Keynote Speakers

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our keynote speakers

MARIE-CLAUDE L’HOMME

Professor, University of Montreal

Marie-Claude L’Homme holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and is full professor at the University of Montreal where she lectures in terminology and languages for specific purposes. She is a member of the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST) since 1997, a research group she headed between 2005 and 2015. Her research deals with lexical semantics and corpus linguistics applied to terminology. She is responsible for the development of terminological resources that implement the findings of this research (DiCoInfo, DicoEnviro and Framed DiCoEnviro). She has been co-editor or the journal Terminology since 2000.

KIRSTEN MALMKJÆR

Professor Emeritus, University of Leicester

Kirsten Malmkjær is emeritus professor of translation studies at the University of Leicester. She is especially interested in translation theory – that is, in understanding the phenomenon that is translation, an interest that she has pursued throughout her academic career. In addition to teaching at Leicester, she has taught at the universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Middlesex. Recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies and Linguistics (2018), the collection of articles, Key Cultural Texts in Translation, co-edited with Adriana Serban and Fransiska Louwagie (John Benjamins 2018) and Translation and Creativity, Routledge (2020).

Stuart Dunn

Professor, King’s College London

Stuart Dunn is Professor in Digital Humanities at King’s College London. He started out as an archaeologist, with interests in the history of cartography, digital approaches to landscape studies, and spatial humanities. His main interest is the Spatial Humanities, critical GIS, cultural heritage, and the archaeology of mobility. He currently works on projects in spatial narrative theory, critical GIS, Cypriot cultural heritage, and the archaeology of mobility. Stuart gained an interdisciplinary PhD on Aegean Bronze Age dating methods and palaeovolcanology from the University of Durham in 2002, conducting fieldwork in Melos, Crete and Santorini. In 2006 he became a Research Associate at the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre, having previously worked at the AHRC, after which he became a Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities.