Daniel Innerarity and Margarita Soler will talk about 'pandemocracy' and coronavirus in an online conversation organized by the Universitat

  • Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society
  • June 23rd, 2020
 
Soler i Innerarity.
Soler i Innerarity.

This Thursday 25th June, at 6pm, the third session of VALÈNCIA THINKS GLOBAL will be broadcast live. Imagine the Future, the programme of debates and online conversations that the University of Valencia has launched as one of the initiatives to recover cultural activity in this context of pandemic. The philosopher Daniel Innerarity and the president of the Consell Jurídic Consultiu de la Comunitat Valenciana, Margarita Soler, will be the protagonists of 'Pandemocracia y coronavirus', a meeting moderated by the vice-rector of Culture and Sport, Antonio Ariño.

The debate, which can be followed live on the YouTube Channel of the Centre Cultural La Nau , will revolve around the issues raised by the book Pandemocracia: una filosofía de la crisis del coronavirus, which Innerarity has recently published by Galaxia Gutenberg. In it, the author argues that the crisis of the Covid-19 is, like any other global risk, a pandemocratic event that affects us all - and therefore makes us equal in this respect - but which at the same time has brought to light existing inequalities and created new ones, putting our democracies to the test.

In previous sessions, VALÈNCIA THINKS GLOBAL has had the participation of the professors of Philosophy of the Universidad Complutense José Luis Villacañas, Nuria Sánchez Madrid and Luis Alegre to speak about neoliberalism as a political theology, and more recently, with the philosopher and mathematician Javier Echeverría and the researcher of the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC Lola S. Almendros, who debated with the journalist and professor Adolfo Plasencia about concepts such as technoperson, technopower, technoworld or technovirus and the opportunities and risks they pose.

On this occasion, the philosopher Daniel Innerarity, together with Margarita Soler, president of the Consell Jurídic Consultiu de la Comunitat Valenciana, and the vice-rector of Culture and Sport, Antonio Ariño, will talk about the structural deficiencies that the coronavirus pandemic has revealed and about the need for global governance as a way to prosper in a context as complex and extraordinary as the current one.

Innerarity is a professor of political philosophy, an "Ikerbasque" researcher at the University of the Basque Country and a professor at the European Institute in Florence. He has been a guest lecturer at various European and American universities and his latest books are La política en tiempos de indignación (2015), Una teoría de la democracia compleja (2020) and the aforementioned Pandemocracia. Una filosofía de la crisis del coronavirus (2020), which will be the focus of the third session of VALÈNCIA THINKS GLOBAL.

Margarita Soler is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia and has been Director of the Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Administration (2008-2014). She is a researcher at the University Institute of Women's Studies of the University and her research activity has been developed mainly in three lines: the territorial organization of the State and the institutional development of the autonomous communities; political participation, especially in the field of electoral law; and gender and equality studies. It is also a founding member of the Feminist Network of Constitutional Law.

VALENCIA THINKS GLOBAL. Imaginem el futur is an initiative that was born with the aim of tackling crucial issues in the current context and to give birth to a better future in the hands of recognised international experts in various areas of knowledge. The Vice-rectorate for Culture and Sport and the Fundació General de la Universitat de València, through the Observatori Cultural, are responsible for this programme of online debates, which has the collaboration of the Institució Alfons el Magnànim and is part of the new projects that La Nau has launched during the Covid-19 pandemic. VALÈNCIA THINKS GLOBAL allows you to follow the talks live on the YouTube Channel of the La Nau Cultural Centre and, once each debate is over, the archive can also be retrieved from the same channel.