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International Campus City of La Laguna

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Edition 2025

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2025 edition

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The role of international journalism is to continue exposing crimes against humanity

From the invisible front lines of information, Mayte Carrasco reminds us that telling the truth is an act of resistance today. Her humanist perspective champions memory, empathy, and ethical journalism as essential tools for refusing to normalize war or forget its victims.

Advances in nanotechnology and neuroscience have the potential to change not only our society, but also our personalities

Advances in neuroscience and neurotechnology can completely transform our social and personal models at all levels. Raquel Marín advocates for prevention and daily brain care as the key to healthy aging.

The 20th century was characterized by broad generalities in heritage, whereas now the focus is more on specifics.

Interview with Carmen Espegel, Professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAM (Madrid School of Architecture), in which she advocates for a heritage understood from a particular perspective, where each layer of the past engages with the present to project the future. She defends its active reuse as the basis for identity, continuity, and transformation.

I am confident that there will be a global reaction to ensure that conflicts are resolved peacefully once again.

Carlos Batalla Sordo, a member of the Spanish Red Cross for over 25 years, has led humanitarian operations in conflicts such as Yemen and Palestine. At the Ciudad de La Laguna International Campus, he shared his vision focused on the dignity and humanity of war victims.

The La Laguna International Campus concludes its first edition with a lecture by international neurobiologist Rafael Yuste.

The first International Campus of La Laguna thus concludes its first edition as a space for academic and civic engagement that seeks to foster knowledge and reflection on major current issues.

Josep Borrell inaugurates the academic program of the Ciudad de La Laguna International Campus

The first International Campus of La Laguna thus concludes its first edition as a space for academic and civic engagement that seeks to foster knowledge and reflection on major current issues.

Heritage is a living thing and belongs to citizens

Francisco Aznar Vallejo, president of the International Center for the Conservation of Heritage (CICOP), reviews in this interview its trajectory linked to the management and conservation of historical heritage, delving into some of the main challenges of heritage conservation within the framework of the course on heritage of this campus.

The consequences of war and the value of heritage, axes of the cultural agenda of the International Campus Ciudad de la Laguna

The Ciudad de la Laguna International Campus will offer a varied cultural programming throughout the month of July with the aim of inviting citizens to get involved and reflect on the thematic blocks of the forum, such as the consequences of war or the value of heritage.

Understanding the mind implies integrating body and cerebral experience

Alberto Domínguez, Professor of Basic Psychology and director of the University Institute of Neuroscience of the University of La Laguna (Iune), addresses in this interview the progress in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, neuroders and new ways of understanding the brain.

The Ciudad de la Laguna International Campus will bring together experts to discuss the disasters of war, neuroscience and cultural heritage

Within the framework of the commemoration of the Declaration of San Cristóbal de la Laguna as a World Heritage, the city hosts the first edition of the International Campus City of La Laguna, a forum of academic and citizen reflection that will bring together outstanding personalities of thought, science and politics to address key issues that cross the contemporary world.

The archaeological heritage and natural heritage of the Canary Islands are inseparably united

José Farrujia, professor at the University of La Laguna, archaeologist and historian, disseminates with rigor and close history and Canarian identity. Through his pedagogical work he forms future teachers and connects society with his heritage.

Interview with the war graphic reporter Alberto Hugo Rojas

An essential testimony about war, journalism and the defense of human rights. Alberto Hugo Rojas reminds us that counting is also resisting.

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War disasters

Josep Borrell. The European Union between wars and elections

War disasters

José Pardo de Santayana. The phenomenon of war in the modern world

War disasters

Ana del Paso. Armed conflicts as a political tool and means of communication projection

War disasters

Carlos Batallas. Voices from War: The Human Side of Humanitarian Action

War disasters

Dialogue table. War narratives

Neuroscience, neurotechnology, neurorights

Neuroscience for everyday life

Reason for being of heritage in the 21st century

Francesco Bandarin. Renewing the approach to heritage conservation

Reason for being of heritage in the 21st century

Carmen Espegel. Reinventing the built heritage

Reason for being of heritage in the 21st century

Alejandro de Ávila. Biocultural heritage and daily life in a Hispanic American city