Ian Gadd

Professor in English Literature

Represented university / institution
Bath Spa University, UK

Title of the course/talk
What is the ‘History of the Book’ and why does it matter?

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Ian Gadd, ‘Ready Reader One: Recovering Reading as an Ambient Practice’, in Ambient Literature, ed. Tom Abba, Jonathan Dovey, and Kate Pullinger (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
2) Ian Gadd, ‘A Companion to Blayney’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 111 (2017), 379-406.
3) Ian Gadd, ed., The History of Oxford University Press, Volume I: Beginnings to 1780 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

Research interests
The Stationers’ Company of London; Oxford University Press; the history of printing and publishing in England in the 16th, 17th and early eighteenth centuries; history of early modern London; history of reading; editorial theory and practice; Jonathan Swift

Petia Georgieva

Senior Assistant Professor, Ph.D

Represented university / institution
Department of Political Sciences, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Title of the course/talk
The Populist Takeover of Direct Democracy’s Mechanisms in Bulgaria

Bibliographic data of three selected publications

1. Petia Gueorguieva & Daniela Bozhinova (2023). (Dis)empowering Citizens at the Local Level in Bulgaria: Digitalization, Local Democracy, and Participatory Practices Before and Post-COVID-19. In: Rouet, G., Côme, T. (eds) Participatory and Digital Democracy at the Local Level. Contributions to Political Science. Springer, Cham. 155-175. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20943-7_10
2. Petia Gueorguieva (2022) „Unis dans la diversité? Les Européens et la crise de Covid-19”, in La Revue Hermès, N 90 „L’Europe entre incommunications et guerres”, Paris, CNRS Editions, pp. 181-186. https://www.cairn.info/revue-hermes-la-revue-2022-2.htm
3. Gueorguieva, P.  (2020). “Chapter 10. „Bulgaria’s Slow Europeanization”, in Simon Bulmer and Christian Lequesne (Eds) The Member States of the European Union, Oxford University Press, Third Edition, 2020, p. 230-256
4. Gueorguieva, P.  (2019) „Les dénonciations de la « corruption politique » par les partis politiques en Bulgarie après 2001”, in Iancu, Alexandra et Marton, Silvia (dirs) Corruption et politique en Europe. Enjeux, reformes et controverses, Paris, l’Harmattan, col. Politique comparée, 2019, p. 141-158

Research interests
CEE politics and EU; Political Parties; Direct Democracy; Digital Politics

Michal Onderco

Professor

Represented university / institution
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Title of the course/talk
Publishing in international peer-reviewed journals and book series

Bibliographic data of three selected publications

Onderco, M., Smetana, M. & Etienne, T. “Hawks in the making? European public views on nuclear weapons post-Ukraine” Global Policy. OnlineFirst.

Smetana, M. & Onderco, M. (2023) “From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67(2-3), 183–209

Onderco, M. (2021) Networked Nonproliferation: Making the NPT Permanent. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Research interests
International security, nuclear weapons, public opinion

Frederico Penteado

Professor of Anthropology and Education

Represented university / institution
Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa (FBAUL)

Title of the course/talk
Strategies for creative and critical teaching

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) „Nothing has changed”, poetry book by Rosmarie Waldrop, illustration and design by Frederico Penteado, imprint Three Legged Bird, 2020
2) „Crash- A divergent artistic discussion”, group exhibition, Siger Gallery, London, UK 2017
3) „Cromatismos cranianos”, solo printmaking retrospective, Largo Art Residencies, Lisbon, Portugal 2016

Research interests
abstract cinema, abstraction, sinesthesia, geometry, cityscape, aesthetics

Emilia Smolak-Lozano

PhD in Communication Sciences. Associate Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising

Represented university / institution
University of Malaga (Spain)

Title of the course/talk
Social Media Analysis

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Smolak-Lozano E. (2022). Audiovisual Branding. Tirant Lo Blanch. Madrid
2) Paliwoda Matiolanska A. , Smolak-Lozano E., Nakayama A. (2020). Corporate image or social engagement: Twitter discourse on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in public relations strategies in the energy sector. El Profesional de la Información Índice: JCR
3) Nakayama, A., Paliwoda-Matiolanska, A., Smolak-Lozano E. (2020). Text mining and dimension reduction method application into exploring isomorphic pressures in corporate communication on textual tweet data about sustainability in the energy sector. Special Issue: ʻMultidisciplinary Facets of Data Science: Proceedings of the European Conference on Data Anaylsis 2019ʼ of the Open Access KIT Scientific Publishing. Journal : Archives of Data Science. Series A. Springer

Research interests
political communication, Social Media, social networks, online discourse, digital public sphere, measurement and evaluation of online communication campaigns and strategies, corporate communication, new digital media (podcast and streaming); brand storytelling; semantic approaches and computational linguistic methods

Nataliia Voitovych

Phd

RepresenRepresented university / institution
Ivan Franko National University of L’viv

Title of the course/talk
Students in Ukraine and the war – voices, memory, translations

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Ivanov, V., Voitovych, N., Onufriv, S., Shturkhetskyy, S., and Zubarieva, M . (2023). Peculiarities of media literacy perception of Ukrainian student youth, Inequality, Informational Warfare, Fakes and Self-Regulation in Education and Upbringing of Youth, Youth Voice Journal Vol. IV, pp. 53-63. ISBN (ONLINE): 978-1-911634-81-2 (http://surl.li/gwhgd)
2) Konyk A., Voitovych N. The influence of journalism and blogosphere on the Ukrainian political situation // Adepci dziennikarstwa o dziennikarstwie. Młode dziennikarstwo 4. ‒ Rzeszow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego , 2021. ‒ S. 13-23.
3) Войтович Н. О. Медіаграмотність для студентів Львівського національного університету ім. І. Франка: виклики реалізації //Методика інтеграції в проєкті «Вивчай та розрізняй: інфо-медійна грамотність»: збірник матеріалів / Редкол.: В. Ф. Іванов (голов. ред.) [та ін.]. – Київ: Академія української преси, IREX, Центр вільної преси, 2022.– 160 с.- С.28-36

Research interests
I am a specialist in studies on language politics and policies, media discourses, media literacy, media psychology, journalistic ethics, informational security and political rhetoric, media studies, political studies, media discourses, political discourses, media representations, socio-political representations, media narratives, socio-political narratives, symbolic and language politics.

Susann Worschech

Senior lecturer of Political Sociology

RepresenRepresented university / institution
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Title of the course/talk
The magic of relations – using network data in social sciences

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Büttner, Sebastian / Eigmüller, Monika / Worschech, Susann (Hg.) 2022: Sociology of Europeanization. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
2) Worschech, Susann 2017: New civic activism in Ukraine: Building society from scratch? Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, 3. Jg., Special Issue: Civil Society in Ukraine: Building on Euromaidan Legacy, 23–45.
3) Beichelt, Timm; Worschech, Susann (Hg.) (2017): Transnational Ukraine? Networks and Ties that Influence(d) Contemporary Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem (Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society, 159).

Research interests
Political sociology of Ukraine, Civil society & social movements; Democratization & democracy promotion; Relational sociology; Transnationalization; Central and Eastern European Studies

Jack Wen-Chieh Wu 吳文傑

Director of International Master’s Program of Applied Economics and Social Development at NCCU University

Represented university / institution
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Title of the course/talk
Identity of Taiwan. Politics, economy and culture

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Wu J., 2008, New Evidence on the Link Between Housing Environment and Children’s Educational Attainments, “Journal of Urban Economics”, 64, 408-421
2) Wu J., 2019, Does the Government-mandated Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards Reduce Income Tax Revenue? “International Tax and Public Finance”, 26, 145-166
3) Wu J., 2019, Moderated Mediation Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Performance on Tax Avoidance from China, “Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics”, 26, 90-107.

Research interests
Urban Economics, Public Economics.

Christoph Wulf

Professor of Anthropology and Education

Represented university / institution
Freie Universität Berlin

Title of the course/talk
Emotions and Imagination. Perspectives in Educational Anthropology

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Wulf, Christoph with G. Gebauer (1995): Mimesis. Culture, Art, Society. Berkeley: The University of California Press;
2) Christoph Wulf (2013). Anthropology. A Continental Perspective. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press;
3) Christoph Wulf (Ed.) (2016): Exploring Alterity in a Globalized World: London et al: Routledge;

Research interests
historical and cultural anthropology, educational anthropology, rituals, gestures, emotions, imagination, intercultural communication, mimesis, aesthetics, epistemology