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Activities

- 30 September 2013, 10:30 a.m., in Sala de professors (Josep Carner building, Faculty of Philology, UB). Conference by professor François Vaillancourt (Economist, professor emeritus by Université de Montreal and fellow CIRANO) about "Language Policies in Québec / Canada: an economic analysis"

- 20th September 2013, 15:30 p.m., in Sala de professors (Josep Carner building, Faculty of Philology, UB). Conference by professor Carlos Gershenson (head of the Computer Science Department, Instituto de Investigaciones Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) titled ¿Cómo hablar de complejidad? [How to talk about complexity?]

“Over the past few years, complexity has become more popular. As there is an increasing diversity of speeches about this concept, we are causing confusion instead of creating knowledge. In this conference, it is offered a view to talk clearly about complexity from the epistemological point of view.”

- From 11th to 15th July 2011: One Summer Course in Els Juliols, in UB: Comunicació i ciències cognitives: una perspectiva des de la complexitat [Communication and Cognitive Sciences: An Approach from Complexity].

- 30th and 31st May 2011: Videoconferences between Barcelona and México: VIDEOCONFERENCIAS SOBRE SOCIOCOMPLEJIDAD                                                       [Videoconferences about Sociocomplexity]

- 3rd and 4th June 2010: International Colloquium about Languages and Complexity

- From 11th February to 18th March 2009: Course in CosmoCaixa (Barcelona). COMPLEXITAT I PARAULA. Un ésser viu anomenat llenguatge [COMPLEXITY AND WORDS. A human being called language].

 

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-Participation in the Edgar Morin’s investiture as honorary doctor by the Universitat de Barcelona (Click the following link to watch the video with the investiture speech:
http://www.ub.edu/ubtv/ubtv_veurereg.cgi?G_CODI=01694&G_USCODI=39578&G_LLISTA=FIRSTEN)