Prof. Nalini Moodley is currently the Executive Dean and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Art History focused on the visual arts produced by South Africans of Indian ancestry and an MBA in Higher Education Management. Her research explores minority politics, race, and identity in post-apartheid South Africa, with an emphasis on Indian experiences. She also publishes on Hindu art, Indian dance, and South African identities. She is also currently the 2024 winner of the Women in Academic Administration Award in South Africa among the 26 public universities.

Mr. Ryno Settrisman is a PhD Student at the Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. His research interest lies in the intersection of Health and Literature, Mental Health, and Narrative Studies.
His awards are a Doctoral Fellowship in India for ASEAN (DIA), Ministry of Education, Govt of India (2021-2026)& Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Master Fellowship Programme, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India (2018-2020).

Mr. Chigon Chisi Chakma pursuing a master’s degree in Sociology at Vivekanand Arts Sardar Dalipsingh Commerce and Science College, affiliated with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. His work as a monk and student focuses on integrating spiritual teachings with academic knowledge to promote social harmony, human rights, and the well-being of communities, particularly emphasizing support for indigenous populations and fostering a compassionate society.

Ms. Raquel Medina Cabeças PhD in History (2020), Master in Architecture (2012) from Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL). She is a researcher at the Institute of Art History, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade de Lisboa (IHA-FCSH), and at the Center for Research in Historical Sciences (CICH-UAL). She develops research in the areas of theatre history, architecture, and business history. She published the work “O Teatro em Diálogo com a Lisboa Seiscentista” (2022), edited by the Serra Henriques Foundation, which awarded him the publishing support prize in 2020. She coordinated the “Laranjeiras Project”, funded by SGEC, IHA, and CEU_UAL, which resulted in three volumes on the palace, the theater, and the garden of Laranjeiras (2024). She is currently the coordinator of the Editorial Center – Autónoma Edições – of UAL.

Mr. João Francisco Correia Fialho is a PhD candidate and graduate in History at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Postgraduate in Museology from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH). Postgraduate in Heritage Management and Enhancement from the Institute of Arts and Crafts at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Collaborator at the Research Center in Historical Sciences (CICH) and at the Center for Business History Studies (CEHE) of the Department of History, Arts, and Humanities at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa.

Ms. Lalpeki Ralte is a practicing Psychotherapist based in Bengaluru, India. She conducts online and offline consultations with adolescents and young adults. Lalpeki has five journal publications.
Her educational qualifications are: PhD Scholar Psychology, Martin Luther Christian University, India, MS in Counseling Psychology, Montfort College, India, MS in Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, US, and BS in Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics, Mount Carmel College, India.

Ms. Yujia Zhu is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Sofia University in the USA. Yujia is a strategic disruptor, life explorer, curious student, and resilient survivor. As a seasoned and multifaceted social entrepreneur, business strategy advisor, executive coach, and philanthropist, she embodies a unique blend of experience and insight. A classical INFJ-A and 8W7, Yujia embraces her identity as a perfectly imperfect human being. With 12 years of experience in the humanitarian field, Yujia is also a dedicated Woman in STEM. As the founder and executive director of a Canadian federally registered nonprofit For A Safer Space(FASS), She is also the creator of FASSLING(Fassling.ai), an AI bot that has become the most-used and highest-rated emotional and coaching support app (non-medical/non-therapy) on the official ChatGPT store. Her areas of interest include religion, spirituality, business ethics, I/O psychology, social entrepreneurship, human-centered interaction and psychology, and holistic human care.

Mr. Simphiwe Mpho Zondani is an academic, multi-disciplinary writer and language practitioner born and based in Gqeberha. He has experience in the public and private higher education sectors and has worked as a lecturer and research assistant. He also worked in the digital marketing space as a strategist and creative copywriter. While working in the field, he contributed to a Feather Award-winning retail website, the first fully bilingual retail website to incorporate both English and isiXhosa chatbot copy.
His creative works have appeared in various publications – most notably, a creative non-fiction essay that was published in the Kalahari Review. Three of his poems (Hoc est Corpus, The Pacification of the South-Eastern Bantu, and Hymns in the Hereafter) have been longlisted for the Sol Plaatjie European Union Poetry Award and will appear in an upcoming annual anthology.

Ms.Romanița Jumanca is a lecturer at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeș” from Timișoara, where she teaches English language courses, mainly focused on medical vocabulary and language, as well as general language and English grammar. Romanița Jumanca is also the Director of the Development department for the Romanians abroad. She is the author/co-author of various studies in the field, published by national and international publishers: Culture in Legal Documents. In Investing in Science and Research, vol.1, Utah, Types of Metaphors in the English Legal Discourse, In Romanian Journal of
English Studies, vol.9.1, West University of Timisoara publishing house, Latin Elements in the Academic Discourse: Lexical Structure, In Romanian Journal of English Studies, vol.5, West University of Timisoara publishing house – are some significant titles for her scholarly
and teaching work.

Mr. Zakaria Rahimi has been working as a psychologist for more than six years in several organizations, such as Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences and Avaye Vesal Clinic. He graduated with an MA in Family Therapy from Shahid Beheshti University in 2017. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Hakim Sabzevari University.

MS. Charné Bronkhorst is currently finishing her Bachelor of Arts degree at the IIE’s Varsity College and she hopes to remain the top achieving student for the third year in a row.
Next year, she will complete her Honors in English Literature at Rhodes University under the Guy Butler Scholarship. She aspires to follow a multidisciplinary approach to research by combining English Literature and Media Studies to analyse events from a refreshing perspective.

Ms.Sanjna Senthilkumar has completed her Bachelor’s in a triple major encompassing Media studies, English, and Psychology. She is currently interning at a mental health centre, and research institute in her hometown, Coimbatore. Her interests lie in Forensic Psychology, which is what she plans on pursuing as her master’s degree.
She has previously worked on a research paper studying the Impact of Parental Support and Self-esteem on Academic Motivation in Students Preparing for competitive examinations.

Ms. Simona Olaru-Poșiar is currently a PhD Lecturer at “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timișoara. She is also a clinical psychologist and a member of the Romanian College of Psychology, member of The Romanian German Society, and of The Centre of Applied Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies. Her research interests involve the areas of German and English Literature, as well as psychology and art. She is the author of the 1st therapeutic journal written by over 500 students in medicine and the 1st study in Europe on German writers suffering from mental illnesses. Within the extracurricular activities organized by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timisoara, she is a cultural mediator and organizer of the art workshops Live @ the Museum, which aim to familiarize medical students with the artistic and cultural environment.

Ms. Romanița Jumanca is a lecturer at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeș” from Timișoara, where she teaches English language courses, mainly focused on medical vocabulary and language, but also general language and English grammar. Romanița Jumanca is also the Director of the Development department for the Romanians abroad. She is the author/co-author of various studies in the field, published by national and international publishers: Culture in Legal Documents. In Investing in Science and Research, vol.1, Utah, Types of Metaphors in the English Legal Discourse, In Romanian Journal of English Studies, vol.9.1, West University of Timisoara publishing house, Latin Elements in the Academic Discourse: Lexical Structure, In Romanian Journal of English Studies, vol.5, West University of Timisoara publishing house – are some significant titles for her scholarly and teaching work.

Dr. Malahat Akbar Valiyeva is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Lexicology and Stylistics, at Azerbaijan University of Languages. He did my PhD in Germanic languages and Post doctorate in General Linguistics. He was a visiting scholar at Essex University (Great Britain) and was awarded with SUSI scholarship by the US Department of State. He also won 2 Erasmus+ scholarships and had a short-term experience of teaching at Konin Unuversity of Applied Sciences in Poland and the University of Cadiz in Spain.

Dr. Nino Guliashvili is an Associate Professor at Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia), School of Arts and Sciences, English Philology. Funded by TEMPUS program in 2011, she was a visiting doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow. In 2018 was conferred the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philology by Ilia State University. Her scientific interests include Sociolinguistics, discourse studies, identities, and ideologies; Cognitive linguistics, and conceptual metaphors.

Dr. Peri Yuksel earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Currently, she is a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology at New Jersey City University. Concerned with bilingual language development, parenting across cultures, and effective teaching and learning environments that facilitate student success, Dr. Yuksel contributed to the field of psycholinguistics, scholarship of teaching and learning, and international education. She actively uses high-impact factors for effective teaching and consistently encourages students to engage in critical and creative research for peer review. Notably, Dr. Peri Yuksel was honored with the Isenberg Award for her work in documenting an endangered language, which helped in the publication and distribution of two children’s books in the endangered Laz language.

Prof. Tamara Guliashvili Gogrichiani is a PhD in English Linguistics from Madrid Complutense University. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Business and Technology University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and an Invited Lecturer at Castilla La Mancha University in Spain. She is also a Madrid Complutense University Cognitive Linguistics Investigation Group Member, CEO of Cambridge accredited online Exam Prep Centre: Cambridge English Centre, and Cambridge Speaking Examiner. Tamara is also a Language Development Supervisor, Personal and Professional Skills Coordinator, and Spanish Language teacher at European School IB DP/CP in Tbilisi.

Dr. Achour fadila is teaching at the Department of Sociology and Demography for 20 years, writing many article about sociology and development, supervising students on demography and sociology, manage a project (PRFU) on sustainable development in Algerien desert.

Dr. Rodrigo Schaefer teaches Portuguese and English at Instituto Federal Catarinense in Brazil; his Doctorate is in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies. His research focuses are Interculturality, Internationalization and Telecollaboration. Currently, Dr. Rodrigo Schaefer is performing research at Humboldt Universistät zu Berlin (Germany) as postdoctoral researcher by the CAPES/Humboldt Fellowship / Program.

Prof. Elena Bollingerholds a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. She is an Invited Assistant Professor of English Studies at the University of Madeira, Portugal. She is also a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, and a member of the interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Shared Memories: Literature and Cultures in English and Portuguese’. Close to both the Centre for Slavic Languages and Cultures and the Centre for Comparative Studies, she has been working on intercultural research involving memory, history, and (trans)national identity within the scope of literary representations. She is also a member of the Memory Studies Association. Her recent publications include several articles in International Academic Journals and a book entitled Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2022, Routledge).

Prof. Yuriko Isada is a professor at the School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, and Director of the Centre for Generativity Research. Holds a PhD in Informatics from Kansai University. My research interests lie in multi-objective optimization and multi-objective decision-making. 14 years’ experience as a system engineer in the company inform my research.

Mr. Moslem Boushehrian is a Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Surrey, UK, with research interests in policing and victimology of hate crime. I am on the Trustee board and advisory panels for Stop Hate UK, Hampshire Constabulary Hate Crime Silver Group, Surrey Constabulary Race Advisory Group, and Crown Prosecution Service Southeast Hate Crime scrutiny panel.

Mr. Wu Xinrui is an undergraduate student majoring in Journalism at the School of Communication, Xiamen University Malaysia Campus, studying film themes under the guidance of Associate Professor Wang Changsong. The documentary he organized and filmed was nominated for the Stellar Award for Best Documentary.

Mr. Werede Tareke Gebregergis is a lecturer at Asmara College of Education in Eritrea. Currently, he is pursuing his doctoral studies at the Institute of Psychology, University of Debrecen, Hungary. His research focuses on positive psychology, wellbeing, cultural and emotional intelligence, multicultural personality, intercultural adaptation of student sojourners, and educational sciences.

Dr. Nsungbemo Ezung is a native of Wokha Town, India. He did his Ph.D in Philosophy from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He has written extensively on Peace and Conflicts in India’s North-East and South Asia, and is also the author of the book “Indo-Naga Political Conflict: Rewriting the Post-Colonial Idea of Nation (Whetstone Publications, 2021)”.

Dr. Mariam Albadi works as an assistant professor at the University of Nizwa, Oman. She teaches literary criticism and Arabic literature. Dr. Mariam holds a Ph.D. (Sultan Qaboos University) in narrative, a master’s degree (University of Leeds) in linguistics, and a second master’s degree in literary criticism (University of Nizwa). Her areas of interest are narrative theory; especially point of view, ideology and characterization.

Dr. Tatiani I. Gkatsa works permanently at the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, with the subject “School Psychology”. Her Ph.D.and Masters are at the Medical School of the University of Ioannina. Her research interests are Mental Health, Bullying, Victimization, Behavioral Difficulties, Mental Resilience, Educational, and School Psychology.

Prof. Tamas Bereczkei is a professor in the Institute of Psychology, at the University of Pécs, Hungary. His recent interest focuses on Machiavellian intelligence, but he has also studied evolution of altruism, mate choice, life history strategies. He published more than 300 papers and 9 books, including Machiavellianism. The Psychology of Manipulation. He is the leader of the doctoral school in the Institute of Psychology, and established the Evolutionary Psychology Research Group of Pécs.

Dr. Eric Rogers is a professor of Psychology at Bethune Cookman University (Daytona Beach, Florida). His backgrounds spans 40 years of a comprehensive track record and experience as a Professor and Educator in higher education. In addition, he is a published Author of 9 books, a Mental Health Education Consultant, Psychotherapist, and former U.S. Federal Officer with the Department of Justice. Dr. Rogers has done research and served in higher education administration involving assessment/testing and evaluation.

Ms. Anne Sophie Puers is a doctoral research fellow in comparative politics at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne, Germany, with Prof. Dr. André Kaiser. She studied psychology (M.Sc.) at Trier University, Germany, and political science (M.A.) at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn, Germany. She also holds a certificate in European studies from Trier University and spent a research stay at the University of Turin, Italy, with Prof. Dr. Marco Tamietto. Her research interests include political attitudes, autocratisation, populism, and political participation.

Ms. Saima Najib Chaudry is an English lecturer currently residing in Lahore. Over the years, she has taught the following courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students: The Twentieth-century English novel, Nineteenth-century English novel, Modern and Absurd Drama, Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, Methods of Literary Research and Non-fiction Prose. Her research interests include: trauma in contemporary fiction, gender and race, and the depiction of madness and shame in 20th century novel. She has an MPhil in English Literature and am currently teaching English at Government Associate College for Women, Data Nagar, Lahore. In March 2022, She virtually participated in and presented two papers at NeMLA (The Northeast Modern Language Association). These papers were entitled, “Forgiving Oneself: An Exploration of the Dynamics of Survivor’s Guilt in Gunter Grass’s Crabwalk” and “Redefining Insanity: The Transformative Role of Madness in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”

Ms. Setayesh Karami is Master Student in Philosophy at Humboldt University of Berlin. She entered at University in the age of 16 and graduated in Bachelor of Philosophy with 1.3. Setayesh is a member of Circle.U. She also awarded DAAD fellowship for HUGS and is a member of international department of Humboldt University.

Ms. Paulina Schindler is a research associate at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, teaching students in the field of business informatics and researching as part of the “Liberty”-research branch. After receiving her M. Sc. in Business Informatics, she is currently researching on the topics social media and quantum computing.