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 M. Sorice & E. Gualda, Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Communities of Resistance (Routledge, 2026), (with G. Gili), Toward a Sociology of Hope. Looking Beyond (Routledge, 2025), and (with G. Gili), Speranza. Passione del possibile (Vita e Pensiero, 2025). For further information please see her Institutional page and/or Personal page.
Steering Committee
Estrella Gualda (Universidad de Huelva, Spain), Emiliana Mangone (University of Salerno, Italy), Rubén Martinez Dalmau (Universitat de Valencia, Spain), Giuseppe Masullo (University of Salerno, Italy), Lucia Picarella (University of Foggia, Italy), Michele Sorice (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Olga Simonova (National Research University, Russian Federation)
Scientific Committee
Felice Addeo (University of Salerno, Italy), Ana M. Ayuso Álvarez (Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain), Daniele Battista (University of Salerno, Italy), Fabiana Battisti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), Dolores Cubells Anguilar (Universitat de València, Spain), Nuran Erol Işık (Ege University, Turkey), Pablo Guadarrama Gonzalez (Universidad Católica de Colombia, Colombia), Estrella Gualda (Universidad de Huelva, Spain), Patrizia La Trecchia (University of South Florida, US), Emiliana Mangone (University of Salerno, Italy), Rubén Martinez Dalmau (Universitat de Valencia, Spain), Giuseppe Masullo (University of Salerno, Italy), Patricia Nakayama (Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, Brazil), Lucia Picarella (University of Foggia, Italy), Carolina Rebollo Diaz (Universidad de Huelva, Spain), Giovanna Russo (University of Bologna, Italy), Stefano Santasilia (Pegaso Telematic University, Italy), Olga Simonova (National Research University, Russian Federation), Michele Sorice (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Lorenzo Viviani (University of Pisa, Italy), Andrea Volterrani (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)