Barcelona: A Modernist Homeland of Flamenco
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 6pm Free and open to the public. Space is limited Norbert BILBENY is a professor of Ethics at the University of Barcelona. Additionally, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, I. Tec. Monterrey, and Loyola University Chicago. He also was visiting scholar at Berkeley, Harvard, Toronto, CNRS Paris and Northwestern University. He won the Anagrama essay prize and the Josep Pla of Catalan literature. He writes in the opinion pages of the Barcelona newspaper “La Vanguardia”. He is author of many books on ethics and political philosophy, most recently including: “La identidad cosmopolita”, “Què vol dir integració?”, “Ecoètica”, “Textos clave de la Ética”, “Ética”, and “Justicia compasiva”.
Barcelona is a cosmopolitan Spanish city, which is also rooted into the culture of the region, Catalonia. For these reasons, the culture of Flamenco, throughout all of its ways of expression, was soon assimilated into the city, where Flamenco increasingly has one of its main focal points of creation and projection. Thus, beyond its gypsy and Andalusian origins, Flamenco shows its spiritual value and its capacity for intercultural communication.