Academic addresses and Distinguished lectures

2004

• Forum Universal de las Culturas 2004. Opening lecture on the speech "Globalización, identidad y diversidad", Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
• Keynote Speech. Conference on the Information Age in Russia and the Urals, Yekaterinburg, Russia, May 2004.
• [Inaugural Lecture]. Institute Fernando Henrique Cardoso, São Paulo, May 2004.
• La dimensión cultural de Internet. Institut de Cultura: Debats Culturals. Sesión 1: Cultura y sociedad del conocimiento: presente y perspectivas de futuro, Barcelona, Spain, 10th April 2002.
• Opening lecture of the Máster en Comunicación y Multimedia. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, April 2004.
• Sir Robert Birley Lecture. City University London, 17th March 2004.
• Productividad, competitividad, y tecnología en la nueva economía global. Cercle financer de Barcelona, Barcelona, 9th March 2004.
• Politics and Power in the Network Society. Ralph Miliband Memorial Lecture, London School of Economics, March 2004.

2003

• Conferencia inaugural. Wallis Annenberg Endowed Chair Dedication Ceremony. University of Southern California, Annenberg, United Sates, 2nd December 2003.
• El modelo democrático chileno de desarrollo en el contexto global. Foro Bicentenario de Chile, Presidency of Chile, Inaugural Lecture, Santiago de Chile, November 2003.
• Inaugural lecture of the Foro Bicentenario de Chile. Organized by the Presidency of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 2003.
• Opening Lecture. Congress of Asociación de Universidades Confiadas a la Compañía de Jesús en América Latina (AUSJAL), Puebla, México, October 2003.
• World Congress of Saving Banks. Keynote Speaker, Madrid, Spain, May 2003.
• International Conference on Economic Modernization of Russia. Organized by the Higher School of Economics and the Russian Government, Moscow, Russia, April 2003.
• International Seminar on Global Governance. Organized by the Presidency of the French Republic, Paris, France, April 2003.
• European New Media Technology and Everyday Life Conference. London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, April 2003.
• "Los valores de hoy en la Europa Meridional". Conferencia inaugural de las Jornadas internacionales Globalización e identidad = Mondialisation et identité, Barcelona, Spain, 28-30 April 2004.
• L'administració municipal en línia i la Unió Europea. Local e-government in the information society. Internet&city, Barcelona, Spain, 21st March 2003.
• El nuevo paradigma mundial. Ciclo de jornadas y conferencias Plan eGuipuzkoa 2005. San Sebastián, España, 11 marzo 2003.
• La societat de la informació i el seu impacte en la gestió clínica. Synthesis of Manuel Castells' intervention on the 'Congrés de Gestió Clínica'. Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, 20th February 2003, pp. 8-10.
• Information for All International Conference. Bilbao, Spain, February 2003.
• Information for All International Conference. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, February 2003.

2002

• International Seminar on Latin American Development Bank of Brazil. Keynote Speaker, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2002.
• El desarrollo regional en la economía de la información. Inaugural Speech Cursos de Verano, Universidad de Zaragoza, Jaca, Zaragoza, July 2002.
• International Conference on Educative Cities. Keynote Speaker, Tampere, Finland, June 2002.
• International Symposium on Building the Knowledge Societies. Keynote Speaker, Unesco, Paris, France, May 2002.