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In the Assembly Hall
of the Spanish Institute
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a cycle of conferences was celebrated.
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It was about current Spanish society and politics,
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and onducted by Salustiano del Campo,
UNED Honorary Doctorate.
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and José Félix Tezanos,
professor of the Faculty of Sociology.
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The covered topics have been:
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family, education, inequality,
work and society of information.
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It is a cycle of conferences.
This year is the first one.
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It has two parts.
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Spanish society
and Spanish economy,
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Each one contains 5 conferences.
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Not all the conferences
are from this research,
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and it is also offered
as a free choice course
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because it can be of special interest
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for UNED's students
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to know these data
first hand from relevant academics.
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The second block of conferences
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from the 5th to the 9th of May
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at the Spanish Institute
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will deal with issues related to
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constitution, international politics,
the ombudsman
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and Spain's social tendencies.
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Assistance to the conferences
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and a written work
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about the lectures
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has validity as a free-choice course.
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In the Centre of the Pías Schools
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El Mito del Uno Horizontes de Latinidad
has been presented
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A collective work by Gianni Vattimo,
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UNED Honorary Doctorate,
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Amanda Núñez, Francisco Arenas
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and Teresa Oñate.
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It is the first volume
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of a broader work titled
Hermenéutica entre civilizaciones
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which is composed of
a second volume,
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Politeísmo y encuentro con el Islam.
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The idea of postmodernity
is analyzed here,
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the tension between
unity and plurality of cultures
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the Alliance of Civilizations
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proposed by President
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
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Gianni Vattimo says in the book
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'The consumption pattern's unity,
for instance,
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that is unfortunately happening
at the expense of local cultures
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is ultimately going to asphyxiate us
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with the smoke produced
by the millions of cars in China or India
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or killing us
in the next military conflict
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over the energy sources.'
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Both volumes constitute a diptych
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that support,
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in a philosophical
and research sense,
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Zapatero's magnificient project
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on an Alliance of Civilizations
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because we feel
that civilizations,
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prior to ally themselves,
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have to get to know,
translate, interpret each others
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understand what their terms,
their different Gods
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and their religious symbols mean.
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Volumes one and two of
Gadamer y las humanidades
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have also been presented,
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books that summarize
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the International Conference presentations at
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The University of Mexico
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in the year 2004
about Gadamer's philosophy.
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In the first volume,
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Gadamerian hermeneutics is analyzed
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from an ontological perspective.
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And, precisely,
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aesthetics and language
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would represent
the ontological dimension
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of such Hermeneutics.
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The second volume
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presents
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the relation of such ontology
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with historicity and tradition.
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And it's shown
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how. Gadamer develops
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the relevance of of tradition
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to think our present.
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The number of foreign students
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has quintuplicated in the UNED
in the last four years
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according to a study by Luis Camarero,
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sociology lecturer at this University.
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The most impressive increase is found
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in the University Access Courses,
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raising from 150 foreign students
enrolled in 2004
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to 1.475 last course.
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The largest foreign student profile
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is that of a Latin American woman
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under 35.
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Her first study options are
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Business Administration
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and Psychology.