2011

Telmo Pievani is Chair of Philosophy of Biological Science at the University of Padua, where he also teaches Bioethics and Divulgation and Natural Science Museology. He is president of the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology, a member of the board of the Italian Institute of Anthropology and he collaborates with the newspaper Corriere della Sera and the magazines Le Scienze, Micromega and L’Indice dei Libri del Mese.

Cristiana Natali teaches Cultural Anthropology at Milan University and holds her workshops and classes in Anthropology of dance and performance at the Universities of Bologna and Milan. She has conducted her on-field research in Sri Lanka, where she dealt with the role of dance in Tamil identity building processes. Her publications include: Sabbia sugli dèi. Pratiche commemorative tra le Tigri Tamil (il Segnalibro 2004); Percorsi di antropologia della danza (Libreria Cortina 2009); Contesti etnografici dell’Asia meridionale (CUEM 2010).

Sylvie Coyaud talks about scientific research on Channel 3 of Italian radio and on Radio Popolare, and writes about it in ‘Ventiquattro’ magazine (owned by the 24 Ore Group), in ‘OggiScienza’ and in online media. In addition to the many awards she has received for scientific popularization, an asteroid was named after her in 2003, and a green jewel-beetle—Agrilus coyaudi—in 2009. Her book La scomparsa delle api [‘The disappearance of bees’] was published by Mondadori in 2008.