The María Zambrano Center for Transatlantic Studies UMA – ATECH and the Doctoral Degree in Education and Social Communication organize the II Transatlantic Tribune the 20th and 27th October, in the Faculties of Communication and Education, respectively. This time, the Tribune will be dedicated to Communication and Education in Latin America and Spain.

The first session, that will take place in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Communication Sciences from 11:30 a.m., will be hosted by Mª Chantal Pérez Fernández ─Vice Rector of University Extension─ and Juan Antonio García Galindo ─Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences and head of the María Zambrano Center for Transatlantic Studies.  Then, Francisco Sierra Caballero ─General Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies in Communication for Latin America CIESPAL (Quito, Ecuador)─ will offer the lecture Teoría de la Comunicación Educativa. Focused on communicology and Latin America, Francisco Sierra has developed different R&D projects along his academic career for the European Commission or the National Plan of Research & Development of Spain, among others. In his conference he will revise the different activities he carries out from CIESPAL and will introduce Chasqui Journal, a quarterly publication of critical thinking dissemination about communication in Latin America. During the exposition he will be accompanied by Bernardo Díaz Nosty ─head of the Press Department of UMA and of the UNESCO Chair of Communication.

The 27th October, the II Tribune carries on with the activities in the Salón de Grados of the Faculty of Education Sciences from 4:30 p.m. Nieves Blanco García ─coordinator of the Doctoral Degree in Education and Social Communication─ hosts the act opening. Then, Carlos Pérez Ariza ─professor in the University of Málaga─ will offer the lecture El esfuerzo por la libertad entre ambas orillas. Una aproximación a la epopeya americana por la independencia.

Finally, the professors of the University of Málaga, Inmaculada Postigo Gómez and Ana Jorge Alonso will submit one of the results of the international cooperation project they develop in Bolivia, the documentary Warmi. Algunos apuntes sobre la Paz y sus mujeres. This diary, filmed and produced by Alejandro Alvarado and Concha Barquero, maps the situation of the Bolivian women after the country transformation in the last years. It was born from the close relation between the university community of UMA and the Bolivian country. For more information about the project, as well as the rest of the activities that carries out the Observatorio Andaluz de Violencia de Género in the media, you can enter this website.

The María Zambrano Center for Transatlantic Studies of the University of Málaga is an interuniversity and multidisciplinary initiative, whose area of work focuses on the triangle Europe-North America-Latin America. This project, managed by the professor Juan Antonio García Galindo, is framed within the internationalization strategy of the International Campus of Excellence (ICE) Andalucía Tech.