Thora Tenbrink

Thora Tenbrink is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at Bangor University. Her research explores how language reflects human thinking, with a focus on discourse analysis and communication. She is the author of Cognitive Discourse Analysis: An Introduction and Space, Time, and the Use of Language. Her current work examines how people relate to and describe places in the context of climate change. She leads the Places of Climate Change Research Centre (PloCC) and co-leads the WISERD network Place-based Approaches To Climate Change (PATCCh), collaborating widely across interdisciplinary and international projects.

Maoz Azaryahu

Maoz Azaryahu is a cultural geographer whose research focuses on the relationships between history, memory, myth, landscape, and place. His work examines the politics of public commemoration, including street renaming during regime changes and its role in shaping urban space and political identity. He also studies memorial landscapes, place-making through myths and images, and the use of historical space as a narrative medium. He has published in Hebrew, English, and German on topics including commemorative street (re)naming, war memorials, military cemeteries, and the cultural history and mythography of cities such as Tel Aviv.

Jaroslav David

Jaroslav David is a linguist specializing in morphology, language development, onomastics, and the history and methodology of linguistics. He is the head of the Department of Czech Language at Ostrava University and has extensive experience in research, teaching, and supervising theses. His work focuses on proper names, toponyms, and corpus-based analyses of Czech language in historical, literary, and urban contexts. He has published widely in journals and books, including studies on Czech anthroponyms, toponyms, and the quantitative and qualitative analysis of texts in both academic and applied contexts.