The debate, which will be moderated by the Vice-Principal for Culture and Sport of the University of Valencia, Antonio Ariño Villarroya, and will be able to be followed live and subsequently consulted through the YouTube Channel of the La Nau Cultural Centre, will revolve around the book Neoliberalism as political theology. “Habermas, Foucault, Dardot, Laval and the history of contemporary capitalism, recently published” by José Luis Villacañas in Ned Ediciones.

This new programme of debate and reflection, which has the collaboration of various entities including the Institució Alfons el Magnànim, has been created with the aim of illuminating a better future by the hand of internationally renowned experts in various fields of knowledge, and will address crucial issues in the current context such as social inequalities, the climate emergency, the digital society and the risks and opportunities it poses, the transformations of work and productive processes, the challenges to democracy or the world after the Covid-19 pandemic, among others.

Throughout this month of June, other meetings have already been confirmed with Professor of Philosophy and Logic Javier Echeverría, currently Vice President of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of the Basque Country, and Lola S. Almendros, predoctoral researcher of the CSIC, authors of the book “Tecnopersonas: cómo las tecnologías nos transforman” (Trea, 2020) for June 17. Likewise, the philosopher Daniel Innerarity is scheduled to speak in this cycle about his book “Pandemocracia: Una filosofía de la crisis del coronavirus”, which has just been published by Galaxia Gutenberg. He will be accompanied by the president of the Consell Jurídic Consultiu of the Comunitat Valenciana, Margarita Soler, on June 25th.

Nau Digital in action

The Vice-Principal for Culture and Sport of the Universitat de València has intensified the 'Nau Digital' project during this health emergency. Throughout these months, all the Cultural Classrooms of the Universitat de València and cultural programs have adapted their contents to the digital format with initiatives such as 'Literature in times of pandemics' (Aula de Literatura), online training (Aula de Còmic, Aula d'Arts Escèniques, Aula de Literatura, WebinarsLaNau, Escola Europea de Pensament Lluís Vives, training for minors and adolescents through the program 'Art i Ment'...) All the contents generated during the pandemic can be consulted on the YouTube Channel of the Centre Cultural La Nau.

In addition, initiatives such as the online short film festival, DocuVir.20, which began last April, have also emerged, with the aim of offering, in the midst of the pandemic and the global confinement by Covid-19, the positive side of a historical experience that has affected all dimensions of human life and social organization. The competition has received a very favourable response, with a total of 54 short films having been selected that share reflections and reflect social and solidarity practices that have emerged in the context of this situation. The selected short films have been published on the YouTube Channel of the Centre Cultural La Nau since the end of April and can now be seen in full on this channel and voted on by the public using this form, as there is a prize of 150 euros for the best film voted on by the public. The period will remain open until June 30th.