Emotional culture and identity
Patricio Fernandez offered the discussion paper 'The Representations of Aristotle's Thesis: Some Cautionary Remarks' during the 10th Auburn Philosophy Conference: 'The Conclusion of Practical Reasoning', organized by Auburn University (Auburn, USA, 5-6/04/2018).

Constantin Parvulescu gave a lecture at the University of Saint Gallen under the degree scroll 'The New Barbarians: Cinema and Migration to Fortress Europe'. (St. Gallen, Switzerland, 9-13/04/2018).

 

Rosalia Baena and Rocio Davis attended the 33rd International Conference on Narrative at McGill University, where they gave papers 'Nancy K. Miller and Susan Gubar's Cancer Online Narratives' and 'Narrative Empathy and the Representation of Adolescent Emotions in This One Summer', respectively. Miller and Susan Gubar's Cancer Online Narratives' and 'Narrative Empathy and the Representation of Adolescent Emotions in This One Summer', respectively (Montreal, Canada, 18-22/04/2018).

Pilar León participated in the 'ESSHC. European Social Science History Conference 2018' at Queen's University with the lecture 'Emotions and Subjectivation in Patient-Doctor Relationships: Interdisciplinary and Gender Perspectives (I).' (Belfast, UK, 4-7/04/2017).

Ana Belén Martínez gave the communication 'Refugees Mediated Testimony: TED Talks' at the congress 'Culture and its Uses as Testimony: an international, AHRC-funded Research Network' held at the University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK, 10-13/04/2018).

 

Creativity and Cultural Heritage
Anna Dulska participated as guest speaker in the V INCIPIT Medieval Culture Course 'Jewish Presence in Medieval Culture', organized by association Astrolabio and the association of Friends of the Museum of Navarre. There she offered the lecture 'Cosas que vieron u oyeron: los judíos viajeros en la Edad average'. (Pamplona 18/04/2018).

Luis Galván offered the oral communication 'Self-reference and autonomy' during the congress 'Vidas en armas: biografías militares en la España del Siglo de Oro' at the University of Huelva (Huelva, 11-12/04/2018).

 

Public discourse
Manuel Casado presented the discussion paper 'Lexical and semantic innovation in current Spanish Public discourse ' at an invited lecture at Karl-Franzens University. (Graz, Austria, 25/04/2018).

 

Sarali Gintsburg and Inés Olza met with the people in charge of research of the Mintzola Orality Center. There, in addition to visiting the Xenpelar Documentation Center (the file most important in the world on bertsolaritza), they finished outlining activities of research and knowledge dissemination cultural that Mintzola and the project ORFORCREA (Marie Curie Actions) will jointly develop in the field of improvised oral poetry. (Villabona; 19/04/2018).

Saqlain Hassan traveled to Pakistan to conduct several interviews on the framework of her thesis doctoral with Afghan refugees, locals, and police about their view of refugees (Batkhela District and Punjab Province, Pakistan, 1-24/04/2018).

 

group Mind-brain
José Ignacio Murillo, Fran Güell and Myriam Morales attended the annual congress of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. They gave several papers at the symposium 'Non-deterministic treatment of habits in philosophy and biology'. (Durham, UK 12-14/04/2018).

• José Ignacio Murillo gave the lecture 'Habit as a way of transcending the limits of human nature'.

• Fran Güell and Myriam Morales jointly presented 'Habit as a framework for understanding organic development'.

In addition, Fran Güell attended as speaker invited to the conference of the association of Bioethics of the Community of Madrid with the session 'Information and Assisted Reproduction: where are we going?' (Madrid, 26/04/2018).

Javier Sánchez Cañizares presented the short paper 'Teleology Writ Large: In Search of New Optimization Principles' at the 2018 Conference 'Nature and Beyond: Transcendence and Immanence in Science and Religion' (ECST XVII), organized by the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology. (Lyon, France, 17-22/04/2018).

 

Navarra Center for International Development
Alex Armand traveled to India, where he conducted fieldwork for his research 'Community toilet use in slums: willingness to pay and the role of informational and supply side constraints in Urban Uttar Pradesh' (India, 17-22/04/2018).
 

Joseph Gomes attended two seminars at Pompeu Fabra University, where he has also completed his research stay. (Barcelona 17-18/04/2018).

 

ATLANTES Programme
Carlos Centeno attended the 'Global Launch Symposium of The Lancet Commission Report: Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief-an imperative of universal health coverage' held at The Braman Miller Center at the University of Miami (Miami, USA 5-6/04/2018).

He also visited the University of Glasgow, where he met with David Clark and the End of Life Studies Group team. There he offered the seminar 'How has the global development of palliative care been measured so far? Do we have a new conceptual framework ready?' (Glasgow, UK, 24-29/04/2017).

Carla Reigada was invited to teach the classes 'assessment partner -family/ Psychosocial diagnosis' and 'Caring for the family/train the caregiver' of the Master's Degree of Palliative Care of the high school Polytechnic of Castelo Branco. (Castelo Branco, Portugal, 20/04/2018).

 

Statistics Unit
Jesús López Fidalgo presented the discussion paper 'Does chance exist?' at the lecture series of 'data analysis' organized by the Complutense University of Madrid. (Madrid, 17/04/2018).

 

Scientific Coordination
Cristina García-Fresca attended the course 'Techniques of presentation, measurement and quantification of the social impact of projects', organized by REDTRANFER (Madrid, 24-25/04/2018).