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, Brazil, May 2004.
• La dimensión cultural de Internet. Institut de Cultura: Debats Culturals. Session 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, United Kingdom, 17th March 2004.
• Productividad, competitividad, y tecnología en la nueva economía global. Cercle financer de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 9th March 2004.
• Politics and Power in the Network Society. Ralph Miliband Memorial Lecture. London School of Economics, United Kingdom, March 2004.

2003

• Conferencia inaugural. Wallis Annenberg Endowed Chair Dedication Ceremony. University of Southern California, Annenberg, United States of America, 2nd December 2003.
• Estado, sociedad y cultura en la globalización de América Latina, con referencia a la especificidad chilena. This text is an extended and updated version of the conference that took place in Foro Valparaíso, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 13rd November 2003.
• El modelo democrático chileno de desarrollo en el contexto global. [Inaugural Lecture]. Foro Bicentenario de Chile, Presidency of Chile, Santiago de Chile, 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, Mexico, 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". [Inaugural Lecture]. Jornadas internacionales Globalización e identidad = Mondialisation et identité, Barcelona, Spain, 28th-30th 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, Spain, 11th March 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

• Communication technology as material culture: Internet and autonomy building in the network society. [Colloquium]. Annenberg Auditorium, University of Southern California, Annenberg, United States of America, 14th November 2002, (01:20:49 h.).
• 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 Summer Courses,.Universidad de Zaragoza, Jaca, Zaragoza, Spain, 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.