2017

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.

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.

Michela Marzano (1970) completed her studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and obtained a PhD in Philosophical research. She is professor of Moral Philosophy at the Université Paris Descartes and served as head of the social sciences department at the same university. She is a columnist for the newspaper la Repubblica and author of a number of books that have been translated into many languages, including Straniero nel corpo (Giuffrè, 2004); Estensione del dominio della manipolazione (Mondadori, 2009); Sii bella e stai zitta.