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Keynote Speaker:
Associate Professor Nicole Tarulevicz is Head of History and Classics in the School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. An expert in the historiography and cultural history of Singapore, her current work explores how Singapore, as a free port and historic crossroads of trade, exemplifies and presages various elements of globalized food systems, currently and specifically including the ideas, practices and institutions historically connected to constructions of Food Safety.
Conference Chair:
Keri Matwick is a Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A language and food scholar, she has published with her twin sister Kelsi on a variety of topics, ranging from celebrity chefs to culinary diplomacy to comic posters to linguistic landscape. Currently, she is exploring Singapore’s food and culture.
In-Person Presenters (in Alphabetical Order)
Aimee Pink, Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) & Singapore Institute of Clinical Science (SICS), A*STAR (Singapore)
Anil Kumar Thakur, Associate Professor, Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (India)
Cornelia Gerhardt, Senior Lecturer, Saarland University (Germany)
Eleonora Federici, Associate Professor of English and Translation Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Ferrara (Italy)
Farzana Yesmen Chowdhury, Associate Professor and Director, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Chittagong (Bangladesh)
Florinda Amparo Palma Gil, Senior Language Lecturer, World Language and Society Education Centre, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) (Japan)
Gábor Parti, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Ian Joo, PhD student & Lecturer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan)
Ilja Croijmans, Department of Language and Communication, Radboud University (The Netherlands)
Jinawat Kaenmuang, Academic Researcher (Tenure Track), Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
Jonathon Coltz, Graduate Student, Saarland University (Germany)
Jyoti Kumari, Research Scholar, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) (India)
Kelsi Matwick, Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona (USA)
Keri Matwick, Senior Lecturer, Language and Communication Centre, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Lieke Verheijen, Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Communication, Radboud University (The Netherlands)
Namrata Paul, PhD Scholar, Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (India)
Nate Ming Curran, Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Pursotam Kumar, Research Scholar, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) (India)
Ria P. Rafael, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines Diliman (Philippines)
Sanjukta Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) (India)
Seong Lin Ding, Associate Professor, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Sofia Rüdiger, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Sujata S. Kathpalia, Senior Lecturer, Language and Communication Centre, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Susanne Mühleisen, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Takako Kawabata, Associate Professor, International Professional University of Technology in Nagoya (Japan)
Yurie Okami, Associate Professor, Chukyo University (Japan)
Online Presenters (in Alphabetical Order)
Ana Tominc, Reader (Associate Professor) in Media and Communications, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
Chanatporn Limprapoowiwattana, Adjunct Lecturer, Thammasat University (Thailand)
Daniela Cesiri, Associate Professor, "Ca' Foscari" University of Venice (Italy)
Dheebika P, Ph.D Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)
Gkatzionis Konstantinos, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean (Greece)
Genevieve Leung, Associate Professor, University of San Francisco (USA)
Gwynne Mapes, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, University of Bern (Switzerland)
Kaloudis Efstathios, Associate Professor in Consumer Studies, Sensory Sciences and Food Biochemistry, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean (Greece)
Loukia Lindholm, Ph.D., Lecturer in English Linguistics, Åbo Akademi University (Finland)
Lumnije Jusufi, Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)
Malamatenia Panagiotou, Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Consumer and Sensory Perception of Foods & Beverages, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean (Greece)
Raevskiy Alexander, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Department of Psychology, Tohoku University (Japan)
Vjosa Hamiti, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philology, Department of German Language and Literature, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina" (Republic of Kosovo)
Information here is accurate as of 15th December 2023