The Barcelona Debate

Hundreds of philosophers, sociologists, writers and thinkers from a range of disciplines have come to the CCCB to participate in The Barcelona Debate. They include Zygmunt Bauman, Tzvetan Todorov, Judith Butler, Lydia Cacho, Claudio Magris, Ulrich Beck, Seyla Benhabib, Mircea Cartarescu, and Vandana Shiva, among many others.

In recent years the Debate has dealt with subjects like the sense of the European project (Old Europe, New Utopias, 2017), the challenges of collective life (In Common, 2013, Open City, 2014, and Wield the Word, 2015), and the future of our planet (The World We Need, 2018).

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.

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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 ...

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Humanity at an Evolutionary Crossroads

Lecture by Hakan Günday

Lecture by Xiaolu Guo

Lecture by Julia Cagé

Lecture by Pedro Olalla

Lecture by Srećko Horvat

Lecture by Mircea Cărtărescu

Lecture by Patrick Deville

Lecture by Hartmut Rosa

Lecture by Marina Garcés

Lecture by Judy Wajcman

Lecture by Menchu Gutiérrez

Lecture by Salvador Cardús

Lecture by Seyla Benhabib

Lecture by Peter Wagner

Lecture by Montserrat Guibernau

Lecture by Luc Boltanski

Lecture by Bo Stråth

Premiere of the documentary film «Fatigue Society - Byung-Chul Han in Seoul / Berlin» and debate

Lecture by Saskia Sassen

Opening Lecture by Axel Honneth

Lecture by Kamila Shamsie

Lecture by Richard Sennett - CANCELLED

Lecture by Erri de Luca

Lecture by Rafael Chirbes

Lecture by Bruce Bégout

Lecture by Manuel Forcano

Lecture by Marta Segarra

Josep Maria Benet i Jornet in conversation with Toni Casares

Opening Lecture by Evgeny Morozov

Lecture by Zygmunt Bauman

Lecture by Josep Ramoneda

Lecture by Perejaume

Lecture by Marina Garcés

Dialogue between Xavier Antich and Joan Margarit

Lecture by Ramón Andrés

Lecture by Peter Burke

Lecture by Lydia Cacho

Opening Lecture by Ulrich Beck

Lecture by Jaume Pòrtulas

Lecture by Josep M. Ruiz Simón

Lecture by Jacqueline Bhabha

Lecture by António Lobo Antunes and Juan Marsé

Lecture by Nancy Fraser

Lecture by Salvador Cardús

Lecture by Claudio Lomnitz

Lecture by Joanna Bourke

Opening Lecture by Tzvetan Todorov

Lecture by Étienne Balibar

Lecture by Antón Costas

Lecture by Jorge Wagensberg

Lecture by Eva Illouz

Lecture by Claudio Lomnitz

Lecture by Avishai Margalit

Lecture by François Jullien

Lecture by Gosta-Esping Andersen

Lecture by Saskia Sassen

Opening Lecture by Soledad Puértolas

Lecture by Antonio Tabucchi

Lecture by Eva Illouz

Lecture by Francisco Jarauta

Lecture by Azar Nafisi

Lecture by Anna Cabré

Lecture by Jordi Camí

Lecture by Faisal Devji

Lecture by Sidi Mohammed Barkat

Opening Lecture by Orhan Pamuk

Lecture by Claudio Magris

Lecture by Hans Küng

Lecture by Axel Honneth

Lecture by Ash Amin

Lecture by Lluís Duch