The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) will hold several important activities between April and June 2015. There will be three sessions of the III Ethics & Society Forum, the Fourth Teacher Training Course in Palliative Care, organized by the ATLANTES program, and an Interdisciplinary Family Day, coordinated by the ICS upon the initiative of the Vice Dean for Research.

In addition, the following projects will host their own international workshops: Emotional Culture and Identity, Public Discourse and Natural Law and Practical Rationality. The Fourth Development Week, hosted by the Navarra Center for International Development, will take place and the Religion and Civil Society project will host an international conference.

 

1. SPRING SESSIONS OF THE III ETHICS & SOCIETY FORUM (23/04, 07/05 and 25/05/2015)

The Ethics and Society Forum aims to address issues related to improving community life and society, from the perspective of ethics and legal theory. In April and May it has three sessions planned, including the following: "Civilization and Violence in the Sociology of Norbert Elias," given by Alejandro García Martínez, researcher within the Emotional Culture and Identity project; "Critical Discourse Interventions of Public Intellectuals as Counter-hegemonic Strategies," given by Jan Zienkowski, researcher within the Public Discourse project; and "Space of Appearance and Action: Politics in the Work of Hannah Arendt," given by Julia Urabayen, a researcher within the Natural Law and Practical Rationality project. + info

 

2. FOURTH SPANISH EDITION OF THE PALLIATIVE CARE PROFESSOR TRAINING COURSE (15-18/04/2015)

This basic, intensive course is based on 20 years of international experience. Since its inception, it has been given in over 15 countries and students from more than 20 nationalities have participated. It is supported by the University of Navarra's teaching experience, which has specific courses on palliative care in its undergraduate and graduate curricula. + info

 

3. INTERDISCIPLINARY FAMILY DAY (04.24.2015)

The objective of this event is to create a meeting point for researchers from the University of Navarra that address issues related to family and society from all disciplines. + info

 

4. "SHARING PRACTICES, EMOTIONAL WORK AND EMERGENT EFFECTS OF SOCIABILITY" (05/05/2015)

Emanuela Mora, a professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (Italy), has organized this international workshop hosted by the Emotional Culture and Identity project. It will focus on the "sharing economy," a set of practices apparently based on different ways of sharing that takes place in the areas of consumption, production and participation. + info

 

5. "MIND, MEANING AND MULTIMODALITY" (14-15/05/2015)

This international workshop is organized by the Public Discourse project and will bring together scholars from the fields of Multimodality and Expression from different perspectives, including: pragmatics, semantics, discourse analysis, semiotics, computational linguistics, the study of the expression, cognitive sciences, computing, etc. + info

 

6. "TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY, PHENOMENOLOGY AND NATURAL LAW" (19-20/05/2015) 

This workshop is an initiative of the Natural Law and Practical Rationality project.

 

7. IV DEVELOPMENT WEEK  (1-4/06/2015)

This edition of Development Week is noteworthy for its location in Madrid. On the first day, there will be a workshop on Human Capital and Development and the second day will focus on Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Countries. Some of the confirmed speakers include Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania) and Sebastian Edwards (University of California, Los Angeles). + info

 

8. "RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (1650-1800): HISTORICAL PERSPECTVES ON CURRENT DEBATES" (22-23/06/2015)

This international conference, organized by the Religion and Civil Society project, will address two main lines of inquiry. The first seeks to trace the many legacies of the Enlightenment present in the dominant discourses on religion and freedom. The second aims to reconsider existing narratives about the place of enlightenment in the history of tolerance. + info