Programme

Thursday, 16th June 2022

08:30 – 09:30

Issue of Credentials

09:30 – 10:00

Opening Ceremony

10:15 – 11:00

Master Conference

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

Thematic Cluster 1

The Way of St. James as a spritualand ohysucal route
Presented and moderated by: Francisco Moreno.
Administrator of RTVC and member of the Governing Council of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

11:30 – 12:00

Pilgrimage and contemplation: at the Indo-European roots of a religious phenomenon
Juan Antonio Álvarez Pedrosa Núñez.
Full Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Director of the Institute of Religion at UCM (Madrid)

12:00 – 12:30

Diversity, plural citizenry and coexistence in the Autonomous City of Melilla
Abdelmalik El Barkan
.

Neurosurgeon. Former Central Government Representative in the Autonomous City of Melilla.    

12:30 – 13:00

The spiritual legacy of the Canary Islands: universal legacy for 21st century spirituality
Alfred Gutiérrez Kavanagh.

Professor of International Relations at the Comillas Pontifical University (UPC)

13:00 – 13:45

Discussion 

13:45 – 16:00

Break

Thematic Cluster 2

Way of the Oceans. The Canary Islands as a connecting link between continents
Presented and moderated by: Luis Celeiro Álvarez.
Numbered member of the Jacobean Academy and Vice-President of the Association of Way of St. James Journalists ans Academics (APECSA).

16:00 – 16:30

Tourism-cultural routes as strategies within a new paradigm for the global tourism industry
Ciprián Rivas.
Director-General for Planning and Tourism Promotion of the Regional Government of the Canary Islands

16:30 – 17:00

Travelling art. The arrival of artworks to the Canary Islands
María de los Reyes Hernández Socorro.
Full Professor of Art History at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

17:00 – 17:30

The management of cultural diversity: towards a shared history
Yolanda Aixelá.
Anthropologist at the Milà i Fontanals Institute of the National Scientific Research Council (CSIC)

 

17:30 – 18:15

Discussion

18:15 – 18:45

Coffee Break

18:45 – 20:00

Time set aside for a screening and final discussion

Friday, 17th June 2022

Thematic Cluster 3

The multi-cultural nature of the Canary Islands ans the Volcanic Way of St. James
Presented and moderated by: María Teresa Carballeira.
Full Profesor of administrative Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

09:00 – 09:30

Cultural plurality and law: A path to be travelled
Francisco Caamaño Domínguez
Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of A Coruña. Former Minister for Justice  
09:30 – 10:00

Interculturality in EU law. The role of cultural routes
Alesandra Silveira.
Director of the Master’s Degree in EU Law at the University of Minho. Jean Monnet Full Professor of EU Law

10:00 -10:30

The cultural routes and ways of diversity
Honorio Velasco Maíllo.
Professor Emeritus of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Spanish Open University (UNED)

10:30 – 11:15

Discussion

11:15 – 11:45

Coffee Break

Thematic Cluster 4

The legacy of arts and humanities on culture trails
Presented and moderated by: Yolanda Arencibia.
Professor Emeritus of Spanish Literature at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

11:45 – 12:00

Music for the Way of St. James

12:00 – 12:30

The footprints of the way of ways
Darío Villanueva.
Full Professor of Literature Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Former President of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).

12:30 – 13:00

Santiago, a factor in Hispanic existence, from the hillside of Américo Castro and his school
José Antonio González Alcantud.
Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Granada

 

13:00 – 13:45

Discussion

13:45 – 14:00

Music for the Way of St. James

14:00 – 16:00

Break

Thematic Cluster 5

Tourism and Natural Heritage on the Volcanic Way of St. James
Presented and moderated by: Miguel Ángel Montenegro.
Biologist. Director of the Educational and Expert Centre on Active Learning Methods.

16:00 – 16:30

Geodiversity on the Way of St. James between Volcanoes routes
José Mangas.
Professor of Geology at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and member of the Institute of Oceanography and Global Change (IOCAG)

16:30 – 17:00

The Volcanic Way of St. James: A journey through the Universe
Rafael Rebolo López.

Director of the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands (IAC) Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

17:00 – 17:30

The Volcanic Way of St. James as an Active Tourism resource uniting the territory and culture
José Luis Echevarría.
Chairman of the Canary Islands Active Tourism Association

17:30 – 17:45

Coffee Break

17:45 – 18:30

Discussion

18:30

Closing Ceremony

International Conference on the Volcanic Way of St. James