Speakers

Enrique Mallen, Ph.D.

Professor, Sam Houston State University

Dr. Enrique Mallen is Professor at Sam Houston State University. He received his PhD. in Linguistics from Cornell University. He regularly teaches courses on language, linguistics, art and culture. He has published numerous articles on linguistics, art and literature. Among his most recent publications are the books Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar: A Period of Conflict (1936-1946) (2021) and Pablo Picasso: The Aphrodite Period (1924-1936) (2020).

Title of Speech: Language Learning and Vocabulary Acquisition

Elaine Chapman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, University of Western Australia

Elaine Chapman has an undergraduate degree in psychology (First-class honours, won Australian Psychological Society Award for the best performance in her university) and a PhD in psychology. She has taught in the areas of child and educational psychology, assessment, quantitative research design, and statistics over the last 20 years in 3 different universities (Monash, USyd, and UWA). She is passionate about child and educational psychology, and in particular, about enhancing the lives of children and youth in the affective domain. She has supervised many Doctoral and Master's students who have joined her group to pursue research in this area.

Title of Speech: Challenges of Emerging Technologies such as Generative Al in Assessment Task Design: Addressing Questions in Asystematic Way