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Giovanni Allegretti is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the Coimbra University, Portugal. He is an architect who has been teaching Town Planning and Territorial Management at the University of Florence, Italy, since 2002. His primary field of interest is participatory budgeting on which he has written several essays and books (i.e. Porto Alegre: una biografia territoriale, Firenze University Press, 2005).
Egyptian-born and Paris-trained, Samir Amin is one of the better known Neo-Marxian thinkers, both in development theory as well as in the relativistic-cultural critique of the social sciences. His recent works include Beyond US Hegemony: Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World (Zed, 2006) and The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World (Monthly Review Press, 2004).
Marcus Barber is a strategic futurist whose skills have been utilised by the likes of DEST, Fosters, CPA Australia and the Department of Defence among many others. He applies futures thinking to emerging issues of change and innovation and is a regular contributor to Australia’s leading Innovation magazine ‘Fast Thinking’.
Nicolas Baygert is member of the LASCO research group of the University of Louvain (UCL). He holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent and an MPhil in Political Science from the University of Louvain (UCL). Nicolas has started a PhD at the department of Communication of the University of Louvain. His academic interests include political branding in the framework of consumer society and the resurgences of populism in the EU. He currently works as communication consultant for PRACSIS.
Joseph A. Camilleri is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has written a number of important books on international political economy, governance, security studies, and the Asia-Pacific region. He has been actively involved in Australia and internationally on issues of human rights, disarmament and arms control, the environment and intercultural dialogue.
Paola Cavalieri is a philosopher and advocate for animal rights. She is the editor of the quarterly Etica & Animali, co-founder (with Peter Singer) of the Great Ape project and author of The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights.
Matthew Daniel has an interest in technology as an enabler of social change and the effective sharing of knowledge. He is currently completing a Bachelor of Information Systems with Honours at the University of Melbourne.
Joep van Delft is completing his Master’s thesis in Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He reviews the narrative of loss of public space in urban settings with an experiental perspective. He has been active in Loesje where free thought is promoted and exercised by dissemination of words in public.
Arlen has just completed his graduate training in social anthropology and is known around Yerevan, Armenia for his large stencil based street works.
Since 2004, Nicole Doerr is a research student in Social Science at the European University Institute in Florence. She writes her PhD thesis on the questions of the public sphere and democracy in Europe. She graduated in political science at the Otto Suhr Institut of the Freie Universität in Berlin (2004)and at the Institute de Sciences Politiques in Paris (2003).
Costas Douzinas is a Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Birbeck, university of London. He is also a visiting Professor at the University of Athens and has held visiting posts at the Universities of Paris, Thessaloniki and Prague. His books include Critical Jurisprudence: The Political Philosophy of Justice (Hart, 2005) and The End of Human Rights: Critical Legal Through at the Fin-de-Siecle (Hart, 2000).
Mark Elliott is an artist, educator and collaborative systems designer currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne, researching and developing large-scale collaborative systems and methods. He has designed large-scale collaborative environments in a wide ranged of contexts including education, participatory governance (ABRI.org.au) and collaborative research (MetaCollab.net) and harbours a keen interest in collective intelligence and the development of a more equitable and inclusive world.
Carme Melo Escrihuela is a research fellow at the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Keele University, UK. She is completing a PhD thesis in the field of Green Political Thought, on issues of citizenship, civil society and ecology. She graduated in Law at the Universitat de Valencia, where she comes from.
Brad Evans is currently completing his doctoral thesis titled “War for the Politics of Life” at the University of Leeds. This research which is funded by the ESRC provides a critical interrogation into the emerging Global State of War taken from the perspective of ontological difference. In particular, its focus is concerned with how such differences are being positively denied by a bio-political security regime that is not only taking all life to be its object, but is as such foreclosing the political in the name of an entire species existence. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the anomalist e-journal www.theanomalist.com
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His numerous books include The Declining World Order: America’s Imperial Geopolitics (Routledge, 2004) and Religion and Humane Global Governance (Palgrave, 2001).
Madalina Florescu is a doctoral student in social anthropology at SOAS, London conducting a research on power, religion, and the body in Africa (but not only). She is particularly interested in the notions of ritual and “disclosure” (or dys-closure for graphicists) and defines herself as a person of eastern orthodox ritual background.