Keynote Speakers

Toril Moi

Focused on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory, Toril Moi stands as a prominent feminist literary critic. She finds great delight in delving into the works of both women writers and intellectuals, as well as those of prominent figures such as Freud, Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, and the esteemed Stanley Cavell from Harvard University. Her literary contributions largely revolve around the vast realm of feminist theory, with notable works including Sexual/Textual Politics (Methuen, 1985) and What Is a Woman? (Oxford University Press, 1999). Among her notable musings, she regards Simone de Beauvoir as the pivotal feminist thinker of the 20th century, a sentiment that resonates in her publication, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Blackwell, 1994).

Alan Libert

Born in Los Angeles, he grew up mainly in New York, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science. Completed B.A. at New York University, majoring in Greek and Latin, with minors in Linguistics and Classical Civilization. Completed his Ph.D. in linguistics at McGill University in Montreal. His books include A Priori Artificial Languages (Lincom Europa, 2000), Ambipositions (Lincom Europa, 2006), and Interjections and Other Parts of Speech (Peter Lang, 2020). His journal papers include “Adpositions and Presuppositions” (SpringerPlus 2016, 5.1), and his book chapters include “The Pragmatics of Indirect Discourse in Artificial Languages (in Indirect Reports and Pragmatics, Springer, 2016). He currently teaches courses in semantics and pragmatics and in translation.

Hamlet Isakhanli

Hamlet Isakhanli (Isayev) is an Azerbaijani polymath, mathematician, professor, poet, publicist, translator, entrepreneur, writer, author specialist in science, culture and history of education, founder of Khazar University, the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Trustees, co-founder of Dunya School. He is co-founder of East-West University (Tbilisi, Georgia), founding member of the Eurasian Academy, received the title of Academician and was elected a full (foreign) member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. He has more than 300 published works: research articles in Mathematics, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences; monographs, textbooks and creative writings in Mathematics, Education, Language and Translations Studies, Poetry, is the editor of numerous textbooks, books, dictionaries, transactions of conferences, journals.