Academic addresses and Distinguished lectures

2008

• Saperi e poteri: informazione e cultura nella network society: una lezione di Manuel Castells. Incontro "Saperi e poteri" in occasione del ventennale Egea Università Bocón, noviembre 2008. Milano: EGEA: Universitá Bocconi Editore, cop. 2008.
• Communication Power in the Network Society. Oxford Internet Institute, 23/10/08, (74:00 min.).

2007

• Definiendo Creatividad, Innovación y Cultura Digital y trazando el mapa de sus interacciones. Seminario sobre Creatividad e Innovación en la Cultura Digital, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 29th May 2007.

2006

• Opening lecture. Serie "Grandes Conferences", Télé-Université du Québec, Montreal, Canada, October 2006.
• Dean's Open Forum on politics, war... and more. Guest in an open forum discussion on Consequences of the War on Terror, with Special guest: George Soros, author of The Age of Fallibility. University of Southern California, Annenberg, United States of America, 20th September 2006.
• Opening lecture. Annual meeting of International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany, June 2006.
• Real Academia de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras, 2006. Castells, Manuel. "De la función de producción agregada a la frontera de posiblidades de producción: productividad, tecnología y crecimiento económico en la era de la información". Inaugural address of Académico Numerario Excmo. Sr. Dr. D. Manuel Castells Oliván, Catedrático Emérito de Planificación de la Universidad de California en Berkeley and Profesor de Investigación de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, in the reception act, 16th February 2006. Answer speech by the Académico Numerario Excmo. Sr. D. Joan Tapia Nieto. Barcelona, Spain, 2006.

2005

• Closing lecture. Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Sistemas, Quito, Ecuador, November 2005.
• Globalization, Multiethnicity and Multiculturalism. Inaugural lecture at University of Southern California, Urban Initiative Lecture. Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Doheny Intellectual Commons, University Park Campus, October 2005.
• La nueva frontera del desarrollo: el modelo informacional. Conferencia presidencial, Palacio de La Moneda, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 4 julio 2005.
• Distinguished Lecture on Finland and Europe in the Information Society. Parliament of Finland, Helsinki, Finland, June 2005.
• Commencement Speech. New School University, New York, New York, United States of America, May 2005.
• Tecnología de Información, Comunicación y Competitividad Empresarial. Conference on XXV Edición de Concentra 2005: Congreso Anual de marketing directo y comercio electrónico, 19-21 April 2005.
• L'economia política del codi obert. Conference on the seminar: "L'Era de l'accés obert" organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona and CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain, 17th March 2005.
• A Sociedade em rede: do conhecimento à acção política. Conference organized by the President of the Republic. Centro Cultural de Belém; organized by Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso, Belém, Portugal, 4-5th March 2005.
• Keynote Lecture. International Conference on Globalization in the Gulf Region, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 2005.
• Erich Schelling Memorial Lecture. Erich Schelling Architectural Foundation, Karlsruhe, Germany, January 2005.

2004

• [Distinguished Lecture]. East China Normal University, Shanghai, November 2004.
• Distinguished Lecture. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, November 2004.
• Global Governance and Global Politics. Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (published in: PS, Political Science & Politics, Vol. 38, No. 1, January 2005, pp. 9-16), Chicago, September 2004.