The town hall of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, in collaboration with the Gustavo Bueno Foundation, is set to host the 34th Philosophy Encounters, focusing on the timely and significant debate of 'War and Peace'.
From 23 to 25 October 2026, notable specialists will analyse the concepts of war and peace through various lenses, including geopolitics, history, architecture, new technologies, algorithmic propaganda, and mythology.
Event details
The encounters will take place at the Sala Gustavo Bueno, located at Calle Pinar, 47 in Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
Programme
Friday, 23 October 2026
- 16:15 – 16:45 | Inauguration of the 34th Encounters and presentation by GBS (in absentia of Gemini)
- 16:45 – 17:30 | The nature of war from a historian's perspective — Marcelino Suárez Ardura
- 17:30 – 18:15 | War and Peace through the Architecture of Vitruvius — Carmen Baños Pino
- 18:30 – 19:15 | 'Chip War'? Globalisation of semiconductors, state dialectics, and the struggle for a technological peace — Emmanuel Martínez Alcocer
- 19:15 – 20:00 | The resurgence of irrationality in current geopolitics — Miguel Ángel Navarro Crego
- 20:00 – 20:45 | War and Peace in Thomas Aquinas — Tomás García López
Saturday, 24 October 2026
- 09:00 – 09:45 | The political significance of the Africa War (1859-1860) in 19th century Spain — Fernando Pérez López
- 09:45 – 10:30 | War and peace in non-anthropological contexts: from angelology to ethology — Iñigo Ongay
- 10:45 – 11:30 | The concealment of war: Buenos Aires 1807 — Luis Gorrochategui
- 11:30 – 12:15 | Causes of war and military alliances in the Italic War of the Aeneid, parallels with Cortés and Pizarro in the New World and other empires — Alonso Martín Fernández
- 12:30 – 13:15 | Spain and mixed wars — Luis Carlos Martín Jiménez
- 13:15 – 14:00 | 25 years of Peace (Spanish) — Iván Vélez
- 16:30 – 17:15 | Ortega, Europe, and the world wars — Carlos Madrid Casado
- 17:15 – 18:00 | War and computing — Ruben Tellechea
- 18:00 – 18:45 | Algorithmic propaganda in the new global context — Pablo Mata
- 19:00 – 20:45 | Round table discussion: Philosophical materialism in the face of the new order's war: visions and actions (Moderated by Marcelino Suárez Ardura)
Sunday, 25 October 2026
- 09:00 – 09:45 | Refusing to be the enemy that the enemy needs — Raúl Muniente
- 09:45 – 10:30 | An approach to the idea of enemy — Arturo Simón Rodríguez
- 10:45 – 11:30 | The Trojan War and its heroes: mythology created and recreated by empires past, present, and aspiring — José Luis Pozo
- 11:30 – 12:15 | The 'disaster of 98' and its various interpretations — Atilana Guerrero
- 12:30 – 14:00 | Closing round table discussion: New technologies, war, and peace (Moderated by Gustavo Bueno Sánchez)
