Program of the I Dénia Humanitats Festival 2022

Poster for the Dénia Festival of the Humanities 2022

Thursday October 27

Opening session / The immensity of the human soul

Hora: 17: 00

• Opening session Institutional inauguration with the presence of Ximo Puig, president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Joan Subirats, Minister of Universities of the Government of Spain, and Vicent Grimalt, mayor of Denia. Place: The Androna Room Baleària Port (The Harbour District)
Joan Subirats, Minister of Universities, during the opening ceremony
• then conference The immensity of the human soul. Participants: Theodor Kallifatides, writer, author of timandra y The past is not a dream, and Joseph Ramoneda, writer and journalist, content director of Dénia Festival of the Humanities.
  Location: The Androna Room Baleària Port (The Harbour District)

contemporary dance show

Hora: 18: 30

• contemporary dance show “Indala” (David Vento Dance Theater company) in the lobby of the maritime station.

Contemporary dance show by David Vento Dance Theater at the opening of the first Dénia Festival de les Humanitats

Bionic Man: Can We Delegate Our Luck to Our Prosthetics?

Hora: 19: 30

• Bionic Man: Can We Delegate Our Luck to Our Prosthetics? Participants: Raphael Yuste, neurobiologist, professor at Columbia University, promoter of the BRAIN project; Gustavo Deco, Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies and Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, director of the Computational Neuroscience research group and the Center for Brain and Cognition at UPF; Y Martha Rodriguez, member of the Practical Ethics and Democracy research group at the UJI, professor of Ethics at the UPV and project manager at the ÉTNOR Foundation.
  Location: The Androna Room Baleària Port (The Harbour District)

Friday October 28

Changes in the human body: disease and evolution / Global world, closed borders

Hora: 10: 00

• Changes in the human body: disease and evolution. Participants: Mara Diessen, neurobiologist, researcher and university professor, world expert in the field of neurobiology and pharmacology; Maria Angela Nieto Toledano, biochemist and molecular biologist, principal investigator at the Institute of Neurosciences (CSIC-UMH) of Alicante; Y Thomas Marques, ICREA research professor at Pompeu Fabra University and head of the Comparative Genomics group at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC/UPF).
  Location: La Androna Baleària Port Room
• Global world, closed borders. Participants: michel ager, anthropologist, professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and researcher emeritus at the French Institute for Development Research (IRD); Leire Pajin, director of Global Development at ISGlobal, president of the Spanish Network for Sustainable Development (REDS) and former Minister of Health of the Government of Spain (2010-11); Y Muhammad Subat, journalist specializing in warfare and social and political affairs in Syria and the Middle East, editor of the online magazine Baynana.
  Location: Auditorium of the Social Center of Dénia

History: what lessons from the past can serve us? / Society: how to get out of the patriarchal model?

Hora: 12: 00

• History: what lessons from the past can serve us? Participants: Martin Baumeister, historian, director of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom; Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas, historian and writer, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, author of Wolf's lairs. Memories of authoritarian Europe (2021) and Back to Stalingrad (2022); Y Heidi Cristina Senante, Jean Monnet Professor of History and Institutions of the European Union.
  Location: La Androna Baleària Port Room
• Society: how to get out of the patriarchal model? Participants: Zafra Remedies, writer and essayist, tenured scientist at the CSIC Institute of Philosophy, Anagrama Essay Award 2017 for The enthusiasm; Najat El Hashmi, writer, Ramon Llull Award 2008 with The last patriarch, and Alba Alfajeme, psychologist specializing in sexist violence, professor at the University of Girona and author of When we call our names.
  Location: Auditorium of the Social Center of Dénia

Fictions: how will we explain the world to ourselves? Science, ideology and beliefs / Life: will the relationship between humans and other species change? How will we feed ourselves?

Hora: 16: 30

• Fictions: how will we explain the world to ourselves? Science, ideology and beliefs. Participants: Carmelo Dotolo, full professor of Theology of Religions at the Pontificia Università Urbaniana, president of the Società Italiana per la Ricerca Teologica (SIRT); Ana Carrasco-Conde, professor of Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, author of speak evil; Xavier Sampedro, scientist and journalist, was a researcher at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center in Madrid and the Molecular Biology Laboratory of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge; Y Santiago Zavala, ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University.
  Location: La Androna Baleària Port Room
• Life: will the relationship of humans with the other species change? How will we feed ourselves? Participants: Martha Segarra, director of research at the Laboratoire d'Études de Genre et de Sexualité-LEGS, of the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, author of Humanimals, and Oscar Horta, professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela, member of the Animal Ethics Foundation, author of A step forward in defense of animals.
  Location: Auditorium of the Social Center of Dénia

street music

Time: 17:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m.

• Music in the street, performed by students of the Artistic Musical grouping of Dénia and by the Orchestra of the students of the Tenor Cortis Conservatory.
  Location: Marqués de Campo

Concert in the street during the Festival de les Humanitats

A look at the new economic and social dynamics / Ecology: can we regain confidence in the future, avoid the dystopian world?

Hora: 18: 30

• A look at the new economic and social dynamics. Participants: Juan Jose Lopez-Burniol, vice president of the Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions Banking Foundation of Barcelona ”la Caixa”; Joseph Ramoneda, writer and journalist, content director of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats; Y Jordi Alberich, economist, content director of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats.
  Location: La Androna Baleària Port Room
• Ecology: can we regain confidence in the future, avoid the dystopian world? Participants: Cesar Rendueles, philosopher, sociologist and essayist, professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, author of Against Equal Opportunity: An Egalitarian Pamphlet; Troy Vettese, environmental historian, Max Weber Fellow, author of Half-Earth Socialism, and Layla Martinez, political scientist, editor and writer, author of Utopia is not an island.
  Location: Auditorium of the Social Center of Dénia

Where is the business world mutating?

Hora: 20: 00

• Where is the business world mutating? Participants: Adolfo Utor, president of Baleària; Anton Costas, economist, professor of Economic Policy at the University of Barcelona and president of the Economic and Social Council; Y Ricardo Mairal, rector of the UNED, professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Philologies of the UNED.
  Location: La Androna Baleària Port Room

Conference Where is the business world mutating?

Saturday October 29

Inhabit the world / Power: when the notion of limits is lost

Hora: 10: 00

• inhabit the world. Participants: John Romero, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Valencia and member of the Interuniversity Institute for Local Development (IIDL); ben wilson, historian, author of metropolis, and Francesc Munoz, geographer and urban planner, professor of Geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​author of Urbanization, common landscapes, global places.
  Location: La Androna Baleària Port Room
• Power: when the notion of limits is lost. Participants: Domingo Garcia-Marza, Professor of Ethics at Jaume I University, director of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology and director of the research group “Applied Ethics and Democracy”; eva anduiza, Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​ICREA Academia researcher and director of the “Democracy, Elections and Citizenship” research group; Agueda Quiroga, anthropologist and public policy expert, founder of Philosoc; Y James Casals, philosopher, rector of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2013/2021) and professor of Philosophy at the UPF Department of Humanities.
  Location: Auditorium of the Social Center of Dénia

street music

• Music in the street, performed by the students of the Tenor Cortis Conservatory and Artistic Musical grouping of Dénia. The latter will also do a family workshop.
  Location: Marqués de Campo

Closing session / Health after Covid-19 / A changing world, an eternal world

Hora: 12: 00
• Health after Covid-19. Participants: Keshia Pollak Porter, chair of the Department of Health, Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Y Rafael Vilasanjuan, journalist, director of Analysis and Global Development at ISGlobal and member of the Civil Society Steering Committee of GAVI (The Vaccine Alliance). Place: Auditorium of the Social Center of Dénia
Conference Health after Covid-19
• A changing world, an eternal world. Participants: Sophie Roberts, writer, author of The last pianos of Siberia, and Jordi Alberich, economist, content director of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats. Place: Auditorium of the Social Center of Dénia
• institutional closure in charge of Vicent Grimalt, mayor of Dénia, and Joseph Ramoneda, writer and journalist, content director of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats.
  Location: Auditorium of the Social Center of Dénia

Closure of the Dénia Humanitats Festival

Swing workshop and exhibition

Time: 19:00 p.m. to 21:00 p.m.

• Swing workshop and exhibition by the Lindy Hop Marine School Denia.
  Location: Plaza del Consell

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