The 12th ELIA Conference Organizing Committee introduced the 4 invited guests who opened the conference:
Dr. Jaime Ramírez,
Director de CIEE en Sevilla (Council on International Educational Exchange);
Dr.
José Carlos Casillas Bueno, Director del Secretariado de Internacionalización
de la US;
Dr. Joaquín Comesaña Rincón, Director de Departamento de Lengua
Inglesa;
Dr. Francisco González Ponce, Decano de Facultad de Filología;
On this occasion, we have 104 speakers coming from far distant places, and
who will be giving 73 talks (see Program). We have
speakers from all over Spain, but also from places like Australia, Belgium,
Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Chile, China, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Iran, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Portugal, Poland, Republic of Georgia,
Thailand, UK, USA, from the five continents. We will have promising
opportunities for intercultural learning during the conference.
The opening was followed by the initial plenary session "Developing intercultural competence through education,
personal encounters and mediated experiences", by Dr.
María del Carmen Méndez García from Universidad de Jaén, Spain.
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