I am a PhD student at the University of Bologna. My research focuses on film censorship in postwar Italy and its relationship with collective memory. I also study the development of social legislation and the history of tourism. More broadly, I am strongly interested in the processes of nation-and state-building.

I am a historian and teacher. My main field of interest is the social and cultural history of the First World War. I am also a social historian of literature and the arts of the first part of the 20th century. I am the co-author of a book on research related to a worldfamous 1956 photograph.  

I have taught Polish for over thirty years at Glasgow University. Following the publication of Censorship: An International Encyclopedia (2001), my contributing colleagues and I launched an innovative Honours option, Censorship in Western Culture, which continues to this day. My research interests lie in media and translation studies and, latterly, the representation of the Polish Middle Ages on screen and in fiction.

I am a senior research associate at the Division of History of Croatian Literature, Institute for the History of Croatian Literature, Theatre and Music, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia. I am currently part of a research team doing research in a scientific research project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation: Women and Changes: Women as Subjects of Historical Changes in Croatia (2024 – pending). Since 2012 I have been a member of the Croatian Association of Children's Literature Researchers. Areas of my scientific interest include history of Croatian literature (19th and 20th century), women’s cultural history, Croatian children’s literature, literary animal studies. In my free time I enjoy walking with my two dogs and volunteering at the local dog shelter.

I am an enthusiastic scholar of Polish literature and cultural history. My current research project delves into the fascinating realm of esoteric practices in communist Poland. Previously, I have explored, for instance, the transfer of knowledge and literature from German academic centres to Vilnius University in the early nineteenth century, and Polish female authors who sympathised with the political right during the interbellum. Outside of research, I enjoy Latin dancing, photography, travelling, and appreciating little things.

I am student of polish philology and i am interested in popular culture. As a hobby im passionate about art of tailoring.

POL: Jestem studentem filologii polskiej, interesuję się kulturą popularną. Hobbistycznie zajmuję się sztuką krawiecką.

I am an Ukrainian poet and essayist. Originally from the North of Ukraine (Sumy Region), after graduating from the Kyiv Shevchenko National University I have been living and working in Kyiv, which, as Place and People, City and Citizens, became the central personae and theme of my lyrics. I write mostly rhythmical and rhymed poetry that becomes rather dry in translations. Nonetheless it is still anthologized in many languages, and was even published as a separate book in Polish and two books in English, which even recently were on the short-lists of Griffin Poetry Prize and Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry.

I am Tetyana Blyznyuk, a PhD in Education and Associate Professor at the Department of Primary Education and Educational Innovations at Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, Ukraine. I am the author of many publications on children’s literature, literary education, innovative teaching, and the digitalization of education, including the books Journey to the World of Books: Some Glimpses of English Literature for Children (2018), Formation of Digital Competence of Junior Schoolchildren (2019), Digital Tools for Online and Offline Learning (2021), and Country Study (2024). Among my international publications are the chapter Celebrating Diversity: A Person-Centered Approach in Inclusive Education in The Space of Inclusive Education (Brill, 2024) and the chapter Contemporary Ukrainian Children’s Poetry and Prose, co-authored with T. Kachak, in Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature, edited by M. Świetlicki and A. Ulanowicz (Routledge, 2025), among others. I am also Editor-in-Chief of “Children’s Literature: Interdisciplinary Discourse” and a member of the editorial board, literary editor, and proofreader of the “Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University”. My research interests include innovative teaching, children’s literature, literary education, non-standard approaches to teaching and learning ESL, and the digitalization of education.

I´ve been working for the Moravian Gallery in Brno as the curator of the collection of textile and fashion. I´m the co-curator of the exhibitions and publications e.g. Brno – the Moravian Manchester. 250 Years of the Textile Industry Capital,I research into 20th century fashion design and fashion and textile design by contemporary designers. In my leisure time, I enjoy going to modern dance performances and practising yoga.

I am a researcher and novelist based in Paris since 1990. I hold a PhD in Philosophy and a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Art History from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris. 
Born and raised in totalitarian Albania, my research examines how fiction confronts the boundaries of what can be said and thought under censorship, and how it can become a counter-archive for what official narratives consign to silence or oblivion. 
My novel Chloroform explores intimacy as a force of subversion and asks how free individuals can survive under totalitarian systems.

I am an academic at the University of Białystok. My research interests focus on the censorship of the works of the "Skamander" group and other writers, as well as the censorship of music, cinema, and theater in the Polish People's Republic (PRL). I am also interested in the impact of censorship on the everyday lives of Poles during that era. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my family by the Masurian lakes and at the seaside.

I am a second-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My research explores how the artistic gaze of contemporary spectators has become fragmented in today’s society. I am particularly interested in understanding how we perceive, experience, and engage with art in an increasingly complex and fast-paced visual culture.

I taught European history at Princeton University and then Harvard, where I also served as the director of the university library until my retirement in 2015. I have published many works on the history of publishing, the book trade, writers, the media, and  censorship, particularly concerning eighteenth-century France.

I am an art historian and lawyer. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where I teach the History of Contemporary Art and Copyright Law. My research focuses on contemporary Polish art, artistic freedom, and the legal conditions of artistic production.

Class of 1961 Chair of the College and Professor of Politics at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, USA

I am a Professor of Comparative Politics whose areas of research interest include peace and diplomacy, political violence, identity and memory politics, regime transitions, migrations, as well as area studies of Europe and Latin America. I authored numerous articles and three books, The Politics of Social Ties: Immigrants in an Ethnic Homeland (Routledge 2016), Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War (Cornell University Press 2019, translated in Croatia with Srednja Europa in 2020 under the title Identiti u ratu: Civilne žrtve u komparativnoj perspektivi), and An Uncertain Spring: Reform, Protest, and Suppression in Croatia, 1968-1971 (Indiana University Press, 2026). Apart from academic writing, I also enjoy reading fiction, visiting art museums, and going on nature walks.

I am a senior lecturer in modern and contemporary drama at University College Cork. My research interests focus on theatre censorship, the work of Arnold Wesker, and contemporary Irish theatre. On censorship I have published Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson, Adult Themes: British Cinema and the X Certificate in the long 1960s, Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and Protest, The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship, and I co-edit the book series Palgrave Studies in Cultural Censorship, which I hope to discuss with you. I enjoy walking my dog and playing the piano – albeit poorly.

I am a literature scholar, methodologist and theatre scholar. I conduct research on the Polish People's Republic censorship, interdisciplinarity and multimodality of Polish Studies education, cultural transformations of the topos of the old, intoxicated woman and the mechanism of functioning of stereotypes in culture. I am head of the Centre for Multimodal Educational and Cultural Research (OMBEiK) at the Jagiellonian University.

I am active in the Polish Community Association, whose goal is to enable Poles from the East to have contact with their Motherland. For years, I have been teaching Polish language and culture to our compatriots from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan or Belarus. 

I like crime fiction, especially retro literature, Rilke's poetry and the oneiric worlds of Bruno Schulz. I am an enthusiast of skiing, the Polish and Slovak Tatra Mountains, Beskid Makowski, as well as active holidays at the Baltic Sea and further and closer travels to France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and Romania. Kraków is my place on earth, although I am also attracted to the ancient-Christian heritage of Rome and the rhythm of life in Madrid.

I am Tetiana Kachak, a Doctor of Philological Sciences and Professor at the Department of Primary Education and Educational Innovations at Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, Ukraine. I am the author of numerous publications on Ukrainian and international children’s and young adult literature, literary education, and digital tools for literary learning. My major publications include the monograph Trends in the Development of Ukrainian Fiction for Children and Young Adults at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2018); the textbooks Ukrainian Literature for Children and Youth (2016, 2018, 2025), Foreign Literature for Children (2014), Digital Tools of Literary Education in Primary School (2024), and Literary Education of Primary School Students (2024). Among my international publications are the chapter Contemporary Ukrainian Children’s Poetry and Prose, co-authored with T. Blyznyuk, in Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature, edited by M. Świetlicki and A. Ulanowicz (Routledge, 2025), and the article Censorship in Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Society (co-authored with T. Blyznyuk and R. Golod), among others. I am also Editor-in-Chief of “Children’s Literature: Interdisciplinary Discourse”, and a member of the editorial board of “Literature. Children”. Time. My research interests include children’s literature and reading practices, literary education, digital tools, gender studies, postcolonial theory, and critical approaches to children’s literature.

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz, Poland. My research explores radio art, sound and media history, with a particular focus on documentary practices, experimental audio forms, genre, aesthetics, and the changing relationships between media, technology, and listening. I am the principal investigator of research projects funded by the National Science Centre Poland and have published internationally in radio and media studies. My current research examines transnational practices of representing reality through radio art and documentary.

I am Dr. Timea Andrea Lelik, Pathway Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in the Fashion History, Theory, and Research Department at the Amsterdam Fashion Academy. My research focuses on feminist art history, portraiture, surrealism, the intersections of fashion and visual culture, and dress and visual culture in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. As a curator and writer, I have organized exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad, and I have been a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) since 2016.

I am Director of the Rule of Law Initiative, focussing on human rights, access to justice and civic space in my work. I am also Visiting Professor at OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Associate Fellow wit Leeds University, Secondary Proposer of an EU COST-funded project at Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and serve, in addition to Lodz University's Eastern Bloc Censorship Research Group, on the board of the non-profit African Transformation on Environment and Health Action in Arusha. I trained as a judge, a public prosecutor and a lawyer in Germany, and completed a Ph.D. on legal empowerment at Oxford, London and Cologne Universities. When I am not travelling, I enjoy a good chat over coffee and cake in my free time.

I am studying Polish philology and I am interested in literature, particularly camp literature and the interwar period. In my free time, I really enjoy theology, the writings of the Church Fathers, and ecclesiastical literature—mainly from the medieval period.

POL: Studiuję filologię polską, interesuję się literaturą: szczególnie literaturą obozową i dwudziestoleciem międzywojennym. W wolnym czasie bardzo lubię poznawać teologię, pisma Ojców Kościoła i literaturę kościelną - głównie okres średniowiecza.

I am a PhD student in history at the University of Pennsylvania. My research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of the Soviet Union and East Central Europe during the 20th century, with a particular interest in censorship practices, publishing ecosystems, and the interactions between official and underground cultural realms. During the 2026-2027 academic year, my research is supported by the Lynde and Bradley Foundation Fellowship. In my spare time, I enjoy traveling and reading fiction.

I am a historian at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK). My research focuses on social and cultural history, particularly the public sphere, gender, crime, and everyday life. My favourite research experience was investigating, with my BA, MA and PhD students, the 1929 arsenic poisoning scandal, which brought Horthy’s Hungary more international press coverage than any other issue.

I have been researching the topic of censorship since the early 2000s, and my history of Australian book banning, called The Censor's Library, was published in 2012, with a bibliographic dataset of every book banned through the twentieth century.  Australia proved to be one of the worst censors in the English-speaking world, which prompted my interest in international comparative accounts of publication censorship. My book with Dr Christina Spittel on Australian books published in the German Democratic Republic (Anthem 2017) directed a focus on Cold War censorship as such, and has led to ongoing work comparing the regimes of the GDR, postwar Japan, nationalist Indonesia, and Apartheid South Africa, among others, in search of a transnational method. My most recent book is a biography of the Australian feminist communist writer Dorothy Hewett, and my current project examines the communist-supported Cold War publishing company the Australasian Book Society. I'm a Professor at the University of New South Wales and live in Canberra, Australia's 'bush capital', where on weekends I love to walk in the natural parks that surround my suburb. In the southern-hemisphere spring, the wildflowers are out!

I am an agrégé teacher working at the CNED (French National Centre for Distance Education), where I teach History and Geography, and I am also a PhD candidate in History at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, affiliated with UMR SIRICE (Institut Pierre Renouvin). My research focuses on the transnational circulation, reception, and censorship of Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957), with particular attention to its political, cultural, and international contexts. More broadly, I am interested in cultural history, cinema, international relations, and the circulation of films across borders, especially in wartime contexts or in relation to representations of war. Outside my academic activities, I enjoy travelling, discovering new places, and exploring archives and cultural heritage.

I am a researcher specialising in censorship and Romanian cinema under communism, and more recently I have been working on fashion and everyday life under state socialism. I have a background in psychoanalysis and experience as a translator from French, and I have pursued my academic and professional activities between Romania and France. My broader interests include women’s rights, cultural practices, and the ways in which culture can create spaces for empowerment and connection. Outside academia, I am currently developing a project exploring mental health and women’s empowerment through electronic music.

I used to be a poet and a prose writer in Soviet times, engaged actively in Ukrainian cultural underground. This was rewarded with expulsion from the university and effective ban on any other enrolment. After the Soviet fall, I got my diploma and published my clandestine works but did not get much satisfaction. For still unclear reasons, I stopped writing or, rather, changed radically my style and genres. I defended a Ph.D. in Political Science, penned several scholarly books and got my current position of the principal researcher in the Academy of Sciences. The phantom pain, however, persists and I still pay a tribute to abandoned belles lettres as a critic and essayist.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex. My broad research interests include comparative literature and publishing and translation history. I am currently working on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project that examines the publishing history of Holocaust testimonies from East-Central Europe. In my free time, I enjoy walking, cycling, and learning languages.

I am a PhD candidate in Russian Studies at the University of Lorraine, France. My research focuses on conflicts between artists and political power in contemporary Russia (2000–2022). I have also taught Russian language and culture at the University of Lorraine, first as a Russian language instructor and later as a temporary lecturer and research fellow. Outside academia, I enjoy languages and literature, as well as hiking in forests and mountains.

I am a PhD fellow at Aarhus University, working within the joint project "PUBLISH: Children's Books in the Russia-Ukraine War." I hold a Master's degree in Victorian Literature from the University of Oxford (2018) and an International Master's in Children's Literature, Media and Culture (University of Glasgow, Tilburg University and Aarhus University, 2022). I am also a prolific translator of children's books and TV shows, and I scout and review books for international publishers. In my leisure time, I enjoy photography, embroidery and hunting for antiques

I am Associate Professor of Russian history and politics at the University of Copenhagen, and Editor-in-Chief of Scando-Slavica. My research focuses on Russian and East European intellectual history and political philosophy, with particular attention to geopolitical, right-wing and religious ideologies. My recent publications include the monographs Putinism: Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology (Routledge, 2024); Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia (Ibidem, 2020), and the co-edited volumes Pan-Slavism and Slavophilia in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (with Marek Čejka and Vladimir Ðorđević, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Problems, Paradoxes and Dangers (co-edited with Dmitry Uzlaner,  Brill, 2019). I am now working on the topic of how pro-Kremlin bloggers promote Russia’s policy of engagement with the Global South. 

I am Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), specializing in media and democracy, authoritarianism, and post-authoritarian transitions. In September 2026, I was elected to Hungary’s Independent Public Media Board, which is tasked with rebuilding democratic  public service media in the country in the post-Orbán era.

I am Associate Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture and Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of English Studies, as well as Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and Extramural Teaching at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. I was a Research Scholar at the University of Florida’s Department of English (Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship), a Fulbright scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2018), a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto (2022), and have held multiple other fellowships in Germany, the USA, and Ukraine. I have authored more than a hundred publications, including Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), which won the 2025 International Research Society for Children’s Literature Book Award. My most recent co-edited books include Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature (with Anastasia Ulanowicz, Routledge, 2025) and The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature (with Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka, John Benjamins, 2026), and Central and Eastern Europeans in North American Literature and Culture: Under Western Eyes (with Dagmara Drewniak, Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg, and Izabella Kimak, Routledge 2026). I am currently working on a book project on liminal identities in Polish-themed North American literature and trying to balance life and work.

I love going for long, aimless walks with my dog. I am a writer, poet, and censorship researcher. Alongside many academic publications, I have published a poetry collection and a novel. As the main organizer of the 1st EBCRG Conference, I am writing these words just three days before the opening, and that's why this bio is so short

I am a historian, specializing in history education, public history and Polish American history. My research on censorship was related to reading primers and other school textbooks from the communist era. I like re-visiting old topics - and old places - from new perspectives. 

I study Russian philology. Besides philology, I am also passionate about photography and love practicing it during my crazy travels abroad. I also enjoy playing chess even during classes.

UKR: Я вивчаю російську філологію. Окрім самої філології, я також улюблюю фотографію й з великим задоволенням практикую її під час своїх шалених подорожей за кордон. А ще люблю грати в шахи (навіть коли тривають пари)

I am a Professor at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University and a researcher at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature. I am studying Ukrainian literature of the 1920s and 1930s, and my current research project focuses on children’s literature from that period. In my spare time, I read and watch detective books and films.