Advisory board
The advisory board includes leading thinkers, artists and activists from throughout europe and beyond, who advise the organisation on its message, its strategy, on formats of activities, on partners and potential stakeholders.
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Sigrid Gareis
Sigrid is the Secretary General of the “Akademie der Künste der Welt” (Academy of the Arts of the World) in Cologne, a member of the Board of Allianz Cultural Foundation, and a Trustee of Festspielhaus Hellerau/Dresden. She is the founding director of Tanzquartier Wien.
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Raffaella Bolini
Raffaella is International Director and a member of the National Board of ARCI, the largest cultural association in Italy with one million members and formed by 5.000 local community centers promoting citizenship, democracy and rights. She is also vice-president of the European Civic Forum, a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, a member of the Executive Committee of the Euromed Network for Human Rights and a member of the Board of SOLIDAR.
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Tania Bruguera
Tania is a Cuban installation and performance artist. She studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and then earned an M.F.A. in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago- She is the founder and director of Arte de Conducta (behavior art), the first performance studies program in Latin America, which is hosted by Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. From 2003-2010, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual Arts of The University of Chicago, United States and is an invited professor at the University IUAV in Venice, Italy.
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Etienne Balibar
Etienne is Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at Université de Paris X – Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He has published widely in the area of European citizenship and moral and political philosophy in general. His many works include Lire le Capital (with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière); Spinoza et la politique (1985); We, Citizens of Europe? (2001); Politics and the Other Scene (2002); L’Europe, l’Amérique, la Guerre. Réflexions sur la mediationeuropéenne (2003); Europe, Constitution, Frontière (2005).
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Gianluca Solera
Gianluca was among the co-founders of the first Italian Green political platform, in the City of Mantua. After his studies on urban and regional affairs in Venice, Paris and Berlin, he was political advisor to the Green Party in the European Parliament for ten years, as well as coordinator of the Spanish Green Party in Europe for two years. At the Anna Lindh Foundation for the dialogue between cultures, over the last eight years (2005-2012), he has built a network of 4,000 organisations from more than forty countries between Europe, the Arab world, Israel and Turkey. He is author of several books, among which Walls, Tears and Za‘tar (Nuovadimensione, 2007) and A Mediterranean Awakening (Nuovadimensione, 2013). He is a member of the Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly.
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Engin Isin
Engin holds a Chair in Citizenship and is Professor of Politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Open University. He is the author of Cities Without Citizens (Montreal, 1992), Being Political (Minneapolis, 2002) and Citizens Without Frontiers (London, 2012). He has edited with Greg Nielsen, Acts of Citizenship (London, 2008). Isin is currently conducting three main research projects: (i) concerning postorientalist conceptions of citizenship; (ii) concerning ‘acts’ especially those that constitute subjects as claimants of justice traversing frontiers; and, (iii) concerning ‘digital citizenship’ with a focus on governing conduct in cyberspace.
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Philippe Van Parijs
Philippe Van Parijs studied philosophy, law, political economy, sociology and linguistics at the Facultés universitaires Saint Louis (Brussels) and the Universities of Louvain, Oxford, Bielefeld and California (Berkeley). He holds doctorates in the social sciences (Louvain, 1977) and in philosophy (Oxford, 1980).
He is Professor at the Faculty of economic, social and political sciences of the University of Louvain (UCL), where he has directed the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics since its creation in 1991. He has also been a special guest professor at the KuLeuven’s Higher Institute for Philosophy since 2006. From 2004 onwards he was for several years a Regular Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
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Sandro Mezzadra
Sandro teaches political theory at the University of Bologna and is adjunct fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Western Sydney. He has been visiting professor and research fellow in several places, including the Humboldt Universität (Berlin), Duke University, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (Paris), University of Ljubljana, FLACSO Ecuador, and UNSAM (Buenos Aires). In the last decade his work has particularly centered on the relations between globalization, migration and citizenship. Among his works: “Diritto di fuga. Migrazioni, cittadinanza, globalizzazione” (ombre corte, 2006) and “La condizione postcoloniale” (ombre corte, 2008). With Brett Neilson he is the author of “Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor” (Duke University Press, 2013).
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Wang Hui
Wang Hui is a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was named one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in 2008 by Foreign Policy, and is the author of The End of the Revolution, China’s New Order, The Politics of Imagining Asia,and China’s Twentieth Century.
Transnational Board of Trustees
The board of trustees is legally empowered to oversee the running of the organization, set its strategy and approve its work program. It does so in dialogue with members and partners through regular surveys, questionnaires and forums to understand the priorities and interests of the organization.
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Ami Weickaane
Ami Weickaane, known by her alias Bluuu, is a versatile creative professional
with a rich and diverse background who defies classification. Born in Dakar, she has spent much of her life in Paris. With over two decades working in creative industries, Bluu is known for her work as a visual poet, artist-activist, curator, and content producer. She is also an independent researcher and lecturer, focusing on subjects like arts, heritage, gender, ecology, and African descendants. She is on the transnational board of European Alternatives. -
Lorenzo Marsili
Lorenzo Marsili is an activist philosopher and writer. The cofounder of transnational political NGO European Alternatives and the cultural institution Fondazione Rizoma, he currently works as director of the berggruen institute Europe. his research and political work focus on defining and promoting futures beyond the nation-state. A regular public speaker and international media commentator, he was the founding editor of the independent journal Naked Punch Review in London and Beijing. He has degrees in philosophy and sinology from the University of London, and his books include Il Terzo Spazio (Laterza, 2017), Citizens of Nowhere (Zed Books, 2018), La tua patria è il mondo intero (Laterza, 2019), and Planetary Politics (Polity Press, 2020).
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Luke Cooper
Luke Cooper an Associate Professorial Research Fellow in International relations with the Conflict and Civicness Research Group based at LSE IDEAS, the LSE’s in-house foreign policy think tank, and the Director of PeaceRep’s Ukraine programme. He has written extensively on nationalism, authoritarianism and the theory of uneven and combined development and is the author of Authoritarian Contagion (Bristol University Press, 2021). He is a co-founder of the UK-based anti-Brexit campaign group, Another Europe Is Possible and a co-host of the Another Europe podcast. In 2021, he published Between Dream and Tragedy: Europe’s Story After 1989, a six-part history documentary on the history of European integration with the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM).
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Jelena Vasiljević
Jelena Vasiljević is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Her academic background is in political anthropology and citizenship studies, and her research and activist interests include citizenship rights, civic engagement, social movements, and cultural memory in Southeast Europe. Presently, she is primarily interested in theories and practices of solidarity. As a member of a green-left political coalition, she has served as a Belgrade city councillor.
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Niccolò Milanese
Director
Niccolò Milanese is a poet and one of the founding directors of European Alternatives. He fosters the development of the organisation, its staff and the ecosystem around European Alternatives and is the focal point for the ‘learn’ stream of our work.
He is currently a fellow of BI-Europe in Venice. In addition to longstanding work on transnationalism and political imaginaries, his current interests are in the planetary politics of desire, democratic education and fluid identities. His latest book is ‘Illiberal Democracies in Europe: An Authoritarian response to the crisis of liberalism’ available freely here.
He was previously a Europe’s Futures Fellow at IWM, Vienna, a visiting fellow at PUC Rio-De Janeiro, at UNAM Mexico, and at EUI School of Transnational Governance in Florence. He has been involved in founding numerous civil society initiatives and magazines in Europe and across the Mediterranean. He was educated in Cambridge, Siena and Paris.
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Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu is a Romanian philosopher, translator, educator and culture theorist, writing on critical social theory, decolonial thought, international politics, and cultural history. Editor of the Romanian journal of contemporary art and critical theory IDEA arts + society, and collections coordinator at IDEA publishing house. He has been active in movements for global justice and peace, and his work foregrounds cultural activism on transnational, transperipheral and intercultural connections, and political journalism in the Romanian platforms Indymedia, CriticAtac, and the regional and international outlets LeftEast, Cross-Border Talks, or East European Context.
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Rasha Shaaban
Rasha is a local from Gothenburg and Alexandria. She is a feminist, a storyteller, a content producer, an experimental cook, a humour-lover, a diversity advocate, a DJ, a network builder and a very passionate project leader. Since 2006, I have been working on promoting intercultural dialogue in the Euro-Med region. She is currently working at the National Museums of World Culture (Sweden) as a projects manager and coordinator of the Anna Lindh Foundation network in Sweden.
Rasha has collaborated with European Alternatives in the framework of the following initiatives: Room to Bloom, Democracy Doesn’t Exist. We Make It and WoMidan: Women Voices from the Square.
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Ségolène Pruvot
Director
Ségolène Pruvot is a Director of European Alternatives. Ségolène is a Doctor in Urban Sociology. In the course of her academic career and professional life, she specialised in the exploration of the intersection between arts, the city and social change. She trained as a political scientist and urban planner in France, the UK, and Germany.
Segolene has developed extensive experience in designing and implementing transnational participative cultural programmes, activists transnational networking and collaborative research.