Institute for Culture and Society: participation in activities of other centers and universities (December 2014)
Emotional culture and identity
Ana Marta González was one of the three speakers at the seminar 'Women and Social Change', organized by the School of Philosophy and Letters on December 12. Other speakers were Carolina Montoro-Gurich, from department of History, Art History and Geography; and Concha Martínez-Pasamar, professor at department of Philology and collaborator of project of the ICS 'Public discourse'.
Rocio Davis attended the Third meeting UBIAS (University Based Institutes for Advanced Study), held in Taipei, Taiwan, November 27-29. The meeting was coordinated by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences of the National Taiwan University. For further information, please contact
Claudia Wassmann participated in the workshop 'Research Funding & Career Development for female scientists', organized in Berlin (Germany) by Minerva FemmeNet, Max Planck Society on December 9 and 10.
Rosa Fernández Urtasun presented the discussion paper 'La inmortalidad, ¿un mito de ciencia ficción?' at the I seminar Interdisciplinar de Mitocrítica of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Sergio Clavero participated as occasional student in the congress 'Max Weber, Our Contemporary: 1864-2014', organized by the department of Sociology of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) on December 1 and 2.
Public discourse
Cristóbal Pagán gave the lecture 'Some cognition is about discourse, but most of it isn't (and this is ok): what Blending Theory can and can't do for discourse analysis' at the framework of the I Symposium on New Approaches to Discourseheld at the University of Barcelona on December 12.
group 'Mind-brain'
Fran Güell offered the lecture 'The human embryo: inaccuracies and romanticism in scientific data' at the Polytechnic School of the University San Pablo-CEU on December 17. More information
Natural law and rationality internship
Alejandro Vigo participated in the meeting of committee of the Centro de programs of study Públicos (CEP), which took place in Santiago de Chile on December 5. That same day he attended a seminar on the book 'Road to Serfdom', by F. A. von Hayek, which was also attended by members of the Institute of Philosophy and the School of Economics of the Universidad de los Andes.
Navarra Center for International Development
Pedro Mendi was in the XXXIX Symposium of the association Spanish Economic Association Economics-Spanish Economic Association (SAEe), held in Palma de Mallorca from December 11 to 13.
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña was part of two tribunals of thesis : the first one at Marseille Universitè (PhD: Gilles de Triches; director: Gilles Dufrenot) and the second one at the University of the Basque Country (PhD: Ainhoa Vega; director: Javier Gardeazabal).
Alex Armand made a visit of research at University American College Skopje (Macedonia) from December 3 to 6 and gave an invited discussion paper on social experiments at Economics of development on December 11 at the Public University of Navarra.
ATLANTES Programme
Carlos Centeno gave a lecture lecture at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome, Italy), where he stayed from December 12 to 16, and spoke on 'Cases of difficult pain' in Lisbon (Portugal), where he stayed from December 19 to 21.
José Miguel Carrasco participated as a speaker at the seminar 'Personal and collective determinants of health problems, whose responsibility is it?', organized in Barcelona by the group of work of Ethics in Public Health of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration (SESPAS) and the Fundació Grifos i Lucas.