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Una innovadora creación en la que dialogan el apasionante mundo de la poesía andalusí de Ibn Shuhayd (995-1035), la música española para piano y el baile flamenco: un jardín para los sentidos …

Una colaboración entre artistas y un grupo de pacientes del Boston Medical Campus, como un ejemplo de creación artística socialmente incluyente.

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Please join us this Thursday 12-2pm (Gund 318) for a brown bag lecture and seminar with UTL visiting scholar Prof. Alvaro Sevilla Buitrago, Associate Professor of Town Planning and Planning History at the Town and Regional Planning Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid:

Territory, planning, enclosure:

Towards a genealogy of planetary urbanization

This lecture will discuss the connection between Urban Theory Lab’s current analysis of the ‘extreme territories’ of planetary urbanization and the historical reterritorializations deployed by English enclosure in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Following a general overview of his research project on the social history of planning, Prof. Sevilla will explore how English parliamentary enclosure opened a new spatial rationality incorporating both the city and the countryside into a single territorial logic linked to wider social and political economic strategies, a move that both addresses and problematizes Henri Lefebvre’s hypothesis of a generalized urbanization. From this point of view historical enclosure can be understood not only as a precedent in the logic of dispossession that would later pervade planning’s spatial rationality, but also as a case of original extended urbanization that allows for a broader and better comprehension of the genealogy of the urban society.

Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago is Associate Professor of Town Planning and Planning History at the Town and Regional Planning Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His current research focuses on blending social, urban and planning histories to develop a social history of planning, i.e. an operative, effective historiographical account from below that works both as a history of our urban present and as a critique of contemporary planning techniques. This research project is developed through an analysis of the spatialities of social reproduction in periods of major social change and in the context of the broader economic and political dynamics of capitalism, a perspective that provides a global sense of the production of local social space. In this framework, planning appears at the intersection of bipolitics and geopolitics — a governmental device that regulates the spatial dimension of social reproduction of working and subaltern classes to the benefit of particular hegemonic blocs and according to wider regional, national or international strategies.

Continue reading »]]> IGLP’s 2013 Conference: New Directions in Global Thought: IGLP at Five will take place June 3-4, 2013 at Harvard Law School. Thank you to all of those who offered to share their ongoing research with us. The Conference Program will be posted May 1, 2013.  We expect more than 200 scholars from around the world to share their work on a variety of panels during the Conference.

Our inaugural conference will be a celebration of the IGLP’s first five years and we invite all those interested in pursuing new thinking about law and global policy to join us in Cambridge.  We are particularly hopeful that IGLP alumni and friends will find the Conference a useful opportunity to share their ongoing research.  The 2013 IGLP Conference will be held directly following the 2013 Law and Society Association conference (May 30-June 2, 2013), which will be convened in Boston.

About IGLP: The Conference:

The Institute encourages academic collaboration among young scholars from across the world, aiming to support a network of scholars and policy makers who share our belief that ideas matter, and our commitment to new voices and viewpoints for thinking about global governance, social justice and economic policy.  More than 500 scholars from scores of nations have participated in our activities.  Our annual IGLP Workshop offers junior scholars from around the world the opportunity to share their research and reflect together on new thinking in the fields of international law, political economy, and global governance.

Continue reading »]]> Rey Juan Carlos University, Member University of Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard, organizes international courses every summer during the month of July. These summer courses provide a cultural scenario based on a variety of subjects and the academic excellence of its lecturers.

The programme consists of courses in Law, Economics, Social Sciences, Science, Communications and Humanities. These summer courses are among the most prestigious ones organized by Spanish universities. Each course includes lectures and panel discussions over a period of five days.

Rey Juan Carlos University holds these courses at the Real Sitio de Aranjuez, in the region of Madrid, a World Heritage Cultural Landscape and one of the most remarkable artistic ensembles in Spain. The courses will take place at the historic building Cuartel de Pavía. Lecturers and students will be accommodated at excellent hotels in Aranjuez.

URJC-RCC will offer up to 10 scholarships every summer to Harvard University students who are interested in these courses and have advanced Spanish language skills as this will be the main language of instruction. The scholarship covers the full tuition and lodging during the entire seminar. All the course-related information will be posted in May, 2013.

To see the complete list of courses, click here

To apply for the grants, click here

Continue reading »]]> RCC is organizing the XI Executive Program Seminar that will take place from May 5th to 8th in Cambridge, MA.

More than 30 CEOs and Senior Executive Directors from a wide range of leading Spanish companies will attend the seminar to discuss new strategies of business administration, marketing and networking.

Click here to download the full schedule

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Stanford historian Herzog accepts FAS and Radcliffe professorships

The innovative international scholar Tamar Herzog has been appointed the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She also will become the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Herzog comes to Harvard from Stanford University, where she has been a professor of Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese history since 2005.

Being “engaged in a community of scholars” is what brings Herzog, 48, to Harvard and its Radcliffe Institute. “I ask questions,” is how she characterizes her study of people and places in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain.

In the process of exploring borders, citizenship, communities, belonging, and belongings, her work connects with many areas of study. “In addition to the wonderful history department, it will be an opportunity to connect with scholars in the areas of law, anthropology, Latin American and American studies, art history, political science, literature, and philosophy,” she said.

“I am very pleased that a scholar of Tamar Herzog’s caliber has agreed to join the History Department,” said FAS Dean Michael D. Smith. “She will enrich the FAS community with her groundbreaking research, and represents an exciting opportunity for Harvard College students to learn from a world-renowned scholar.”

“Professor Herzog’s approach to finding answers to her questions by crossing disciplinary and geographical borders is the kind of wide-ranging intellectual pursuit the Radcliffe Institute is dedicated to supporting, and that Harvard encourages,” said Radcliffe Dean Lizabeth Cohen, who is also the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the same department that Herzog will join.

Herzog received her Ph.D. from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and since then has conducted research in Spain, Portugal, Latin America, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and the United Kingdom.  Her international experience and orientation is one reason she chose to join the Harvard faculty. For her, “the University offers a concentration and intensity of intellectual engagement that draws people from around the world.

“The Radcliffe Professorship means that Herzog will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for two of her first five years as a professor at Harvard. Professorships at the Radcliffe Institute are offered in conjunction with tenured positions at the University and help attract leading scholars who will bring greater diversity to the Harvard faculty. The Radcliffe Alumnae Professorship was funded by contributions from hundreds of Radcliffe College alumnae who wanted today’s Harvard undergraduates to benefit from a more diverse teaching faculty than they had in the past.

Herzog, who has previously been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and this year is a Guggenheim Fellow, recognizes the Radcliffe Professorship as “an exceptional opportunity.

”In her fellowship years, Herzog will pursue independent research in the institute’s stimulating community of artists and scholars. She expects that being a fellow will be perfectly timed as she determines the scope and nature of her next major project.

“The early stages are so crucial,” said Herzog, “and Radcliffe will be wonderful for that because there are so many different scholars, with different disciplines, and from different places who come together for intellectual exchange.”

Starting in the fall of 2013, Herzog will be welcomed to that “intellectual exchange” in an array of departments and schools across Harvard.

Source: Harvard Gazette (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/04/engaging-in-a-new-community/)

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Tufts University, April 2013

The Great Recession has hit Spain hard with high unemployment and a persistently stagnant economy.  Pressure from international bodies like the EU, ECB, and IMF has narrowed the room for maneuver.  The economic downturn has also had radical political consequences, including the growth of separatist demands in Catalonia, Spain’s most prosperous region. While features of the Spanish crisis relate to the nature of economic contraction, EU membership, and political stalemate in the twenty-first century, there are also causes and symptoms rooted more deeply in Spanish history, the subject that our internationally renowned speakers will address from various perspectives.

“The Histories of Spain: Visions of the Past and the Construction of Identity.”José Álvarez Junco, Professor of History, Universidad Complutense, MadridTuesday, April 9th, 4:30 pm, room TBD

“The Empire, the Nation, and the Homelands: Nineteenth-Century Spain’s National Idea.” Josep M. Fradera, Professor of History, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, BarcelonaTuesday, April 23rd, 4:30 pm, CHAT (Fung House, 48 Professors Row) reception to follow

“Lessons from the Crisis in Spain.”Sebastián Royo, Professor of Government and Associate Dean, Suffolk UniversityWednesday, April 24th, 10:30-11:45am, Tisch Library, room 314

All lectures are open to the public.  For more information, please contact Professor Christopher Schmidt-Nowara at cschmi03@tufts.edu.  At Tufts, sponsorship comes from the Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), the Department of History, and the International Relations Program.  Sponsorship has also been provided by the Iberian Study Group at Harvard’s Center for European Studies.  Our thanks to all.

Continue reading »]]> La finalidad de esta convocatoria de Becas y Plazas de Investigación es fortalecer al Real Colegio como un centro universitario de excelencia de clase mundial en todas las dimensiones del triángulo del conocimiento. Para ello apoya iniciativas que permitan que profesores doctores, investigadores y estudiantes de doctorado de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid con dominio documentado de la lengua inglesa, puedan llevar a cabo un proyecto académico, de investigación de innovación o transferencia de conocimiento (no conducente a la obtención de un título) en el RCC y cualquier Centro de Harvard University, con ayuda económica parcial del Real Colegio Complutense o con otra fuente de financiación.

[PDF] Becas de Fortalecimiento Institucional