Team

University of Bologna Department of Cultural Heritage

Phd at European University Institute, Anna Pellegrino is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at The Department of Cultural Heritage University of Bologna, and she has a long experience of international research. Her research interests are focused on the history of work’s culture in Europe in particular on the role of traditional crafts in Europe in a comparative perspective and on the Universal Exhibition in Europe between the 19th and 21st centuries also seen from the point of view of heritage formation. She is a member of the editorial board and committee of several journals and no profit cultural and political organizations. She has published extensively in the field of social and cultural History and she has been speaker at many international qualified conferences.

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Emeritus)

Full professor emeritus di Early Modern and Modern History at The Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and Administrator of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris) from 1976 to 1992. He directed with Perry Anderson, Paul Bairoch, Walter Barberis and Carlo Ginzburg Storia d’Europa, Torino, Einaudi, 5 voll., (1993-96) and whit Hélène Ahrweiler Les Européens, Parigi, Hermann 2000. Its role in the project will be scientific advisory.

Queen Mary University of London

Donald Sassoon, is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at the Queen Mary University of London. He is one of the leading contemporary historians. Scholar of Eric J. Hobsbawm, he has worked on the History of Capitalism and European cultural history. Hi is author of over 100 articles. His books, which include “Mona Lisa”, and “The Culture of the Europeans”, have been translated into 15 languages.

Sorbonne Paris 1

Full professor at Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne is alumnus of the ENS (Saint-Cloud) and aggregate of history, is an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France and former president of the Committee of Historical and Scientific Works (Ecole des Chartes). He is a specialist in History of collections and museums Cultural history of heritage, History of Heritage Art and Society 18th century and and European Cultural Heritage. He has published many books and articles on this subject internationally.

CNRS Paris

Architect, PhD in Engineering, HDR (Habilitation) in Computer Science, Livio De Luca is research director at CNRS and director of CNRS/MCMAP (Models and simulations for Architecture and Cultural Heritage) unit. General Co-chair of the UNESCO/IEEE/EG Digital Heritage international congress (Marseille 2013, Grenade 2015) and coordinator and member of national (ANR, FUI, CNRS, MC) and international (FP7, Marie-Curie, H2020 actions). His research activities focus on surveying, geometric modeling and semantic enrichment of digital representations of heritage objects. Editor of the Journal of Cultural Heritage (Elsevier) and associate editor of the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (ACM) and Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (Elsevier), he has been an appointed member of the CoNRS (Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique). Since 2019 is the coordinator of the “digital data” working group of the CNRS/Ministry of Culture scientific site for the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, and, since 2022, he has held an ERC Advanced Grant.

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Kostis Kornetis is professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, his research interests are rooted in 20th century comparative European history, specialising in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean: the history of social movements, memories of genocide and dictatorships, and the ways in which these relate to current politics. He published extensively on the history and memory of social movements in the European South and about the manuscript on the generational memory of the transitions to democracy in Spain, Portugal and Greece. He received grants from Carlsberg Foundation, the European Commission, the Latsis Foundation, NYU Global Research Initiatives, and others.

University of Bologna

He is currently an Alma Mater Professor (honorary) at University of Bologna, department of Cultural Heritage. He has been interested in various aspects of the history of Italian and European society and culture, especially in the period between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, in particular topics such as the history of labour, social policies, welfare systems, and the impact of the world wars on Italian society. sHe has also been interested in issues relating to the impact of visual media and in particular photography and its derivatives on contemporary culture and society. At the University of Bologna he was President of the Degree Course in Cultural Heritage, Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage and Vice-President of the School of Humanities and Cultural Heritage with responsibility for the Ravenna campus.

Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichità - DiSSGea- Università di Padova 

Enrico Valseriati, PhD in History and Anthropology, is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Padua. He was curator of the Brescia Musei Foundation and collaborator of the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. His research focuses on urban history and early modern political cultures in Renaissance Italy. His publications include, "The Power of Space. Street Politics in Early Modern Europe (and beyond). An Introduction" in "European History Quarterly", 55/1 (2025), pp. 3-7 (with M. Rospocher), and “Politics in the street: the materiality of urban public spaces in Renaissance Italy”, in "Urban History", 1-24.

University Institute of Lisbon

Luísa Veloso is a sociologist. She is Professor of the Sociology Department at ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon. Her main research areas are Work, economy and professions and Science, Innovation and Technology. She has been developing also research in Education and Learning. She has been coordinating various research projects and has a set of national and international publications. Luísa Veloso also develops an activity of articulating science with arts, by participating in artistic projects and by curating cinema cycles. She is one of the founding members of the recently created Portuguese Association of Political Economy, member of the UNESCO European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO), where she represents the Portuguese Observatory.

Ex President of the AIPH Associazione Italiana di Public History

Ex President of the AIPH Associazione Italiana di Public History and visiting fellow in the History Department at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. His research activity focuses today on the History of Public History, Digital (Public) History, Digital Humanities, and Information Literacy. Studies on the value of cultural heritage; Member of the international scientific committee of the Museum and Documentation Center for the History of Fascism in Predappio (IT); Hi is founding member of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture (AIUCD); a member of the board of directors of the International documentary festival "Festival dei Popoli" from 2018. I was the first President of the IFPH-FIHP (2012-2017).

Department of Cultural Heritage University of Bologna

Federica Botti is Associate Professor of Ecclesiastic Law at the School of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum.She graduated in law in Bologna, and received her PhD in Bioethics (Bologna) and PhD in Droit canonique & Dt relations religionsEtats (Université PARIS-SUD 11). Since 2004 she is the scientific coordinator of the http://licodu.cois.it site (Freedom of Conscience and Human Rights) that offers scholars of religious freedom and freedom of conscience and religious denominations in Eastern Europe.She took care of legal issues of religious denominations and of individual and collective religious freedom in Albania and Romania, and more generally in relation to the Balkans. Another field of interest regards the religious buildings and the cultural heritage. She performs consultations for the Balkan governments collaborating with the Academy of Sciences of Albania and Bulgaria

Department of Cultural Heritage University of Bologna

Raffaella Biscioni is associate professor at the Department of Cultural Heritage in Ravenna and has deepened her study of photography as a documentation of cultural heritage, with a broad focus also on the methods of preserving, managing and archiving this heritage using new digital technologies. He has also extensively studied the use of photography as a means of communication and as a propaganda tool, addressing in particular the theme of ruins and damage to cultural heritage during the two world wars. her publication include include Rovine di guerra. Destruzioni, immaginario sociale e memorie fotografiche del patrimonio culturale italiano durante la prima guerra mondiale, Pacini 2021; Fotografia e Public History. Patrimonio storico e comunicazione digitale, edited by R. Biscioni, Firenze, Pacini, 2017.

Angeloantonio Iadevito is currently Research  Assistant  at the Fondazione di Studi Storici “Filippo Turati” in Florence. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna. He obtained in 2025 a Level II Vocational Master's degree in Digital Humanities (University of Milan). His research interests include the history of occupational medicine, cultural history, and digital humanities. He has collaborated with institutions such as the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut. He recently published with Roberto Mazzagatti and Michele A. Riva “Luigi Carozzi (1880-1963): an Italian physician at the helm of global industrial hygiene”, 2024, and edited the section “Giacomo Matteotti e ‘La Giustizia’” in Giacomo Matteotti, Liberalismo, democrazia, socialismo, edited by Maurizio Degl’Innocenti, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2025

Ph.D in History of Contemporary European Society and Institutions, she’s mainly interested in the 19th and 20th centuries. She studies the issues and representations of Modernity with a strong interest in the symbolic aspects. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates Art History, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies. She published Milano 1881: tanto lusso e tanta folla. Rappresentazione della modernità e modernizzazione popolare (2009), about the first Italian Industrial Exposition, explored through its iconographic sources

CATOLICA GLOBAL SCHOOL OF LAW

Abreu Professor in Law and Innovation at Catolica Global School of Law - Principal Investigator at Fair MusE project (2023-2026), funded under the Horizon Europe program. He was Assistant Professor in intellectual property law at the Trinity College Dublin and an Italian lawyer specializing in intellectual property, media law, antitrust and information technology law. From 2009 to 2011 he was Assistant Professor of intellectual property law at the University of Copenhagen, where he worked also as leader of research projects funded by the EU Commission such as MEDIADEM (media policy-making in EU member states) and LAPSI (legal aspects of public sector information). He was Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, where he co-managed the CEPS Digital Forum (2012-13).

Department of Cultural Heritage University of Bologna

Associate professor in Contemporary History at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Campus of Ravenna . His teachings include History of the City and the Territory and History of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Italy. On these topics he published Among the Pioneers of Environmental Protectionism. The Pro montibus et sylvis and the attempt to govern the mountain territory (1899- 1914), in "Società e Storia," 2015, pp. 523-51.

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Associate Professor in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He has conducted research on visual culture, visual so- ciology, conflict management, intercultural communication, forms of social participation, sociology of childhood and cultural design. His latest research, carried out between 2015 and 2018, is an international study on using im- ages to construct narrative memories (SHARMED. Shared Memory and Dialogue). Since 2017 he has been President of Festival dei Popoli - Italian Institute for Social Documentation Film

Department of Cultural Heritage University of Bologna

Ph. Associate Prof. President of Master degree in Library and Archives Sciences. Director of 'Bibliothecae.it' and of the Summer School 'Linked data per i beni culturali’. President of the SC of the Ravenna Campus Library; member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the SBAUNIBO. Scientific Director of LUDI Center. Member of the international Erasmus+ Project "Die Zukunft des Kulturellen Erbes im Modernen Europa” competitive call “Erasmus+ 2019 Strategic Partnership in Higher Education ‘Cultural Heritage in Modern Europe’ ” (with Universities of Potsdam, Bordeaux, Riga, Bologna, Copenaghen, Cracovia and Atene, 2019-2022).

Department of Cultural Heritage University of Bologna

Luca Ciancabilla is a researcher at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna and director of the Humanities area of the University Museum System. His research focuses on the history of the restoration, conservation and collecting of art works with a specific focus on ancient and contemporary wall paintings (Graffiti-Writing and Street Art). His publications include The Enchantment of the Fresco. Capolavori strappati da Pompei a Giotto, da Correggio a Tiepolo (Ravenna 2014), Street art. Banksy & co. L'arte allo stato Urbano (Bologna 2016).