Multidisciplinary approach to global change

Raul Garcia Hemonnet

The global change that humanity is experiencing cannot be addressed by one discipline; it requires the data and certainties of the sciences, but also the interpretation and approach of the humanities.

With the aim of uniting these two seemingly distant worlds, the URJC recently held the 'First Conference on Sciences and Humanities against Global Change'.

The conference had several sessions where global change (Climate, political, economic, social) was addressed from biology, philosophy, literature, economics, journalism or theology, among others.

As María del Carmen Molina, professor in the area of ​​Plant Physiology and one of the organizers of the conference, points out, the situation we are experiencing “is a polycrisis. "Many problems that are linked and that must be addressed and analyzed from different areas of knowledge."

That has been the spirit with which these conferences have been held, which have been broadcast in streaming in their entirety (and which can now be seen on TVURJC) and which has had about 1.000 daily connections in each of the 4 sessions held between April 5 and 26.

With the good reception of the first edition, it is expected that there will be a second, in this case, as the URJC professor points out, dealing with global change "from disciplines such as cinema, art, economics or law."

A good opportunity to offer different points of view to the university community on the issues that concern today's society.