This meeting is the second session of 'WebinarsLANAU: science, evidence and reason conversations', a new initiative launched by the Vice-Principal for Culture and Sport and the General Foundation of the Universitat de València, through the Cultural Observatory, with the aim of promoting reflection and debate on culture in Valencia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Irene Liberia reports. 

The free session can be followed through this link. In the coming weeks, new WebinarsLANAU sessions will be held, where other public representatives and professionals from different cultural sectors will take part, from design or audiovisual to performing arts or music. And all this with the aim of analysing the problems and needs they have to face, and to search collaboratively for solutions for a field historically crossed by the precariousness of work, which now is also seriously affected by the security measures that the fight against the COVID-19 forces.

All the sessions of this new project, which has the collaboration of Valencia City Council, can be retrieved at any time from the YouTube channel of the University's La Nau Cultural Centre. The history of the in-person activities carried out until now through the Culture Channel of MediaUni, the audiovisual platform of the Universitat de València.

WebinarsLaNau is not the only project of reflection and debate that the Vice-Principal for Culture and Sport has launched during this health emergency.  In collaboration with other entities and institutions, next June another new initiative will be born: ‘València thinks global. Imaginem el futur,’ a forum to think about and analyse the profound changes the world has been undergoing in recent years and to shed light on a better future at the hands of internationally renowned experts in various fields of knowledge. ‘València thinks global’ will organise debate sessions and conferences, for the time being exclusively in online format, around crucial issues such as social inequalities, the climate emergency, digital societies and their risks, transformations in work and production processes, challenges to democracy or the world after the COVID-19 pandemic, among others.

The sessions can be followed live on the YouTube channel of the University's La Nau Cultural Centre. The first meeting will take place on June 9 at 6pm, with an online conversation entitled 'Neoliberalism as a political theory', led by José Luis Villacañas, Nuria Sánchez Madrid and Luis Alegre.