Academia Europaea in the context of "David Damrosch"

Viktor Aleksandrovich Shnirelman (Russian: Виктор Александрович Шнирельман, born 18 May 1949, Moscow) is a Russian historian, ethnologist and a member of Academia Europaea (since 1998). He is a senior researcher of N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences and an author of over 300 works, including over 20 monographies on archaeology. Shnirelman's main fields include the ideologies of nationalism in Russia and CIS, ethnocentrism and irredentism.

Shnirelman graduated from historical faculty at Moscow State University in 1971 and in 1977 upheld a thesis in the Ethnography Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1990, he defended a thesis in Ethnology and Anthropology Institute.

Benno Werlen (born October 10, 1952, in Münster, Valais, Switzerland) is a Swiss geographer who is known for his action-centred approach to human geography and his concept of a Geography of Everyday Regionalisations. He has been the founder und holder of the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, since 2018. Until 2018 he held the chair for social geography at the same university. Werlen is a fellow of the World Academy of Art And Science—initiated by Albert Einstein—and the Max Weber Centre for Cultural and Social Studies (Erfurt), since 2019 an elected member of the Academia Europaea and from 2024 its chairperson for »Human Mobility, Governance, Environment and Space«.

He is also the founder and chair of the IGU Commission on »Global Understanding« , the initiator and executive director of the »2016 International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU)« including some 40 Regional Actions Centres, approved by the UNESCO General Conference, proclaimed by the three major science councils of the Human (CIPSH), Social (ISSC) and Natural Sciences (ICSU), and most recently the founder and chair of »The Jena Declaration on the Cultural and Regional Dimensions of Global Sustainability« (TDJ)«. As a »key thinker on space and place« (Sage 2011) he is researching for decades the socio-space relationships, entering presently in the new world historical age of globalisation.

Abram de Swaan (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈaːbrɑm də ˈsʋaːn]; born 8 January 1942) is a Dutch essayist, sociologist and professor emeritus from the University of Amsterdam.

In 1996, he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2000.

Philip Russell Hardie, FBA (born 13 July 1952) is a specialist in Latin literature at the University of Cambridge. He has written especially on Virgil, Ovid, and Lucretius, and on the influence of these writers on the literature, art, and ideology of later centuries.

Philip Hardie was educated at St Paul's School, London and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (2002–6), and since 2006 he has been Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 2000 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy. In 2014 he was elected as an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in spring 2016 was the 102nd Sather lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea.