The Unisocietat conference cycle, which will continue monthly throughout this academic year until June, has been organised by the Vicerectorate of Territorial Projection and Society, with the collaboration of the participating local councils and the economic support of Caixa Popular (in 10 venues), Caixa Ontinyent (in the Ontinyent headquarters) and Banco Santander (in Gandia).

These multidisciplinary speeches given by UV teachers are a sample of the wide variety of disciplines and scientific areas collected by the Universitat de València. "It’s a way of transferring knowledge to society, complementing the training of Unisocietat students and encouraging citizens to join this university program that has in the current academic year 2018-2019 with more than 1,700 students distributed among its 12 seats," explains the Vice Chancellor of Territorial Projection and Society, Jorge Hermosilla.

11 conferences in the territory during the month of January

The first conference of the month of January was Wednesday the 9th. The Castle of Bétera (Camp de Túria) hosted the presentation by Isabel Fariñas (Department of Cell Biology, Functional Biology and Physical Anthropology) Is it possible to repair the human brain?  

On 15 January it will be the turn of l'Eliana (Camp de Túria) and Alzira (Ribera Alta).  The Municipal Centre for Adult Education in l'Eliana will welcome Professor Marisol Lila (Department of Social Psychology), who will give a talk on Gender Violence: what do we do with them?  The Casa de la Cultura in Alzira will host the conference The problem of emerging pollutants, which will be given by Professor Yolanda Picó (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Sciences, Toxicology and Legal Medicine).  

On 16 January, the Casa de la Cultura in Quart de Poblet (Horta Oest) will be the setting for Guillermo López's conference (Applied Economics, UV), which will deal with New Communication and Political Change in the Valencian Country.  

Paterna (Horta Oest), Massamagrell (Horta Nord), Riba-roja de Túria (Camp de Túria) and Ontinyent (Vall d'Albaida) will host conferences on 17th January.    Professor Esperanza Navarro (Evolutionary and Educational Psychology) will explain the keys to successful ageing at the Social Camp Centre in Paterna. Rafael Currás (Marketing and Market Research) will address responsible consumption at the Masamagrell Cultural Centre.    Luis Moya will talk about empathy in the Assembly Hall of the Riba-roja de Túria Social Centre.  And Yolanda Picó (Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Sciences, Toxicology and Legal Medicine) will deal with the problem of emerging pollutants at the Caixa Ontinyent Cultural Centre.

On 24 January, the Feliciano Antonio Yeves Cultural Space in Requena will host the conference Science and Cooking, which will be given by Professor Salvador Garrigues (Analytical Chemistry).

On the 29th it will be the turn of Cullera, whose Municipal Auditorium will host the presentation by Luis Moya (Psychobiology), entitled Empathy, to understand it in order to understand others.  

Finally, Unimajors Gandia will receive Professor Mª José Estrela (Geography) on the 30th, who will deal with The Mediterranean in the face of climate change.  Extreme weather events.

These talks form part of the cycle organised by the Vicerrectorado de Proyección Territorial y Sociedad and Caixa Popular in the ten university headquarters of Unisocietat and includes around a hundred lecturers from the three campuses.