Arcila Flores Ruben Dario, PhD, Professor, National University of Colombia, Director of the Institute of Culture named after L.N. Tolstoy in Bogota (Colombia), member of the Board of the World Organization of Writers (WOW); poet, writer, and translator (Colombia)
Vladimir I. Karasik, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Pushkin State Russian Language Institute (Russia)
Olga A. Leontovich, Professor, Doctor habil., Professor of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Translation at Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University, Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Communication Studies and the Center for Russian-Chinese Intercultural Studies (Russia)
Yulia L. Obolenskaya, Professor, Doctor of Philology, Head of the Ibero-Romance Department, Director of the center of Ibero-Romance Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
Ekaterina A. Pokholkova, Dean of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, PhD in Philology, the Korean and English languages translator, translation blogger, Moscow State Linguistic University (Russia)
Svetlana A. Iakovleva, Doctor of Philology, Professor, National Researcher of Mexico, Teacher of the Russian Language, Center for Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Aragon, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)
A workshop on literary translation will be held as part of the conference. The workshop leader will be Aleksandra V. Glebovskaya, Saint-Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a translator of prose and poetry from English, German, and Yiddish. Her translation portfolio includes works by J.K. Rowling, Umberto Eco, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others. Aleksandra V. Glebovskaya is a laureate of the Belyaev Literary Award, co-recipient of the “Paragraph” literary award, and a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Writers (Russia).