Participants

Dr. Oleg Maltsev - Author, criminologist, psychologist, photographer, investigative journalist. He is an Academician of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Founder and director of The Memory Institute, head of Expeditionary Corps. He is an author of numerous books in the areas such as applied history, sociology, depth psychology, philosophy, criminalistics, criminology. He has been conducting field research with the Expeditionary Corps in many countries for more than 6 years to explore on what levels and how people are shaped by cities. He is an editor of several interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals.

Prof. Dr. Jerome Krase - Emeritus Professor, sociologist, Murray Koppelman Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Expert in sociology, gentrification in Brooklyn, Brooklyn ethnic groups, Italian-American politics, culture, race, class, urban life and Ethnicity in New York. One of his recent books includes Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View from the Street. He is a public activist-scholar and serves as a consultant to public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. Co-Editor of Urbanities, and Editorial Board Member of Visual Studies, and CIDADES.

Maria Barilla - researcher, historian, and political scientist. She holds a Master's degree in Political Sciences from the University of Turin. She was awarded the Optime Award by the Turin Industrial Union. She is studying under the guidance of historian Angelo d'Orsi, Professor of History of Modern Political Thought and Methodologist. M. Barilla reorganised and took an inventory of the Reggio Calabria Criminal Court, which is part of the State Archives of Reggio Calabria. Since 2012, she has collaborated with Professor Antonio Nicaso, one of the world's leading experts on organised crime, and Dr Nicola Gratteri, current prosecutor of Catanzaro.

Dr. Douglas Kellner - Author, critical theorist. Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Education, Gender Studies, and Germanic Languages at UCLA. Kellner is an author of the Baudrillard page in Stanford Online Encyclopedia. Kellner collaborated with Steven Best on an award-winning trilogy of books examining postmodern turns in philosophy, the arts, and science and technology. He served as the literary executor of the documentary film maker Emile de Antonio and acted as editor of "Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse," which collected six volumes of the papers of the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse.

Dr. Steve Gennaro - Professor in the Humanities department at York University (Canada). He explores the intersections of media, technology, psychology, and youth identity. He is one of the founding members of the Children, Childhood, and Youth Studies Program at York University, where he has taught in the Department of Humanities and the Department of Communication Studies for close to two decades, with more than a decade of experience teaching online. He is the author of Selling Youth (2010) and regularly publishes in areas related to the philosophy of technology and critical media studies of youth identity and politics.

Prof. Michael Billig - academic of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, working principally in contemporary social psychology although much of his work crosses disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences. His research explored other ways of investigating social psychological issues. His is author of books “Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences”, “More Examples, Less Theory: Historical Studies of Writing Psychology”, article “Why academics can’t write”

Ph.D. Joanne Broder - Research Psychologist, Author, Editor, Affiliate Research Professor at Saint Joseph's University. She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association, which she serves on the executive board for the Division of Media Psychology. A co-founding editor of Psychology of Popular Media Culture, established by the American Psychological Association. She specializes in research in organization development, consults a variety of public and private organizations in research and evaluation, as well as group process.

Dr. Enrique Sánchez-Costa - Professor of the Department of History and Art at the University of Piura (UDEP, Lima). Director of Culturahistorica.org. Extraordinary PhD Award in Humanities at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Barcelona). Author of El resurgimiento católico en la literatura europea moderna (1890-1945), also published in English as The Catholic Revival in Modern European Literature (1890–1945), as well as many papers on comparative literature and intellectual history. He has conducted research stays in Washington D.C., London, Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona.

Dr. Bernardo Attias - Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at CSUN. His research focus emphasizes cultural approaches to communication studies as well as communication-centered approaches to cultural studies. His teaching philosophy, which stresses interactivity and critical thinking skills, reflects a strong commitment to the educational process. He develops unique and challenging course materials, and has been at the forefront of the move to integrate new technological resources into the educational process.