The Governing Council of Universitat de València passed on Tuesday the investiture as Honoris Causa doctors to Amelia Valcárcel, Paul Preston, Josep Fontana, Saskia Sassen, Josep Massot, Eduard Vieta, Dale W. Jorgenson, and Adriano Piattelli. The Council also appointed José Bagán Sebastián, full university professor of Stomatology of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, as director of the Doctoral Studies school of the Universitat.
José Vicente Bagán announced his intention of being accompanied in the team with María Amparo Urbano, as deputy director; and Ismael Mingarro, as secretary.
Amelia Valcárcel
Philosopher, writer, and one of the greatest exponents of feminism and equality, the wide and multifaceted curricular career of Amelia Valcárcel has lead her to be configured as one of the most representative women of the feminist and progressive ideology of this country, occupying responsibility positions in some institutions and organisms, and developing as a full university professor in Moral Philosophy and Politics an extraordinary work in the world of teaching and research. In the field of research she can be considered pioneer in some thematic areas through avant-garde research projects in her time as: “Metafísica y desarrollo científico-cultural en 1983” (“Metaphysics and scientific-cultural development in 1983”); or the project “Paridad” (“Equality”), financed by the Institute of Women and addressed to the analysis of the spaces with exiguous presence of women; “La herencia de la ilustración” (“The heredity of the Enlightenment”) or “Sobre mujer y poder” (“On women and power”). Also, her publications are numerous and diverse. To name some of them: “Ética y poder: Querer y no poder en Historia y Sociedad” (“Ethics and power: Wanting and not being able in History, Language and Society”), “Del vosotros al yo” (“From you to I”), “Mujeres y hombres en la formación del pensamiento occidental” (“Women and men in the development of the Western thought”); “Los intelectuales y la política en la España actual” (“Intellectuals and politics of the contemporary Spain”).
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is full university professor in Sociology with a great international prestige in areas such as the social, economic, and political dimension of globalisation, and the urban sociology. Her research fields reach, also, phenomena as the immigration, the global cities, and the changes in the liberal state as a consequence of the current transnational conditions. One of her most significant scientific contributions was her concept of global city, accepted nowadays and used in the entire world. To Sassen, the global cities form networks that concentrate the decision power and the new relations between territory, authority, and rights, making blurred, this way, the role of the borders. In those cities there also are big inequalities and social segregation that have, among other causes, the differences in the communications technology access. Her work examines in depth the functioning of the metropolitan areas where the control and the management of the world economy, its function as a centre of power and knowledge, as well as the characteristic inequalities of these social models are exerted. She has a scientific production of first-level.
Paul Preston
Professor Paul Preston has a recognised scientific career that credits him as one of the most significant specialists in the contemporary history of Spain. He is professor at the University of Reading, at the Queen Mary College of the University of London, and currently holds the Príncipe de Asturias Chair of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of over sixty works dedicated to the contemporary history of Spain, some of which have exercised a notable historiographic influence. Also, his work as a historian has reached a wide social, national, and international projection. His deep link with Universitat de València has made easier the international projection of the Valencian culture and research.
The wide research career of professor Preston continues a long tradition, the tradition of the British Hispanism, in which we can find such important figures as Raymond Carr, Hugh Thomas, or Martin Blinkhorn, among others. Some of his works, as “La destrucción de la democracia en España” (“The destruction of democracy in Spain”) or “España en crisis” (“Spain in crisis”), constituted in their time, as well as a very solid and valuable contribution, the opening of research lines of great influence in a moment in which the Spanish historiography was starting to break free from its bonds imposed by the dictatorship. Among his later important contributions his biography of Franco, currently the most solid and with biggest international projection of all the existing biographies, is very significant. Recently he published “El holocausto español. Odio y exterminio en la guerra civil y después” (“The Spanish holocaust. Hatred and extermination in the civil war and after”), an extensive study that has become an unavoidable reference for the knowledge on the violence in Spain in that period.
Josep Massot i Muntaner
Jossep Massot (Palma de Mallorca, 3rd November 1941) comes from a family of musicians, writers, and folklorists. Since he was a child he was in contact with the most important intellectuals of Mallorca and followed closely the lessons of Francesc de B. Moll and of Manuel Sanchis Guarner. He graduated in 1962 in Romance Languages at the University of Barcelona, where he had excellent professors (Martí de Riquer, Antoni Vilanova, José M. Blecua, Antoni M. Badia i Margarit, Joan Bastardes, Joan Petit, Carlos Seco, etc.), and that same year he obtained the undergraduate degree special award; at the same time he took on language and literature studies in the Catalan University Studies, with R. Aramon i Serra, and Joaquim Molas. Monk of Montserrat since 1962, he was ordained as a priest, after the ecclesiastical studies of human science, philosophy, and theology, in 1971. He studied the German language and culture at the monastery of Münsterschwarzach and at the Dolmetscher Institute of Munich. Since 1992 he is director of the Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. For many years he was the director of the journal “Studia Monastica” and he currently runs “Serra d’Or” and “Randa” (that he founded in 1975); he is co-director of the “Catalan Historical Review”, published by the Institute of Catalan Studies. He was a founding member and secretary of the International Association for the Catalan Language and Culture from 1913 to 1993, and since then is counsellor, responsible of publications, and coordinator of the series “Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes” founded in 1980.
Josep Fontana
Josep Fontana (1931) is one of the most important and influential historians of our days. In his work converge the masteries of Ferran Soldevila, Jaume Vicens Vives, Ramón Carande, and Pierre Vilar. The historiographic contribution of Fontana is recognised from many different schools and trends nowadays. Apart from his tireless academic activity, Fontana has participated in numerous cultural projects, as the foundation of the renowned journal “Recerques”, he has been behind journals as “Horitzons”, “Taula de Canvis”, and “L’Avenç”, and has developed an important task in the publishing world (Ariel, Crítica, Pasado y Presente, etc.). Dedicated for many years to the study of the period of the Ancien Régime’s crisis and of the imposition of the liberal regime, the publication of his doctoral thesis in the way of a book, “La quiebra de la monarquía absoluta”, 1814-1820 (“The dismantling of the absolute monarchy”, 1814-1820), had a huge impact in historiography within and outside Spain. Another thematic block is constituted by the works on Catalonia, among which are very significant the synthesis books “La fi de l’Antic Règim i la industrialització”, 1787-1868, (“The end of the Ancien Régime and the industrialisation”), “La revolució liberal a Cataluña”, 2003, (“The liberal revolution in Catalonia”), and the numerous works throughout his academic life on the configuration of the contemporary Catalonia.
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta is currently tenured university professor in Psychiatry by the University of Barcelona, credited as full university professor by ANECA (the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain), and chief of the Psychiatric and Psychology Service of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, where he is senior medical consultant and director of the Bipolar Disorder Unit. That unit is one of the world lead in assistance, teaching, and clinical research in bipolar disorder, and is financed through competitive projects by the Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), the 7th Programme Framework of the European Union and the NARSAD funds from United States. Doctor Vieta is also researcher of the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBPAS) and of the Biomedical Research Centre in Mental Health Network (CIBERSAM), where he coordinates the research programme in bipolar disorder. CIBERSAM has been the framework of a productive academic and research collaboration with Universitat de València through different professors of the Department of Medicine (Teaching Unit of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology) and of the Department of Psychological Personality, Evaluation and Treatment. Throughout his professional career he has published over 500 original articles in international journals, over 350 book chapters, and 30 complete books on bipolar disorder, both strictly scientific and informative.
Dale W. Jorgenson
The research of professor Jorgenson have developed in very distinct fields of Economics, theoretical and applied. A great number of his works and initiatives deal with extremely relevant topics for today’s society, and have represented very important contributions for the understanding of the following problems: the role of investment and its composition in the growing processes; the importance of the human capital and of the communications technologies in the last decades; the influence of the imposition in the investment behaviour and the environment. In his works, it has been specially present the concern to improve the tools, both theoretical and statistical, to set the analysis in solid basis. He is also significant for his attention to translate the results of the investigations to the public policy in the different thematic fields that have been considered. Also, professor Jorgenson excels for his capacity of leading big international projects of statistical and scientific cooperation, as World KLEMS, currently present in five continents and in over 40 countries.
Adriano Piattelli
Adriano Piattelli is full university professor of Oral Pathology and Medicine in the Faculty of Dentistry in the Chieti-Pescara University, Italy. From 1997 to 2009 he was dean and director of studies and investigations in that university. During the years 2003-2005 he was president of the Italian Society for Osseointegration (SIO). Professor Piattelli is coauthor of over 660 scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals (SCOPUS); the great part of his articles are about implantological thematic and biomaterials. The H-index of the professor Piattelli (January 2015) is of 47, with 9.800 citations. The fields of research in which Adriano Piattelli participated are the immediate loading, the response of the bones to the different biomaterials and the response of the bones to the implants in multiple clinical and anatomic situations.
Emeritus and honorary professors
On the other hand, the Governing Council has passed the appointment of emeritus professors to Carmen Aranegui, José Bernabéu, Neus Campillo, Mireya Castillo, Dulce Contreras, Antonio Ferrer, María Luisa García Merita, Paulino Iradiel, José Juste, and Rosa Miracle. And José A. de Azcárraga, Luis Franco, Carlos Furió, Manuel García Ferrando, and Jordi Pérez Durà have been renewed. It also has been passed the appointment of honorary professors to Javier García Gómez, Ana Márquez, Michel John MacCarthy y Jaime Vidal. And Consuelo Cerviño and Pascuala Morote have been renewed.
Institutional condolence
In his report, the principal expressed the institutional condolence for the recent death of the retired professor for the Faculty of Pharmacy Víctor Jiménez Torres; of the professor for the Department of Vegetable Biology of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Luis Recatalà Boix; and of Pilar Moreno, worker inthe administration and services for the office of the secretary of the Faculty of Pharmacy.
Last update: 28 de july de 2015 14:30.
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