Invited Speakers & Guests 2025

• Alessandro Sciarroni

  

  Performer - Day 1. Performing Artist, Choreographer, Director, CORPOCELESTE, Rome/San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy

• Françoise Vergès

  

  Keynote Speaker - Day 1. Senior Fellow, Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialization, UCL, London, UK

• Abdullah Miniawy

  

  Performer - Day 2. Expressionist, Writer, Composer and Performer, Paris, France

• Elizabeth A. Povinelli

  

  Keynote Speaker - Day 2. Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies, Columbia University, New York City, USA

• Karen Archey

  

  Speaker - Day 2. Head of Curatorial Department, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

• Rustom Bharucha

  

  Speaker - Day 2. Professor, International Fellow of the British Academy in London, Kolkata, India

• Onome Ekeh

  

  Speaker - Day 2. Writer, Filmmaker, Lecturer, Academy of Art & Design, Basel, Switzerland

• Alessandra Ferrini

  

  Speaker - Day 2. Artist, Researcher, Educator, University of the Arts London, Corby, UK

• Francesco Manacorda

  

  Speaker - Day 2. Director, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

• Azu Nwagbogu

  

  Speaker - Day 2. Founder/Director, African Artist’s Foundation & LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos, Nigeria

• Diana Anselmo

  

  Performer - Day 3. Performer and Visual Artist, Milan, Italy

• Mariana Mazzucato

  

  Keynote Speaker - Day 3. Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL), Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose, London, UK