Lectures for secondary students
The programme with secondary students is a regular CCCB work line for bringing the great debates of our times to young people. Citizens who are at an age of their lives for posing and asking themselves questions and in a vital phase that is essentially philosophical: it is brimming with doubts, insecurities and uncertainties, but also with energy and curiosity about the world. Within the framework of this project, the CCCB brings some of the leading thinkers of the contemporary world into dialogue with these citizens of the future, so that they can debate aspects that affect them in a direct way.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 and...
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 he re-creates his ...
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, Lydia ...