Sonia Bergamasco is an Italian stage and film actress. After obtaining diplomas in piano and acting from the School of Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, she has performed in stage productions directed by M. Castri, G. Mauri, T. Terzopoulos, C. Bene. She was in the cast of many tv and feature movies directed, among others, by S. Soldini (D’estate); G. Bertolucci (L’amore probabilmente); M. T. Giordana (La meglio gioventù); L. Cavani (De Gasperi, Einstein); F. Battiato (Musikanten, Niente è come sembra).

Edoardo Boncinelli is an Italian physicist and geneticist. He has devoted himself to studying the genetics and molecular biology of higher animals and of man, and has headed several laboratories of molecular biology of development. He currently teaches Biological Foundations of Knowledge at the Philosophy Department of Milan’s Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. He regularly contributes to the scientific journal Le Scienze and to the news daily Corriere della Sera.

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.

Maurizio Bettini is Professor of Classical Philology at Siena University, after being its dean for some time. He was among the founders of the Anthropology and the Ancient World Center that he heads at the same university. He has held seminars at the Department of Classics of the University of California at Berkeley. He was many times directeur d’études associé at EHESS (School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris, and he taught at the Collège de France.