Art, Design, Languages, Education and Social Work: Innovations in Theory and Practice
International Scientific Conference
CONFERENCE KEYSPEAKERS
Marina Tzakosta is a full Professor at the Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, University of Crete. The focus of her research is L1 development but her research interests expand to L2 learning, dialectal evolution and the relation of dialects to standard Greek. She is a graduate of the University of Crete and the Leiden University Center of Linguistics (NL). She has been a visiting fellow at the University of Massachussetts at Amherst and a postodoctoral researcher at the University of Patras (IKY grantee). She has participated in various international conferences and her works have been published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings. She has also participated in numerous research programs as an external scientific associate or a principal investigator. Shea has been awarded a John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation grant in order to create the “Digital Museum of Greek Oral History). She has also been awarded a visiting research fellowship by the Stanley Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University in order to conduct research on the Modern Greek dialects and test the validity of the Three Scales model (June – August 2018). She has recently started coordinated a program of loanword adaptation in Greek and its dialects.
Prof. Assoc. Dr Daniela Hasa is the Head of the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tirana. She teaches Text Analysis, Introduction to Linguistics, English varieties and Integration of Technology into English Language Teaching. She is keen on introducing innovative teaching methods and improving those students’ skills, which are considered 21st-century skills. Her research includes topics related to contrastive linguistics in Albanian and English and researching and publishing papers related to foreign language acquisition. She is one of the EU Cost Action ENEOLI Task Leaders dealing with Neologisms. Her research interest currently focuses on using corpora for linguistic and teaching purposes.
Tomasz Kasprzak sociologist of disability, assistant professor in the Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia in Katowice. His main areas of interest are the sociology of disability and deafblind studies. Collaborates with the Section of Sociology of Disability of the Polish Sociological Association. Deputy manager in the international project “Structures of uncertainty: inclusive education in Central and Eastern European countries” financed by the Visegrad Group funds. Author of 30 scientific publications on disability and deafblind studies The Thematic Group 09 Sociological Teaching (TG09) of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
Gleb Divov — inventor, creative technologist, European ArtTech/CultureTech pioneer with multiple mentions by the European Commission. Lithuanian ArtTech pioneer (included in the Lithuanian ArtTech map by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania). Artistic Creator of the Republic of Lithuania (status granted by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania). Active transdisciplinary immersive artist with selected works in the permanent collection of European contemporary art museums. As seen at Ars Electronica, Vancouver Biennale, Historical NFT Fest Barcelona and more. His Excellency Mr. Gleb Divov is the Minister of Culture and Innovations of the independent Republic of Uzupis, Lithuania — world’s most innovative artistic Micronation with a global recognition.