuals, including: The United States – An Ongoing Democracy [Hebrew], Tel Aviv, Open University Press, 2007; "The Dynamics of Identity Construction in Israel through Education in History", in Victor Rotberg and Debbie Wise eds., Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006; "John Brown Legacy of Martyrdom", in Paul Finkelman and Peggy Russo, eds., Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown, Athens Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2005; Reinhold Niebuhr and Non-Utopian Liberalism, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2002; with Esther Yogev, Histories: Towards a Dialogue with the Israeli Past [Hebrew], Bebal Publishers, Tel Aviv, 2002; The American Century [Hebrew], Tel Aviv: ministry of defense press, 1999; and Crown of Thorns - Political Martyrdom in America, New York, New York University Press, 1990.

is a graduate of the University of Oxford (Modern Languages), and has postgraduate qualifications from the Universities of Wales (Education) and Reading (Linguistics). He has a wide experience of English language teaching, in the UK, France, and Italy. His main teaching posts have been held at the Ecole Normale Superieure (France), and the Universities of Verona and Venice. He is at present Researcher in English Language at the Department of European and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari. His interests range from English language testing and assessment and teacher education to varieties of English and English as a World Language. He has written a number of English language courses for students in Italy, Germany, Poland and China. His research publications include articles on language testing, and early years language acquisition. As a long-standing correspondent for The Times Educational Supplement he has a special interest in the language of the media.

B.A. (Holy Cross College), M.A. (Middlebury College in Paris, France), Ph.D. (Yale). Professor of French at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Boston College. Also taught at Yale. Areas of Specialization: post-romantic poetry and prose, literary criticism and theory, philosophical approaches to literature, and literary approaches to philosophy. Author of Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. Most recent publications include: "Deconstruction", in Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, ed. Lawrence Kritzman, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006; "On Parole: Blanchot, Saussure, Paulhan," Yale French Studies (Special Issue: on Jean Paulhan), December, 2004; "Danser le jazz: de La Nausée à L'Invitée", Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Volume 20, 2003-04. Forthcoming: "Tongue-tied: What Albert Camus' Fiction Couldn't Teach us about Ethics and Politics," Albert Camus in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Mark Orme, Christine Margerrison, and Lissa Lincoln. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press.

BS in Economics and Finance, MA in Business and Applied Economics (Pennsylvania), PhD in Management (Syracuse). Professor at the Organization Studies Department of the Carroll School of Management at BC. Works in the field of Organizational Ethics, Politics and Political Economy. Served as President of the Society of Business Ethics. Has consulted and done executive training in Asia, Europe, Latin and North America. His extensive bibliography includes works on Finance Capitalism and Ethics, and on Corruption in Financial Services and Corporations.

BS and MA (Fordham), M.A. in African Area Studies and PhD in History (University of California, Los Angeles). Professor in History and (since 2006) African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College. In 1964-66 was Vice-Principal and History Master, Central Annang Secondary School, Nigeria. Books published include Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965: A Brief History with Documents, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007; Africa's Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002; 2d ed. 2008; Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Beyond the Bend in the River: A Labor History of Eastern Zaïre, 1870-1940, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1988; Trade Without Rulers: Pre-Colonial Economic Development in South-Eastern Nigeria. Oxford Studies in African Affairs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. He is co-author of The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997 (4th ed. 2007) and compiler and editor of The Atlantic Slave Trade. Problems in World History. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1994.

B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology (Emory), M.A. and PhD in Anthropology (Northwestern). Professor at the Departments of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology and English of Duke University and, as Adjunct, at the University of North Carolina Law School. Won two awards for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching at Duke. Member of the Board of the Advertising Educational Foundation. Already taught at VIU in Fall 2002. Major research includes fieldworks in Tanzania and projects on Language and Law, Ethnography of Economic Behaviour and Anthropology of Advertisement. Most recent books: Rules versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse, 1990; Fortune and Folly: The Wealth and Power of Institutional Investing, 1992; Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising, 1994; Just Words: Law, Language, and Power, 1998; A History of Theory in Legal Anthropology, 2002. He is editor of "The Chicago Series in Law and Society" (previously known as "Language and Legal Discourse Series") and of the "Advertising & Society Review", where he published contributions such as What is Advertising?" and A Brief History of Advertising in America (both in issue 6:3, 2005).

BA in English and Comparative Literature (Williams College), MA and PhD in English Language and Literature (Cornell University). Professor in the Department of English, BC. Was Lecturer at Cornell University. Among his main fields of interest: Henry James; Queer Theory, Literary Tradition and Criticism. Author of Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James and Nabokov (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Forthcoming book: Henry James and the Queerness of Style (University of Minnesota Press, April 2011).

studied History, English and Philosophy at the universities of Freiburg, Glasgow and Pennsylvania. He has taught at the universities of Freiburg, Frankfurt and Munich in Germany, at the Université d'Orléans in France and at Elmira College, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the University of New Orleans in the US. Already taught in the VIU Semester Program of Spring 2001 and Fall 2006, courses on "The Americanization of Europe: a dream or a nightmare?", "Transatlantic Avantguards", "Americanism, Americanization, Anti-Americanism" and "Conspiracy Nation: Conspiracy Theories from the Illuminati to the X-Files". From 1981 until his retirement in 2005 he held the Chair in American Cultural History at the Amerika Institut, LMU Munich, a "reeducation" chair that was funded by American Foundations in 1949. Recent publications are on migration policy, Anti-Americanism, New Orleans and American Music. He is on the governing board of the "Rat für Migration", a migration policy institute in Berlin.

BA in Economics (Suleyman Demirel University, Almaty, Kazakhstan); MA in Economics (Charles University in Prague); PhD in Economics (Nova School of Business & Economics, Lisbon). Researcher, at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change at the ENI Enrico Mattei Foundation (FEEM) in Venice. Research interests: Environmental Valuation, Environmental and Resource Economics, Happiness Economics (Quality of Life), Applied Microeconomics, Microeconometric Analysis.

Degree and Diploma Advanced (GODDESS) in Fine Arts (Barcelona). Doctoral thesis in progress on "The surface in relation to the photographic image" (Barcelona). Teaches "Systems of representation (perspective as a drawing)" at the Departament de Didàctica de l'Expressió Musical, Plàstica i Corporal, in the Faculty of Education of UAB, where she is also member of a research group on Art Education. Painter. Exhibited her work in solo and collective shows in Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, Terragona, Santander, St.Cugat del Vallès, Lleida, Cantabria and Torroella de Montgrí.

MA in Chinese Studies, MA in Japanese Studies, PhD course in Comparative Literature (Tokyo), PhD in Japanese Literature (INLCO, Paris). Professor at the School of Commerce, Waseda University. Taught at the Department of French Studies at the University of Saitama. She is author of Ecriture, lecture et poésie, Publications orientalistes de France, 1991. Articles published include: La peinture de lettrés : un exemple de ré-écriture de la poésie chinoise. L'album de peintures Dix fois pratique et dix fois propice de Ike no Taiga et Yosa Buson, "Ebisu-Etudes Japonaises", Numéro 25, numéro spécial "Écritures poétiques japonaises", 2000; Pour une introduction à la peinture de lettre, "文化論集 = The Cultural review", Sep-2002, vol. 21; Calligraphie et Inscription du poeme dans la peinture, "文化論集 = The Cultural review", Mar-2003, vol.22; Sceaux, signatures et noms de lettres. Le rapport de l'auteur a son oeuvre dans la peinture japonaise de lettre, "文化論集 = The Cultural review", Sep-2003, vol.23; Lire la poesie dans la peinture, "文化論集 = The Cultural review", Sep-2004, vol.25.

Associate Professor in History of Modern Art (i.e. Art from the 1400s to the 1800s) at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua, where she is also teaching Iconography and Iconology. Her fields of research: Venetian Pantings in the Cinquecento in connection to the Tridentine Iconography (Francesco and Leandro Bassano, Veronese and his followers); Ferrarese Paintings at the time of Ercole I, Alfonso I, Ercole II and Alfonso II (Boccaccio Boccaccino, Mazzolino, Garofalo, Dosso Dossi and his brother Battista, Pirro Ligorio, the Master of the twelve Apostoles, the graphic and pictorial work by Girolamo da Carpi).

Degree in Mathematics (Padova), PhD in Mathematics for Economic Decisions (Trieste). Professor of Mathematical methods for economics and finance at Ca' Foscari. Also teaches for the Ph.D. in Economics and Organization of the School of Advanced Studies in Venice, based in San Servolo and taught Quantitative Methods for Economics for the VIU Master in Economics and Finance. Research interest is mainly focused on computational economics and finance. Most recent publication s include: "Static Hedging of Multivariate Derivatives by Simulation", European Journal of Operational Research, 166, 2, 507–519, 2005; with M. LiCalzi, "The allocative effectiveness of market protocols under intelligent trading", in C. Bruun (Ed.), Advances in Artificial Economics, Lect. Notes in Economics and Math. Sciences, Springer, 2006; with C. Agostinelli, "Hierarchical clustering by means of model grouping", in M. Spiliopoulou, R. Kruse, C. Borgelt, A. Nurnberger, W. Gaul (Eds.), From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge, Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, Springer, 2006. Forthcoming: with M. LiCalzi, "Simple market protocols for efficient risk sharing", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; with A. Dal Forno, "A comparison of different trading protocols in an agent-based market", forthcoming on Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2.

Degree in History of Architecture and dottorato in History of Architecture and of Town Planning (IUAV). Was Visiting Student at Waseda. First Degree thesis on the history of the Ospedale degli Incurabili of Venice (1522-1567) and doctoral dissertion on Venetian Twentieth Century architect Carlo Scarpa and Japan. Forthcoming articles are on the history of the Incurabili, on the relationship between Charities and Venetian Patriciate at the beginning of the 1500's, on a Sixteenth Century Venice music collection and (with D.Calabi) on the history of the Venetian prostitutes' distric (1360 to 1600's).

head of the Chaim Rozenberg School for Jewish Studies and of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at TAU, where she is the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Racism and anti-Semitism. She is also member of the Yad-Vashem Scientific Advisory Board and of the Board of the International Center for Holocaust Studies. Served as head of the Department of Jewish History in 2000-2003. Was awarded TAU's Faculty of Humanities best teacher for 2004. Was a Fellow-Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University and of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University; Visiting Professor at Harvard (Fall 1999) and Visiting Scholar at NYU (winter 2004). Author of The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David, The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and The Holocaust, 1939-1945, Harvard University Press, 1990 (the Hebrew version of the book won the Yad Ben-Zvi Award and the Kubowitzki Award). Editor of the original (Tel Aviv, 1988) Hebrew version of Avraham Tory's Surviving the Holocaust. The Kovno Ghetto Diary (Harvard University Press, 1990) and since 1994, with Roni Stauber, of the TAU annual "Anti-Semitism Worldwide". Author of Beyond the Corporeal. The Life and Times of Abba Kovner, Am Oved and Yad-Vashem, 2000, in Hebrew, which received the Zandman Award and the Buchman Award. Other publications include The Jewish Press in Eretz Israel and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (with Mordechai Naor, 2002, essays) and Between the Star of David and the Yellow Star-The Jewish Community in Palestine and the Holocaust 1939-1945 (with Yehiam Weitz, 2002, Documents).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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