23 Dec Grand Place aldizkarian ‘PostIndependentzia’ liburuaren iruzkina
This is the Grand Place Journal review about my published 'PostIndependence' book by Translokal in June 2014 . ...
05 Dec Future of Cities Summit RE·WORK 5th December in London > ‘Unplugging the Smart City’ Conference paper
Dr Igor Calzada will present on 4th December in London 'Unplugging the Smart City' conference paper in the Future Cities Summit Re·Work as a consequence of the joint research 'Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies' funded partially by The Oxford Research Center in Humanities and the...
25 Nov ‘The Right to Decide in Democracy between Recentralisation and Independence: Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque Country’ article in Regions Quarterly Magazine of the RSA.
Here is the short article published in the RSA Regions Quarterly Magazine: Calzada, I. (2014), The Right to Decide in Democracy between Recentralisation and Independence: Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque Country. Regions Magazine Comment and Debate, pp. 4-5. Regions no 296 Winter 2014. (Forthcoming)...
04 Nov ‘Postindependence in Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque Country’ paper presented & panel chaired on 30th October 2014 in Sheffield RSA EC Conference
Dr Calzada presented the paper 'Postindependence in Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque Country' at the RSA Regional Studies Association Conference in Sheffield on 30th October 2014. Likewise, he chaired a panel on Regional Development....
21 Oct PostDoctoral project presentation > FlexibleCity International Symposium > Future Of Cities Programme > University of Oxford (UK)
The Oxford Future of Cities Programme organized the Flexible City International Symposium from 23rd to 25th October. I took part presenting a paper with my work-in-progress PostDoctoral Research project about The Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking/Connections, specifically presenting the Basque & Oresund Connection...
05 Oct #Unplugging > Deconstructing Smart Cities Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies Project: Workshop, Applied Research & Keynote Presentations.
Dr Calzada, in collaboration with Dr Cobo, launches the project entitled #Unplugging: Deconstructing Smart Cities Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies. The project consists of workshops, applied research projects and keynotes presentation about #Unplugging with different stakeholders such as policy-makers, students, researchers, academics, politicians, civil servants, consultants, lecturers...
30 Sep ‘Nafarroa, Euskal Herria, Independencia desde ahora. Dirección y Estrategia. La articulación del derecho a decidir (Part V)’ paper given at the Public University of Navarra (Basque Country – Spain)
This presentation was delivered on 30th September at the Public University of Navarra in Spain. The conference was held by Alkartasuna Fundation linked with Eusko Alkartasuna political party in the Basque Country (into the EHBildu coalition). The aim of the presentation was to conduct an...
16 Sep Erresuma Batutik Eskoziarako trenean, demokrazia eta independentziaz idatzitako gutuna Euskal Herriarentzat (Part IV)
Here is the article written from the Policy & Politics 2014 Conference in Bristol just a day before presenting the paper Postindependence in Scotland, Catalonia and Basque Country. And a two days after departing from Bristol (UK) to Glasgow-Edinburgh (Scotland) to live the Scottish Independence...
27 Aug Postindependence in Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque Country: City-Regional Small Nations Beyond Nation-States’ (Part III)
The UK and Spain are not depicted as having the same nation-state DNA with regard to their respective histories and political-cultural traditions. Hence, can we find any remarkable differences between EU nation-states such as the UK and Spain? Indeed, I think there are plenty of...