!!BarceloNews - Newsletter of the Barcelona Knowledge Hub
!No. 04/2015, December 15, 2015
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!December 9th, ''2015 DISPUTATIO OF BARCELONA 2015'' Natural vs. Artificial Intelligence
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__At the Royal Chapel of St. Agatha, Gothic Quartier__
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__1. Disputatio Debate__ (18.00 h - 19.30 h) Two scholars presented their views in this modernday
Disputatio. The disputantes were __Núria Sebastián__, UPF, “Human Intelligence: Language to
begin with”, and __Ulises Cortés__, UPC, “Artificial Intelligence: What’s in a name?”\\
__2. Concert by distinguished soprano Lídia Pujol__ (20.00 h - 21.00 h) “The music and concepts
of Ramon Llull (1232-1316)”. Lídia Pujol, voice, __M. Àngel Cordero__, double bass and voice,
and __Pau Figueres__, guitar. __Lídia Pujol__ sung fourteen songs in Catalan, Occitan, Latin, Spanish
and Italian. The concert was held in the church (the Royal Chapel) were kings and queens of
Aragon had been baptised and got married since the 14th c. The lovely voice of Lídia Pujol, the
accompanying instruments and the adequate lights captivated and impressed the audience.
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!December 11th, 2015
1. InterSection Workshop on “__THE PANOPTIC VISION OF THE WORLD: THE INFLUENCE
OF TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITIES ON SOCIETY__”. (At the IEC, 09.00 h – 17.00 h)
Convenors: Rosalia Vargas, Genoveva Martí, Maria Paradiso. Speakers: Anne Buttimer,
Amadeu Viana, Marc Mayer, Víctor González Galera, Naba Barkakati, Xavier Maymó, Salvador
Giner. __Homage to José Mariano Gago__ (1948-2015): Rosalia Vargas, Enric Banda,
Ricard Guerrero.\\
2. Visit to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center “Mare Nostrum”.
(At the BSC, 18.00 h – 20.00 h). Convenor to the visit: Oliver Riu, BSC-UPC. Speaker:
__Alexander Fidora__, YAE, ICREA, UAB: “Ramon Llull, proto-European, and proto-founder
of computational sciences”. Both the visit to the centre premises (a former church), and
the lecture by Prof. Fidora, talking about the combinatory Art of Ramon Llull in front of the
supercomputer, one of the largest in the world, captured the attention of the visitors.
!Video of “El testament d’Amèlia” (The will of Amelia), by Lídia Pujol
[Video|https://vimeo.com/149445991] of “El testament d’Amèlia”, a traditional Catalan song from the Middle Ages, whose
lyrics tell the story of Amelia, who dies from a broken heart because her husband is having
an affair with her own mother, who, probably, poisoned her. __Lídia Pujol and her group singing
in the Royal Chapel on December 9th, 2015__ (00:07:40).
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