Jakiunde

Jakiunde – Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters will organize a one-day international workshop on "The role of Scientific Academies in Modern Societies" under the auspices of the Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian.

This workshop will be held on the 29th of august at Miramar Palace and consists of five invited plenary lectures, delivered by leading scholars on the subject, followed by one round-table session.

Programme:
9:00 am Opening, Prof. PEDRO M. ETXENIKE, Chairman of Jakiunde. Donostia-San Sebastian.
9:10 am Prof. OLE DIDRIK LAERUM, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
10:00 am to be advised
JOANDOMÉNEC ROS ARAGONÉS, General Secretary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
11:00 am Coffee break
11:30 am « Les Académies dan l’Europe d’aujourd’hui »
Prof. MICHEL ZINK, Collège de France et Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.
12:30 pm «Prelic of the past or modernizing elite»
Prof. KIM HELSVIG, University of Oslo, Norway
Lunch break
3:00 pm «La Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales y la sociedad española del siglo XXI: Retos y perspectivas»
Prof. ALBERTO GALINDO, Presidente de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.
4 pm Coffee break
4:30 pm Round Table Session:
“The Role of Scientific Academies in Modern Societies”
5:30 pm Closing. Prof. JESUS M. UGALDE, Member of Jakiunde and Organizer of the Symposium