Keynote speakers

Web and broadcast: the birth of exciting technologies / Shadi Abou-Zahra (W3C Web Accessibility Initiative). Chair: Pilar Orero ; Diversity and representation in children's media / Mariana Diaz-Wionczek (NYU's Psychology Department). Chair: Anna Matamala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

2015 Making Literature Conference

Keynote Speakers: Scott Russell Sanders, Angela Shannon, Jessie van Eerden, Miho Nonaka Keynote Address: Translating Endo Shusaku\u27s Silence: Literature of Faith and Human Weakness, Miho Nonaka Keynote Reading: Reading & Craft Talk: The Midrashic Impulse, Jessie van Eerden Keynote Address: Pictures into Words, Scott Russell Sander

Encountering Malta II : British writers and the Mediterranean 1760 - 1840 : literature, landscapes, politics : conference review

In January 2014, the Department of English at the University of Malta held the second in a series of conferences, entitled ‘Encountering Malta II – British Writers and the Mediterranean 1760-1840: Literature, Landscapes, Politics’. The first, held in 2011 in conjunction with the School of English at the University of St Andrew’s, Scotland, grounded itself within the same eighty year span, and had featured keynote speakers Professor Peter Vassallo and Professor Michael O’Neill. This series was inspired, in part, by the book Encounters with Malta—a work that details the interaction of various artistic figures with the Maltese archipelago over the centuries, as Dr Petra Caruana Dingli, one of the co-editors of the work, pointed out in the roundtable discussion on the first day of the event. This second two-day conference took place at the Old University Building in Valletta, Malta. It was a moderately paced event with a comfortable schedule that allowed for two keynote speakers and an intriguing variety of papers which attested to the tumultuous richness of the late 18th and early 19th century period in question.peer-reviewe