Archive for the ‘Seminars’ Category

Internal communication Blogs. A workshop will be held on Internal Communication blogs on Thursday March 18 in IE’s Aula Magna. The workshop was organized in collaboration with leading agencies that include the Association of Communication Directors (Dircom) and Oracle. The workshop will be inaugurated by José Manuel Velasco of Dircom and the dean of IE University’s School of Communication, Samuel Martín Barbero. It will examine issues that include the blogosphere and practical case studies on the role of the blogosphere in internal and external communication, in addition to serving as a platform for debate with expert bloggers, with leading bloggers like professor Enrique Dans and the partner and director of weblogs, Julio Alonso. Read more

Los Blogs en la Comunicación Interna. El próximo jueves 18 tendrá lugar a las 9h. en el Aula Magna de IE Business School  la jornada sobre Los Blogs en la Comunicación Interna. Esta conferencia en la que colabora IE University ha sido organizada por la Asociación de Directivos de Comunicación (Dircom) y Oracle, entre otros. La jornada será inaugurada por José Manuel Velasco de Dircom y el decano de la escuela de Comunicación de IE University, Samuel Martín Barbero. En el acto se analizarán entre otros temas la blogosfera y casos prácticos de la blogosfera en la comunicación interna y externa, además de un debate con expertos blogueros entre los que destacan el profesor Enrique Dans, o el socio director de weblogs, Julio Alonso, entre otros. Ver más

Symposium Series, Winter Semester 2010 with Dr. Rolf Strøm-Olsen, Professor of Humanities

Sala Capitular, Segovia Campus, IE University. Wednesday March 24, 18:30-20:30 

Symposium III: The Nations Within 

Having examined the emergence of nationalism as a relatively recent creation of historical and economic forces, our next symposium will deal with the important and often controversial question of what rights accrue to and within the nation in a modern political, constitutional and cultural context. 

 If our understanding of national identity is circumscribed by a specific type of historical development, what does that mean for the persistence of the nation state today and tomorrow? In the context of cultural pluralities in countries like Belgium and Canada, Romania and China, Spain and the Ukraine, how can we accommodate nations with nations? The idea that modern nations must move beyond traditional forms of nationalism has been referred to as “cosmopolitan nationalism,” a form of identity that is broad enough to contain multiple distinct cultural, religious, ethnic and/or linguistic identities within the mantle of a single national culture.  But as the serious and often fractious movements of independence or autonomy in many of these regions demonstrate, the principles of cosmopolitan nationalism are fraught with tensions: between majority and minority, between competing language groups and within political superstructures. 

Our third symposium will confront these idea head on. Where does the national boundary stop? And how sacrosanct is the idea of the nation and national identity? What rights should distinct cultural groups enjoy under a national political heading, and should these rights be restricted to “historical” communities or enjoyed by everyone who can stake a claim to a distinct heritage? Should questions like immigration, education, language and taxation reflect a national or cosmopolitan agenda? Finally, looking forward, how might our definition of national identity change under the pressures and stresses of competing agendas under the nationalist umbrella? 

To confirm your participation and to receive the readings, please send an email to ArtsHumanities@ie.edu, with the subject ‘Symposium.’

Prof. Rolf Strøm-Olsen received his doctorate in History from Northwestern University and is a professor of Humanities at IE University

Symposium Series, Winter Semester 2010 with Dr. Rolf Strøm-Olsen, Professor of Humanities Sala Capitular, Segovia Campus, IE University

Sala Capitular, Segovia Campus, IE University 

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010-02-17 18.30-20.00

Reconsidering Nations and Nationalism

Writing in the 17th century, Thomas Hobbes, the subject of our first Symposium, simply assumed that there was such a thing as nations, that “English” or “French” were self-explanatory categories of political and social identity. But what makes someone “English” or “French?” This question plagued thinkers starting in the late eighteenth century and remains an actively debated question today. Our second Symposium tackles the big questions of nationalism from both a historical and theoretical perspective. Using the influential and controversial work by Ernst Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, as a starting point, we’ll ask whether the concept of the nation is, in fact, a modern construction, a result of economic forces (as Gellner argued) that serve to coalesce identities into national categories. We will consider several crucial questions around the topic.

1. Does nationalism manufacture difference between ethnic and linguistic groups and did Western colonialism accelerate the development of nationalist identities?

2. What are the contradictions between nationalism and liberalism, between closing borders to reinforce identities versus opening borders to expand prosperity?

3. What role has the media played in reinforcing nationalist identities?

4. In an age of economic and political globalisation, do we have to redefine our concept of what the nation means?

To confirm your participation and to receive the readings, please send an email to ArtsHumanities@ie.edu , with the subject ‘Symposium.’ Prof. Rolf Strøm-Olsen received his doctorate in History from Northwestern University and is a professor of Humanities at IE University.

The Language Centre at IE University pledges for innovation

In collaboration with the Agencia para la Calidad del Sistema Universitario de Castilla y Leon, the language centre at IE university has designed a training course for teachers who are interested in the didactic innovation of second languages and foreign languages. 

The European Union defends a common policy in order to support the teaching of languages. Their most frequent recommendations refer to competences such as oral and written communication in their mother tongue, the knowledge of one or more foreign language, the capacity to work in an international context, the acknowledgment of diversity and the knowledge of other cultures and customs. In answer to these questions and other necessities the language centre at IE University has organized a training course for teachers. In this course a number of experts from diverse Spanish and European Universities and professionals from editorials who specialize in the teaching of languages will participate. The course will be held at Santa Cruz la Real Campus (Segovia) throughout the second term of this academic year. It will take place in six different sessions between February 5 and April 30.

El Centro de Idiomas de IE University apuesta por la innovación

El Centro de Idiomas de IE University, en colaboración con la Agencia para la Calidad del Sistema Universitario de Castilla y León, ha diseñado un curso de formación de profesorado centrado en la innovación didáctica de segundas lenguas y lenguas extranjeras. 

La Unión Europea defiende una política común de apoyo a la enseñanza de lenguas. Sus recomendaciones más frecuentes se refieren a competencias tales como la comunicación oral y escrita en la lengua nativa, el conocimiento de una o más lenguas extranjeras, la capacidad de trabajar en un contexto internacional, el reconocimiento de la diversidad y la multicultural y el conocimiento de otras culturas y costumbres. En respuesta a estas y otras necesidades, el Centro de Idiomas de IE University ha organizado un curso de formación de profesores en el que participan expertos de diversas universidades españolas y europeas, así como de editoriales centradas en la enseñanza de idiomas. El curso se desarrollará en el campus de Santa Cruz la Real (Segovia) a lo largo del segundo cuatrimestre de este año académico en seis jornadas repartidas entre el 5 de febrero y el 30 de abril. Read more…