Lectures for secondary students
The programme with secondary students is a CCCB work line for bringing the great debates of our times to young people.
A morning with Cristina Rivera Garza
Intimate Violences
Chat with Cristina Rivera Garza based on her book El invencible verano de Liliana, where she denounces the cycle of gender violence and femicides based on her personal experience.
A morning with Miquel del Pozo
The untidy brain
Architect and popularizer of art Miquel del Pozo invites us on a journey through art history to reflect upon the paradox of identity: we will see how artists from different eras have illustrated texts from Antiquity and we will look at how mythological narratives and these images of the past are still fully valid today and they tell us about us (and others).
A morning with David Bueno
The untidy brain
What happens to the brain with the onset of puberty? Why do we feel so many emotions, ups and downs, and turmoil in adolescence? Neuroscientist and educator David Bueno talks to students about changes in their brains in one of the most important stages of their lives
A morning with Jordi Camí
The illusionist brain
How do magicians make us see the impossible? In this talk, we are looking by the hands of Jordi Camí at the latest discoveries in neuroscience and showing how magic “hacks” our mind and reveals its automatic functioning.
A morning with Carolin Emcke
A right has never been won forever
Philosopher and journalist Carolin Emcke, accompanied by trans sociologist and activist Miquel Missé, reflects with the students on the collective effort to maintain an open and plural society, at a critical time when rights and freedoms that we believed were guaranteed stagger.
A morning with Marina Garcés
The time of promises
In this exercise in collective imagination the philosopher Marina Garcés invites young people in our city to delete the questions of fear and make the future a time for promises.
A Moring with Burhan Sönmez
Freedom of expression and the role of literature
At a time when collective rights and freedoms are in danger in Europe, the Turkish writer Burhan Sönmez defends the importance of dissent and radical commitment to democratic values.
A Morning with Alec MacGillis
Living in the shadow of Amazon
The investigative journalist Alec MacGillis talks about today’s consequences of a digital economy in the hands of technological giants like Amazon.
A morning with Judith Schalansky
Inventory of the Imagination
Accompanied by fellow writer Inés Macpherson, Schalansky talks about the power of imagination to invent possible futures or alternative worlds, but also to think of a different present or evoke the past and make it as or more "real" than the real past.
A morning with Gerard Talavera
Learning from Butterflies
Gerard Talavera tell us about his travels through nature studying butterflies, and he talks about the importance of learning about nature to get a better understanding of the world we live in and to take on global challenges such as the climate crisis.
A morning with Yayo Herrero
Rethinking our relationship with the planet
The anthropologist and engineer Yayo Herrero talks with secondary school students about how we can rethink our relationship with the planet by adopting an ecofeminist approach, proposing alternative forms of economic and political reorganisation to recreate the broken bonds between humankind and nature.
A morning with Patrick Boucheron
How is History made?
Patrick Boucheron talks with secondary school students about the profession of the historian and the ethical and political implications of this work in an age in which fake news and the rise of the far right have gained ascendancy.
A morning with Nadia Ghulam
Being a Refugee: Surviving in Adversity
Nadia Ghulam, an Afghan refugee, writer, and activist now residing in Barcelona, talks about her own life story and her experiences when speaking about it with others.
A morning with Marta Segarra
What does it mean to be a feminist today?
In this session with secondary school students, Marta Segarra, Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies, shares her thoughts on present-day feminisms.
A morning with Kate Clanchy
Why do we need poetry?
Kate Clanchy describes her own relationship with poetry as both a well-known British writer and as a teacher in a small school in Oxford, where she has introduced poetry to her pupils with surprising results.
A morning with Cesc Gelabert
Conferences for High School students
In a time when reality is more and more virtual and when communication frequently occurs at a distance, the renowned dancer Cesc Gelabert talks about the need to recover awareness of our bodies, the place where our hearts and minds reside.
A morning with Åsa Wikforss
Knowledge Resistance
Expert on the philosophical and psychological aspects of knowledge-resistance, Åsa Wikforss speaks about the mechanisms and types of reasoning that tend to protect one’s identity, and about the best way to counter this phenomenon that questions well-established facts and that has negative consequences for our society.
A morning with Sonia Fernández-Vidal
Quantum Physics: Reality or Fiction?
The physicist Sonia Fernández-Vidal reveals to us some of the scientific discoveries that can bring us closer to many dreams and fantasies (invisibility, teleportation, time travel, et cetera) while also helping us to understand the importance of scientific research for the evolution of humanity and observing the directions in which science is moving today.
A Morning with Rita Segato
Debates with Adolescents
In this session with secondary school students, Rita Laura Segato presents her thoughts about sexist violence against women, which she has studied and analysed in terms of its relationship with capitalism and the values on which it is constructed. Rita Laura Segato is professor of Anthropology ...
Gaël Faye
A Conversation with Xavier Aldekoa
French-Burundian rapper and novelist Gaël Faye speaks with journalist Xavier Aldekoa, Africa correspondent for La Vanguardia. The search for the lost paradise of childhood is one of the central themes of Faye’s first novel Small Country (Hogarth, 2018), in which ...
Lydia Cacho
Trafficking and gender equality
Lydia Cacho is a journalist and writer, known for his activism as a human rights defender. Investigated and reported on human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of women and children in Mexico and abroad. This work report, which involved representatives of the Mexican political class, ...