Visiting Speakers

Giuliano Amato, born in 1938, studied law at the University of Pisa, where he graduated in 1960. Master's degree in Comparative Law at the School of Law of Columbia University in 1962. Full Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Rome, School of Political Science, from 1975 to 1997, he is Professor Emeritus of the EUI in Florence and gives yearly seminars at the Law School of Columbia University.

After graduating in Philosophy, and in History, Barthas was appointed a Fellow of the European University Institute (Florence), where he took his PhD in May 2006. Since then, he has taken up numerous fellowships in Europe, in America and in Africa. Prior to arriving at Queen Mary, Barthas was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Erato Basea is a 2012-2014 Stavros Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellow, currently focusing on a book entitled The International Greek Director.

Bradley Bateman is the author of Keynes’s Uncertain Revolution and co-author (with Roger Backhouse) of Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes. He is also co-editor (with Roger Backhouse) of the Cambridge Companion to Keynes. His work on the religious influences on American economics has appeared in many journals, including the Journal of Economic Perspectives, History of Political Economy, and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Michele Battini teaches modern European history and political thought at the University of Pisa.

Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of the critically acclaimed How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin), which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. The book has also been translated into Arabic by Arab Scientific Publishers.

Erica Benner works on political philosophy and the history of ideas. She has special interests in the ethics of self-determination; ancient Greek philosophy and history, especially Plato and Thucydides; Machiavelli; and philosophical traditions of ironic writing.

Thomas Berns teaches political philosophy and ethics at the “Université Libre de Bruxelles.” He spent a long time developing his researches at the Perelman Center (law philosophy) and he is now managing the PHI – Research center in philosophy of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is member of the redaction comities of the magazines Multitudes (Paris) and Dissensus (Liège).