In 2024, the AE-BKH Frontiers and Agora scientific dialogues continue
This year, 2024, the Barcelona Knowledge Hub of the Academia Europaea, with the support of Barcelona City Council, is continuing the cycle Scientífic dialogues AE-BHK Frontiers and Agora. The meetings will be grouped into two events: Frontiers of Science and Technology in Society Dialogues, with a high academic level, and the Agora Citizen Dialogues, open and accessible to the whole of society.
The Agora Ciudadana dialogues, more focused on a non-expert audience and open to the whole of society with the aim of promoting social commitment and the inclusion of citizen participation in scientific discussion, will deal with topics such as human reproduction and its future, gender diversity and its relationship with culture and nature, and the relationship between cooking and science. The talks will be held at the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona on 21 February, 17 April and 5 June, respectively.
Frontier Science Dialogues
The AE-BKH Frontiers make available a new series of high-level scientific discussions in English that explore and interweave different disciplines in the field to embrace as much knowledge as possible.
On 20 March, Research in Arts: From STEM to STEAM, a conversation with the collaboration of Fran Iglesias, from the Foundation La Fura dels Baus, and Lluís Nacenta, curator, musician and doctor in humanities. A meeting to talk about artistic practice applied to science, as well as to evaluate the similarities and differences between the two disciplines.
The second meeting, Climate change, migration and emergent diseases, will take place on 15 May and will focus on the alarming situation of climate change and how this, in addition to conditioning our health, directly affects migrations and the spread of new diseases around the world. The member of DemoSoc and the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM), John Palmer, and ICREA research professor and member of Global Health Resilience Rachel Lowe will be the people in charge of presenting their opinions on the subject.
The high-level academic meetings will also feature Alfonso Martínez-Arias, ICREA senior research professor, and Roderic Guigó, coordinator of the bioinformatics programme at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, with the talk The basics of biology: the genome or the cell? on 26 June, to discuss genetics and the relationship between perspectives and divergences of opinion regarding the complexities of this field.