Academic addresses and Distinguished lectures

1999

• International Conference on Globalisation. [Keynote speaker]. World Economy Institute (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1999.
• Seminar on the Information Society in Europe. [Keynote speaker]. Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, Sintra, Portugal, 1999.
• Dialogues du XXIème siècle. [Keynote Speaker]. UNESCO, Paris, France, 1999.
• [Distinguished Lecture]. Duke University, North Carolina, United States of America, 1999.
• [Distinguished Lecture]. University of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States of America, 1999.
• [Distinguished Lecture]. University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America, 1999.
• International meeting on "Responsible Globality". Lead Speaker in two sessions: "Revisiting the Network Society", "Creative cities". World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 1999.

1998

• International Seminar on Castells' Trilogy "The Information Age". European Commission's Center for Industrial Mutation and Conversion, Luxembourg, December 1998.
• The Erasmus Premium's International Symposium on the Culture of the Information Age. [Keynote speaker]. Universiteit van Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands, November, 1998.
• Russia at the End of the 20th Century. [Keynote speaker]. Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America, November 1998.
• Visiones sobre nuestra realidad y desafíos del siglo XXI. II Congreso Nacional de Sociología. Casa Municipal de la Cultura, La Paz, Bolivia, 14th-17th August 1998.
• Productividad, competitividad y desigualdad en la sociedad de la información. Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10th August 1998.
• Presentation of the trilogy "The Information Age". Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1998.
• American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. [Keynote speaker]. Section of Community and Urban Sociology, San Francisco, United States of America, August 1998.
• Presentation of the Trilogy "The Information Age". International Conference on Globalization and Inequality. United Nations Institute for Social Research, La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, La Villette, Paris, France, June 1998.
• Information Technology, Globalization and Social Development. [Inaugural lecture]. Conference on Information Technologies and Social Development, Nations Palace, Geneva, Switzerland, 22nd-24th March 1998.
• Presidency of Brazil, International Seminar on Globalization and the State. [Keynote speaker]. São Paulo, Brazil, March 1998.
• Conference "Cities and Telecomunications". [Keynote Speaker]. University of Georgia, Atlanta, United States of America, 1998.
• Presentation and Debate on the Book "La Société en réseaux". La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, La Villette, Paris, France, 1998.
• Competitiveness, Productivity and Inequality in the Network Society. Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 1998.
• The Basque Question in a Global Context. International Conference on Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and Globalization. University of Nevada, Reno, United States of America, 1998.