Updated November 25, 19.30 h
30th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA
AND 7th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EUROPE
BARCELONA, 28‒29 NOVEMBER 2018
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
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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 (AE)
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 Hall, IEC)
30th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA
7th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 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 audience
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
15.30 h-16.00 h
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
November 30 (Friday)
POST-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP
Optional field trip on geology, culture and history
(A tradition at the AE Conferences; limited to 50 people)
(All day; from 8.00 h until c. 20.00 h)
08.00 h
Bus to Banyoles. (Plaça Universitat)
– Travel through different geological and botanical areas: Barcelonès, Vallès, La Selva, Gironès, Pla de l’Estany, Garrotxa.
– Karstic area of Banyoles Lake
– Volcanic lava flows (depending on the weather)
– Mas Pere Pau (Maià de Montcal). A rural house from the 14th c.
– Catalan lunch. (With tasting of oils and wines. Games)
– Visit to the Medieval and Jewish quarters (call) of Besalú.
18.00 h
Bus to Barcelona
ANNEX 1
SECTION/CLASS WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS OF THE AE
November 28 (Wednesday) (At the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC, c/Carme 47))
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
MEETINGS OF THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EUROPE (YAE)