Associate Professor of English and Comics Studies, Bournemouth University Julia Round is a writer and scholar who researches the intersections of Gothic, comics, and children’s literature. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (McFarland, 2014), the award-winning Gothic for Girls (UP Mississippi, 2019), and the co-authored Comics and Graphic Novels (Bloomsbury, 2022). She has also co-edited books such as Real Lives, Celebrity Stories (Bloomsbury, 2014), the Companion to Literary Media (Routledge, 2023) and Multimodal Comics (Intellect, 2024), and written over fifty peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is Associate Professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK, one of the founding editors of Studies in Comics journal (Intellect Books) and the Encapsulations book series (University of Nebraska Press), and co-organiser of the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (www.IGNCC.com). She shares her work at www.juliaround.com.
University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University Jaana Dielenberg works to improve outcomes for biodiversity through the promotion of robust science and Traditional Knowledge. Jaana is a University Fellow at Charles Darwin University and is the Communications and Engagement Manager of the Biodiversity Council. The Biodiversity Council brings together leading experts including Indigenous knowledge holders to promote evidence-based solutions to Australia’s biodiversity crisis. Jaana has worked in the environmental research and management sector for 20 years. For more than a decade her focus has been research translation, knowledge brokering, communication and stakeholder engagement for multi-partner large-scale science programs, with a particular focus on biodiversity conservation and climate action. She started her career in waterway management and planning in Victoria, and has since enjoyed living in the Northern Territory and Queensland. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Geography) and a Master of Environment, both from The University of Melbourne.
Research Fellow in the Department of Economics, KU Leuven Joris is a research fellow in the Economics Department at KU Leuven. He is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Economics Department at the University of Cambridge. His research interest are on the intersection between international macroeconomics, trade and industrial organisation. He has a particular interest in studying the quantification of changes in, and the level of, market integration and its implications for international macroeconomic policies.
Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University Joep Konings is a Belgian economist. He is director of research and full professor at the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business in Kazakhstan (strategic partner with the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University), director of the Flemish Institute for Economics and Science (VIVES) at KU Leuven and research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. He is a former advisor in economics for the Barroso cabinet in the European Commission, in the Bureau of European Policy Advisers.
Assistant Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco I am an anthropologist and bioethicist who investigates the lived experiences of controversial medical treatments.
Candidat au doctorat au Département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Candidat au doctorat (PhD) à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Membre du : - Geotop (centre de recherche sur la dynamique du système Terre – www.geotop.ca) - GRIL (Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie – www.gril-limnologie.ca). Ma thèse, entreprise au sein de l’équipe de recherche de Marie Larocque, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche Eau et conservation du territoire, se focalise sur les échanges lac-eaux souterraines, notamment sous l’influence des changements climatiques.
