Erik Knudsen is a filmmaker and Emeritus Professor at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the UK, where he was formerly the Faculty Director of Research for the Faculty of Culture and Creative Industries. Prior to joining UCLan, Erik was a Professor of Visual and Digital Culture at Bournemouth University’s Media School. He has also been Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, where he was for a period of time Head of the School of Media, Music and Performance. During his many years at the University of Salford, Erik also acted as the University of Salford’s Director of Graduate Studies. Earlier roles at the University of Salford include programme leading the MA in Fiction Film Production, the MA in Television Documentary Production and the MA in Wildlife Documentary Production. Prior to his University of Salford tenure, he was Head of Production at the Northern Film School at Leeds Beckett University. Alongside his current role, Erik is also Visiting Professor, and the former Head of the Editing Department, at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba. He writes extensively about creative film practice and his latest book, Finding The Personal Voice In Filmmaking, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. He is principal investigator on two recent Arts and Humanities Research Council grants: StoryLab International Film Development Research Network (2016 - 2018) and StoryLab Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries (2019 - 2020). StoryLab Research Network has since grown to include working with film festivals, such as the Peloponnesus Documentary Film Festival, 2022, and the ongoing Wind Wolves Preserve Archaeology project in California, USA.

As a multiple prize winning filmmaker, his films include Goodwin Island (99 minutes, fiction, 2024), True Calling (88 minutes, fiction, 2021), Cleft Lip (84 minutes, fiction, 2018), The Raven On The Jetty (88 minutes, fiction, 2015), The Silent Accomplice (84 minutes, fiction, 2011), Vainilla Chip (17 minutes, Documentary, 2009), Veil (for Horse & Bamboo Theatre Company’s touring show, 2008), Heart of Gold (40 minutes, documentary, 2006), Sea of Madness (86 minutes, fiction, 2006), Brannigan’s March (99 minutes, fiction, 2004), Bed of Flowers (50 minutes, documentary, 2001), Signs of Life (70 minutes, fiction, 1999), Reunion (50 minutes, documentary, 1995), One Day Tafo (70 minutes, documentary, 1991).

Erik is also creatively engaged with photography, exemplified through projects such as his photographic essay, Cuba in Waiting, which was exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in Manchester (2013) and Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (2014) and is available as a book. His personal project entitled Doubt is a photographic and poetic book, combined with a film. This work had its opening exhibition in Manchester, UK, during January 2018 and was also exhibited at Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, UK, from October 2018 to January 2019.

Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and since 2017 a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is the author or editor of seventeen books including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, Polity, 2016), Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and MediaSpace (Routledge 2004, co-edited with Anna McCarthy). His latest books include The Space of the World (Polity, October/December 2024), Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back (Penguin/W. H. Allen 2024, with Ulises Mejias), Media: Why It Matters (Polity: 2019) and Media, Voice, Space and Power: Essays of Refraction (Routledge 2021). Nick is also the co-founder of the Tierra Común network of scholars and activists: https://www.tierracomun.net/.

Prof. Nevzat Tarhan was born in Merzifon in 1952, graduated from Kuleli Military High School in 1969 and İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty in 1975. After the GATA internship as well as Cyprus and Bursa military continent service, he became a Psychiatrist in GATA in 1982. He became an assistant professor (1988) and associate professor (1990) in GATA Haydarpaşa after serving as a doctor in Erzincan and Çorlu Hospitals. He served as a clinical director. He became Colonel (1993) and Professor (1996). He was an academic member at Yüzüncü Yıl University and an expert at the Forensic Medicine Institute between the years 1996-1999. He retired at his own will. In 1998, he was the representative of Türkiye in the Memory Center of America. He founded the NPISTANBUL Hospital in 2006 and the Üsküdar University in 2011 by donating all his assets.

Prof. Nevzat Tarhan has transferred his knowledge of psychiatric expertise which he has pursued over the years with great effort and research to approximately 300 research articles of which 125 are indexed in Web of Science. More than 100 books and book chapters. Having 39 Google Scholar h-index and 112 i10 index, Prof. Tarhan’s publications were referred approximately 6000 times. Thanks to his works, he has reached an amount of one million audiences following him in both visual and written media in Türkiye. Some of his books have been translated into Bulgarian, Indonesian, Persian, Albanian, and Azerbaijani languages other than English. (By Nov 2024)

Prof. Tarhan carries out his work with great seriousness and precision. The main factor underlying his diligence and success is his philosophy of life and his supramind (metacognitive, spiritual) perspective. His view of life, which is not limited to the world and covers both the world and after death, stems from the awareness that he is in the presence of his Creator while performing every work. This means that his beliefs based on research, observation, and proof are presented to the readers by taking science in the testimony of the Universe and by establishing the connection with the characteristics of Allah reflected in the Universe. He is one of the rare scientists who succeeded in explaining Religion and Science in a supportive way. In addition to succeeding in reducing the identity of the scientist to his life, he undertakes the duty of carrying, transferring the truths he learned to others.

The source of the foundations of this different perspective is the Quran, which has guided his life since his youth. Like young people who question the meaning and existence of life, he has questioned in his university years, “Incidental Existence, The Meaning of Life, Darwinism, Why there are Evil, The Need for Religion, The Psychology of Believing, Is there Life after Death?, How does one satisfy the Mind and Soul?”, and shared them with his readers by proving explanations from the Qur'an and proving them with scientific researches.

As Tarhan closely observes social life due to being a psychiatrist, he makes an accurate analysis of social life and touches on the importance of "Social Psychology" in every mass media platform.

Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, whose characteristics are not limited to what is written above, has always targeted investment in people and used his material-spiritual resources towards this direction. The majority of society also witnesses all of what he does. He expresses with his actions and deeds that he will maintain the same goals and beliefs until the end of his life.

He donated all of his income to the TARHAN - IDER Foundation of which he is the founder. His books have sold over 1 million copies. He speaks English and German. He is the father of two children. The family tree, dating back to 1400 years, was published in 2017 as a book.

Currently, he is executing the duties by being the president of the Presidency of Üsküdar University and the Supreme Council of Management; moreover, he is leading Türkiye's first neuropsychiatry hospital NPISTANBUL Brain Hospital's Management Board Presidency duties.

Üsküdar University, which Tarhan has founded by donating all of his assets without using any public resources and allocations, continues its activities with more than 24 thousand students as a "brain base" where future Nobel candidate scientists are raised. The University successfully represents our country in the world as the first and only Turkish university to participate in the G20/N20 Summits with the global perspective of Prof. Nevzat Tarhan and his team.

The presentations of the experts of Üsküdar University and NPİSTANBUL Brain Hospital, led by Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, in the field of "Computational Psychiatry and Future Perspectives" at the 2020 congress of the American Psychiatry Association (APA), one of the most prestigious psychiatric associations in the world, were determined as one of the 12 courses offered by the APA to its members every month in 2021.

SOME OF HIS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY SERVICES:

President of the Human Values and Mental Health Foundation TARHAN - IDER Nevzat & Nermin Tarhan,
Presidency of Defenders of Justice Association ASDER, working on human rights,
Happy Home Association, caring for orphans and child protection,
Hold My Hand Association, working on child and teen abuse,
Presidency of Turkish Brain Mapping Association TSBHT,
President General of Turkish Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (TSBMT),
President General of Turkish American Neuropsychiatry Association (TANPA),
President of Middle East Brain Initiative.

INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Psychiatric Association (APA), Member
The New York Academy of Sciences, Member
New York Academia Psychiatric Foundation, Member
International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA), Member
EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS), Member of Executive Board
International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP), Member
Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA), Member
National Geographic Society, Member
International Society for Neurofeedback & Research (ISNR), Member
Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics (SBMT) Member of the Board of Directors,
Turkish Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (TSBMT), President General,
Turkish American Neuropsychiatry Association (TANPA), President
European Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), Member 

AWARDS

Best Researcher - Holland, (The Congress of Destructive Drives and Impulse Control), 1991.
RTUK Best Community Program / Türkiye, (Reasonable Solution Program), 2003.
For his Psychointerpretation Program at SKY Turk, the Prime Ministry's General Directorate of family and Social Research / Türkiye, (For his Psychointerpretation Program at SKY Turk), 2005.
Golden Apple / Türkiye, (Amasya Foundation), 2008.
Patient Safety Good Practice / Türkiye, (OHSAD and Patient Safety Association), 2009.
Golden Tulip / Türkiye, (Prof. Mumtaz Turhan Social Vocational High School), 2009.
Congress Ambassador / Canada, (7th ECNS Congress), 2010.
Presidential Service Prize / Germany, (ECNS/ ISNIP/ ISBET Germany Munich Clinical Neuroscience Congress), 2015.
Social Responsibility Award in Health / Türkiye, (Health Volunteers and Türkiye Hospital Manager Magazine), 2017.
Call for World Peace from Universal Brotherhood / Türkiye, (World Brotherhood Union Mawlana Supreme Foundation), 2017.
Author of the Year / Türkiye, (Istanbul University Students’ Council), 2019.
2019 Golden Axon Leadership Award / USA, (Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics), 2019.
APA 2020 virtual Conference - Course of The Month of 2020-Computational Psychiatry & Future Perspectives / USA, (APA - American Psychiatric Association), 2020.
Rumi Therapy and Faith in the Laboratory Books Bestseller Award /Indonesia, (Indonesian Neurosurgical Society), 2022.
With his book “Psychology of Wisdom”, “Golden Author” award in the category of psychology within the scope of Golden Pen Awards / Türkiye, (Book Culture Art Times Journal), 2023.
Honorary Professorship (Kazakhstan L.N. Gumilev Eurasian National University), 2024
Golden Human Awards, Golden Health Award - Psychiatry, 2024

BOOKS:

Blood and Circulation, 1982
Stress and Illness, Symposium Booklet, as Editor and Section Author 1989
Innovations in Psychopharmacology, Symposium Booklet, as Editor and Section Author 1991
Sertraline Monography (Pfizer Publications), 1992
Violence (with its Bio-Psycho-Social Aspects) (Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, Prof. İbrahim Balcıoğlu), 1998
Being in Peace with Yourself, 2001
Psychology of Happiness: Converting Stress to Happiness, 2002
Psychological Warfare: Grey Propaganda, 2002
Family School, Reasonable Solution, Family Communication Directory 2004
Psychology of Women, 2005
Psychology of Marriage, 2006
Psychology of Emotions, 2006
On Life, Joy of Living (Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, Dr. Elif Ilgaz), 2008
Psychology of Belief, 2009
Society’s Psychology, 2009
Asymmetric War, Political Psychology, 2010
Family: The Last Refuge, 2010
Addiction; Virtual or Real (Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, Prof. Serdar Nurmedov), 2011
Psychology of Values and Man / A Model of Mature Man, 2011
Bediüzzaman the Conscience of the Age, 2012
The journey from Mind to Heart, Bediüzzaman Model, 2012
You, Me and Our Kids, 2012
Rumi Therapy, 2012 (translated into Bulgarian and English)
Positive Psychology, 2012
Yunus Therapy, 2013
Love Therapy, 2014
Being a Conscious Family (Turkish), 2015
Being a Conscious Youth (Turkish), 2015
Mom, what is a Coup? Psychology of a Coup d’état, 2017
Faith in the Laboratory, 2018
Conscious Family, 2019
Conscious Youth, 2019
Family Therapy with Mawlana, 2019,
Social Media Psychology, (Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, Assoc. Prof. Aylin Tutgun Ünal), 2021
Digital Health Literacy, Digital Diseases, and Cyberchondria, (Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, Assoc. Prof. Aylin Tutgun Ünal, Yücel Ekinci), 2021
Psychology of Wisdom – 1, Rational Faith. The Paralogism of Spinoza and the evolution of evolution, 2022
Psychology of Wisdom – 2, Rational Faith. The Art of Finding the Good, the True and the Beautiful, 2022
Metaverse, Psychology of Digital Game, (Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, Assoc. Prof. Aylin Tutgun Ünal), 2022
Science of Happiness, 2022
Historical Adventure of Electroencephalography (Prof. Nevzat Tarhan, Sultan Tarlaci), 2024
Raising Gender-Friendly Children, 2024

BOOKS TRANSLATED INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES:

Mesnevi Therapy - Rumi Therapy: From Age Of Knowledge To Age Of Wisdom (English, Arabic, Persian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Indonesian, Uzbek, Bosnian)
Love Therapy (Arabic, Bulgarian, Uzbek, Bosnian)
Psychology of Faith - Faith in the Laboratory (English, Indonesian)
Becoming a Conscious Family - Conscious Family (English, Albanian)
Conscious Youth (English, Albanian, Arabic)
A Journey form Mind to Heart, Bediuzzzaman's Model - A Journey form Mind to Heart Bediuzzaman's Model (English)
The Conscience of the Age Bediuzzaman in English - Bediuzzaman: The Conscience of the Age (English)
Psychology of Happy Marriage (Albanian, Arabic, Kyrgyz, Bosnian)
Psychology of Happiness and Coping with Stress (Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Bosnian)
Psychology of Women (English, Azerbaijani, Bosnian)
Family School and Marriage (Albanian, Arabic)
Psychological Warfare (Albanian)
Beautiful Human Model (Azerbaijani, Russian)
Family Therapy with Mevlana (Indonesian, Uzbek, Bosnian)
Psychology of Emotions and Emotional Intelligence (Arabic, Azerbaijani, Uzbek)
Positive Psychology (in Uzbek)
Addiction: Virtual or Real, Positive Solutions (with Assoc. Prof. Serdar Nurmedov) (English, Albanian)
Being at Peace with Yourself (in Uzbek)
You, Me and Our Children (in Uzbek)
Last Refuge Family (in Uzbek)
Psychological Warfare, Grey Propaganda (in Uzbek)
Wisdom Psychology 1-2 (English)

Biographical books written about Tarhan:

Nevzat Tarhan – 1, The Rhetoric of being from Insurrection to Property, (Leyla Yıldız), 2020
Nevzat Tarhan – 2, The Rhetoric of being from Insurrection to Property, (Leyla Yıldız), 2020
A Life Breaking the Mold, (Emre Şimşek, Dr. Tuğba Şimşek), 2023

SOCIAL IMPACT:

As of Nov 2024, the number of unique visitors nevzattarhan.com is more than 7 million and actively uses social networks.

(The author donated the copyright of all his books to Tarhan-İDER Foundation.)

National Scientific Accreditation
Eligibility as Associate Professor for the competition class 11-C4, obtained during the first round of the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (December 2012).
Eligibility as Full Professor for competition class 1-C4, obtained during the 2016 round of the National Scientific Qualification (April 2018).

Director of the scientific series ‘Lingua. Linguaggio, Linguaggi’ at the publisher Aracne since 2012 (http://www.aracneeditri ce.it/aracneweb/index.php/collana.html?col=lll).
Member of the Editorial Board of the ‘Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure’ in Geneva (http://www.cerclefdsaussure.org/index.php/Ie-cercle/comite-du-cercle) since 2013.
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Mondi’ of Catania (http://www.mondi.academy/index.php/Mondi) since 2017.
Has acted as referee for several journals, among which: RIFL (ISSN: 2036-6728); OcuIa (ISSN: 1724-7810); FilosofiEsemiotiche (ISSN: 2531-9434); Versus (ISSN 0393- 8255); Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure (ISSN: 0068-516X); Rivista di Filosofia Neoscolastica (ISSN: 0035-6247); Language and Communication (ISSN: 0271-5309); Sign Systems Studies (ISSN: 1406-4243); Mondi (ISSN: 2533- 1450); E/C (ISSN: 1970-7452); European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosphy (ISSN 2036-4091).

He has been a member of the College of the International Doctorate of Humanistic Studies at the University of Calabria since the XXVII cycle to date.

Publications (small selection)

BOOKS

- Piccolo corso di semiotica, Acireale/Roma, Bonanno, 2003 (II ed. 2004). [ISBN: 9788877961365]
- La semiotica una e bina. Problemi di filosofia del segno da Ch. S. Peirce a F. de Saussure e L. J. Prieto,
Rende, CELUC, 2004. [ISBN: 9788874580156]
- Lingua e mente sociale. Per una teoria delle istituzioni linguistiche a partire da Mead e Saussure,
Acireale/Roma, Bonanno, 2006 ). [ISBN: 978887796276]
- Peirce, Roma, Carocci, coll. «Pensatori», n° 33, 2013. [ISBN: 9788843069392]
- Sentimento della lingua. Per un'antropologia linguistica saussuriana, Alessandria, Dell'Orso, 2017. [ISBN:
978-88-6274-795-0]
- Troppo lontani troppo vicini. Elementi di prossemica virtuale. Macerata, Quodlibet, 2018. [ISBN: 978-88-
2290-213-9]

ARTICLES IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

(2001). Le lieu théorique de la sémiologie de L. J. Prieto. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, vol. 54, p. 385-403, ISSN: 0068-516X
(2005). Les abductions de Saussure. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, vol. 57, p. 115-128, ISSN: 0068- 516X
(2008). L’identité symbolique. Prieto et le sujet de la sémiose. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE*, vol. 60, p. 73-84, ISSN: 0068-516X
(2009). Linguaggio e antropogenesi in G. H. Mead. PARADIGMI, p. 145-156, ISSN: 1120-3404
(2009). La morphologie dans la tête: ‘Parallélie’ dans De l'essence double du langage. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, vol. 61, p. 101-112, ISSN: 0068-516X
(2012). Luís J. Prieto: uno strutturalista “analitico”? VS. QUADERNI DI STUDI SEMIOTICI, vol. 115, p. 25-39, ISSN: 0393-8255
(2013). ‘Sentiment’ entre mot et terme. Quelques notes sur la langue et le travail de Ferdinand de Saussure. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, vol. 66, p. 49-65, ISSN: 0068-516X
(2015). L. J. Prieto ou de la solitude du penseur. HISTOIRE ÉPISTÉMOLOGIE LANGAGE, vol. 37, p. 93-111, ISSN: 0750-8069, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/hel/2015370206
(2016). Graphes, Diagrammes, Langue et pensée chez Ch. S. Peirce. HISTOIRE ÉPISTÉMOLOGIE LANGAGE, vol. 9 Dossiers d'HEL, p. 98-112, ISSN: 1638-1580
(2017). Saussure and the Will. SEMIOTICA, vol. 217, p. 229-242, ISSN: 1613-3692, doi: 10.1515/sem-2016-0039

LIST of 150 publication available at my webpage: https://www.unical.it/storage/teachers/emanuele.fadda/

ORCID 0000-0001-6761-1007

https://unical.academia.edu/EmanueleFadda

Giusy Gallo is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Calabria. She teaches Digital Rhetorics and Digital Journalism in the degree course in Communication and DAMS and Language, Technology and Artificial Intelligence and Data Journalism in the master's degree course in Communication and Information Technology. She is the delegate for Equal Opportunities in the Department of Humanities. She is managing editor of the Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio. She participates in the editorial board of L'Inconscio. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia e Psicoanalisi and of the journal Comunicazioni sociali. He is on the scientific committee of the journal Margins - Marges -Margins.

Her research activity is in the area of the Philosophy of Digital Communication with interests in new technologies and Artificial Intelligence. In recent years, she has published articles on narrative in television seriality, contemporary political communication and philosophical issues prompted by robotics and algorithms. She is currently working on a research project on the relationship between creativity and language under the test of smart objects, automatic language processing and large language models.