Vandana Shiva, an Indian physicist and economist, is one of the world’s top experts in social ecology. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in Dehradun, India. A political and environmental activist, she has fought battles against GMOs, intensive farming, desertification, genetic engineering and biopiracy and in defence of intellectual property rights.
Corrado Sinigaglia is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Università degli Studi in Milan. He researches the processes behind the most elementary forms of social cognition (understanding action, coordinating action, collective action). With Giacomo Rizzolatti, he is the co-author of So quel che fai (2006) and Specchi nel cervello. Come comprendiamo gli altri dall’interno (2019) published by Raffaello Cortina.
Giacomo Rizzolatti, a world famous neurophysiologist, is Head of the Parma Unit of the CNR’s Institute of Neurosciences. He led the team that discovered mirror neurons at the beginning of the 1990s. These brain cells activate whether one performs an action oneself or if one watches another person doing a similar action. In 2014, the Lundbeck Foundation awarded him the Brain Prize and he also won the Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine the same year, while in 2016 he was given the Lombardia è Ricerca Prize.
Isabella Merzagora, jurist and psychologist, is a Professor in Criminology at the l’Università degli Studi in Milan and President of the Italian Society of Criminologists. She has written 280 publications on subjects relating to criminology and forensic psychopathology; she has collaborated on international research projects and has spoken at many conferences in Italy and beyond.
Wlodek Goldkorn writes for the magazine L’Espresso and the paper la Repubblica. He is the author of: La scelta di Abramo. Identità ebraiche e postmodernità (Bollati Boringhieri, 2006); Il bambino nella neve (Feltrinelli, 2016); and Il guardiano. Marek Edelman racconta (with R. Assuntino, Sellerio, 2016).
Fernando Aramburu, born in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1959, studied Spanish Philology at Saragozza University and the 1990s he moved to Germany to teach Spanish. He has published novels and short story collections, translated into many different languages. Homeland, released in Spain in 2016, was a huge hit and award winner, including the Critics’ Prize.
Donatella Di Cesare is a Professor in Theoretical Philosphy at La Sapienza University in Rome. She is one of the most present philosophers in the public debate as well as in academic circles and the media. She writes for the magazine L’Espresso and newspapers Corriere della Sera and il manifesto, as well as collaborating with many Italian and international websites and magazines.
Paolo Pellegrin became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and a full member in 2005. He has won many international awards including: ten World Press Photo Awards; numerous Photographer of the Year awards; the Leica Medal of Excellence; the Olivier Rebbot Award; the Hansel-Mieth-Preis and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award.
Elena Gagliasso, lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at the Università La Sapienza in Rome, has directed the Res Viva research centre and is a member of the Women and Science Association. Her research ranges from the philosophy of biology to the relations between science, philosophy and society. She has written and curated various books, including: Verso un’epistemologia del mondo vivente (Guerini, 2001) and Percorsi evolutivi (Franco Angeli, 2016).
Eugenio Borgna is emeritus Doctor of Psychiatry at the Ospedale Maggiore in Novara and lecturer in the Clinic of Nervous and Mental Illnesses at the Università degli Studi in Milan. His scientific work includes clinical and phenomenological psychiatry, general and specific special psychopathology, pharmacopsychiatry and community psychiatry as well as epistemology and methodology in psychiatry. He has also studied the thematic correlations between psychopathological experiences and those that are creative, poetic and artistic.
