RCCHU RECENT EVENTS

This seminar will be in Spanish (Castilian) During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, clothing was far more than a matter of appearance: garments, fabrics, cuts, and colors could convey wealth, prestige, identity, and social belonging. Dress not...

This seminar will be in Spanish (Castilian) In the onlife world (Floridi, 2023) in which we are immersed, reading and reading comprehension remain a universal problem. Addressing it begins with recognizing that reading itself has changed at a...

How are emerging technologies transforming the foundations of power, freedom, and democratic governance? From the Internet and artificial intelligence to the expanding frontiers of neurotechnology, technological innovation is not merely reshaping...

How do Early Modern objects shape identities, mediate relationships and produce meanings? This panel explores objects' agency in Early Modern Spain, centring how materiality shapes reality. The four interventions will focus on case studies to reflect on...

The use of Spanish Republican intelligence services in the period leading up to the Civil War had a substantial impact on surveillance, control, and security—not only on the Iberian Peninsula but also in the Protectorate of Morocco. Thanks to its...

How did Spain come to develop business schools with an international reputation? Part of the story takes us back to the 1960s, when modern management education began to take root under Franco’s dictatorship. Spain was opening its economy to international...

Internationalisation has become a defining feature of contemporary higher education. Yet language remains surprisingly peripheral in many accounts of how it operates in teaching, learning, researching and constructing knowledge. This presentation revisits...

This seminar will be in Spanish (Castilian) In this seminar we will explore how advances in brain connectomics and non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS), particularly transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), are opening new avenues for...

Mystical literature is shaped by two fundamental longings: the desire for the Beloved, who inhabits an unreachable realm, and the desire for a language capable of expressing an ineffable experience, despite its inherent limitations. This conference...

What are the smallest building blocks of everything we know? What is the world around us made of? Answering these questions has been a constant pursuit for humanity, from Empedocles, who proposed that everything was made of four elements, to the present...