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01- marzo -2013 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN SAN TELMO MUSEOA Keynote Speakers: Fernando Iglesias Daniel Innerarity Gurutz Jauregui Emilio Lamo de Espinosa Nerea Magallón
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01- marzo -2013DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN SAN TELMO MUSEOA

Keynote Speakers:Fernando IglesiasDaniel Innerarity Gurutz Jauregui

Emilio Lamo de EspinosaNerea Magallón

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MARCOS AGUINIS

WriterPublished his first book in 1963.When democracy was restored in Argentina inDecember 1983, he was appointed Secretaryand then Secretary of State for Culture, alongwith other intellectuals supporting the"Cultural Spring" through the Center forPolitical Participation.He created the PRONDEC (National Programfor the Democratization of Culture), whichwon the support of UNESCO and UnitedNations.For his work was nominated for UNESCO’sPeace Education Prize.

Marcos Aguinis was awarded several major prizes suc h as the Planeta Award,the Award of the Argentine Society of Writers, the Ordre des Arts et desLettres of France and the Juan Bautista Alberdi Awa rd 2007 presented by theHispanic American Center for Economic Research of W ashington DC.

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ABDULLAHI AHMED AN-NA’IM

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School ofLaw, Emory University.

Internationally recognized scholar of Islam and hum anrights, and human rights in cross-cultural perspect ives. Former Executive Director of Human RightWatch/Africa.

Awarded the James Weldon Johnson Medal for 2011 for Human Rights Author,among other books, of:

� Muslims and Global Justice: Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press (2010)

�Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990 (soft-cover edition by American University in Cairo, 1992). Translated in Arabic (1994), Indonesian (1995), Russian (1999), and Persian 2003

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DANIELE ARCHIBUGI

Research Director at the Italian National ResearchCouncil (CNR).

Professor of Innovation, Governance and PublicPolicy at the University of London, BirkbeckCollege, Department of Management.

Prominent in the development of cosmopolitanism, an d of cosmopolitandemocracy.

RECENT BOOKS:

� He has co-edited The Globalising Learning Economy (Oxford University Press, 2001), and has edited Debating Cosmopolitics (Verso, 2003)

� His latest book, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy was published by Princeton University Press in October 2008

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JACQUES ATTALI

Professor and writer.

Honorary Member of the Council of State.

CEO of A&A, an international consulting firm speci alizedin new technologies.

President of Planet Finance, an international non-p rofit organization assistingmicrofinance institutions all over the world.

Editorialist for the magazine L’Express.

HE HAS WRITTEN MORE THAN FIFTY BOOKS, AMONG THEM:

� La Consolation Publisher Naive - 2012

� Candidats Répondez! Publisher Fayard - 2011

� Tomorrow, who will govern the world? Publisher Fayard - 2011

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BERTRAND BADIE

University Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques deParis. Director of the Cycle supérieur de Relationsinternationales, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Pa ris.

Member of the Executive Committee and Vice-Presiden t of theInternational Political Science Association (IPSA) . President of the Scientific Committee of the French Institute ofthe Near East Studies (IFPO).

LAST PUBLICATIONS:

� Le multilatéralisme (avec Guillaume Devin), La Découverte, 2007.

� L'Etat du monde (sous la dir. de Bertrand Badie et Sandrine Tolott i), La Découverte, 2007, rèed, 2008.

� Le Diplomate et l'Intrus , Paris, Fayard, 2008.

� Le grand tournant / L'état du monde 2010 (avec Dominique Vidal), La Découverte, 2009.

� La Diplomatie de connivence , La Découverte, 2011.

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ZYGUMUNT BAUMAN

Emeritus Professor of sociology at the University o fLeeds, where they founded the Bauman Institute in h ishonor.

Best known for his analyses of the linksbetween modernity and the Holocaust, andof postmodern consumerism.

Awarded in 2010 the Príncipe de Asturias Prize forCommunication and the Humanities.

SOME OF HIS LATEST BOOKS:

� 2012: This is Not a Diary . Cambridge: Polity.

� 2011: Culture in a Liquid Modern World . Cambridge: Polity.

� 2011: Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age . Cambridge: Polity Cambridge: Polity.

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ULRICH BECK

Professor for Sociology at Munich University.British Journal of Sociology, London School ofEconomics. Centennial Professor in the Departmentof Sociology since 1997

Editor of Soziale Welt, editor of the Edition Secon dModernity at Suhrkamp.Founding director of the research centre at theUniversity of MunichModernization theory, sociology of risk,transformation of work and social inequalities. 

Supporter of the Spinelli Group initiative in the European Parliament.

�Beck, Ulrich. (2009). World at Risk . Cambridge: Polity Press.

�Beck, Ulrich & Grande, Edgar (2010) " Varieties of second modernity: extra-European and European experiences and perspectives "British Journal ofSociology, Vol 61, Issue 3

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MARY BURTON

Political activist.

Human Rights lobbyist.

Former president of the Black Sash from 1986 to1990.

Former member of the Truth and ReconciliationCommission (TRC).

�Co-Founder of the Home for All CampaignDeputy Chairperson of the Council of the University of Cape Town.

�In 2011, she was awarded Civic Honors by the City o f Cape Town for hercontribution to the liberation struggle and nationa l reconciliation.

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NOAM CHOMSKY

Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in theDepartment of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT.

Awarded in 2011 the Sydney Peace Prize, whichcited his "unfailing courage, critical analysis ofpower and promotion of human rights“.

He has received honorary degrees from more than37 universities from all over the world. 

�2012: Occupy (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)

�2012: Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empi re and Resistance .

�2011: 9-11: Was There An Alternative?

�2010: Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (withllan pappè) �2010: Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment .

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JUAN JOSÉ CAMPANELLA

Filmmaker and Television DirectorGraduated from New York University film school

MOST IMPORTANT WORK:

� Academy Award (Oscar) Foreign film “Elsecreto de sus Ojos”

�Goya Award for best foreign Spanish Language

film “El Secreto de sus Ojos”

�“Law and Order”

�“Dr. House”

�El hijo de la novia –Nominated for best foreign

movie

�Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding

Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special

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JORGE CASTRO

International political analyst

Columnist of Argentina's biggest newspapers,La Nacion and Clarin.Head of the Political Section of the newspaperTiempo Argentino International.Deputy Director of the Commercial DailyReporter (1986-1997).

He was Secretary of Strategic Planning Office of th e President (1998-99) as wellas teacher for universities of Buenos Aires and the Salvador, teacher for theLatin American Faculty of Social Studies (FLACSO), School of National DefenseWar College and the Foreign Service Institute.

Member of the Argentine Council for International R elations (CARI).Chairman of the Strategic Planning Institute.He received the National Order of Cruzeiro do Sul, awarded by the Governmentof Brazil, among other distinctions.

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ROBERTO ESPOSITO

Vice Director of the Istituto Italiano di Scie nze Umane inFirenze and Napoli. Full Professor of TheoreticalPhilosophy and coordinator of the doctoral programm ein Philosophy.

Director of the Department of Philosophy and P olitics ofthe Istituto Oriental di Napoli.

Co-director of the magazine “ Filosofía Política ” since its foundation in 1987.

Founding member of the European Political Lexicon R esearch Centre andthe International Centre for a European Legal and P olitical Lexicon.

SOME OF HIS LATEST PUBLICATIONS: "Terza persona. Politica della vita efilosofia dell’impersonale," Einaudi, 2007 ; "Termi ni della politica. Comunità,immunità, biopolitica," Mimesis, 2008 ; "Pensiero v ivente. Origine e attualitàdella filosofia italiana," Einaudi, 2010.

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RICHARD FALK

Professor of International Law and Practice, Emerit us atPrinceton University.

Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and Inte rnationalStudies at the University of California, Santa Barb ara (2001-2004).

Speaker, activist on world affairs, appointee to t wo UnitedNations positions on the Palestinian territories.

Member of the Editorial Boards of The Nation and The Progressive , and Chair of theBoard of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Former advisory board member of the World Federalis t Institute and the AmericanMovement for World Government.

�Achieving Human Rights, Routledge, 2008

�International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Ju stice2008

�Religion and Humane Global Governance, 2001

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SUSAN GEORGE

Author of more than 14 books.President of the Board of the Transnational Institu teinAmsterdam.

Honorary president of ATTAC-France [Association forTaxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens].Former vice-president. Member of the scientificcouncil.

RECENT BOOKS

�Whose Crisis? Whose Future? 2010

�Hijacking America: How the Religious and Secular Ri ghtChanged What Americans Think [Polity Press 2008]

�We the Peoples of Europe [Pluto Press 2008]

�Another World is Possible if... [Verso, New York an d London, 2004]

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DAVID HELD

Master of University College, Durham.

Professor of Politics and International Relations,Durham University.

Active scholar on issuesof globalization and global governance.

�Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Sol idarity, and Innovation ,edited by David Held and Henrietta L. Moore, UK, 20 08.

�Globalization theory : approaches and controversies . Held, David andMcGrew, Anthony, (eds.) (2007).

�Cultural politics in a global age. Moore, Henrietta and Held, David, (eds.)(2007)

�Global inequality : patterns and explanations. Held, David and Kaya, Ayse,(eds.) (2006) Polity, Cambridge.

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FERNANDO IGLESIAS

Vicepresident and Founding member of DEMOCRACIA GLO BAL -Movimiento por la Unión Sudamericana y el Parlament o Mundial.

Former Argentine representative at the MERCOSUR and Latin-AmericanParliaments.

RECENT BOOKS ON THE TOPIC:�The glob@l Modernity- a Copernican revolution on hu man affairs (2011)Globalizing Democracy – for a World Parliament (200 6).

Writer and journalist specialized on the political aspectsof Globalization.

Director of the Altiero Spinelli Cathedra on Region alIntegration, CUIA Professor of Theory of Globalizat ionand regional blocks (UCES).

Professor of International Governance (Universidad deBelgrano)

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DANIEL INNERARITY

� Philosopher and lecturer of philosophy at theUniversity of Zaragoza.

� He publishes his articles in El País and El Correo.

� Director of the Democratic Governance Institute.

� IKERBASQUE researcher at the University of theBasque Country.

� Invited Professor in many american andeuropean universities, recently at La Sorbonneand the Robert Schuman Center for AdvancedStudies of Firenze’s European Institute.

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EMILIO DE IPOLA

Philosopher and sociologistRetired professor of the Universidad de Buenos Aire sPhd in Social Sciences, University of Paris 1969Writes for Página 12 Held chairs at:Universidad de Montreal (Canadá)École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Franc e)Université du Quebec (Canadá)El Colegio de México (Mexico)Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) MOST IMPORTANT WORK: Metáforas de La Política 2001La Bemba 2005Tristes Tópicos de Las Ciencias Sociales 2006Althusser, el infinito adiós 2009

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MARY KALDOR

Professor of Global Governance.

Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics.

Key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy.

Writes on globalization, international relations an d humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance.

Writes for OpenDemocracy.net - Belongs to the Board of Trustees ofthe Hertie School of Governance.

� Global Civil Society 2012: ten years of critical reflection. Kaldor, Mary andMoore, Henrietta and Selchow, Sabine, (eds.) (2012) � Human Security: Reflections on Globalization and Intervention . 2007.� New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era. 2nd edition (firstedition: 1999). 2006.� Global Civil Society: An Answer to War . 2003.

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MATHIAS KOENIG-ARCHIBUGI

Senior Lecturer in Global Politics, Department ofGovernment and Department of International Relation s,LSE

Awarded the LSE Teaching Prize at Major Review, 200 7.

SOME OF HIS WORK:

�Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspecti ves , edited with

Daniele Archibugi and Raffaele Marchetti. 2011

�Why Do States Commit to International Labor Standar ds? The Importance

of Rivalry and Friendship, with Leonardo Baccini.

�Accountability-by-Proxy in Transnational Non-State Governance, with

Kate Macdonald, forthcoming in Governance .

�Fuzzy Citizenship in Global Society, Journal of Political Philosophy , 2011

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JORGE LANATA

Journalist, Writer and Actor

Co-Founder and Director of the newspaper “Página 12 ”1995, Founder of the newspaper “Veintiuno” in 1988

Co-Founder and director of the newspaper “Crítica d e laArgentina” until 2009

MOST IMPORTANT WORK:�Column in the Diario Clarín�Radio program for Radio Mitre (on air in Spain and Argentina)�TV-Show : Periodismo para Todos on Canal 13 (Clarín Group)�Director and Writer of the movie “Deuda” 2004�Documentary: Tan lejos, tan cerca: Malvinas, 25 año s después (2007)

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LUCIO LEVI

Professor of Political Science and ComparativePolitics at the University of Torino.

Member of the Council of the Department ofPolitical Studies.

Member of the Federal Committee of the Unionof European Federalists (UEF)

Editor of The Federalist Debate.

Several books on the subject of federalism, Europea n integration andinternational organizations:�L’internationalisme ne suffit pas

�Internationalisme marxiste et fédéralisme (Internat ionalism is not Enough

�Marxist Internationalism and Federalism) and Altiero Spinelli and Federalismin Europe and in the World .

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RAFFAELE MARCHETTI

AMONG HIS PUBLICATIONS: Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Pers pectives (2011), Civil Society,

Ethnic Conflicts, and the Politicization of Human R ights (2011), Conflict Societyand Peacebuilding (2011), Manuale di politica internazionale , (2010), EuropeanUnion and Global Democracy (2009), and Global Democracy: For and Against.Ethical Theory, Institutional Design, and Social St ruggles (2008).

Assistant professor in InternationalRelations at the Faculty of PoliticalScience and the School of Governmentof LUISS. His research interest concernsglobal politics and governance,transnational civil society, anddemocracy.

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GEORGE MONBIOT

English writer, known for his environmental andpolitical activism.

Weekly column for The Guardian

Founder of The Land is ours campaign

Founder the ArrestBlair.org website

AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BOOKS:

� The Age of Consent (2003, Flamingo)

� A Manifesto for a New World Order (2004)

� Captive State The Corporate Takeover of Britain (2000)

� Poisoned Arrows: An Investigative Journey Throug h Indonesia (1989)

� No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania (1994)

� Heat: how to stop the planet burning and Bring o n the Apocalypse?

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GIACOMO MARRAMAO

Philosopher. He teaches TheoreticalPhilosophy and Political Philosophy at theUniversity Rome III. \

Member of the College International dePhilosophie of Paris

Proffesor Honoris Causa at the Universityof Bucarest and Visiting Proffesor inSciences po.

Co editor of Iride magazine and Director ofthe Fondazione Basso.

Author: Contro il potere. Filosofia e scritura(2011), Passagio a Occidente. Filosofia eglobalizzazione (2003).

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TONI NEGRI

Italian Marxist sociologist and Political Philosoph er.Political philosophy professor in Padua´s Universit y.

As one of the most popular theorists of Autonomism, hehas published hugely influential books urging"revolutionary consciousness”.

In 2009 Negri completed the book “Commonwealth”, th e final in a trilogy thatbegan in 2000 with “Empire” and continued with “Mul titude” in 2004, co-authored with Michael Hardt.

LATEST WORK:

� Declaration , with Michael Hardt, 2012

� Casarino, Cesare and Negri, Antonio. In Praise of the Common . 2009.Goodbye Mr. Socialism Antonio Negri in conversation with Raf Valvola Scelsi, 2008.

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JOSÉ MIGUEL ONAINDIA

He was Secretary of the Institution Wagner, a contr ibuting member of the Teatro ColonFoundation, and a founding partner and member of th e Executive Committee of theAssociation for Civil Rights (ADC).

Founding member and current president of the Intern ational Foundation Argentina,dedicated to the promotion of art and culture.

He received the Best Paper Award of the Biennial Sc ientific Savings Foundation, theAcademic Vocation Foundation Book Award and the Mar ia Guerrero Award in recognitionof cultural management.

Lawyer

Professor of Constitutional and Cultural Rights and Law at theFaculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires (UBA). H e directsthe graduate program in Culture and Law in the sameuniversity.

General Coordinator of Culture UBA (in charge of th e RicardoRojas Cultural Center)

Active participation of NGOs promoting culture and humanrights.

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VICENTE PALERMO

Independent researcher of CONICET.

Principal investigator of Policy History ProgramGino Germani Research Institute (UBA) and the OralHistory Archive UBA -

Researcher, Center for Policy Research

Phd of Political Science, Universidad Complutensede Madrid (1989-1995)

Master submitted in Political Science. Universidad del Salvador (1979-1983)

BA in Sociology. National University of Buenos Aire s (1969-1975).

Taught several courses at FLACSO

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HEIKKI PATOMÄKI

Professor of International Relations, Department ofPolitical and Economic Research. Director of the C entreof Excellence on Global Governance, University ofHelsinki.

Professor of Globalization and Global Institutions atRMIT University, Australia Founding member and Dire ctorof investigations, Network Institute for GlobalDemocratization (NIGD).

LATEST BOOKS:

� Democratising Globalisation. The Leverage of the Tobin Tax (Zed Books,2001).

� After International Relations.Critical Realism a nd the (Re)Construction ofWorld Politics (2002).

� A Possible World. Democratic Transformation of G lobal Institutions, with TeivoTeivainen (2004).

� The Political Economy of Global Security. War, F uture Crises and Changes inGlobal Governance (2008).

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LUIS ALBERTO ROMERO

Principal Investigator of CONICETProfessor of General Social History in theFaculty of Arts at the University of BuenosAires.He directs the Center for the Study ofPolitical History at the School of PublicPolicy as well as Management at the NationalUniversity of San Martín.He teaches graduate courses in the LatinAmerican Faculty of Social Sciences(FLACSO), the Universidad Torcuato Di Tellaand Universidad de San Andrés.

Among his publications are full Crónica total del s iglo XX (2000), and BuenosAires, historia de cuatro siglos.The Economic Culture Fund has published: Breve hist oria contemporánea de laArgentina (1994) and its English translation A Hist ory of Argentina in theTwentieth Century (2006).

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SANTIAGO KOVADLOFF

Essayist, poet, translator of Portugueseliterature and author of children's stories.He graduated in Philosophy at the University ofBuenos Aires.Doctor Honoris Causa at the University ofBusiness and Social Sciences (UCES) andhonorary professor at the AutonomousUniversity of Madrid.Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, memberof the Academy of Arts and Argentina NationalAcademy of Moral and Political Sciences.Regular contributor to the daily La Nación ofBuenos Aires.

Latest tests: The constraints of the day, 2007, The enigma of suffering, 2008and fear politics, 2010. In 2010 he was accredited the “Pluma de Honor“ by t he Academy ofArgentinean Journalism for his print work

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BEATRIZ SARLO

Essayist in the field of literary and cultural crit icism.

Worked at the Center of Latin American Editor Forme rprofessor of literature at the Faculty of Arts, Uni versity ofBuenos Aires.

Has also worked at Columbia, Berkeley, Maryland andMinnesota Universities.

She is part of the group of Latin American critical intellectuals, focuses onstudies of post-modernity in the subcontinent.

LATEST BOOKS:

� La audacia y el cálculo: Beatriz Sarlo (2011)

� The Technical Imagination: Argentina's Modern D reams (2007)

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SASKIA SASSEN

Dutch-American sociologist.

Noted for her analyses of globalization andinternational human migration.

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at ColumbiaUniversity.

Centennial visiting Professor at the LSE.

Sassen coined the term global city.

Known internationally for the publication of her se minal work The Global City in 1991(Princeton University Press).

AUTHORED BOOKS:

Elements for a Sociology of Globalization [or A Sociology of Globalization ] (2007).

Cities in a world economy (2011) updated 4th ed., original 1994; Series: Soc iology for anew century.

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FERNANDO SAVATER

One of Spain´s most popular living philosophers, es sayist andcelebrated author.Former Ethics professor at the University of The Ba sque Country.Philosophy professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Has taken an active part in several organizations e ngaged with peacein the Basque Country and against terrorism.

Won several accolades for his literary work, which cov ers issues asdiverse as contemporary ethics, politics, cinema an d literary studies.

LATEST BOOKS:

� La aventura de pensar , ensayo, 2008� Misterio, emoción y riesgo , 2008� Borges: la ironía metafísica , 2008� Historia de la filosofía. Sin temor ni temblor , 2009� Tauroética , 2010� La música de las letras , 2010� Los invitados de la princesa , 2012

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ROBERTO SAVIANO

Italian writer and journalist

Popular for his bestselling novel "Gomorra"(2006)

Began his writing career in 2002 for Pulp, Diary,Southern Manifesto, Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno

AUTHOR:

� Gomorra

� La bellezza e l´inferno

� Il contrario della morte

� La parola contro la camorra

� Vieni via con me

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JUAN JOSÉ SEBRELI

Sociologist, historian, literary critic and philoso pher.

Recognized columnist of cultural magazines in Argen tina,such as South (Victoria Ocampo) and Contour (DavidViñas).

Regular contributor to the daily La Nación, PERFIL and “Ñ”magazine.

He was among the first group of existentialists in Argentina.

His work Comediantes y mártires was awarded with the PremioIberoamericano Debate-Casa de América in 2009.

HIS LATEST BOOKS:

� 2010: Cuadernos.

� 2008: Comediantes y mártires. Ensayo contra los mitos.

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RICHARD SENNETT

Centennial Professor of Sociology LSE.

University Professor of Humanities at New York Univ ersity.

Best known for his studies of social ties in cities , and theeffects of urban living on individuals in the moder n world.

Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Beha vioral Sciences, of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the R oyal Society ofLiterature.Founding Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

� In 2006 Sennett was the winner of the Hegel Priz e awarded by theGerman city of Stuttgart.

� In 2008 he was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize, by the Gerda HenkelFoundation of Düsseldorf, Germany.

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VANDANA SHIVA

Philosopher and environmental activist.

Physicist, received her Ph.D. in philosophy from th eUniversity of Western Ontario, Canada.

Leader and board member of the International Forum forGlobalization, figure of the global solidarity move mentknown as the alter-globalization movement.

Member of the scientific committee of the Fundación IDEAS, Spain's SocialistParty's think tank.

AUTHOR OF:

� Monocultures of the Mind (1993)� Women, Ecology and Development (1995)� Ecofeminism: Theory, criticism and perspectives (1997)� The practice of ecofeminism: biotechnology, cons umption, reproduction(1998)� Biopiracy: the plunder of nature and knowledge ( 1999)� ¿Protect or plunder?: intellectual property righ ts (2003).

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ANDREW STRAUSS

Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development .Professor of Law at Widener University School of La w.

Specializes in public international law, internatio nal economiclaw, international transactions and international o rganizations.

Co-author (with Burns Weston, Richard Falk and Hila ry Charlesworth) of thefourth edition of International Law and World Order internationally active inmany civic and professional organizations.

Most known for his articles with Professor R. Falk on democratizing theinternational system, and his work conceptualizing global warming litigation.

Books:

� A Global Parliament: Essays and Articles , with R. Falk. (Committee for aDemocratic U.N., 2011).� Et al International law and world order: a proble m-oriented coursebook (4thed. 2006).

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TEIVO TEIVANEN

Professor of World Politics at theUniversity of Helsinki. Having receivedhis PhD in 2000 at the University ofHelsinki, he became the foundingdirector of the Program on Democracyand Global Transformation at theNational University of San Marcos, inLima, Peru in 2003.

At the University of California RiversideTeivainen forms part of the AdvisoryBoard of the Institute for Research onWorld-Systems. He is also internationalboard member of academic journalssuch as Critical Sociology andGlobalizations.

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JOSÉ IGNACIO TORREBLANCA

Senior Research Fellow of the European Council onForeign RelationsHead of Madrid OfficeSenior Analyst of EU Affairs a t

Elcano Royal Institute of Foreign AffairsDoctorate in Political Science and Sociology(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

MOST IMPORTANT WORK:“La fragmentación del poder europeo”. Icaria / Polí ticaExterior, Madrid 2011“20 Años de España en la Unión Europea (1986-2006)” .Coautor con Sonia Piedrafita y Federico Steinberg.Real Instituto Elcano y Parlamento EuropeoColumna Semanal en “EL PAÌS”

Articles: “The Alabama Syndrome” 2012“Democracy put to the test” 2011“Five Reasons why Europe is cracking” 2011


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