Lecturer in English, University of Galway Muireann O’Cinneide is a graduate of University College Cork (BA 1998, English & Latin) and the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall: M.Phil. in Victorian Literature 2000, D.Phil. 2003). She teaches literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, giving undergraduate courses in Victorian literature, literature of the Romantic period, and eighteenth-century novels and poetry. At graduate level she is Course Director for the MA in Culture and Colonialism. Her main research interests are in women’s writing, politics, and colonial and postcolonial literature and theory (especially travel writing). She has published a monograph on aristocratic women’s writing in the Victorian period, and she is currently working on nineteenth-century travel writing and conflict narratives.
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Calgary Mohammad Keyhani is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. His expertise lies in the areas of digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial strategy and generativity. Mohammad's research has been published in top tier peer-reviewed journals and presented in international conferences where he has received multiple best paper and best reviewer awards. Mohammad is also a no-code enthusiast and entrepreneur and an OnDeck No Code Fellow (ODNC2). His other experiences include roles such as business advisor to multiple startups, Lab Strategist at the Creative Destruction Lab Rockies, and a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission. He received his doctorate in strategic management from the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada, and has a M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship and B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of Tehran, Iran.
PhD student, Durham University I am a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at Durham University. My research investigates the reward-based mechanisms underlying the excessive and problematic use of social networking sites.
Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Colorado Denver Dr. Michael P. Moore studies physiological and developmental limits on evolution. His research with dragonflies and amphibians details why organisms have been able to adapt to some environments but not others. This work also helps us predict the ways that organisms will and will not respond to our changing planet.
Pesquisador do INCT – INEU e do GEDES, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) Doutor em Relações Internacionais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação San Tiago Dantas (PUC-SP, UNESP, UNICAMP). Realizou estágio de pesquisa no exterior junto ao Center for Latin American and Latino Studies da American University/EUA (2019-2020), com bolsa CAPES-PRINT, e à Universidade de Buenos Aires/ARG (2015). Pesquisador do Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Estudos sobre os Estados Unidos (INCT-INEU), do Grupo de Estudos de Defesa e Segurança Internacional (GEDES - UNESP) e do Instituto de Estudos Econômicos Internacionais (IEEI-UNESP). Tem interesse nos temas: Política Externa da Argentina, Relações Interamericanas, Autonomia Desenvolvimento Econômico, Defesa e Política Latino-Americana. Em 2017, recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Dissertação de Mestrado da Associação Brasileira de Relações Internacionais. Em 2013, recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Artigo de Iniciação Científica da Associação Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa. (
Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne Marika Sosnowski is an Australian lawyer, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School and a Research Associate with the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. Her primary research interests are in the fields of critical security studies (primarily ceasefires), local/rebel governance and legal systems (especially issues of citizenship and belonging). Her geographical area of specialisation is the Middle East, particularly Syria.