Giuliano Amato, former President of the Constitutional Court of Italy, was the Italian Prime Minister in 1992-93 and in 2000-01. From 2006 to 2008 he served as the Minister of the Interior. He was the vice-chairman of the Convention for the European Constitution. He has chaired the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani and the Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies) in Rome. A Professor of Law in several Italian universities and abroad, he has written books and articles on the economy and public institutions, European antitrust, personal liberties, comparative government, European integration and humanities. He served as the Chair of Reset DOC’s scientific board from 2003 to 2013.
Federigo Argentieri studied politics, history and languages at the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza”, Budapest-ELTE, and Harvard. He has widely published on the contemporary history and politics of Central-Eastern Europe and Italy, particularly on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and its Western echoes and effects, as well as on Ukraine. He teaches courses on international security and comparative politics of Europe, Latin America and developing countries and regularly contributes to Italy’s main newspaper Corriere della Sera and to other Italian and international media. He is the Director of the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs.
Tom Bailey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He has published on the place of religion in democratic politics and on Kant, Nietzsche, and Nietzsche’s relation to Kant, and he has edited or co-edited collections on Rawls and religion, Habermas and global justice, cosmopolitanism, and Nietzsche and Kantian ethics. He is currently working on issues in family and food justice.
Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002-2008). Professor Benhabib was the President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2006-07, a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in 2009, at the NYU Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice in Spring 2012, and at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy in Washington DC in Spring 2013. In 2009, she received the Ernst Bloch prize for her contributions to cultural dialogue in a global civilization and in May 2012, the Leopold Lucas Prize of the Evangelical Academy of Tubingen. She holds honorary degrees from the Humanistic University in Utrecht in 2004, the University of Valencia in November 2010, Bogazici University in May 2012, Georgetown in 2013 and University of Geneva in 2017. She received a Guggenheim grant during 2010-2011 for her work on sovereignty and international law. Professor Benhabib was awarded the Meister Eckhart Prize of the Identity Foundation and the University of Cologne in May 2014 for her contributions to contemporary thought.
Sheri Berman is a professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research interests include European history and politics; the development of democracy; populism and fascism; and the history of the left. She has written about these topics for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and VOX. She currently serves on the boards of the Journal of Democracy, Persuasion, and Political Science Quarterly. Her last book, entitled Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day, was published in 2019. Her upcoming book is entitled The Political Consequences of Economic Ideas: Neoliberalism, the Decline of the Left, and the Fate of Democracy.
Moreno Bertoldi is Senior Associate Research Fellow, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). Prior to this role he was Special Advisor to the Ambassador and Head of the Economic and Financial Section at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. From 2007 to 2015, he was head of the unit responsible for countries of the G-20, International Monetary Fund, and G-Groups at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission. From 2010 to 2015 he was also the European Commission representative in the G20 Framework for Growth Working Group. Bertoldi formerly served as head of the economic and financial section at the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States (2001-2006) and head of the political and economic section at the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan (1996-2001). He holds degrees in economic analysis and economic policy from École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and in economics and social sciences from the “Luigi Bocconi ” University in Milan, Italy.
Giancarlo Bosetti is the Executive Chair and one of the founders of Reset DOC and Reset, a cultural magazine he founded in 1993. He was deputy-editor of the Italian daily L’Unità and later columnist for the Italian daily La Repubblica. He is the editor-in-chief of the web-magazine of Resetdoc.org. He has been adjunct professor of Sociology of Communication at University of Rome La Sapienza and University Roma Tre. He published The lesson of this century (Routledge, 2000), a book-interview with Karl Popper; Cattiva maestra televisione (transl. in several languages). Among his books: Spin. Trucchi e Tele-imbrogli della Politica, Marsilio, 2007; Il fallimento dei laici furiosi (2009); La verità degli altri. La scoperta del pluralismo in dieci storie, Bollati Boringhieri, 2020 (The Truth of Others, The Discovery of Pluralism in Ten Tales, Springer 2023). His latest book with Giuliano Amato and Vincenzo Paglia is Il sogno di Cusano. Dialoghi post-secolari e la politica inaridita di oggi, Baldini + Castoldi, 2024.
Craig Calhoun is a comparative and historical sociologist, social theorist, and scholar, known for his interdisciplinary work in anthropology, communications, economics, history, international studies, political science, philosophy, and science and technology studies. His latest book, Degenerations of Democracy, co-authored with Charles Taylor and Dilip Gaonkar, was published by Harvard University Press in 2022. He edited The Green New Deal and the Future of Work with Benjamin Fong (Columbia University Press, 2022) and has collaborated with former students to create widely used anthologies covering classical and contemporary sociological theory. Calhoun has authored nine books and published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, articles, and chapters. Calhoun currently serves as the University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU, he served as president and director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, president of the Social Science Research Council, and president of the Berggruen Institute. Calhoun has taught at Columbia University, NYU, where he founded the Institute for Public Knowledge, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also served as dean of the graduate school and directed the University Center for International Studies. Calhoun’s research focuses on contemporary transformations, possible futures, and the political economy of the modern world-system. He is also committed to studying universities and knowledge institutions, democracy, and shifting structures of social solidarity. In his philosophical pursuits, Calhoun explores the relationship between transformation and transcendence in understanding human existence. Calhoun is the Director of Reset Dialogues US.
Marina Calloni is Full Professor and Chair of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca, PhD in Philosophy and PhD in Social and Political Science. She is President of the Italian Society of Critical Theory and Director of the research center ADV – Against Domestic Violence. Calloni was advisor to the “Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Femicide and all forms of Gender Violence” at the Senate of the Italian Republic and collaborates with the Council of Europe – OCEAN (Open Council of Europe Academic Network) for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention. She was a Research Fellow at the New School for Social Research and at the Italian Academy – Columbia University. She taught at the Universities of Notre Dame, Lodz Frankfurt, Bremen, Vienna Lugano, Hannover, Kurume, and was Senior Researcher at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics. She is editor of the book series RiGenerAzioni (Castelvecchi). She is co-founder of Reset and member of the Board of Directors of Reset DOC. She is Editorial Associate at Constellations and collaborates with different journals, newspapers, and magazines. She has published in several languages more than 280 scientific works on social philosophy and political theory; human rights and fundamental freedoms; gender issues; critical theory of society; critique of violence; citizenship and public sphere; research networks and international cooperation. She has introduced the Italian edition of Habermas’ book on A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics. In 2020 the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, awarded her the title of “Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.”
James Davidson Hunter is the LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He completed his doctorate at Rutgers University under the supervision of Peter Berger and joined UVA in 1983. Hunter’s research examines culture, religion, knowledge, and social change, with notable works including Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (1991), The Death of Character (2000), Science and the Good (2018) and, most recently, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis. As Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Hunter oversees interdisciplinary research on cultural change and publishes The Hedgehog Review. He has advised organizations such as the White House and the National Commission on Civic Renewal and remains a prominent voice on the moral and cultural challenges of late-modern society.
Michael Driessen is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the MA program in International Affairs at John Cabot University. He also directs the Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics. Michael received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has been a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar as well as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He also holds a research affiliation with Cambridge University’s Von Hügel Institute and serves as an advisor for the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon. Driessen’s books include The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2023), Human Fraternity and Inclusive Citizenship: Interreligious Engagement in the Mediterranean (ISPI, 2021; co-edited with Fabio Petito and Fadi Daou), and Religion and Democratization (Oxford University Press, 2014). He has published scholarly articles in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, Constellations and Democratization and essays in America Magazine and Commonweal.
Alessandro Ferrara, Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Adjunct Professor of Legal Theory at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, has served as President of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy (2005-2010) and since 1993 is a Co-Director of the Prague Conference Philosophy and Social Science. His book Sovereignty Across Generations. Constituent Power and Political Liberalism (OUP, 2023) was awarded the “Best 2023 Book” prize by ICON-S, International Society of Public Law. With Frank Michelman, he has recently co-authored Legitimation by Constitution. A Dialogue on Political Liberalism (OUP, 2021). He also authored The Democratic Horizon. Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism (CUP, 2014) and The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment (Columbia UP, 2008).
Pamela Harris studied at UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School, and then worked as a researcher in comparative law at the Italian Constitutional Court. She is currently the Associate Dean of Academics at John Cabot University, where she also teaches American government, political theory, public international law and international and comparative human rights (free speech and religious freedom). She is legal counsel to the Italian Federation of Progressive Judaism, and her current research focuses on the problems raised by the state recognition of religious minorities in liberal democracies.
George Hoguet is a private investor and consultant to institutional investment committees. For many years he led the active emerging markets institutional equity investment team and served as Global Investment Strategist at State Street Global Advisors, one of the world’s largest investment managers. From 1981-1984 he served at the US Treasury Department, first as U.S. Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank and subsequently, as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. His prior and current affiliations/directorships include: President – Boston Economic Club; Executive Committee of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations; Board Chair – CFA Society of Boston; Visiting Committee – Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard; Trustee – The Research Foundation of CFA Institute; Advisory Board – Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) and Advisory Committee – Harvard Seminar on the Politics and Economics of International Finance; Member – Bretton Woods Society; Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA); Council on Foreign Relations; National Association of Business Economists (NABE). He has published extensively in the field of investments and has presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research and many other academic and industry fora. Hoguet is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and holds an MA in Economics from Boston University. He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a qualified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
David A. Hopkins is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College, where he has taught since 2010. He is the author or co-author of four books on American politics, including Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats, which won the 2018 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the American Political Science Association. His latest book, Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, co-authored with Matt Grossmann of Michigan State University, examines how the growing political divide between college-educated and diploma-lacking Americans has redefined the constituencies, policy priorities, governing styles, and institutional alignments of the two major parties. Professor Hopkins has regularly written about contemporary political issues for news publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vox, and Bloomberg Opinion. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Seth N. Jaffe is Associate Professor (Research) of the History of Political Thought at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, his MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his BA from Bowdoin College. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Bowdoin College, and John Cabot University, where he was Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs. He has research interests in Greek and Roman republicanism, the history of international political thought, and how classical frameworks can enrich contemporary debates about liberal democracy. Jaffe’s first book, Thucydides on the Outbreak of War: Character and Contest, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017, and he is presently writing a monograph for Brill on Polybius, the Greek historian of Rome.
Jean-Claude Kaufmann is a sociologist and Honorary Research Director at the CNRS. He is best known for his surveys, which focus on concrete aspects of daily life. His books on these topics reach a wide audience and have been translated into more than 20 languages. This fieldwork serves as the foundation for a more theoretical reflection on the individualization of society and identity mechanisms, which raise questions about the future of democracy. This is explored in three of his books (L’invention de soi, La fin de la démocratie, L’homme reconstruit), which will inform his presentation at the conference.
Jonathan Laurence is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. His principal areas of teaching and research are Comparative Politics and Religion and Politics in Western Europe, Turkey and North Africa. He is a former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, Wissenchaftszentrum Berlin, Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund, Fafo Institute/Norwegian Research Council, LUISS University-Rome, Sciences Po-Paris and the Brookings Institution. His last publication is Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism and the Modern State with Princeton University Press in 2021. Recently he also edited Secularism in Comparative Perspective (Springer, 2023). Laurence is the Executive Director of Reset Dialogues US.
Michael Lind is a senior editor at Commonplace and a fellow at New America. He has been an editor or writer at The New Republic, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and The National Interest and has taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Texas. He is the author of The New Class War (2020) and Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America (2023).
Mauro Magatti is Full Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of Milan. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Sociology and is the Director of the Centre for the Anthropology of Religion and Cultural Change (ARC) in the same University. He has been Visiting Professor at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at the Kellogg Institute at the Notre Dame University and at Centre des Etudes Européennes at Sciences Po. His main scientific interests are focussed on the relationship between economy and society, the role of civic society and globalization in its cultural and social implications. Over the years, he has devoted himself to the topic of social generativity. He has been editor of Studi di Sociologia and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Political Anthropology. Among his last publications: Generare libertà. Accrescere la vita senza distruggere il mondo (Il mulino, 2024) with Chiara Giaccardi, and “The Entropic Effect of Globalization and the Sustainability Challenge. Towards a Bifurcation in Glocalism,” Journal of culture, politics, innovation, n.2 2023, with C. Giaccardi.
John Milbank is Emeritus Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Previously he taught at the Universities of Lancaster, Cambridge and Virginia. He is the author of many books, including Theology and Social Theory, and (with Adrian Pabst) The Politics of Virtue.
Franco Pavoncello earned a B.A. in International Relations and Chinese and Japanese Studies (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before pursuing an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan. He has been a member of the faculty at John Cabot University since 1990, where he served as Dean of Academic Affairs from 1996 to 2005 while continuing to lecture in Political Science. In 2005, Franco Pavoncello became Acting President of the University and was confirmed President in April 2006. In Spring 2018, the JCU Board of Trustees renewed President Pavoncello’s mandate until 2023. A leading analyst of Italian politics, Dr. Pavoncello’s work has appeared in, among others, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Asian Studies, and World Affairs. He is also a well-known media commentator on Italian affairs, a contributor to major international newspapers, and appears regularly on radio and television networks, including CNN, BBC, New York Times, Reuters Press and TV, International Herald Tribune and many other media organizations.
Olivier Roy is presently Professor at the European University Institute (Florence), where he headed the ReligioWest research project (funded by the European Research Council). He has been a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (since 1985), Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (since 2003), and visiting professor at Berkeley University (2008/2009). He headed the OSCE’s Mission for Tajikistan (1993-94) and was a Consultant for the UN Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan (1988). His field works include Afghanistan, Political Islam, Middle East, Islam in the West and comparative religions. Roy received an “Agrégation de Philosophie” and a Ph.D. in Political Sciences. He is the author of The Failure of Political Islam (Harvard UP 1994), Globalized Islam (Columbia University Press, 2004), Holy Ignorance (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2010), Jihad and Death (Hurst 2017), and The Crisis of Culture (Hurst/ Oxford UP 2024).
Ruth Hanau Santini is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Università L’Orientale in Naples. She has recently served as conflict sensitivity advisor at the World Food Programme. Her research has focused on citizenship, security and the regional order in the Middle East and North Africa; Italian and European foreign policy towards the region, and more recently on food security and starvation as a weapon of war.
Giorgia Serughetti is Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca. She works on gender and political and social theory, with a focus on theories of democracy and populism. Among her latest books (in Italian): Potere di altro genere. Donne, femminismi e politica (2024), La società esiste (2023); Il vento conservatore. La destra populista all’attacco della democrazia (2021).
Wolfgang Streeck is a sociologist. He received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt in 1980. From 1988 to 1995 he was Professor of Sociology and Industrial Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and from 1995 to 2014 he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, where he is now a Senior Research Associate. His research areas are comparative political economy and the political-economic institutions of contemporary capitalism. His latest book is Taking Back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism (2024).
Valeria Termini is a Full Professor of Economics at RomaTre University. She has acted as Commissioner of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy and Environment (2011-18) and as Vice President of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). Appointed by Ban Ki Moon to the United Nations Expert Committee for the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (CEPA), she led the Italian delegation for Energy and Climate Change with the G8, the United Nations and the OECD. Since December 2019, she has been a member of the UN High Level Dialogue on Energy. She was head of the Italian Government School of Public Administration, responsible for the recruitment and training of senior civil servants, and in that role was elected World President of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA). Since 2024, she has been acting as an expert of the National Council of Economics and Labour, appointed by President Sergio Mattarella. She obtained her degrees in Economics at Bocconi University and Cambridge University (UK). Selected publications: https://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/termini/pubblicazioni.html
Nadia Urbinati teaches political theory at Columbia University, New York. Her most recent books are Me The People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard University Press 2019) and, with Cristina Lafont, The Lottocratic Mentality: Defending Democracy against Lottocracy (Oxford University Press 2024).
Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics, where he researches and teaches on democracy, political thought and political theory. Books include In the Long Run: the Future as a Political Idea (Profile, 2024), Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2019), The Meaning of Partisanship (with Lea Ypi, Oxford University Press, 2016) and Political Allegiance after European Integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics, an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University and a fellow of the British Academy. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White), and The Architectonic of Reason, all published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book, Free, published by Penguin Press and translated into more than thirty-five languages, has won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Her academic work has been recognized with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and a Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement.