Seda TAŞ İLMEK is an associate professor teaching at the Department of Translation and Interpreting in Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey. She obtained her MA in teaching of English at Trakya University and completed a PhD in Interlingual and Intercultural Translation Studies at Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, Türkiye. Her research interests include translation theories, literary translation, translation criticism and intercultural communication. She is the editor of the books: From Recent Discussions to Conceptual Reflections in Translation Studies (2018, Hiperlink Publications), Observations on Translation (2019, Hiperlink Publications) and Research in Translation Studies (2019, Hiperlink Publications). 

Historian Amir Duranović, Associate Professor (University of Sarajevo), obtained his degree in history at the University of Sarajevo in 2007. Now holding a PhD in Modern Bosnian History, his main focus has been Church – State relations in Former Yugoslavia, especially Islam under Communism. So far Duranović has actively participated in dozens of conferences on modern Balkan history including history of political elites, nation building, religious communities, environmental history, diplomatic history etc. He has been involved as guest speaker at several European universities and in USA. Skilful in education capacity building, networking and research, Duranović is also fluent in English, Spanish and Turkish. Duranović's bibliography includes three books, four edited volumes and dozens of papers. Duranović has actively participated in different research and networking projects related to historiography, nationalism and history education. His papers have been published in Bosnian, English, German and Turkish.

I am a professor in the anthropology department of Yeditepe University. I hold my PhD and MA in Sociology from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and completed my undergraduate studies in Political Sciences and Public Administration at Istanbul University. I have taught Anthropology, Sociology, and Urban Studies for the past seven years at various Turkish universities. In 2019, I conducted library research at the University of St Andrews in the UK, studying the accounts of Western travelers who visited the Ottoman Empire and archival research on Ottoman documents in the Cyril and Methodius National Library in Bulgaria. From October 2023 to March 2024, I studied a research project titled "The Late Ottoman Informal Settlements as a Form of Grassroots Modernization" at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, as a Fulbright fellow.