welcomes Xavier Rubert de Ventós, University of Barcelona
EUC Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe
The Origins of European Pluralism presented by Xavier Rubert de Ventós, University of Barcelona
Professor de Ventós teaches aesthetics at the Barcelona School of Architecture. In his talk he will address the following questions: What are the relationships between globalization and European identities? Will Europe become a space where individuals with different identities are not hierarchically ordered, or will it become again a space so preoccupied with exclusive identification to endanger its own self-preservation?
During his distinguished academic and political career, Professor de Ventós has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the Santayana Fellow at Harvard University. He is a founding member of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the “Cátedra Barcelona – New York.” As a politician, he has been a member of the Spanish Parliament and the European Parliament. Some of his main works are translated into English: Self-Defeated Man. Personal Identity and Beyond (1975), Heresies in Modern Art (1979), and The Hispanic Labyrinth (1991).
Sponsors: Center for European Studies-European Union Center, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, contact CES-EUC at ces-euc@umich.edu or 734.647.2743
