2017

John Eskenazi is one of the most highly regarded scholars of South Asian religious art. In the early 1990s, he opened a gallery in London specialising in Indian sculptures from Gandhara, the Himalayas and South-East Asia, contributing to the establishment of important private collections and providing works to over forty museums all over the world.

Amalia Signorelli (1934) is an anthropologist. She studied with Ernesto De Martino and has taught cultural anthropology in the Universities of Urbino, Naples and Rome, at the E.H.E.S.S. in Paris and at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana of Mexico City. She has worked as a consultant for the EEC and the International Labour Organisation on emigration. In her works, translated into several languages, she has studied cultural modernisation processes in Southern Italy, migration and the status of women. Her studies on urban anthropology are considered ground-breaking.

Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary University of London. A pupil of Eric J. Hobsbawn, he is considered a leading contemporary historian. Born in Cairo, of British nationality, he studied in Paris, Milan, London and the United States. He regularly writes for major newspapers worldwide, including Il Sole 24 Ore.

Mastrocola was born in 1956 in Turin, where she taught Humanities in high schools until 2015. She has written comedies for children and published collections of poems, essays on 14^th and 16^th century Italian literature, and novels.