María Zambrano Center for Transatlantic Studies UMA – ATECH launches the first issue of the Transatlantic Studies Network (TSN), Transatlantic Studies Journal, edited together with the Studies Group about Communication and Information Society (E-com) (Grupo de Estudios sobre Comunicación y Sociedad de la Información). TSN is a digital six-month publishing, which aims to foster the debate through essays about relations and exchanges produced in the Atlantic environment.

The journal launch will take place on next Tuesday 26th January, at 11:30 am. in the Sala de Juntas del Rectorado of Malaga University.  Víctor F. Muñoz Martínez ─Vice Chancellor of Strategic Projects─ will host the ceremony together with Juan Antonio García Galindo ─director of María Zambrano Center for Transatlantic Studies UMA – ATECH and the publishing director. A brief statement of the sections and the authors that have collaborated in this first issue will be offered.

Part of the TSN contents are some of the presented works in the activities developed by the María Zambrano Center over the 2014/2015 academic year. Just like the Center, the journal has a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature, and despite the different subjects, the texts have in common the Atlantic link. In this way, in the Monographic section, TSN gathers all kind of specialists, like Carlos Alonso Zaldívar ─former ambassador of Spain and senior researcher of the Real Instituto Elcano, with his article España y Estados Unidos. Percepciones mutuas, about politics and diplomacy─, Antonio Roldán Ponce ─professor in the Technische Universität Dresden, with the project Relaciones económicas transatlánticas: contenidos e impacto de la Asociación Transatlántica para el Comercio y la Inversión, about economics─, or Magdalena Martín Martínez ─professor in Malaga University, with Control de fronteras e inmigración irregular en la Unión Europea y en los Estados Unidos de América: un desafío en común, about international right and migrations.

Likewise, Transatlantic Studies Network carries out a special in each publication. This first issue is focused in the Málaga philosophic figure of María Zambrano, whose international character and relation with Latin America reveal the necessity of studying the Atlantic World. In the publishing launch, the Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the University of Málaga and former Director of the María Zambrano Fundation, Juan Fernando Ortega, and the professor of the University of South Florida (USF), Madeline Cámara, look back the transatlantic influence in their work.

Aware of the importance of supporting critical thinking through art, TSN devotes a space to Creation. This time, it spreads the work of the artist Rocío Verdejo, with a little sample of her photographic series Crashroom and Las matemáticas de Dios no son exactas. Her images emerge from an intimate point of view, taking experience and her own emotions as a reference, recreating narrative scenes through them.

TSN also offers an interview space opened with the Mexican Lucía Lagunes Huerta ─ director of the agency Comunicación e Información de la Mujer (CIMAC) and driver of many collaboration networks. Last December, Lagunes, who has received the IV Liberty for Media Award from the University of Málaga, proposed by the Communication UNESCO Chair, compromises with women in Mexico. In the same way, the journal has a section named Transatlantic Marks (Huellas Transatlánticas) that aims to get back those relevant figures that have spent part of their life and work among banks. In this occasion, professor of the University of Málaga Manuel Galeote gets back the work of the Málaga writer José Ricardo Morales, exiled in Chile.

This way, María Zambrano Center for Transatlantic Studies UMA – ATECH reaffirms itself as a dynamic space that promotes the creation of an academic and dissemination of Transatlantic and International Studies frame through several initiatives, including this journal.

The Center takes part in the internationalization plan of the International Campus of Excellence of Andalucía TECH.