Sonia Bergamasco is an Italian stage and film actress. After obtaining diplomas in piano and acting from the School of Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, she has performed in stage productions directed by M. Castri, G. Mauri, T. Terzopoulos, C. Bene. She was in the cast of many tv and feature movies directed, among others, by S. Soldini (D’estate); G. Bertolucci (L’amore probabilmente); M. T. Giordana (La meglio gioventù); L. Cavani (De Gasperi, Einstein); F. Battiato (Musikanten, Niente è come sembra).
Edoardo Boncinelli is an Italian physicist and geneticist. He has devoted himself to studying the genetics and molecular biology of higher animals and of man, and has headed several laboratories of molecular biology of development. He currently teaches Biological Foundations of Knowledge at the Philosophy Department of Milan’s Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. He regularly contributes to the scientific journal Le Scienze and to the news daily Corriere della Sera.
Jean-Loup Amselle (born in 1942) is an anthropologist and Directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is an associate member of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie et d’Histoire de l’Institution de la Culture (LAHIC). His fields of research include ethnicity, identity, mixed races, contemporary African art, multiculturalism and post-colonialism. He is Deputy Editor of the Cahiers d’études africaines and author of a number of publications and essays in several languages. His Italian works include Logiche meticce.
Maurizio Bettini is Professor of Classical Philology at Siena University, after being its dean for some time. He was among the founders of the Anthropology and the Ancient World Center that he heads at the same university. He has held seminars at the Department of Classics of the University of California at Berkeley. He was many times directeur d’études associé at EHESS (School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris, and he taught at the Collège de France.
Olivier Roy (1949) is directeur d’études at EHESS (School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris and head researcher at the CNRS, France’s National Scientific Research Center. He has taught at the Paris Institut d’Etudes Politiques and at the University of California a Berkeley. He is currently professor of Political and Social Theories at the European University Institute in Florence, where he is head of the Mediterranean Program.
Guido Barbujani is professor of Genetics at the University of Ferrara. His work is focused on the genetics of populations and evolutionary biology. In addition to many scientific articles, his publications include, among others: Questione di razza (Mondadori, 2003); L’invenzione delle razze (2006); Europei senza se e senza ma (2008) for Bompiani; with Pietro Cheli Sono razzista ma sto cercando di smettere (2008), and Gli africani siamo noi. Alle origini dell’uomo (2016) for Laterza.
Massimo Montanari (1949) is Professor of Medieval History and History of Food at Bologna University, and head of the European Masters Degree Program on the History and Culture of Food. following are some of his many books devoted to his chief interests: Campagne medievali (Einaudi, 1984); Atlante dell’alimentazione e della gastronomia (edited with F. Sabban, UTET, 2004). Also, Convivio (3 voll., 1989-1992); Il pentolino magico (1999); Il cibo come cultura (with A. Capatti, 2008); La fame e l’abbondanza.
Gualtiero Bertelli (1944) is an Italian composer and writer who has devoted many years to researching Venetian folk songs. In 2002, he created the Compagnia delle Acque band. He cooperates, among others, with Edoardo Pittalis, the deputy editor of the news daily Gazzettino di Venezia, and with Gian Antonio Stella.
Gian Antonio Stella (1953) is an Italian journalist. He is special correspondent and opinionist for the news daily Corriere della Sera. He has received many journalism awards, including the following: Premio giornalistico Luigi Barzini, E’ giornalismo, Premio Ischia Internazionale di giornalismo, Premio Internazionale Columnistas del Mundo and Premio per la saggistica Saint Vincent. His books, all published by Rizzoli, are L’orda (2002); Odissee (2004); Avanti popolo (2006); Negri, froci, giudei & co. L’eterna guerra contro l’altro (2009); Il viaggio più lungo (2010).
Emanuele Trevi, a writer and literary critic, has translated and curated Italian and French classics and works with the Corriere della Sera newspaper. His books include: Istruzioni per l’uso del lupo (Castelvecchi, 1994); Invasioni controllate (with Mario Trevi, Castelvecchi 2007); Il libro della gioia perpetua (Rizzoli, 2010); Qualcosa di scritto (Ponte alle Grazie, 2012); Senza verso.
