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30th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA
AND 7th OF THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EUROPE
November 27 [Tuesday]
Pre-Conference meetings
Morning, at the City Hall (pl. Sant Jaume)
09.45 h: Announcement of the Barcelona European Science Hypatia Prize winner
Afternoon, at the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC) At the Puig-Cadafalch Room.
15.00 h-19.00 h: Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Academia Europaea (AEPre-conference meetings (For the Boards of the AE and the YAE)
November 28 [Wednesday]. Morning (at the IEC, c/Carme 47)
Pre-conference meetings
Academic Coordinator: Alexander Fidora, ICREA, Autonomous University of Barcelona
At the IEC (different rooms)
09.00 h-18.00 h Documents delivery
10.00 h-11.30 h Section/Class Workshops (See ANNEX 1)
11.30 h-12.00 h Coffee break
12.00 h-13.00 h Section/Class Workshops (cont’d)
13.00 h-14.15 h Lunch break
- At the CSIC Residence of Researchers (c/ Hospital, 64)
Meetings of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) (See ANNEX 2)
November 28 [Wednesday]. Afternoon (at the IEC, c/Carme 47)
BUILDING BRIDGES 2018 (At the Prat de la Riba Main Hall, IEC)
– 30th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA
– 7th OF THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EUROPE
– DISPUTATIO OF BARCELONA 2018
Part #1
15.00 h-16.30 h
30th Annual business meeting of members of the Academia Europaea
President: Sierd Cloetingh
Executive secretary: David Coates
16.30 h-17.00 h
Coffee Break
17.00 h-18.30 h
Welcome of new members of AE elected in 2017 and 2018, and welcome of new members of YAE
Coordinated by Genoveva Martí, ICREA, University of Barcelona
Part #2 (Open to the general public)
19.00 h-21.00 h
DISPUTATIO OF BARCELONA 2018
Competition vs. Cooperation: Two economists’ points of view
-Coordination and Introduction: Salvador Barberà, Autonomous University of Barcelona
– Disputantes:
Hervé Moulin. Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
Gabrielle Demange. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris / Paris School of Economics
– Open discussion with the attendants
November 29 [Thursday] From 10.00 h-18.30 h (at CosmoCaixa Science Museum (c/Isaac Newton 26, 08022 Barcelona)
BUILDING BRIDGES 2018 (at the Agora Room, CosmoCaixa)
For the participants in the Conference and previously registered people from Barcelona.
09.00 h Buses to CosmoCaixa, from Plaça Universitat.
09.00 h-10.00 h
Documents delivery
10.00 h-10.15 h
Official opening of the Annual Conference of the AE and the YAE
Welcome to CosmoCaixa
– Angel Font, Corporate Director of Research and Strategy, “la Caixa” Banking Foundation
Welcome to the AE conference
– Sierd Cloetingh, President of AE
10.15 h-11.00 h
The 2018 AE-Heinz-Nixdorf ERASMUS Medal
Laudatio by Jos van der Meer
Erasmus Lecture: Hans Clevers: Stem cell-based organoids in personalised medicine
Coordinated by Eva Kondorosi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
11.00 h-11.30 h
Balzan Lecture #1: Carlo Ginzburg: Disciplines, Serendipity, case studies
11.30 h-12.00 h
Coffee break
12.00 h-12.30 h
Balzan Lecture #2: Michaël Gillon: Life under another Sun: from science-fiction to science
12.30 h-13.00 h
COST Lecture #1: Marcel Swart: Spinning from north to south: a collaborative COST approach in transition-metal chemistry
13.00 h-14.15 h
Lunch break
14.30 h-15.00 h
AE Gold Medal award to the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and talk by Professor dr. Jörg Hacker, president of the Leopoldina
15.00 h-15.30 h
Lecture by Robert-Jan Smits (former DG research and innovation of the European Commission): Science, Europe’s precious asset
COST Lecture #2: Angelo Camerlenghi, Uncovering the Mediterranean salt giant (MEDSALT)—a COST Action as an incubator of cross-disciplinary research in Earth Sciences
Coordinated by Marcel Swart, ICREA, University of Girona
16.00-16.30 h
YAE Prize and Laudatio: Gabi Lombardo: Encouraging a strong SSH scientific community to serve society’s wellbeing
16.30-17.00 h
YAE Session Talk #1: Sarah de Rijcke: Metrics and science
17.00-17.30 h
YAE Session Talk #2: Anna Marmodoro: Time after change
17.30-18.15 h
Closure and Reception
18.30 h Buses to RAMC-IEC
20.00 h-21.00 h At the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia (RAMC) (c/Carme 47, 08001 Barcelona) Gimbernat Hall (18th c.)
CONCERT by The Gani Mirzo Band, “Building musical bridges in the Mediterranean. Songs from Algeria, Armenia and Kurdistan”
Presentation: Romà Escalas, musician and musicologist, has directed and organised the cycles “Music at the Cloister”, on behalf of the IEC
21.30 h-24.00 h (at the Cloister of the IEC)
Farewell by:
Sierd Cloetingh, president of the AE
Ricard Guerrero, academic director of the AE-BKH
Kimberly Katte, manager of the AE-BKH
Reception and Hot buffet
ANNEX 1
November 28 [Wednesday]. Morning (at the IEC, c/Carme 47)
SECTION/CLASS WORKSHOPS
Scientific coordinator: Alexander Fidora (ICREA-UAB)
Class A1 (Abstracts PDF)
Post-imperial Europe: The Challenge of Compartmentalisation
(At the Pi i Sunyer Room)
Chairperson: Vladimir Biti (Shanghai)
Speakers:
Biti, Vladimir (Shanghai): Post-imperial Europe and Transborder Communities
Daković, Nevena (Belgrade): Belgrade in-between the Wars: Imperial Shadows on the Screen
D’haen, Theo (Leuven): Post- and Future-Imperial Europe(s)
He, Chengzhou (Nanjing): Theater as “an Encounter”: Jerzy Grotowski’s Cosmopolitanism
Hutchinson, Ben (Kent): Empires of the Mind: The Emergence of ‘Comparative’ and ‘World’ Literature as Imperial Structures
Larsen, Svend Erik (Aarhus): From Imperial Cracks to Post-Imperial Stress Syndromes
Lützeler, Paul Michael (Saint Louis): Robert Menasse’s Novel “The Capital”: The National Factor in the EU
Onega, Susana (Saragossa): Meeting the Challenge of Compartmentalisation: David Mitchell’s Transmodern History of the World
Class A2 (Abstracts PDF)
Social Sciences in Their Global Contexts
(At the Joan Coromines Room)
Chairperson: Björn Wittrock (Uppsala)
Speakers:
Mas-Colell, Andreu (Barcelona): Economics: between theory and empirics
Knöbl, Wolfgang (Hamburg): Developments in Sociology and Historically Orientated Social Science
Randeria, Shalini (Vienna and Geneva): Role and Relevance of Institutes of Advanced Study in Social Science Knowledge Production Today
Schnell, Izhak (Tel Aviv): The Structure of Social Space in a Global Reality: the Case of Arabs in Israel
Class B (Section B3: P&E) (this Workshop will start at 09.00 h) (Abstracts PDF)
Inaugural Lectures by New Members of Physics and Engineering Sciences
Web: https://indico.kfki.hu/event/910/timetable/#20181128.detailed
(At the Prat de la Riba Room)
Chairpersons: Muhsin Harakeh (Groningen) and Tamás Csörgő (Budapest)
Speakers:
Sanjuán, Miguel A.F. (Madrid): Contributions to Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos and Complex Systems
Viña, Luis (Madrid): Bose-Einstein Condensates in Semiconductor Microcavities
Krasznahorkay, Attila J. (Debrecen): On a New Light-Particle Candidate for Dark Matter in High-Energy Nuclear Transitions
Wiescher, Michael (Notre Dame): The Nucleosynthesis of First Stars
Kalantar-Nayestanaki, Nasser (Groningen): FAIR and its Impact on Science and Technology
Maj, Adam (Krakow): Exotic Shapes and Collective Phenomena in Excited Atomic Nuclei
Ordejon, Pablo (Barcelona): Frontiers in Materials Modelling
Fantz, Ursel (Garching): Large and Powerful Sources for Negative Hydrogen Ions
Campbell, David J (ITER Organization): Self-organisation in Burning Plasmas
Wójs, Arkadiusz (Wroclaw): Quantum Electron Liquids and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Jajszczyk, Andrzej (Krakow): ERC Funding in Physics and Engineering
Class C
Presentations by Newly Elected Members of Class C
(At the Nicolau d’Olwer Room)
Chairperson: Alexei Verkhratsky (Manchester)
ANNEX 2
November 28 [Wednesday]. Morning (At the CSIC Residence of Researchers, c/Hospital, 64)
MEETINGS OF THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EUROPE (YAE)
