Guy Borlée (Cineteca di Bologna)

A native of Belgium, Guy Borlée has been the coordinator of Il Cinema Ritrovato festival and of the summer open air festival Sotto le Stelle del Cinema in Bologna since 1995. He has curated many programs at Cinema Lumière in Bologna and around the world with the films restored by the Cineteca. In his capacity as coordinator and curator, Guy organizes meetings with international cinema artists, participates in European projects dedicated to film restoration, and manages the resources, funding, teams, and live music accompaniment of all the hundreds of movies shown in the various venues in Bologna. 

Massimo Riva (Brown University)

Massimo Riva has taught film, literature and media at Brown since 1990. His digital monograph, Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World (Stanford U. P., 2022) is the winner of a PROSE award from the Association of American Publishers in the category of e-publications. He is the organizer and curator of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour at Brown. 
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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown University)

 Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is an Israeli author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. Her latest books: The Jewelers of the ummah – Potential History of The Jewish Muslim World (Verso September 2024) and Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso Books, 2019); her latest films: The world like a jewel in the hand – Unlearning Imperial Plunder II (2023), Un-documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder I (2019).

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Timothy Bewes (Brown University)

Timothy Bewes is the Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of English. His latest book,  Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (Columbia UP, 2022), was awarded the 2022 National Book Critics Circle award in the criticism category. He convenes the Film-Thinking series at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.

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Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota)

Maggie Hennefeld is McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of the award-winning book, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes" (Columbia UP, 2018).

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Giacomo Manzoli (University of Bologna)

Giacomo Manzoli is Professor of Italian Film History at the University of Bologna. He directed the Study Program of DAMS, (Drama, Arts, Film and Music Studies) from 2007 to 2010 and the MA Program in Film, Television and Multimedia Production from 2012 to 2014. He is currently the Chair of the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna. 
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Kristina Mendicino (Brown University)

Kristina Mendicino is Associate Professor of German Studies. She works on German literature and philosophy from the eighteenth through the twentieth century, as well as Ancient Greek poetry, drama, and philosophy. Her interests include the rhetoric of prophecy in German Idealism and Romanticism, translation, poetic and philosophical articulations of temporality, and choreography.
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 Joanna Seaton & Donald Sosin

​Joanna Seaton and Donald Sosin bring their unique blend of keyboards, vocals and percussion to major film festivals—New York, TriBeCa, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Telluride, Yorkshire—and to MoMA, Film at Lincoln Center, AFI Silver, Moscow's prestigious Lumière Gallery, the Thailand Silent FIlm Festival, and the Jecheon International Music and Film Festival in South Korea. They perform often at Italy’s annual silent film retrospectives in Bologna and Pordenone.
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Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown University)

 Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg is  the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, and Chair of Italian Studies. She works on the literature, culture and politics of nineteenth and twentieth century Italy and Germany.
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