Director
Emiliana Mangone (University of Salerno, Italy)
Emiliana Mangone, PhD, is Full Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy). She was Director of the International Centre for Studies and Research on “Mediterranean Knowledge” (2015-2020). Her main research interests are in the field of cultural and institutional systems, with particular attention to social representations, relational processes, knowledge, and narrative as key elements to the human act, in migration studies, and as well as the study of the thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin. She recently published: (with G. Gili), Toward a Sociology of Hope. Looking Beyond (Routledge, 2025), (with G. Gili), Speranza. Passione del possibile (Vita e Pensiero, 2025), (with L. Picarella), Guerre culturali e società frammentata. Dalla cancel culture al woke capitalism (Paolo Loffredo, 2024). For further information please see her Institutional page and/or Personal page.
Steering Committee
Felice Addeo (University of Salerno, Italy), Virgilio D’Antonio (University of Salerno, Italy), Hande Eslen-Ziya (University of Stavanger, Norwey), Emiliana Mangone (University of Salerno, Italy), Lucia Picarella (University of Foggia, Italy – primarily Universidad Católica de Colombia, Colombia), Michele Sorice (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy – primarily LUISS Unversity, Italy), Nikolay Zyuzev (Indipendent researcher – primarily Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University, Russian Federation)
Scientific Committee
Felice Addeo (University of Salerno, Italy), Gianmaria Bottoni (City University of London, United Kingdom), Mariarosaria Colucciello (University of Salerno, Italy), Virgilio D’Antonio (University of Salerno, Italy), Emiliana De Blasio (LUISS University, Italy), Stellamarina Donato (LUMSA University, Italy), Hande Eslen-Ziya (University of Stavanger, Norwey), Guido Giarelli (University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Italy), Pablo Guadarrama Gonzalez (Universidad Católica de Colombia, Colombia), Estrella Gualda (Universidad de Huelva, Spain), Marko Lovec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Emiliana Mangone (University of Salerno, Italy), Rubén Martinez Dalmau (Universitat de Valencia, Spain), Paolo Montesperelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Graziano Palamara (University of Salerno, Italy), Lucia Picarella (University of Foggia, Italy – primarily Universidad Católica de Colombia, Colombia), Antonella Pocecco (University of Udine, Italy), Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University, United Kingdom), Giovanna Russo (University of Bologna, Italy), Carmen Salgado Santamaria (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Olga Simonova (National Research University, Russian Federation), Michele Sorice (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy – primarilyLUISS University, Italy), Nikolay Zyuzev (Indipendent researcher – primarily Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University, Russian Federation)