2014

Matteo Aria teaches Development Anthropology at the University of Florence, African History at Rome’s La Sapienza University and Economic Anthropology at the University of Turin. His research has taken him to Ghana, French Polynesia and New Caledonia for studies on processes of patrimonialisation, passeurs culturels, cultural anthropology and gift giving. His publications include Cercando nel vuoto (2007), Il dono del sangue (with F. Dei and G.L. Mancini, 2008) and La densità delle cose (with A. Pani, 2014).

A professor of Sociology of Communications, Andrea Segre makes narrative and documentary films for cinema and television. Filmography: South of Lampedusa (2006), The Bad Shadow (2007), Like a Man on Earth (2008), May Things Change (2009), Green Blood (2010), Shun Li and the Poet (2011), First Snowfall (2013) and Indebito (2013). Closed Sea (2012), co-directed with Stefano Liberti, has won numerous awards and honours.

A writer, journalist, and director of reportages on international politics, Stefano Liberti has published Lo Stivale meticcio. L’immigrazione in Italia oggi (with T. Barrucci, Carocci, 2004), A sud di Lampedusa (2008, Indro Montanelli Award) and Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism (2013). His 2010 documentary L’inferno dei bambini stregoni won that year’s Weakest Link Award - TV. He is a recipient of the Marco Luchetta International Press Award and the Guido Carletti Prize for Social Journalism.