The problems and effects of the economic crisis, and the rising of inequalities and poverty in our current society will be key for the debates and congresses at the University of Valencia’s Cultural Centre of La Nau this week.
On the one hand, researchers and members of the main Valencian NGOs will meet tomorrow Wednesday 1 October at the University of Valencia’s Cultural Centre of La Nau, during the round table entitled ‘Desigualdad y pobreza en la Comunitat Valenciana’ (‘Inequality and poverty in the Valencian Community’).
The full university professor Francisco Goerlich (Department of Economic Analysis of the University of Valencia and researcher of the IVIE (Valencian Institute of Economical Researches); Vicent Andrés, responsible of the programme for Social Analysis of Caritas-Valencia; Enrique Lluch, professor of Economy and Enterprise of the CEU University and director of Poverty and Exclusion at the Valencian Community; and Fernando Contreras, president of the Valencian ONG Coordinator and director of Oxfam-Intermon (Valecia), will debate on two concepts which maintain a close relationship. The conference, with free entrance until full capacity is reached at the building’s Aula Magna, will take place at 19:00 and it will be recorded live from MediaUni and recovered later through Canal Cultura within the same media or through the blog NAU XXI, where the ONG’s reports and researches for tomorrow’s table can already be checked.
Which is the breach between the richest and the poorest at the Valencian Community; how many people cannot cover their basic necessities in our territory; or to what point does the economic and social system we live in make changes to subvert this tendency will be some of the questions addressed within the debate.
With this round table, the University of Valencia aims to contribute solutions for the problems of inequality which have considerably increased in the latest years. The debate is included within the Claustre Obert programming, debate and reflection space created by the University of Valencia through the Office of the Vice Principal in Culture and Inequality, and the newspaper ‘El País’, to analyse the most relevant topics of our current social, cultural and economical situation. The act counts with the collaboration of the platform Pobreza Zero.
Historical Capitalism and class struggle
On the following day, 2 October, also at 19:00 and at the Aula Magna of the Cultural Centre of La Nay, Forum de Debats has programmed a round table entitled ‘Crisis y guerra en el capitalismo terminal’ (Crisis and war in terminal capitalism) on the occasion of the presentation of the book ‘La opción reformista: entre el despotismo y la revolución. Una explicación del capitalismo histórico a través de la lucha de clases’ (The reformist option: between despotism and revolution. An explanation of historical capitalism through class struggle) (Ed. Anthropos), by Sociology professor Andrés Piqueras from the Universitat Jaume I. The table will count with the author’s intervention and that of professors like Francesc J. Hernandez Dobon and Manuel Monleon, from the University of Valencia and the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, respectively. This act will be presented by the coordinator of the Debate Forums, Alfons Cervera.
This book offers a deep understanding of the phases historical capitalism has gone through and dedicates special attention to the periodical capitalist crisis and, particularly, to the Great Depression of the 21st Century as well as the changing meaning of citizenship and civil society, the different generation of rights and social movements, the staging of cooperation and the basic keys of development and underdevelopment.
Last update: 30 de september de 2014 11:30.
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