Keynote Speakers
We are pleased to announce that our three confirmed keynote speakers are Dr Anna Arzoumanov, Dr Eilika Fobbe and Professor Tim Grant
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Dr. Anna Arzoumanov is a senior lecturer (with habilitation to supervise research) in French language and literature at Sorbonne University, currently on secondment to the CNRS (UMR CELLF). Her work examines contemporary tensions between freedom of expression and creation, legal norms, and social pressures, analyzing the multiple forms of censorship, obstruction, and legal proceedings that affect the production and circulation of discourse. After an initial phase of research devoted to the Ancien Régime (Pour lire les clefs sous l’Ancien Régime, Classiques Garnier, 2013), she has spent the last ten years studying contemporary mechanisms for controlling public speech, focusing on trials, public controversies, and the conflicts they generate. She is the author of La Création artistique et littéraire en procès (Classiques Garnier, 2022), which focuses on literary and artistic discourse, and Juger les mots. Justice, langue et liberté d’expression (Actes Sud, 2025), which concentrates more specifically on hate speech. She is currently co-responsible for the France-Quebec Chair on Contemporary Issues of Freedom of Expression, COLIBEX, (CNRS/FRQ), in charge of the "Censorship and Creation" axis, and is preparing a book offering a critical overview of freedom of creation in France.
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Dr. Eilika Fobbe is a senior scientist at the Forensic Science Institute of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt). She works as a forensic expert in the field of forensic text comparison and author profiling. Her research interests lie in text linguistics, stylistics, and linguistics as a forensic science.
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Prof. Tim Grant is currently Professor of Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, UK and was founding Director of the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (2019-2024). He has authored or contributed to around a hundred journal articles and book chapters and written and edited five books. He is well known for his research in forensic authorship analysis and has a 2022 book in this area The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis. He also focusses on using linguistics to assist in investigations, work that include a co-authored book with Dr Nicci Macleod: Language and Online Identities: The Undercover Policing of Internet Sexual Crime. With Dr Tammy Gales of Hofstra University, he is co-editor of the series Cambridge Elements in Forensic Linguistics.
Professor Grant has extensive experience of assisting investigations and in providing evidence for both prosecution and defence, and in civil cases. In the criminal domain he was in 2019 awarded a Director’s Commendation from the NCA for his work that contributed to the arrest of Matthew Falder. On the civil side he provided authorship evidence with Malcolm Coulthard in the $50bn Yukos arbitration hearings.
Professor Grant is experienced with press and media and is co-host of the Writing Wrongs podcast with Dr Nicci MacLeod.
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