Keynote Speakers

Eric Mark Kramer, Ph. D., is the Presidential Professor Emeritus of the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma and a former Fulbright Scholar. He is currently a Professor in two departments at the University of Minnesota: Journalism and Mass Communication, and Communication Studies. He is the Senior Editor of the International and Global Communication volumes in the Oxford University Communication Research Encyclopedia. His last two books are: Rethinking Culture in Health Communication with Professor Elaine Hsieh, and  Environmental Communication and the Extinction Vortex: Technology as Denial of Death with Professors Gabriel Adkins and Sang-Ho Kim. He is currently working on a book about Global Communication for the University of Minnesota Press. It will be an open access book.
 

Dr. Monika Mačiulienė is an associate professor and senior researcher at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Her research examines co-creation of value in R&I, emergence of collective intelligence in social networks, citizen and open science. M.Mačiulienė actively participates in international conferences, seminars, and scientific exchange programs and published more than 30 research articles individually and in collaboration with international research teams. Currently, she is involved in a number of international scientific projects (e.g. Horizon Europe project CLIMAS, H2020 projects INCENTIVE and EU-Citizen.Science) focused on synergies between science and the society as a senior researcher. M.Mačiulienė is also the Head of Citizen Science Association in Lithuania and in this capacity actively participates in the promotion of Open Science ideas in the region.
 

Prof. dr. Aelita Skaržauskienė is is an internationally recognized researcher of management as well as of media and communication science. The area of her research interests involves digital communication, citizen science and its communication, open science and its communication, responsible research and innovation (RRI), collective intelligence, artificial intelligence, fake news and disinformation. She is an author of 10 monographs and scientific studies, 60 research articles, as well as of over 80 papers presented in national, regional and international conferences. Prof. Skarzauskienė is also a member of editorial boards of 5 international research journals, a member of 5 international associations as well as leader or implementer of over 10 international projects including 3 "Horizon Europe" projects.
 

Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, Ph. D. (Habil.), is Associate Professor of linguistics and communication and Head of the Department of English, University of Opole, Poland. She is Director of Research (PI) in project CORECON (Coverage and reception of Russian-Ukrainian conflict 2024-2026) at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, and Senior Research Fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. With a background in English studies, she specializes in discourse analysis, public communication and media studies. She co-edits the international open access Scopus/WoS-indexed journal Res Rhetorica. She has been involved in institutional transformation following the implementation of European University Alliances initiative as a leader of H2020 project FIT FORTHEM at her university. With over a hundred publications, including editorships of collective volumes, she has researched  professional and tabloid journalism, policy discourse, humanitarian communication, climate change communication, populist rhetoric, science popularization, social movements, and Polish-language media in Britain. In her research she uses methods drawn from functional linguistics, critical multimodal discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, rhetoric and argumentation theory and journalism studies.She is also interested in the developments in AI-enhanced writing, academic publishing, quality assurance and pedagogical innovations in higher education. She has served on editorial boards of multiple journals and reviewed grant proposals and books for international organizations.
 

Halyna Berehova, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Economic Security, Kherson National Technical University. She is the head of the research topic "Theory and methodology of teaching general education subjects in technical institutions of higher education" 2024-2029 (0124U001848). She is member of the editorial board, editorial board of the International Journal "Future human image"; member of the public organization "Global View", facilitator of educational programs, literary editor, and proofreader of scientific publications. She has achievements in the field of fundamental and applied scientific research in pedagogy and philosophy of education, which consist in the development of (1) a linguodidactic model of forming students' speech culture using imitative interactive teaching methods, (2) a pragmatistyc-instrumentalistyc concept of the philosophy of education.