2019_01_08_ICS_actividades_semestre

As every year, the Institute for Culture and Society has scheduled several events related to the research that allow to share and disseminate the knowledge gained and contrast data with colleagues. During the second semester of the 2018/2019 academic year, the ICS will hold several highlight activities addressed to the academic world and the general public.

The semester starts with a series of transversal seminars where the different ICS projects will share their research and views on current scientific topics. The first seminar will be held on January 16 under the degree scroll 'Is statistical demonstration scientific?'. On February 6, the second workshop 'The discussion between Humanities andSocial Sciences: the case of History' will take place. Finally, a last seminar will be held on April 10 on 'multidisciplinarity andmethod'.

On the other hand, the sixth edition of the ICS Lectures on Humanities and Social Sciences will be held on March 25. This year, Rafael Yuste, professor of neuroscience at Columbia University (USA), will be invited by group 'Mind-Brain'. Yuste has developed the project BRAIN ('research of the Brain through the Advancement of Innovative Neurotechnologies') which seeks to develop methods to map and accurately manipulate the activity of each brain neuron. Along with the scientific research , the expert also seeks to warn of possible malpractices and proposes an ethics of use.

In addition, along the semester several Cultural Activities Office of the hand of the project ' will be realized.Creativity and Cultural Heritage'. For example, the subproject 'Institutional and cultural networks and itineraries' is preparing the second workshop on Heritage 'Cultural Heritage in the face of post-digitalization' on April 3. Likewise, the 2nd Sefarad workshop will be held, which seeks to reveal the Jewish cultural heritage of Navarre.

Researchers from the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) will travel to Madrid to hold the 8th NCID Research Workshop on Development Economics at the headquarters of the Ramón Areces Foundation on April 4 and 5. The event will be attended by such personalities as Romain Wacziarg, Professor of Economics at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California Los Angeles.

Contributions to the scientific training

The ICS will also organize training activities aimed at academics, future researchers and adolescents. The ATLANTES Program will hold the qualitative research course 'Discovering the Potential of Qualitative Research in health context' at the end of March. Once again this year, Carole Robinson, professor at the University of British Columbia, will be present, although this course will be held at campus in Madrid at the University of Navarra.

Later, in Pamplona, the second edition of the workshop of research interdisciplinary for doctoral students of Humanities, Social Sciences and ICS will take place on May 16. The Navarre phase of the 'Incubadora de sondeos y experimentos' contest, aimed at Navarre schools and organized by the Statistics Unit, will be held again on June 17.

On the other hand, the ATLANTES Program together with the Hospital San Juan de Dios are organizing an event in Pamplona to offer all palliative care professionals the conclusions of the XVI World Palliative Care congress of the European Palliative Care association in Berlin.

The month of May is full of activities, both internal -such as the plenary session of the Executive Council of ICS researchers scheduled for the 22nd-, and external -such as the workshop of update in ADHD that will be held together with the Clínica Universidad de Navarra The MSCA Attracting Talent Sessions, which aim to help the incorporation of international researchers through the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship Programme, will also be held on the 19th.

The ICS will close the academic year with the summer school on palliative care of the ATLANTES Program, a workshop on family therapy organized by the project 'Education ' of affectivity and human sexuality' and the investiture of Margaret Archer as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Navarra.

In addition, throughout the year, the projects will hold various seminars and regular activities as part of their research work. For example, the 'Cycle of seminars' of the project 'Religion and Civil Society' which meets every Tuesday to discuss various topics of its research, or the seminars of the group 'Mind-brain' which are held on Fridays at 12.30 pm.