Luca Pes, B.Sc. (Econ.) in History and Government (LSE), Laurea in Contemporary History (Ca’ Foscari), Ph.D. in Italian Studies (Reading), is the Vice Dean and Director of the Globalization Program at VIU, where he has taught every semester since the beginning of academic activities in 1997. He is also the scientific coordinator of the One Theme Project at Global Governance, Tor Vergata, Rome, teaches in the International Program of the Faculty of Economics at LIUC and was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the San Raffaele University in Milan. Prof. Pes has taught Urban and Contemporary History at Iuav and Contemporary History at Ca’ Foscari, while being recognized Adjunct Associate Professor of European Studies at Duke (2011-2016). He published mostly on Venetian 19th-21st Century Cultural and Social History, on the Methodology of Local and Urban History and of History of the Present. His research and teaching areas also include Teaching in Multicultural and Multidisciplinary contexts, Cinema and History, Italian Contemporary History in Films, Italian Society, Diaries and Historiography, History of Venice.