Speakers – Multilingualism and Russia’s Ethnic Cultures through English, French, German, Russian and Other Languages

Sergey Bogdanov

Rector of Herzen University

Gennady Bordovsky

President of Herzen University

Liudmila Verbitskaya

President of the Russian Academy of Education

Andrey Maksimov

Chair of the Committee for Science and Higher Education, Government of St. Petersburg

Andrey Lopukhov

Director of the Language Support Department, MFA of Russia

Vladimir Zapevalov

Representative of MFA of Russia in St. Petersburg

Shivona Tavares-Walsh

Chief, Division of Conference Services, UN Office at Nairobi

François Génisson

Inter-Institutional Relations, International Cooperation & Strategy Unit, Directorate-General for Interpretation, European Commission

Irina Alexeeva

Director, SCIT, Herzen University

Angelique Antonova

Deputy Director, SCIT, Herzen University

Viktor Kabakchi

Trainer, SCIT, Herzen University

Yerzhan Kistafin

Director, Department of Administration and Control, MFA of Kazakhstan, Chairperson, Association of Kazakh Diplomats

Zoya Proshina

Professor, Moscow State University

Dirk Verbeke

Lead for TranslationQ and RevisionQ

Natalya Chikina

Research Associate in the Literary Section Institute of Language, Literature and History KarRC RAS

Maria Yelenevskaya

Head of the Computer-Assisted Language Learning Laboratory at the Technion, Department of Humanities and Arts

Gabriele Leupold

Translator, member of the German Academy for Language and Literature

Peter McCarey

Poet, linguist

Ildikó Horváth

Associate professor and head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting at ELTE University, Budapest

Alexandra Rivlina

Associate Professor, Department of English for Social Sciences, School of Foreign Languages, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Rosemarie Tietze

Translator and interpreter

Daniel R. Davis

Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

Kseniya Egorova

Lexicographer, Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Dictionary of Russia

Ekaterina Lebedeva

Translator, teacher at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ekaterina Shutova

Freelance conference interpreter and translator, trainer, SCIT, Herzen University

Birgit Menzel

Professor for Slavic Literature and Culture, University of Mainz

Paul Lequesne

Translator

Catriona Kelly

Professor of Russian, University of Oxford

Alina Nakhodkina

Head of the Department of Translation, North-Eastern Federal University

Catherine Perrel

Translator, teacher, European Literary Translation Centre

William Hackett-Jones

Co-founder, Eclectic Translations, trainer, SCIT, Herzen University

Marina Platonova

Professor of Contrastive and Comparative Linguistics, Riga Technical University

Tatiana Smirnova

Assistant professor, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of E-Learning Technologies and Humanities, Riga Technical University

Larissa Aronin

Associate Professor, Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel

Ekaterina Pokholkova

Dean, Translation and Interpreting Faculty, Moscow State Linguistic University

Marina Koreneva

Lead researcher, Department of Correlation of Russian and Foreign Literature, Pushkinsky Dom

Elena Beloglazova

Professor, St. Petersburg State University of Economics