[Commlist] Seminar in Madrid (17 Nov 2022): Walter Lippmann and the Spanish Generation of 1914

Seminar in Madrid (17 Nov 2022): Walter Lippmann and the Spanish 
Generation of 1914

The founder of Time magazine, Henry Luce, was a fan of Ortega y Gasset's 
demo-sceptic book 'Revolt of the Masses', of great influence in the US. 
While Walter Lippmann had an early interest in cosmopolitan 
'one-worldism', Salvador de Madariaga was looking for funds to establish 
a foundation aiming at a world-wide federation. All of them shared a 
grim view about the possibilities of the common folk to self-govern in a 
mass democracy affected by propaganda and misinformation. The one-day 
seminar, 'One-hundred years of 'Public Opinion': Walter Lippmann and the 
Spanish Generation of 1914' seizes the centennial of the publication of 
Lippmann's 'Public Opinion' (1922) to explore the parallelism between 
his ideas on the viability of mass democracy and the thinking of the 
Spanish Generation of 1914, namely José Ortega y Gasset and Salvador de 
Madariaga.

The event will be held at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid's Getafe 
Campus on 17 November 2022. Registration and details (in Spanish) at: 
https://eventos.uc3m.es/go/lippmann <https://eventos.uc3m.es/go/lippmann>

An English translation of the programme follows:

10:00h.- The idea of public opinion in the work of Ortega y Gasset. By 
Esmeralda Balaguer García (Univ. Complutense de Madrid). Chair: Antonio 
Gaitán (UC3M)

11:30.- Lippmann-Ortega: On the role of elites in a democracy. By 
 Rodolfo Gutiérrez Simón (Univ. Complutense de Madrid). Chair: David 
Felipe Arranz (UC3M).

15:00.- World Citizen: The American friendships of Salvador de 
Madariaga. By José Ramón Rodríguez Lago (Universidade de Vigo). Chair: 
Francisco Seoane Pérez (UC3M).

16:30.- Making the centre hold: Madariaga, war and peace. By Mª Isabel 
Cintas Guillén (Universidad de Sevilla). Chair: Gonzalo Velasco (UC3M)

Organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Library 
Science, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).

With collaboration from the Digi_Morals project (UC3M-FBBVA), the 
Association for Communication in Politics (ACOP) and the 'Communication, 
Politics and Citizenship' research group at UC3M.


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