In the panel discussion will take part Pere J. Beneyto, representing CCOO; Joan Blanco, from the Intersindical Valenciana; Edelmir Galdón, from the UGT; Joan Ramon Peris, from the Unió Llauradora i Ramadera; and Violeta Tena, from the Unió de Periodistes Valencians. The journalist Magda Lázaro will present and moderate the table.

This event was organised by the Lluís Vives European School of Thought and the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society of the Universitat de València.

The next debate will be celebrated on Thursday, 7 November at 6pm and in the same stage, with the title ‘Una visió del país’. Consol Castillo; Secondary school teacher; Vicent Soler, economist; Isabel Olmos, journalist; and Vicent Pitarch, philologist will take part in the act. Hosted and moderated by Adela Costa, retired professor.

On Thursday, 19 December it is expected the last activity of the series, with the title ‘Llegir Vicent Ventura’. Nel·lo Pellisser, journalist and professor of the University; Francesc Pérez Moragón, writer; Adolf Beltran, journalist and writer; and Francesc Bayarri, journalist and writer. The journalist Rosa Solbes will be the host and moderator of this debate.

Vicent Ventura

Vicent Ventura died 24 December 1998 at the age of sixty-four years. He was born in Castelló de la Plana and cofounded the Partido Socialista del País Valencià and the trade union CCOO del País Valenciano. Socialist and nationalist, he participated in 1962 in a reunion of democrats in Munich, that cost him the exile and the confinement. When he came back to Valencia he was shut out from his profession as a journalist and he founded a publicity company. The local press avoided him, but some Catalan media took him, and so he could write regularly. One of the recurring topics of Ventura in his articles was Europeanism, a strange topic on the Francoist press from the sixties.

In 1995 Vicent Ventura received the Medalla de la Universitat de València, in a solemn act celebrated in the Paraninfo of La Nau Cultural Centre. The academic institution has edited a selection of articles of Ventura with the title ‘Un home de combat’.