Senior Assistant Professor, Università di Bologna Daniela Bolzani is Senior Assistant Professor in management at the University of Bologna. She received her Ph.D. in General Management in 2013 working on her dissertation “Internationalization intentions: Micro-foundations and psychological distance perceptions in immigrant and non-immigrant entrepreneurs”. Between 2013 and 2017 she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Management and at the Department of Education Studies of the University of Bologna, as a research team member in European projects in the domain of entrepreneurship and technology transfer. She has been a visiting scholar at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder – USA (2013) (invited by Prof. M.D. Foo) and at HEC Paris – France (2016) (invited by Prof. T. Åstebro). Before starting her Ph.D., Daniela worked as a professional for around five years in the fields of financial audit and international development in Europe and Africa.
Chair professor, strategic management and management of innovation, PSB Paris School of Business As a researcher, I specialize in strategic management, with a special focus in the management of technology and of innovation. I have also a specific interest in the management of complex systems, and in innovative business models. I have produced more than 25 papers in academic journals, and several books. My current academic position is with Paris School of Business, where I co-head the newPIC chair with Valerie Merindol After serving the innovation research community for several years as SIG chair in the European academy of Management (EURAM), I am now EURAM's Vice president in charge of the Dialogue with Practitioners.
Acting Chair of Theater, School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles Dominic Taylor is a writer-director and scholar of African American theater whose work has been seen across the country. He is presently working on a commission from Ford’s Theatre in their Lincoln Legacy Project. In addition, the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop have all commissioned Taylor as a writer. His published work includes Wedding Dance and Personal History; both produced at the Kennedy Center by the African Continuum Theatre; Upcity Service(s), included in the anthology Seven More Different Plays, edited by Mac Wellman (Broadway Play Publishing); and Hype Hero, which was developed at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Conn., produced at Brown University in Fall 2014 and published in 2021 at Playscripts.com. His play "I Wish You Love" premiered at Penumbra Theatre Co. in St. Paul, Minn., and was produced at The Kennedy Center and Hartford Stage in 2012. Taylor recently directed an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s "The Bluest Eye." He directed Alice Childress’ "Trouble in Mind" in St. Paul. He re-envisioned and directed a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, "The Purple Flower," at Boston’s Factory Theatre and incorporated shadow puppets as his characters. Taylor’s directing projects have been as varied as the opera Fresh Faust at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; The Negroes Burial Ground at The Kitchen in New York City; Destiny and Uppa Creek at Manhattan’s Dixon Place; Ride the Rhythm in the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C., and The Wiz at the University of Minnesota’s Rarig Center in Minneapolis. He also reimagined and restaged "The Black Nativity" for Penumbra Theatre and directed "Complicated Fun," a musical about the 1980s music scene in Minneapolis. His next directing project will be a commercial musical, "Selassie," which he will also write. In the 1990s, Taylor helmed Public Transportation Productions. This film and media company made the award-winning shorts "Counter Puncher" and "In This Corner," and the early web film preview program "It’s Coming." He is currently developing a television project for the studio eOne. As a scholar, Taylor’s training began under the tutelage of George Houston Bass and his Research to Performance Method (RPM) at Brown’s Rites and Reasons Theatre. In Summer 2014, Taylor was part of the Consortium on African American Aesthetics at Emory University. He was part of the original group of artists and scholars gathered at August Wilson’s “The National Black Theatre Summit: On Golden Pond.” Taylor was part of the cohort that presented a paper on aesthetics. He is also the performance editor of the Massachusetts Review and his essay "Don’t Call African American Theatre Black Theatre: It’s Like Calling a Dog a Cat" was published in September 2019. He is the former associate artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Co., one of the premiere African-American theaters in the country. There he utilized his unique culturally specific play development process called OKRA. Previously, Taylor was an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has also taught at Bard College, City University in New York, Columbia College of Chicago, Bennington College and Brown University. Taylor is an alumnus member of New Dramatists. He received his bachelor and MFA degrees from Brown University and is a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the Dramatists Guild.
Associate Dean, Interaction, Technology and Information, RMIT University Dr. Dana McKay is associate dean, interaction, technology and information at RMIT's School of Computing Technologies. Dana's primary interest is in ensuring that advances in information technology make the world fairer and more equitable. To do this she focuses on how people interact with information, and how technology shapes that interaction. Recent projects include studying the role of technology in family violence (and how to prevent it), how online information affects people’s views, and how to improve browsing tools so you can finally find something good to watch on Netflix. Before completing her PhD in 2019 Dana spent 10 years working as a UX professional.
Professor of German, University of Tennessee Daniel H. Magilow is Lindsay Young Professor of German as well as an affiliated faculty member with the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Jewish Studies, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Department of History. He earned his BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and his MA and PhD in German from Princeton University. With Helene Sinnreich, Dr. Magilow serves Co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He serves on the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he was the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow in 2005-2006.
Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, University of Exeter I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Exeter with a background in peace and conflict research, religion and South Asia. In particular, I researched the civil war in Sri Lanka exploring how in the war-affected north and east people developed and used forms of religious authority to create spaces outside of the major conflict dynamics through which to pursue political, social and humanitarian goals. Personal life led me to artisanal mines in Alaska and Tanzania in the early 2000s, since when I have been expanding my work to explore the politics of natural resource extraction. I am a core member of the interdisciplinary network 'people and mining' (www.peopleandmining.com).
