"Meantime"

Pietro Montani is a philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University La Sapienza in Rome. Previously he worked as Directeur d'Études Associé at the EHESS in Paris. He focused his works on the aesthetics of new media, the theory of cinema and the philosophy of images. He is considered to be one of the most outstanding Italian cinema theorist. His latest book Tecnologie della sensibilità (2014) theorizes the existence of a third function of the imagination: besides of the productive and reproductive ones, fully shared by the philosophical community, there is an interactive function.

Luca Sofri is among the Italian journalists who managed to establish a communication between different media. During his transmedia career he worked and still works for several newspaper such as L’Internazionale, Il Foglio, l'Unità, GQ, Panorama, Diario, Wired, Gazzetta dello Sport, Vanity Fair. He also hosted research programs for La7 channel, as "Otto e mezzo" e "Passato prossimo". He presented successfully “Ogni Maledetta Domenica" that became "Condor" on Rai Radio 2. This radio show was based on the interaction between the radio world and bloggers. He founded and runs Il Post, one of the most innovative Italian online newspaper and one of the most read.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the most legendary American athletes of all time, and has received many awards for his outstanding NBA career. After his retirement he became a best-seller writer and a cultural critic. He is also a regular contributor and columnist for the most important American media such as The New York Times, writing about social issues, culture and religion. Since the 70s, when he converted to Islam, as Mohammed Ali did, he became a point of reference for intercultural dialogue themes.