Keynote Speakers

Etienne Wenger-Trayner is a thought leader and consultant in the field of learning systems. He is the author and co-author of seminal books on communities of practice, including Situated Learning, where the term was coined, Communities of Practice: learning, meaning, and identity, where he lays out a theory of learning based on the concept, Cultivating Communities of Practice, addressed to practitioners in organizations who want to base their knowledge strategy on communities of practice, and Digital Habitats, on technology and communities.

Ylva Lindberg is Professor of Education specialising in Language and Literature at the School of Education and Communication. She is a pluri-disciplinary researcher with a background in the humanities and social sciences. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in Language, Literature and Rhetoric from Uppsala University. Prof. Lindberg pursued her doctoral education in Paris through a joint supervision agreement between Sweden and the Sorbonne University. Her doctoral thesis was written in French and combined linguistic and literary theory in the exploration of how discourses of the scientist and the poet overlapped in multimodal poetic texts of the modernist era in the early 20th century. After her defence in 2002, Prof. Lindberg pursued competence development in library science in Paris, and was partly involved in a distance and e-learning project at La Maison des Sciences de L’homme, and in library work at La Bibliothèque Nordique, also translating several French pre-surrealistic works.

Petar Jandrić is Professor at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. His previous academic affiliations include Croatian Academic and Research Network, National e-Science Centre at the University of Edinburgh, Glasgow School of Art, and Cass School of Education at the University of East London. Petar’s research interests are situated at the post-disciplinary intersections between technologies, pedagogies and the society, and research methodologies of his choice are inter-, trans-, and anti-disciplinarity. He is Editor-in-Chief of Postdigital Science and Education journal https://www.springer.com/journal/42438 and book series https://www.springer.com/series/16439. Personal website: http://petarjandric.com/.