From My Window
The Barcelona Debate 2019
Taking the window as a metaphor for each person’s singular gaze onto the world, this Barcelona Debate 2019 is an invitation to think about the limits and continuities between what is inside and what is outside, taking as a starting point the particular window opened up by each of the speakers in the cycle.
Susan Stryker
The Transgender Lens
Susan Stryker, activist and historian of the struggles for the rights of the LGBTI collective, explores the concept of “transgender”, not as an identity but, rather, to understand it as a lens that reveals self and world in new ways.
Enric Casasses
They’re Knocking at the Window
Enric Casasses ponders the possibilities held out by poetry for looking at reality in a particular way. Casasses, poet, rhapsode, playwright, and translator, has cultivated the word in every possible domain. With such a multifaceted creator, words cease to be merely an instrument of communication ...
Mara Dierssen
The Brain and Limits of Reality
Mara Dierssen, neurobiologist, talks about the functioning of the most complex organ that is known: the brain. The 86 billion neurons that form it and the connections that they establish mean that each brain is different. Despite its capacity being limited and our perception not always reflecting ...
Helena Maleno
On the Other Side of the Wall
Journalist and human-rights defender Helena Maleno focuses on how European policies cause deaths and criminalise the defence of human rights along Spain’s southern border. The measures that the government and state institutions are taking with respect to this problem are preventing the ...
Populism: From Citizen to the People
Lecture by Ferran Sáez Mateu
What is populism and why is it now booming? Philosopher Ferran Sáez explains that the concept, which already existed at the start of the 20th century, is now back because of the crisis in political representativeness and the immiseration of the middle classes. It is a concept based on ...
Sara Ahmed
On Complaint
Sara Ahmed, researcher and writer specialising in feminism, queer theory and postcolonial criticism, talks about the difficulties involved in presenting a complaint in matters of harassment at universities as a result of institutional bullying. She advocates victims uniting in order to challenge a body that frequently tries to discourage them from complaining and convince them of the damaging effects it may have for them, while those responsible band together and support each other to defend their common interests. ...