The History and Freedom seminar begins July with chapters dedicated to Nelson Rockefeller and cultural diplomacy in Latin America, and to Juan B. Justo.

En esta edición de la Cátedra Lord Acton, el prestigioso catedrático Jesús Fernández-Villaverde abordará el problema de las regulaciones y cómo afectan a las libertades económicas.

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The 200 years of the Declaration of Independence of 1816 motivated the publication of Reflexiones sobre el Bicentenario (Reflections on the Bicentennial), by Alejandro Gómez, an essay designed to review the most important events in the country´s history.

Clara Campoamor was elected deputy in her country for the Radical Party, which she had joined because it was “republican, liberal, secular and democratic”, values of her ideology which she determined to represent since a very young age. It took her 43 years to achieve that representation, to which she acceded even before being able to vote, without godfathers, without quotas, without cheating.

The second half of the 19th century is also known as the era of the Pax Britannica. That period saw the development of the classical naval thought and is related to the presence of global ties, imperialism, competition between the great powers and the emergence of early navalism. The presentation proposes a fresh view that seeks to establish the connections between the ideological, political and technological context with naval thought in an era of globalization and to the similarities with today.

La Cátedra Lord Acton fue una iniciativa conjunta entre Acton Institute USA y UCEMA, y tendrá su primer encuentro en septiembre, bajo la coordinación de Alejandro Chafuen (Ph.D.), managing director international COMA, Acton USA. Este espacio busca promover el debate de ideas, la formación humanística y las ideas de la sociedad abierta. La Cátedra Lord Acton será coordinada por Acton USA, quién sugerirá los expositores, contando para ello con el apoyo del Instituto Acton Argentina.

Dr. Guido will speak about the political career of Álvaro Alsogaray and his struggle for the dissemination of liberal ideas in the second half of the 20th century in Argentina. And about his trajectory in the party and the doctrinal sources on which he was based.

El Rev. Robert A. Sirico es destacado intelectual estadounidense, co fundador del Acton Institute de Estados Unidos. Autor de diversos trabajos como el reciente libro “En defensa del libre Mercado”, como presidente de Acton Institute Sirico es un conferencista habitual en universidades, escuelas y organizaciones empresarias sobre temas religiosos, políticos, económicos y sociales. También publica de manera habitual en destacados medios como New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, London Financial Times, etc.

Reforms to the system are being proposed permanently, but without oscillating between emotional pessimism and optimism, a just and fair diagnosis must be made on which are the main difficulties, among them: the cultural horizon of knowledge as passive information; forgetting the freedom of teaching; the problem of official diplomas; the union problem; the classroom problem; the criticism of instrumental reason confused with the criticism of the free market; the problems of international regulations; the quasi-contempt for the informal educational system.

The founder of Junior Achievement Argentina, Eduardo Marty, passed through the seminar on Educational Freedom at UCEMA, to speak about the role of the State in Education.