Programme and Workshops

Here is the programme of the congress, including the Film and Media Festival. There are three days of pre-congress workshops from Monday 18^th to Wednesday 20^th May, followed by the Congress from Thursday 21^st to Saturday 23^rd May. A post-congress workshop will also be taking place on Sunday 24^th May.

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Disclaimer:
"The views expressed by invited speakers or participants attending the SE Congress do not necessarily coincide with those of SIETAR Europa. The Board of SIETAR Europa therefore does not accept responsibility for the accuracy or the moral-ethical character of the content of any presentation".

LATEST UPDATES and changes compared to the printed catalogue:

21/05:
- Change of time of the newcomers' session on Friday morning. Slight change of time and venue for Thiagi's keynote speech, always on Friday morning
-Thiagi and Samuel van der Bergh will be doing a workshop on Saturday morning, replacing Csaba Toth and Sugath Mahinda Senarath (Tracks 80 and 85)
- Marcel H. van der Poel's academic presentation has been moved from the Expatriation/Working abroad session to the Migration/Stereotypes one, thus changing days.

Monday, 18^th May - Pre-Congress workshops & Cultural activities

09:30 to 18:00

Thiagi's Tools for Intercultural Training
Thiagi & Samuel van der Bergh

Tuesday, 19^th May - Pre-Congress workshops & Cultural activities

09:30 to 18:00

Thiagi's Tools for Intercultural Training
Thiagi & Samuel van der Bergh

Wednesday, 20^th May - Pre-Congress workshops & Cultural activities

09:30 to 17:00	Resistance: Foe or Friend? Next Practices for Facilitators Tatyana Fertelmeyster
09:30 to 17:00	Gamification in Intercultural Education George Simons, Isabella Andric, Joanna Sell, Manuela Procopio & Ulrich Schubert
09:00 to 13:00	An Introduction to Virtual Facilitation: how to design and facilitate interactive online training sessions Fredrik Fogelberg
11:00 to 11:35	Matteo. A professor among the dunes by Giuseppe Carrieri, Italy/Kuwait, 2014, 9’.30’’ Short Q&A afterwards Location: Filmoteca Valenciana
11:45 to 13:30	BINTOU by Simone Catharina Gaul, Documentary, D/BF 2014, 64’ Q&A afterwards with the director Location: Filmoteca Valenciana
15:00 to 17:00	SYRIA - FACES OF WAR by Vesa Toijonen & Ari Lehikoinen, Finland, 2014, 50’ Q&A afterwards with the Director & MY WORLD by Sergio García Locatelli, 2013, 4' Introduction by the director Location: Filmoteca Valenciana FREE ADMISSION

Thursday, 21^st May

9:00-9:45 9:45-10:20	OPENING SESSION followed by KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Marta Williams "BUSINESS, BUTTERFLIES AND DESTINY"
10:20-11:00	Break
11:00-11:30	WORKSHOP Shift Keys: Problems to Possibilities in Intercultural Work Speakers: Heather Robinson & Rita Wuebbeler Room A	WORKSHOP Biopolis - A New Intercultural Tool to Include Gamification in Trainings Speaker: Susanne Rieger Room 1	German and American Communication Styles in the Virtual World: Implications, Trends and Warning Signs Speaker: Jacquelyn Reeves Room 0.1	WORKSHOP Successful business: disentangling the web of culture, language and communication Speaker: Kirsten Waechter Room 3	Unlocking the full potential of international professionals at work Speaker: Gertraud Kinne Room 1.4	ACADEMIC SESSION Organisational context Session chair: Marcel H. van der Poel Room G Intercultural Competency and the Global CEO Barbara Gibson Culture and Managers’ Response to Foreign Subsidiary Initiatives’ Resistance Fidel León-Darder, Fariza Achcaoucaou & Grettel Brenes Does board gender diversity impact on dividend policy María Consuelo Pucheta-Martínez & Inmaculada Bel-Oms Culture and HRM in the Middle East: Building a theoretical foundation Pari Namazie & Barbara Covarrubias Venegas Spanish Companies' Behaviour about CSR from a Social and Institutional View Àngels Dasí, Consuelo Dolz & Esmeralda Linares-Navarro	Opening Film 11.00-12.30 An Engineer's Odyssey *The life and work of Geert Hofstede* A 60 minute documentary on Geert Hofstede's life. Introduction, interview and discussions by: Iekje Smit & Marcel Siegmund Followed by: 12.30–13.30 10 minutes with...Geert Hofstede Latest insights on Geert Hofstede’s dimensions of culture by: Iekje Smit Location: Filmoteca Valenciana	SPANISH TRACK Simultaneous translation into English will be provided 11.00-12.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Carlos Giménez Romero From Interculturality to Interculturalism: genesis, evolution and theoretical and practical challenges Location: Bancaja Cultural Center 12.00-13.30 Barcelona Interculturality Programme: Actions for intercultural dialogue and social cohesion in a diverse city Ayuntamiento de Barcelona: Marifé Calderon, Guillem Talens, Cristina Velásquez Traipe, Maria Pastor Gelabert & Mireia Vehí Location: room Ausiàs March A, Bancaja Cultural Center
11:40-12.10			Optimizing Social Media Strategy for a non-profit Organization. Case: SIETAR Europa Speaker: Heidi Helander Room 0.1		Sustainable Business Management: Effective Management, Ethical Leadership & CSR - Managing Sustainability across Cultures Speakers: Claudia Heinrich & Karin Brünnemann Room 1.4
12:20-12:50	Intercultural Universe - Replacing the Iceberg Speaker: Linda Vignac Room A	WORKSHOP On the Road with Migrants: a Serious Game Speaker: Catherine Roignan Room 1	WORKSHOP Tell us your story: biographical storytelling as intercultural learning experience? Biographical storytelling as a source of consolidating cultural identity Speaker: Saskia Lackner Room 0.1	Inclusiveness and Exposure: the experience of becoming global and the impact on organisations Speaker: Jon Echanove Room 3	Joining Hearts and Minds: Six Values for Change Speaker: Ute Clement Room 1.4
13.00-13.30	The Power of Visual Storytelling Speaker: Joanna Sell Room A			Leveraging the International Assignment Experience to Maximise Value for the whole Family Speaker: Joyce Jenkins Room 3	Rubrics for Reflective Intercultural Competence Assessment: A Tool to Assess Learning Outcomes in International Education and Service-Learning Experiences Speaker: Lavinia Bracci Room 1.4
13:30-15:00	Lunch
15:00-16:20	WORKSHOP “What am I Doing Here?” Dealing with Challenging Situations in Intercultural Training Programmes Speaker: Alexander Scheitza & Christine Wirths Room A	WORKSHOP The Pathway to Me Is Thru You: Building Cultural Empathy and Self-Awareness Speaker: Joel A Brown Room 1	WORKSHOP Building Engagement in Virtual Teams - What's Your Own Role in the Story? Speaker: Monika Chutnik Room 0.1	WORKSHOP Are All Gen Y Cut From the Same Cloth? Understanding and Engaging Millennials, Globally Speaker: Oana Amaria Room G	WORKSHOP Production Transfer as Inter-Ethnical Peace Maker? A Real Business Case Speaker: Adrienne Rubatos Room 3	ACADEMIC SESSION Expatriation / Working abroad Session chair: Pari Namazie Room 1.4 Women in the Intercultural Profession: An underpaid Majority. An Income Overview in the Intercultural Profession Susan Salzbrenner, Tanja Schulze & Anja Franz Contributions of Expatriate Management to Managing Diversity Daniel Scheible Fear of Working Abroad or Lack of Competences? Carmen Carmona Rodríguez, Andrea Cerverón Ramón & José Vidal Effective Persuasion: A model for Intercultural Business Context Elena Pruvli	15.00-17.00 ‘Tales from a Multicultural Classroom’ Engaging students in an integrated research and development project Presenters: Steve Crawford, Ronan Browne & Diane Ruppert Location: Filmoteca Valenciana	15.00-16.00 The networking to build a social cohabitation in the context of cultural diversity. The importance of educational area Ayuntamiento de Valencia: Jesús Yébenes González & Mapi Vergel Aliaga Location: room Ausiàs March A, Bancaja Cultural Center 16.00-17.00 WORKSHOP When we shift our cultural paradigm….. Percepción de los inmigrantes en España sobre los españoles” Mercedes Valladares Pineda & Noureddine Erradi Location: room Ausiàs March A, Bancaja Cultural Center
16:30-17:00	An intercultural approach to proverbs Speaker: Kyriaki Koukouraki Room A	An Intercultural Competences Learning Lab: Demystifying the Intercultural Competences of Faculty Speaker: Marcel H. van der Poel Room 1	The Art of Blending Formal and Informal Intercultural Learning Speaker: Yvonne Van der Pol Room 0.1	The Relationship Game Speaker: Nick Parry Room G	A Non-Essentialist Model of Culture: Implications of Identity, Agency and Structure within Multinational/Multicultural Organizations Speaker: Ganesh Nathan Room 3
17:00-17:30	Break
17:30-18:50	WORKSHOP The Hidden Dynamic in Intercultural Groups Speakers: Fredrik Fogelberg & Marieke de Boer Room A	WORKSHOP Skeleton Scenes: A Teaching Tool for Building Cultural Competence Speaker: Jeffrey Cookson Room 1	WORKSHOP Leveraging User Generated Content in Intercultural Context: Opportunities & Challenges Speaker: Mary Kay Park Room 0.1	WORKSHOP Intercultural Crazy Business Stories - Developing Intercultural Competence by Playing and Story Telling Speakers: Christa Uehlinger & Hans Lampalzer Room G	WORKSHOP Beyond Team Building: Analyzing Cultural Root Causes of Issues for Global Teams Speaker: Catherine Bing Room 3	ACADEMIC SESSION Cross-cultural competence Session chair: Àngels Dasí Room 1.4 Into the Constructivist Paradigm: Speech Codes Theory Applied to the Training of (Inter)Cultural Communication Competence Daniel Chornet & Bracey Parr Heteroglossic Engagement in Humor in Intercultural Communication Asma Moalla		17.30-18.10 Football and Social Commitment Vicente Herrero Gómez & Jorge Sabater Galindo Location: room Ausiàs March A, Bancaja Cultural Center 18.10-18.45 Leadership and International Teams Management (China, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Peru and USA) Maria Alejandra Ramírez Cuenca Location: room Ausiàs March A, Bancaja Cultural Center
19:00	COCKTAIL

Friday, 22^nd May

8.45-9:30	Meetings / Newcomers' Session (ADEIT - Room 0.1)
9:45-10:30	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan "Taking Storytelling to the Next Level" (Bancaja Cultural Center)
10:40-11:00	Break
11:00-11:30	May the Road Rise Up to Meet You … Until We Meet Again' How Traditional Gaelic Blessings and Other Cultural Cues Consistently Bring Irish Emigrants Back Home Speakers: Elizabeth Douet & Hollie Blakeney Room 0.1	PANEL DISCUSSION Thought Leadership, TED Talks, Online Visibility: How do Interculturalists Get a Seat at the Table? Speaker: Vanessa Shaw Panel members: Susan Salzbrenner Fiona Citkin Piotr Pluta Julie Parenteau Room G	WORKSHOP New Insights into Organisational Culture: Essential Steps for Intercultural Leadership Speaker: David Sharpley Room 1	A quest for the behavioural DNA of globally mature organisations: finding it, spreading it and tracking it Speakers: David Trickey & Nigel Ewington Room A	Non-Violent Communication: How to Avoid and Manage Cultural Miscommunication Speaker: Jackie Van der Kroft Room 3	ACADEMIC SESSION Education Session chair: Fidel León-Darder Room 1.4 An Exploration of University Students' Acculturation Processes from the Constructed "Group Culture" within Their Group Work Hang (Frank) Xu Performing on a Foreign Stage: International Education and the City Marilena De Chiara Culture’s Impact on Teaching & Learning: Exploring for Mutually Beneficial Behaviors in the Multicultural Classroom Steven Crawford & Christine Niemi Gender Violence: a Transcultural and Educational Challenge Inmaculada López Francés, Maria-Isabel Viana-Orta & Carmen Carmona Rodríguez Assessment of Collaborative Skills for Digital World Maria Assumpta Aneas Alvarez & Ruth Vilà Baños	11.00-13.30 The Shelter (L’ABRI) Fernand Melgar, Switzerland, 2014, color, DCP, 101' Spoken languages: French, Spanish, English, Wolof, Romanian Q&A discussion afterwards Location: Filmoteca Valenciana
11:40-12.10	Big Time Speaker: Paul Westlake Room 0.1			How to Lead Cross-Cultural Teams Speaker: Aad Boot Room A	Human Resource Development of Woman Entrepreuners in Fukushima with Intercultural Historical View Speakers: Kazunori Akutagawa & Kunio OHNO Room 3
12:20-12.50	ARTISTIC What Are You? Stories of the Ambiguity and Complexity of Biracial and Multicultural Identities Speakers: Tamara Thorpe & Patricia Coleman Room 0.1	PANEL DISCUSSION EMA Europe-MiddleEast-Africa, a New Cultural Paradigm Panel members: Claude Bourgeois, Pari Namazie & Maura Di Mauro Room G	WORKSHOP Virtual Is Real! Interventions for Global Teams Speaker: Isabelle Demangeat Room 1	Intercultural Conflict in International Business Meetings Speaker: Stefanie Stadler Room A	WORKSHOP Opening our “Windows on the World”: an Introduction to Cultural Life Positions, a Concept from Transactional Analysis, to Enhance Self and Cultural Awareness in Cross Cultural Training Speakers: Karolina Ehretsmann & Inga Dankert Room 3
13.00-13.30				The Rise of Asian Multinationals: Lessons from Samsung's Global Talent Management Speaker: Kim Eun Y Room A
13:30-15:00	Lunch
15.00-16.20	WORKSHOP Latin America: What Makes Us Similar, What Makes Us Different Speaker: Marcelo Baudino Room 0.1	PRESIDENT'S PANEL The future of SIETAR Europa? Panel members: Livingstone Thompson Steffen Henkel Barbara Gibson Vincent Merk Francien Wieringa Room G	WORKSHOP Can Intercultural Training Go Online? Speaker: Anne Fox Room 1	WORKSHOP Where Do We Come From & Go From Here? - Reflecting Our Own Intercultural Profession Speakers: Tanja Schulze & Susan Salzbrenner Room A	WORKSHOP Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: How to Optimize Intercultural Business Situations by Linguistic Awareness Speaker: Bettina Strewe Room 3	ACADEMIC SESSION Migration / stereotypes Session chair: Hang (Frank) Xu Room 1.4 “Damned Foreigners!”: Immigrants’ Communication and Negotiation Position in the Icelandic Labor Market Erla Kristjánsdóttir & Thora Christiansen Framing "the Others" in Pop Media - the Role and Place of EU Stereotyping Ljiljana Simic Intercultural Competences to Cope with Culture Shock Maria Jesús Benlloch Sanchis, Carmen Carmona Rodríguez & Alejandro Gil Will Mobility Foster Intercultural Competences? Marcel H. van der Poel	15.00-17.00 Terra di Transito / A Land of Transit Paolo Martino, Italy/Sweden, 2014, 52' Extended Q&A with the director and main character Location: Filmoteca Valenciana
16:30-17.00	Refreshing the cultural tree from its very roots Speaker: Carlos A. Gonzalez-Carrasco Room 0.1	Cultural Diplomacy: its role in nation building and shaping a nation’s identity. A case study approach Speaker: Deborah Swallow Room G	Deconstructing the 'Empathy Craze' Speaker: Patrick Schmidt Room 1	Feedback as a Performance Booster in International Contexts Speaker: Stefan Meister Room A	CultureDude Speaker: Siva Kumar Room 3
17:00-17:30	Break
17:30-18:50	WORKSHOP A cross-cultural project to gain intercultural competence Speaker: Ruth Gomez Room 0.1	WORKSHOP Negotiating Internationally – Getting the Balance Between Language, Skills and Culture Speaker: Adrian Pilbeam Room G	WORKSHOP Tips, Techniques and Tools for Virtual Training - How to Create and Deliver Dynamic, Engaging Online Intercultural Programs Speaker: Shelley Morrison Room 1	WORKSHOP Interculturalists, Meet Silence Speaker: Tatyana Fertelmeister Room A	WORKSHOP Unconscious Bias: How Does It Affect Our Business Practices? Speaker: Sonsoles Morales Room 3

Saturday, 23^rd May

9:00-9:40	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. Dr. Stephanie Rathje "Multicollectivity. It changes everything"
9:40-10:00	Break
10:00-10:30	WORKSHOP Jolts: Wake up and engage an intercultural audience Speakers: Thiagi & Samuel van der Bergh Room 3	PANEL DISCUSSION Addressing the Role of Diversity Dynamics in Intercultural Business Interactions Panel members: Elmer Dixon Maria Assumpta Aneas Alvarez Kathleen Dameron George Simons Room G	ARTISTIC Gentle Dance Speaker: Alysara Green Room 1.4	Intercultural Competency and the Global CEO Speaker: Barbara Gibson Room A	WORKSHOP Story Telling as a Training Tool & Research Method Speaker: Richard Lewis Room 1	AUCTIONS, BOOKS Room 0.1
10:40-11.10			Working in the Cloud: a Culture-Neutral Classroom? Speakers: Loes Damhof & Janine DeWitt Room 1.4	Managing Expectations in Global Multicultural Teams (GMTs) Speaker: Donal Lynch Room A
11.20-11.50	WORKSHOP What color is your paradigm? How our view on diversity influences our personal and professional lives. Speaker: Sonsoles Morales Room 3	PANEL DISCUSSION Should SIETAR Introduce Quality Standards for its Members? Panel members: Ype Poortinga & Ursula Brinkmann Room G	Moral Judgement and Behaviour in Virtual Reality: a Cross-Cultural Perspective Speaker: Justyna Kucharska Room 1.4	Developing Cross-Cultural Sensitivity for Coaches – Helping You Grow as Coaches in a Global Coaching World Speaker: Richard Cook Room A	WORKSHOP Mindfulness & Intercultural Training in the Sports World: a Blended Approach Speakers: Jenny Ebermann & Susan Salzbrenner Room 1
12.00-12.30			Diversity Training in the Digital Age Speaker: Noor Azizan-Gardner Room 1.4	Managing Cultural Clash in International Business Acquisition. A Case Study of TNK-BP Vietnam Speaker: Marie-Therese Claes Room A
12:30-12:50	Break
12:50-13:20	Cultural Discourse and Identity: What We Can Learn From Each Other in a Bilingual, Bicultural University Classroom. Promoting Intercultural Understanding Through Short Writing and Story Telling Activities in Diverse University Classrooms Speaker: Sarah Kegley Room 3	Creating a Sense of Community on a University Campus Speaker: Vincent Merk Room G	The Chinese Community in Spain: Past, Present and Future Speaker: Antonio Liu-Yang Room 1.4	Leadership Competences for Culturally Diverse Teams Speakers: Ursula Brinkmann & Oscar van Weerdenburg Room A	The Power of the "Dumb Question:" Showing Grace in Multicultural Space Speakers: Nadia Younes & Joel A Brown Room 1	ACADEMIC SESSION POSTER PRESENTATIONS Authors are presenting their research via posters and are present in this session for individual questions Session chair: Maria Jesús Benlloch Sanchis Room 0.1 Do institutional female directors affect firm performance when they sit on the board and executive committee? María Consuelo Pucheta-Martínez & Inmaculada Bel-Oms A qualitative research: “What market for the intercultural field?” Paola Motta, Maura Di Mauro & Elizabeth Abbot
13:30-14:50	ARTISTIC ALIEN CITIZEN: An Earth Odyssey Speaker: Elizabeth Liang Room 3	WORKSHOP Applying Psychology to the Resolution of Conflicts and Disputes Speaker: Paul Randolph Room G	WORKSHOP LinkedIn Group Networking Event Speaker: George Simons Room 1.4	WORKSHOP Introducing a New Dimension in Cross-Cultural Consultancy: Humor Speakers: Piotr Pluta & Stefan Meister Room A	WORKSHOP Firearms in US Society: a Case Study about the Role of Interculturalists in Polarized and Politicized National Conversations Speakers: Dianne Hofner-Saphiere & Jeffrey Cookson Room 1
14:50-16:00	Lunch

20:30	GALA DINNER