Academic addresses and Distinguished lectures

2001

• Seminar on Theories for a New Society. [Keynote Speaker]. Fundación Botín, Madrid, Spain, June 2001.
• Las instituciones de la nueva economía: iniciativa empresarial e integración social en la era de la información. [Opening Lecture]. Fòrum Europa, Barcelona, Spain, June 2001.
• MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Keynote speech in the Seminar on the occasion of receiving the Kevin Lynch Award. Massachussets, United States of America, April 2001.
• Globalización, identidad y política en América Latina al albor del nuevo siglo. Magistral Conference, presented by Juan Manuel Ramírez Saiz. Cátedra Julio Cortázar, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2001.
• Distinguished Lecture. Columbia University, School of Architecture, New York, United States of America, April 2001.

2000

• "Ord&Bild". [Keynote speaker]. Seminar on Castells theories on the Information Age. Stockholm, Sweden, December 2000.
• Finland as a Information Society. [Opening Lecture]. Conference commemorating the 80th. anniversary of the Finnish Independence, organised by the Presidency of Finland. Helsinki, Finland, December 2000.
• Presentation of the Russian edition of "The Information Age". Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, December 2000.
• Inaugural Lecture. Fundación Banco de Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Forum on the New Economy, Madrid, Spain, October 2000.
• Internet y la sociedad red. Inaugural Speech of the Information and Knowledge Society PhD Programme. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain, October 2000.
• Academic Senate's Distinguished Lecture. University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication, United States of America, October 2000.
• Association of Internet Researchers Conference. [Keynote speaker]. University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States of America, September 2000.
• World Conference on Urban Futures. [Keynote speaker]. University of Witwatersraand, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2000.
• Seminar on Globalization and development in Africa. [Keynote Speaker]. World Congress on Cities Future, Pretoria, South Africa, June 2000.
• Clarendon Lectures in Management. Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, June 2000.
• Linacre Lecture. Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, June 2000.
• The Institutions of the New Economy. A summary of the address to the Delivering the Virtual Promise? Conference. London, United Kingdom, 19th June 2000.