Docenti
Milton J. Bennett
IDRInstitute, USA e UNIMIB, Italia |
He directs the Intercultural Development Research Institute located in Hillsboro, Oregon USA and Milano, Italy (http://www.idrinstitute.org) and holds an adjunct faculty appointment in sociology at the University of Milano Bicocca. Previously he was professor of intercultural communication at Portland State University (Oregon, USA) and a faculty member of several corporate universities and executive training programs. He studied physics and cognitive psychology as part of his BA degree from Stanford University, has an MA in psycholinguistics from San Francisco State University and completed one of the first Ph.D.’s in intercultural communication (University of Minnesota). He is known for originating the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and for his recently-revised text, Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, and Practices (Intercultural Press, 2013) – also published in Chinese (Peking University Press, 2012) and Italian (Franco Angeli Press, 2015). A former US Peace Corps Volunteer, he consults on topics of sustainable intercultural development and global leadership to corporations, universities, and exchange organizations in Europe, Asia, and the US.
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Luciano Carrino
KIP International School |
Psychiatrist. President of the KIP International School and Executive Representative of its Scientific Committee. He is Vice President of the OECD/DAC Poverty Group (POVNET) for 2011/12. He has been technically responsible for the multilateral Human Development Programmes supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and realized, over the last twenty years, by UNDP, WHO, ILO, UNHCR, IFAD, UNOPS, UNIFEM, HABITAT and other UN Organisations in various countries: Albania, Angola, Argentina, Bosnia, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Gabon, Honduras, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Serbia, South Africa and Tunisia. He has been consultant of WHO for disaster management and preparedness, of the European Union for anti-poverty programmes, of the European Parliament and UNDP for conflict prevention and management. He is the author of a WHO Manual Coping with Natural Disasters: the role of local health personnel, of the book Poverty and Services Coordination, published by the European Union Commission, and of many books on international development, including the recent Pearls and Pirates: Critique of Development Cooperation and New Multilateralism. He also produced an educational series of cartoons of Radiotelevisione Italiana on Human Development (2000), and 20 documentaries on poverty and human development (1980-2002). Earlier in his career as a psychiatrist, he was one of the leading figures in the movements that led to mental health policy reform in Italy in 1978.
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Ida Castiglioni
UNIMIB, Italia e IDRInstitute, USA |
Professor of the sociology of cultural processes in the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca. She is a director of the Intercultural Development Research Institute in Italy and in the USA. At Unimib she designed and teaches the graduate specialization of Intercultural Relations in the Programming and Management of Social Services and Public Policies program. She also is currently teaching in the Master in International Business Development, a joint triple credential program with Unimib, Centennial College, Canada and Alliance University, India. She graduated summa cum laude with a laurea in Political Science from the University of Milano and holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
In addition to her work at the university, Dr. Castiglioni is a therapist with a Master Degree in Somatic Psychology and a Certificate in Clinical Counseling. She is an adjunct faculty member of the Institute of Somatic Psychology in Milano (IPSO). Her research interests are in the area of the embodiment of culture, the intercultural education of health and social workers and the promotion of cultural sensitivity in complex organizations. |
Claudia Danani
UNGS, Argentina |
Claudia Danani is Professor and researcher on the field of Social Policy at the National University of General Sarmiento and at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). She graduated both in Political Science and Social Work and as Specialist in Planning and Management of Social Policy (University of Buenos Aires). She also obtained a PhD in Social Sciences from University of Buenos Aires with a research project on Unions and Social Security on Health at Argentina. Her field of interest rounds Social Policies –specially their political contents- and living and employment conditions, Unionism and Social Economy. During last years she has been working on research projects related to the political and social heritance from neoliberalism in Argentina. Her current work focuses mainly on social and labour unprotection and increasing social inegalitarianism.
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Lee Knefelkamp
Columbia University e IDRInstitute, USA |
She is a well-known scholar in the area of intellectual and ethical development, recently retired as full professor in the Program of Social Organizational Psychology at Teachers College Columbia University. Previously she was a faculty member and Program Chair of Counseling and Student Development at the University of Maryland, the Dean of the School of Education at The American University in Washington, DC, the Academic Dean of the Faculty at Macalester College, and a Senior Fellow with the American Association for Higher Education. She was a US Peace Corps Volunteer and holds a BA degree in literature and humanities studies from Macalester College and a PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Minnesota. A major emphasis of her scholarly work and consultation is on understanding organizational and educational climate and how to facilitate making those climates more effectively responsive to both domestic and global aspects of personal and cultural diversity.
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Alberto Giasanti
UNIMIB, Italia |
Full Professor of Sociology of Law at University of Milano Bicocca in the Department of Sociology and Social Research. He teaches the graduate specialization in Conflict Mediation and in Legal and Cultural Pluralism in the Programming and Management of Social Services and Public Policies. He is delegated of University of Milano-Bicocca for the international cooperation. He has also taught in the graduate program of Management and Analysis of Development Projects at the University of Milano. He was head of Sociology Department at University of Messina. His main field of interest are mediation conflict, social control, local development, social exclusion, education and prison, cultural differences, international cooperation, at national, European, international. In this last case, with particular reference to Latin America. He is profesor adjunto internacional at the University of Sancti Spiritus José Marti Pérez (Cuba).
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Hugo Mercer
WHO e UNAJ, Argentina |
Sociologist, with post-graduate studies in Sociology at El Colegio de Mexico (1982-1984), Evaluation at the Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University (1996), and University of Buenos Aires (Ph.D. abt). Full professor of Sociology of Health at the School of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires; Co-coordinator of the Master Program in Public Health, University of Buenos Aires; Professor of Social Medicine at the Metropolitan University-Xochimilco, México DF, 1975-82; invited professor at the Universities of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; UASD, Dominican Republic; La Havana, Cuba; de la República, Uruguay; USP, Brazil.
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Enzo Mingione
UNIMIB, Italia |
Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has previously taught at the Universities of Messina and Padua.
He has been constantly involved with international and Italian scientific journals and research groups and a consultant of the European Commission. He is among the founder editors of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Inchiesta and of the European Journal of Space and Development, Trustee of the Foundation of Urban and Regional Studies, President of the Fondazione Bignaschi, Milano (Foundation for the assistance and study of the aged). His main fields of interest are poverty, social exclusion, informal sector, unemployment, economic and urban sociology. |
José Ramón Neira Milian
UNISS, Cuba |
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and of Sociocultural Studies in the University of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. He is also teaches in the Master "Sociology and Human Development" at the University of Havana. Coordinator of the Human Development Group for the Study of the Territory (GEDHUT) of University of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
He holds a Master and a Bachelor in Sociology from the University of La Havana as well as a Doctorate from the same University. He spent a significant specialization period at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Vienna. His current research focuses on the socio cultural and environmental study of Trinidad and the South Coast of Cuba. A major topic of his previous research has been on cooperation and new cooperative agriculture and rural life in Cuba and on the sustainable human development of Sancti Spiritus. |
Piero Polimeni
NGO Lariss e UNIMIB, Italia |
Engineer, he is currently Head of the Environment and cooperation Net - Innovation Pole on renewable energy, energy efficiency and technologies for the sustainable management of environmental resources in the Region of Calabria. He is also President of LARISS, an NGO that promotes research and the participation of local actors in development processes. Since 2004 he is professor in the Graduate Program PROGEST of the Department of Sociology, University of Milan Bicocca, where he teaches project planning and management. From October 2010 to January 2014 he also was Director of the Agency “Borghi Solidali”, a network of projects for revitalising old historical towns.
His team won the URBAN bid for the Project “Ecolandia”, today one of the major theme parks in the Region of Calabria. He collaborated in the planning, implementation and management of urban projects with funds of the European Regional Programming and participated in thematic groups for the European Regional Programming 2020. |
Osvaldo Romero Romero
UNISS, Cuba |
Chemical engineer and Ph.D. in Technical Sciences from Santa Clara University, Cuba, with a postdoctoral experience in Berlin, he is professor at the University of Sancti Spiritus. From 1994 up to 2007 he was Head of the energetic and industrial processes investigations group beyond being the Chair for international relations. Currently he is vice-rector of the UNISS and his main interest of research is in the efficient use of energy in the processing of sugar, their linking with the efficiency in the production, the cogeneration and the quality of control systems and the continuous improvement of the quality in industrial and service processes. Since 2004 he works in the biogas investigation together with other universities in Cuba and throughout Europe. His other interests are in agriculture, renewable energies, decentralized management of regional development, crisis prevention.
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Armando Ulloa González
UNAN, Nicaragua |
Physician and surgeon, Dr. Ulloa is currently theVice Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Managua. (UNAN-Managua). After a Master in Community Health at the University of Montreal, Canada he also specialized with a Diploma in Occupational Medicine at the University Paul Savatier of Toulouse, France. His Postgraduate studies in Management in Public Health were at the CDC in Atlanta, USA, and the specialty in Bioethics at CIEB, Chile. Together with 33 years of experience in teaching at undergraduate and graduate level, his experience lies in designing and implementing integration programs of Teaching Care, Community Health with an integral and multidisciplinary approach. He also serves as academic secretary of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, and is Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine. He is the head of the Master in Sexual and Reproductive Health and President of the Research Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Medical Sciences. He has experience as a consultant in the design and program evaluation of research projects.
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