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