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!!30th ANNUAL PLENARY CONFERENCE OF ACADEMIA EUROPEA\\ AND THE YOUNG ACADEMY OF EUROPE\\ AND ''DISPUTATIO'' OF BARCELONA
!Event website: [http://www.buildingbridges-acadeuro.org]\\[Registration|http://www.buildingbridges-acadeuro.org/registration]
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!!November 28th (Wednesday)


__Pre-congress meetings__\\
At the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC, C/Carme 47) and the National Council for Research (CSIC) Residence (c/ Hospital 64)
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__Morning (at the IEC)__ 
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__09.00 h. -18.00 h.__ Documents delivery
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__10.00 h-11.30 h__  Section/Class Workshops

__11.30 h-12.00 h__  Coffee Break

__12.00 h-13.00 h__ Section/Class Workshops (cont’d)

__13.00 h-14.15 h__ Lunch Break

!Section/Class Workshops
— Scientific coordinator: [Alexander Fidora|Member/Fidora_Alexander] (ICREA-UAB)

!Class A1

''__Post-imperial Europe: The Challenge of Compartmentalization __''

— __Chairperson:__ [Vladimir Biti|Member/Biti_Vladimir] (Shanghai)\\
— __Speakers:__
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[Biti, Vladimir|Member/Biti_Vladimir] (Shanghai): ''Post-imperial Europe and Transborder Communities'' \\
[Daković, Nevena|Member/Dakovic_Nevena] (Belgrade): ''Belgrade in-between the Wars: Imperial Shadows on the Screen'' \\
[D’haen, Theo|Member/D'haen_Theo] (Leuven): ''Post- and Future-Imperial Europe(s)'' \\
[He, Chengzhou|Member/He_Chengzhou] (Nanjing): ''Theater as “an Encounter”: Jerzy Grotowski’s Cosmopolitanism'' \\
[Hutchinson, Ben|Member/Hutchinson_Ben] (Kent): ''Empires of the Mind: The Emergence of ‘Comparative’ and ‘World’ Literature as Imperial Structures'' \\
[Larsen, Svend Erik|Member/Larsen_Svend_Erik] (Aarhus): ''From Imperial Cracks to Post-Imperial Stress Syndromes'' \\
[Lützeler, Paul Michael|Member/Luetzeler_Paul_Michael] (Saint Louis): ''Robert Menasse’s Novel “The Capital”: The National Factor in the EU'' \\
[Onega, Susana|Member/Onega_Susana] (Saragossa): ''Meeting the Challenge of Compartmentalisation: David Mitchell’s Transmodern History of the World''
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!Class A2

__''Social Sciences in Their Global Contexts''__

— Chairperson: [Björn Wittrock|Member/Wittrock_Björn] (Uppsala)\\
— Speakers:
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[Mas-Colell, Andreu|Member/Mas-Colell_Andreu] (Barcelona): ''The Economic Sciences in Global Context''\\
[Knöbl, Wolfgang|Member/Knöbl_Wolfgang] (Hamburg): ''Developments in Sociology and Historically Orientated Social Science'' \\
[Randeria, Shalini|Member/Randeria_Shalini] (Vienna and Geneva): ''Role and Relevance of Institutes of Advanced Study in Social Science Knowledge Production Today''\\
[Schnell, Izhak|Member/Schnell_Izhak] (Tel Aviv): ''The Structure of Social Space in a Global Reality: the Case of Arabs in Israel''\\

!Class B (Section B3: P&E) (this Workshop will start at 09.00 h)
''[Inaugural Lectures by New Members of Physics and Engineering Sciences|Acad_Main/Plenary_Conferences/Physics and Engineering Sciences Barcelona Workshop]'' 

— Chairpersons: [Muhsin Harakeh|Member/Harakeh_Muhsin] (Groningen) and [Tamás Csörgő|Member/Csorgo_Tamas] (Budapest)\\
— Speakers:
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[Sanjuán, Miguel A.F.|Member/Sanjuan_Miguel_Angel] (Madrid): ''Contributions to Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos and Complex Systems''\\
[Viña, Luis|Member/Vina_Luis] (Madrid): ''Bose-Einstein Condensates in Semiconductor Microcavities''\\
[Krasznahorkay, Attila J.|Member/Krasznahorkay_Attila] (Debrecen): ''On a New Light-Particle Candidate for Dark Matter in High-Energy  Nuclear Transitions''\\
[Wiescher, Michael|Member/Wiescher_Michael] (Notre Dame): ''The Nucleosynthesis of First Stars''\\
[Kalantar-Nayestanaki, Nasser|Member/Kalantar-Nayestanaki_Nasser] (Groningen): ''FAIR and its Impact on Science and Technology''\\
[Maj, Adam|Member/Maj_Adam] (Krakow): ''Exotic Shapes and Collective Phenomena in Excited Atomic Nuclei''\\
[Ordejon, Pablo|Member/Ordejon_Pablo] (Barcelona): ''Frontiers in Materials Modelling''\\
[Fantz, Ursel|Member/Fantz_Ursel] (Garching): ''Large and Powerful Sources for Negative Hydrogen Ions''\\
[Campbell, David J|Member/Campbell_David] (ITER Organization): ''Self-organisation in Burning Plasmas''\\
[Wójs, Arkadiusz|Member/Wójs_Arkadiusz] (Wroclaw): ''Quantum Electron Liquids and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect''\\
[Jajszczyk, Andrzej|Member/Jajszczyk_Andrzej] (Krakow): ''ERC Funding in Physics and Engineering''\\

!Class C

Presentations by Newly Elected Members of Class C\\
— Chairperson: [Alexei Verkhratsky|Member/Verkhratsky_Alexei] (Manchester)

!Meeting of the AE Hubs
__Chairperson:__ [Eystein Jansen|Member/Jansen_Eystein] (Bergen)\\
(At the Ramon Llull Room, 1st floor)\\

!Meeting of the AE Board
__Chairperson:__ [Sierd Cloetingh|Member/Cloetingh_Sierd] (Utrecht)
(At the Puig i Cadafalch Room, 2nd floor)

__09.00 h. - 16.00 h.__ Meetings of the YAE. At the CSIC Residence
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__Afternoon (at the IEC)__ 
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''__1st part__''
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__15.00 h-18.00 h__ (for members of the AE, and from 16.30 h on also members of the YAE)
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*General Assembly of the AE
*Delivering of Diplomas to the new Members of the AE and the YAE
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''__2nd part __''
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19.00 - 21.00 (open to the general public)

!''DISPUTATIO'' of BARCELONA 2018

__Cooperation vs. Competition. Challenges and Opportunities__

- ''Disputantes:'' __Hervé Moulin__ (Glasgow) vs. __Gabrielle Demange__ (Paris)\\
- Coordinator: __Salvador Barberà__ (UAB)\\
- Open discussion with the attendants
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!!November 29th (Thursday)

!BUILDING BRIDGES 2018 (at CosmoCaixa)

For the participants in the Congress and previously registered people from Barcelona.
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See the conference website for [full information|http://www.buildingbridges-acadeuro.org]. 
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!Download the [programme|Congress-AE-YAE-PROGRAM-21.10-RD.pdf] (23 October, 2018)
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!!November 30th (Friday) 
!Post-conference field trip
(A tradition at the AE Congresses; limited to 50 people)\\
All day; from 8.00 h until 19.00 h
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*Bus to Banyoles
*Karstic area of Banyoles Lake
*Reception at the Banyoles City Hall
*Volcanic lava flows
*Lunch (with tasting of oils and wines)
*Visit to the Medieval quarter and Jewish quarter (call) of Besalú
*Bus to Barcelona
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The post-conference field trip is a tradition at the AE Congresses; limited to 50 people.
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