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