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Roland Benedikter
Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies and UNESCO Chair in Interdisciplinary Anticipation and Global-Local Transformation, Eurac Research
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Manfred B. Steger
Professor of Transnational Sociology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu
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Kathleen Schlütter
Research Fellow at the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig University
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Ingrid Kofler
Researcher and Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Design and Art, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
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Tommaso Durante
Teaching Associate at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
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Henning Vöpel
Chairman of the Center for European Policy and Professor of Economics at the BSP Business and Law School
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Manisha Desai
Professor and Executive Director of The Center for Changing Systems of Power, Stony Brook University
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Sebastiano Maffettone
Professor at the Free International University of Social Studies “Guido Carli”, LUISS
Speakers 2022
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Jane Bennett
Professor in African Feminist Studies, University of Cape Town and Deputy-Dean (Staffing), Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Armin Bernhard
Researcher and Lecturer at the Free University of Bolzano, Co-founder of the Obervinschgau Citizens’ Association (BGO), Italy
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Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Arianna Miriam Fiumefreddo
President of the LGBTI+ Association Arcigay Südtirol Centaurus, Italy
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Christoph May
Founder of the Detox Masculinity Institute, Researcher and Consultant, Germany
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Margaret McLaren
Professor of Philosophy and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies, George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair, Rollins College, USA
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Amy Oyekunle
Lead Consultant at Monii Development Consult and Gender and Development Activist, Nigeria
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Oyeronke Oyewumi
Professor of Sociology, Africana and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University, Nigeria/USA
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Barbara Plagg
Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of General Practice and Public Health, lecturer at the Free University of Bolzano and founder of Südtirols Sisters (SUSI)
Speakers 2021
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Chiara Bottici
Associate Professor of Philosophy
New School for Social Research, New York City, USA
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Kathryn E. Bouskill
Associate Director
RAND Center for Global Risk and Security
Santa Monica, USA
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James Giordano
Professor in the Departments of Neurology & Biochemistry
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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Robert Mudida
Director
Institute for Public Policy & Governance
Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenia
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Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
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Peter Oberparleiter
CEO
GKN Powder Metallurgy
London, UK and Bruneck-Brunico, South Tyrol, Italy
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Manfred Schweigkofler
Stage Director, Creative Consultant, South Tyrol; WeQ-Ambassador, Italy