Joan-Carles Mèlich

Invitado de Honor

(Barcelona, 1961) has a Bachelor's in Philosophy and a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Since 1989, he has been a professor of Philosophy of Education at this same university.

He is the author of the following books, among others: Filosofía de la finitud (2002), Ética de la compasión (2010), Lógica de la crueldad (2014), La lectura como plegaria. Fragmentos filosóficos (2015), La religión del ateo (2019) and La sabiduría de lo incierto. Lectura y condición humana (2019).

With his book, La fragilidad del mundo. Ensayo sobre un tiempo precario (2021), he won the Premio Nacional de Ensayo 2022, presented by Spain's Ministry of Culture.

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Necessary education

Joan Subirats

Invitado de Honor

Has a PhD in Economics from the Universidad de Barcelona, is a professor emeritus of Political Science and a researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, and he held the Principe de Asturias Chair at Georgetown University (2002-2003). He is also a researcher and visiting lecturer at a large number of universities and academic centers around the world.

He has specialized in governance, public management and public policy analysis, as well as in issues of democratic innovation, science and politics, civil society and multi-level government, topics on which he has published numerous books and papers.

His most recent are El poder de lo próximo. Las virtudes del municipalismo (2016, Catarata Libros); with César Rendueles, Los (bienes) comunes. ¿Oportunidad o espejismo? (2016, Icaria Editorial); co-editor of Edades en transición. Envejecer en el siglo XXI. Condiciones de vida, participación y dimensión digital en el cambio de época (2016, Ariel); Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership. Communities and Social Change from Below (2017, Edward Elgar Publishing); Canvi d’època i de polítiques públiques a Catalunya (2019, Galaxia Gutenberg); Du social business à l’économie Solidaire. Critique de l’innovation sociale (2020, Eres); Las Administraciones ante los riesgos sociales y globales (2021, INAP).

He regularly collaborates in various media outlets, such as El País, Eldiario.es, etc. Between 2018 and July 2021, he held political posts as commissioner and deputy mayor of Culture, Education, Science and Community at the Barcelona city hall. Between December 2021 and November 2023, he served as Minister of Universities of the Government of Spain.

Ángeles Eraña

(Mexico City, 1969) has a PhD in Philosophy of Science from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She currently works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophical Research at this same institution, and is a member of the National System of Researchers. In 2018, she completed a research stay as a guest lecturer at the Universidad de Barcelona with the Logos group, and in 2022, she did another stay with the same group at the University of San Francisco.

Her area of specialization is the philosophy of science. However, she has worked on topics involving different areas of philosophy such as epistemology, the philosophy of the mind and cognitive sciences. She currently works on issues related to epistemology and social metaphysics. In particular, she has devoted herself to studying the notion of person and its ontological, political and epistemological dimensions. She has also taken to examining various forms of epistemic injustice.

Her institutional involvement in the UNAM has been extensive: she was the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Philosophy, a university advisor, and a member of the editorial board of the philosophy journal Diánoia. She is on the Advisory Board of the Red de Mujeres Filósofas de América Latina, a founding member of the Red Mexicana de Mujeres Filósofas, and Deputy Chair of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Analítica.

She wrote the book De un mundo que hila personas (o de la inexistencia de la paradoja individuo/sociedad) (2021) and numerous articles, including “Los perjuicios de la arrogancia” (Daimon.Revista Internacional de Filosofía) and “A world where many worlds fit”, which she co-authored with Axel Barceló (The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language). She has also written two poetry books: Las vastas minucias (2018) and Crónica de una abdicada obstinación (2022).

Her work can be viewed on the following website: https://sites.google.com/view/angeleserana/inicio?authuser=0

Sergio Vila-Sanjuán

Invitado de Honor

Journalist, novelist and playwright, and he manages the Cultura/s supplement of La Vanguardia.He is the author of the fiction trilogy consisting of Una heredera de Barcelona, Estaba en el aire (2013 Nadal Award), and El informe Casabona, which combines family memory and chronicles of the time. He has also written the plays El club de la escalera and La agente literaria, which recently premiered at the Teatre Akadèmia in Barcelona.

He has published several books on literary, publishing and artistic topics, such as Pasando página, El síndrome de Frankfurt, Código best seller and Vargas Llosa sube al escenario, and the biography El joven Porcel. His latest book is Cultura española en democracia. Una crónica breve de 50 años 1975-2024 (Destino).

He was the curator of the Year of the Book and Reading 2005, and is a member of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona. He received the 2020 Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural and the José Luis Giménez-Frontín Award from the Association of Writers of Catalonia (ACEC) for dialogue between cultures.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meetings (and misunderstandings). Cultural journalism in an era of excess
European Literature Festival
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