Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professorship

Events

Every year, the Prince of Asturias Chair hosts a variety of events that both enrich the academic environment within Georgetown University as well as relate the greater DC community.

Current events

Spanish Constitutional Referendum Commemoration

Reception hosted by the Prince of Asturias Chair to celebrate the passing of the Spanish Constitution by referendum December 6th, 1978. (December 6, 2005)

Crisis in the Transatlantic Relations

Andrés Ortega, Editorial writer and columnist of El País & Director of the Spanish Edition of Foreign Policy, along with Georgetown University Professor Eusebio Mujal-Leon, will give a lecture on the Crisis in the Transatlantic Relations on December 6, 2005.

Early Privatizations in Europe. The Case of Nazi Germany.

Prof. Germá Bel, (Universidad de Barcelona and visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), talked about privatizations in Germany during the Nazi period on December 5, 2005

Spain and the US-EU Relations

The Honorable Carlos Westendorp, Spanish Ambassador to the US, will give a lecture on Spain and the US-EU Relations on November 22, 2005.

The Politics of "Nation-Building" in Contemporary Europe: The Case of Catalonia in Spain

Professor Thomas Jeffrey Miley from Yale University will discuss the empirical deficiencies, theoretical lacunae, and normative biases that beset the literature on nationalism in the context of Catalonia in Spain on October 31, 2005.

Wine Appreciation Workshop

Workshop on Spanish wines hosted by experts Luis Quiroga and Andrea Zanon from the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program on October 26, 2005.

Welcoming Reception

Reception hosted by Prince of Asturias Chair, Professor Xavier Coller, on September 2, 2005.

List of events from previous years

2004-2005

The PP as Party-in-Government: From the First Term (1996-2000) to the Second Term (2000-2004)

Seminar with His Excellency José María Aznar, Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership & former President of Spain

Legitimacy and Democracy in Southern Europe

Professor José Ramón Montero, Director of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Autonomous University of Madrid, and Vice President of the Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración

Ratifying the EU Constitution: Processes and Debates

Carlos Closa, Deputy Director of the Center of Political and Constitutional Studies (Madrid) and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Zaragoza

Creating a Space for Freedom, Security and Justice in the EU - The Fight against Terrorism

His Excellency Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, Minister of Justice of Spain and Professor of Constitutional Law

2003-2004

Breakfast with His Royal Highness Prince Felipe de Borbón y Grecia, Prince of Asturias

Faculty Seminar

Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor, "Reinterpreting Spain's Economic Past"

Symposium: "Spain's 1978 Constitution - 25 Years Later"

Dr. Félix Valdés, Minister - Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Spain

Dr. Fernando Gómez, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Dr. Francisco Cabrillo, University Complutense, Madrid

Ambassador Eduardo Gutiérrez, Permanent Observer for Spain to the OAS

The Spanish Tradition and its Relevance for Latin America

2002 - 2003

Facing up to the Terrorist Threat: A Lecture Series from the Spanish Experience
(Lecture Series Fall 2002: Fransisco Llera)

H.E. Javier Ruperez, Spanish Ambassador to the US, "Basque Terrorism in 1980s Spain: Memories of a Survivor"

Fernando Benzo, Director, Foundation for Victims of Terrorism "Las Víctimas y la Lucha Contra el Terrorismo"

Edurne Uriarte, Professor of Political Science, U. Pais Vasco "Civic Society and the Fight against Terrorism in Democratic Societies"

Juan F. Lopez Aguilar, Secretary Public Liberties, Spanish Socialist Party "Spanish Socialists in the Fight against Terrorism"

Juan J. Linz, Emeritus Sterling Professor, Yale University "The Basque Conflict after 25 Years of Democracy"

Xabier Markiegui, Director Cervantes Institute, Rabat "De la Resistencia Antifranquista a la Lucha Contra la Democracia"

His Excellency Federico Trillo-Figueroa, Defense Minister of Spain "Europe and the USA in the Fight against Terrorism"

Jonah Alexander, Senior Fellow and Director, International Center for Terrorism Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies "Terrorism in the 21st Century: Will Civilization Survive?"

Regionalism and Federalism in Europe
(Lecture Series Spring 2003: Joan Subirats)

Manuel Chaves, President of the Junta de Andalucia "The Regions in the European Construction: The Case of Andalucia"

Jordi Pujol, President of Generalitat Catalunya "The Gap between the United States and Europe: Perception and Reality"

Robert Agranoff, Professor of Indiana University "Forms of Federalism in Europe and Around the World"

Faculty Seminar

Joan Subirats, "The Role of the Regions in European Integration"

2001 - 2002

Terrorism And Democratic Societies: Lessons from the Basque Country

Professor María Jesús Funes, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid

"Citizens Against Terrorism in Democratic Societies: Analysis of the Social Reaction in the Basque Country"

Professor Luis Rodríguez Abascal, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid "What is Wrong with Nationalism?"

Professor Josep Colomer, Centro Superior de Investigaciones

Científicas, Barcelona "Terrorism and Holy Wars"

Faculty Seminar

José Portillo "Historiography and National Identity in Spain"

2000 - 2001

Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Studies Inaugural Lecture

Jesús de Miguel, Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor "Democracy and Equality: Spain in the 21st Century"

Historiography and National Identity in Spain

Pablo Fernández Albaladejo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid "Spain as Patria: the Immagined Community of the Enlightenment"

Carolyn P. Boyd, University of California at Irvine "The Second Battle of Covadonga: The Politics of Commemoration in Twentieth Century Spain"

Working Group on Spanish and Portuguese Politics and Society

Jesús de Miguel and Carlos Alba (Department of Government) "The Spanish General Elections of March 12, 2000: Continuity or Change?"

Pilar del Castillo, Director, CIS-Centro de Investigaciónes Sociológicas (Center for Sociological Research), Madrid, Spain "A Profile of the Spanish Electorate in 2000 and the Significance of Regional Nationalisms"

Visit of Prince Felipe de Borbón y Grecia

Professor Mauro F. Guillén, The Wharton School of Business & Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, "Spain's Place in the Global Economy"

Breakfast meeting with H.H. Prince Felipe at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University