Academic addresses and Distinguished lectures

1997

• Conference on Finland as an Information Society, organized and introduced by the President of Finland. Keynote Speaker, Helsinki, Finland, December 1997.
• Presentation of the Trilogy "The Information Age". Cambridge University, Department of Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, November 1997.
• [Distinguished Lecture]. Duke University, North Carolina, November 1997.
• La estructura social de la era de la información: la sociedad red. Text presented in the Inaugural Lecture of II Foro sobre Tendencias Sociales in UNED, Departamento de Sociología II (Estructura y Procesos Sociales) of UNED, Madrid, 22nd-24th. October 1997.
• International Symposium on Networks and Economic Development. Keynote Speaker, Goethe Univesität, Frankfurt, Germany, September 1997.
• European-Russian Seminar on Siberian Regional Development. Keynote speaker, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, Russia, September 1997.
• Presentation of the Trilogy "The Information Age". Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain, September 1997.
• Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Keynote Speaker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States of America, September 1997.
• Encuentros: Empresa y equilibrio social: Europa después del euro. Sociedad Bilbaína, Bilbao, Spain, 12 Junio 1997.
• Will There Be a Unified European Economy? International Production Networks, Foreign Direct Investment, and Trade in Eastern Europe. The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy with additional support from The Copenhagen Business School, the UC Center for German and European Studies, and the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank. Vienna, Austria 5-6th June, 1997.
• Seminar on Globalization and Identity. Keynote speaker, United Nations Development Program, Santiago de Chile, Chile, June 1997.
• [Distinguished lecture]. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology, Philadelphia, May 1997.
• Lecture by Manuel Castells [The Information Age]. The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, United States of America, 27th March 1997.
• Information and the City: the Castells Conference. Keynote Speech, School of Geography, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, March 1997.
• Inaugural Lecture of the academic year 1997-98. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Institut Audiovisual, Barcelona, 1997.
• Presentation of the Trilogy "The Information Age". Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America, February 1997.
• Presentation of the Trilogy "The Information Age". University College, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, London, United Kingdom, 1997.
• Distinguished Lecture. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology, Philadelphia, United States of America, 1997.
• International Seminar on Latin American Development. National Development Bank of Brazil, Brazil, 1997.