Programming

Immortality

MARÍA BLASCO, NÚRIA TERRIBAS, RICARD SOLÉ, BERTA MENESES

An intimate conversation between four participants with different insights and experiences of life, death and immortality. Sira Abenoza will guide the conversation through references from classical literature and philosophy together with pieces of opera, concerts and artistic woks. Through experience, literature, art and philosophy, this exploration engages with the fundamental questions regarding life and death.

A dialogue between…

María Blasco
Spanish scientist specialized in telomers and telomerase. She is the director of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO). Her research on how telomers can extend life in mices has travelled around the world, and opens a reliable way to investigate how to considerably extend human life as well.

Berta Meneses
Graduate in Chemistry and Theology. She is a religious Zen master following the teachings of Harada, Yasutane and Yamada of the Sanbô-Zen school. For more than fourty years she has deeply studied oriental culture, and specifically Zen Buddhism. Inside the Zendo Betania center, she is the director master in the area of Catalonia and Balear Islands, as well as El Salvador and Equador in Center and South America.

Núria Terribas
Jurist whose speciality are bioethics and biolaw. She has been researching bioethics for almost thirty years and is the Director of the Fundació Víctor Grífols i Lucas and of the bioethics cathedra in the UVIC-UCC, as well as vicepresident of the Catalan Bioethics Comitee. She is also a spokesperson of the Catalan Comission of Warranty and Evaluation of the law on euthanasia, and member and legal assessor of many ethical comitees in healthcare institutions in our country.

Ricard Sole
Physicist and biologist. He is a researcher in the ICREA (Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) currently working in the Pompeu Fabra University, where he directs the Laboratory of Complex Systems of the PRBB (Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona). One of his main research interests is understanding the origins and the evolution of natural and artificial systems, and specially the creation of synthetic life. He is the author of the book All deaths. The end of life: from oceans to robots.

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Round table
October 11th – 19 h
CCCB