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PRESIDENTE: Lavinia Bracci (responsabile dei programmi della Siena Italian Studies);

VICE-PRESIDENTE: Laura Failli (responsabile dell’attuazione degli incontri Canadesi in Versilia); has long collaborated with the Siena-Toronto Centre (University of Siena), bringing her students to various cultural events and encouraging them to participate in the dialogue between writers and scholars. She teaches English language and literature at Liceo scientifico "G. Galilei" in Siena.

DIRETTRICE OPERATIVA: Carla Comellini (già presidente del Centro Canadese dell’Università di Bologna); associate professor of English literature at the University of Bologna, is Director of the Canadian Studies Centre "Alfredo Rizzardi," and a member of the Doctoral Committee on "European Literatures" (Bologna University). She has written extensively on the work of D.H. Lawrence and G. Greene and is the author of several essays and articles on British and Canadian writers as well as South-African, Australian and North-American Native authors. She translated several poems by Canadian author J. Newlove and has served on the boards of various international journals and conferences.

TESORIERA: Moira Mini (curatrice di progetti editoriali dell’Associazione);

SEGRETARIO GENERALE E MEDIA MANAGER: Luca Trabalzini (esperto informatico responsabile del blog e del sito web di CanaDiana); a former brilliant student at Siena’s Liceo Scientifico G. Galilei, and later a student of Anthropological Sciences, in 1994 he got a position as IT Specialist in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Siena, where he has been entrusted with ever increasing responsibilities related to his expertise and knowledge in the field of Information Technology. His long standing contribution to Canada-bound initiatives and projects was vital and instrumental in the growth of the Siena-Toronto Centre, of which he was a Founding Member and it gained to him the recognition as Woodsworth College Honorary Fellow. He has co-authored and edited many publications, mainly in the area of medical studies.

CONSIGLIERA: Maria Chiara Fonzi (responsabile dei rapporti con le scuole);

CONSIGLIERE: Giancarlo Carli (rappresentante del mondo scientifico e accademico);

CONSIGLIERA: Laura Ferri (responsabile dei progetti di traduzione e degli incontri letterari); Laura Ferri has been involved in the promotion and study of Canadian literature in Italy for several decades as former cultural coordinator of the Siena-Toronto Centre and translator of various works of fiction and poetry. Authors she has translated into Italian include Al Purdy, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, Margaret Avison, Jane Urquhart, Carl Sandburg, André Alexis, Mary Melfi, Rosemary Sullivan, Diane Pacitti. She has published articles in numerous literary journals in Canada and Europe. The works she has edited or co-edited include the Guernica publication of Jane Urquhart and Her Works, Reading Alice Munro in Italy published by The Iacobucci Centre, Views of the North from Siena and "A Conversation between Dacia Maraini and Rosemary Sullivan" posted in the blog of CanaDiana. More recently she has translated Antanas Sileika's Underground, a forthcoming publication by Del Vecchio Editore.

CONSIGLIERA: Sandi Hutty (consulente linguistica).


PRESIDENTE ONORARIO: Fabrizio Ghilardi. Former professor of History of International Relations at the University of Pisa, he has held courses and conferences in Argentina, Guatemala, Albania, Canada and Italy on behalf of the Foreign Ministry and the Naval Academy. His publications include: L'Europa degli equilibri (1987); Italia e Canada 1947-1951- Due esperienze a confronto (1997), Il Canada nel sistema postwestfaliano (2001), Il sistema internazionale postwestfaliano; Crisi, trasformazioni e prospettive rivoluzionarie (2007), Multilateralismo e multiculturalismo L'esperienza canadese, (2011), Processi di globalizzazione, problemi di democrazia (2019), Identità, interculturalità, universalismi. Gli occidentali e gli altri (2012), Quale identità? Sfide culturali e politiche per un occidente in crisi (2014), L'identità occidentale: crisi e prospettive di trasformazione (2016), L'identità violenta. La costruzione del nuovo umanesimo (2020), L' "americanizzazione" ambigua (2021); Verso una nuova politica globale? Una critica alla competitività e ai suoi disastri (2022).