2022 Seminars

• University identity and mission 
  The seminar consists of eight bi-weekly modules, each providing a lecture, bibliography, and activities on a specific theme related to the university's identity and mission. Each module will require a commitment of 2,5 hours every two weeks.
  Seminar format: virtual – asynchronous.
  Date: May 9 - August 27
  Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar
  Program:
  1. Mission of the university. Professor: Maria Iraburu.
  2. Institutional Culture. Christian Identity and Ideology. Professor: Fernando Toller.
  3. Christian identity in teaching, research, and management. Professor: Javier Sesé.
  4. Identity and project of the university professor. Professor: Ricardo Crespo.
  5. University reputation: To be or to seem? Professor: Monica Herrero.
  6. Intellectual leadership of the university. Thinking about the great themes of each era. Professor: Juan José Sanguineti.
  7. Challenges of interdisciplinarity. Professor: Claudia Vanney.
  8. Identity and plurality in the university: Challenges of contemporary culture to Christian consciousness. Professor: Mariano Fazio

• Contemporary ethical debates
  Face-to-face modality: The seminar, in person, will be held in 8 meetings at the Pilar headquarters, on the second Friday of the month from March to October, from 15 to 18 pm.
  Virtual modality – asynchronous: The seminar consists of eight monthly modules, each providing a lecture, bibliography, and activities on a specific topic related to the seminar's themes. Each module will be available for one month and will require a commitment of 2,5 hours per month, from April to November.
  Program:
  1. Natural law, the law of practical reason. Professor: Soledad Paladino
  2. Ethical Challenges of Anthropotechnics. Professor: Mariano Asla
  3. Political Ethics. Professor: Alejandro Williams Becker
  4. Contemporary Moral Currents. Professor: Carlos Massini Correas
  5. Ethics of communication. Professor: Carlos Álvarez Teijeiro
  6. Business: A Force for Good? Professor: Hector Rocha
  7. Bioethical Issues. Professor: Agustín Silberberg
  8. Conscience and Morality: Conscientious Objection. Professor: Fernando Toller

The core philosophical and theological seminars aim to deepen the specific disciplines cultivated at the university, fostering a close relationship between philosophy, theology, and the experimental and social sciences. These courses seek to create in the Universidad Austral a field of study and discussion that can be the seed of interdisciplinary research.

Theology and analytical method
Professor: Dr. Francisco O'Reilly (University of Montevideo)
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: February 07th to March 06th.
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Neurobiology and the experience of pain
Professor: Dr. Pablo Brumovsky
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: February 07th to March 06th.
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Phenomenology of corporality
Professor: Dr. Ivana Anton Mlinar
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: February 07th to March 06th.
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Philosophy of Chemistry
Professor: Dr. Juan Camilo Martínez González
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: February 07th to March 06th.
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Consciousness and self-awareness. Neurobiological issues
Professor: Dr. Ángela Suburo
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: March 07th to April 03rd
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Philosophy of biology
Professor: Dr. Alfredo Marcos Martínez (University of Valladolid)
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: March 07th to April 03rd
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Problems of philosophy of physics
Professor: Dr. Sebastián Fortin
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: March 07th to April 03rd
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Origin of man
Professor: Dr. Rubén Herce Fernández (University of Navarra)
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: March 07th to April 03rd
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

The Problem of the Arrow of Time and Irreversibility in Physics
Professors: Dr. Olimpia Lombardi and Dr. Cristian A. López
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: March 07th to April 03rd
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Positive psychology
Professor: Dr. Belén Mesurado
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: April 04th to May 1st
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Reduction, Emergency and Survival
Professor: Dr. Martín Labarca
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: April 04th to May 1st
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Philosophical theology: arguments for and against the existence of God.
Professor: Ignacio Garay
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: April 04th to May 1st
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Personal identity
Professor: Dr. Mariana Córdoba
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: April 04th to May 1st
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Evolutionary developmental biology. Evo – devo
Professor: Dr. Jorge Aquino
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: April 04th to May 1st
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Philosophy of Information
Professor: Dr. Federico Hernán Holik
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: April 04th to May 1st
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Ontological Problems of Quantum Mechanics
Professor: Dr. Sebastián Fortin
Modality: virtual-asynchronous
Dates: April 04th to May 1st
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated dedication of 4 hours per week.
Credits: 2
Subject program
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (limited spaces)

Ethical issues. Business as a Force for Good
Professors: Charles Wookey and Hector Rocha
Modality: intensive face-to-face (IAE)
Dates: June 1st to 3rd and 6th to 8th, from 9:00 to 12:30 pm.
Subject program
Credits: 2
Registration: peh@austral.edu.ar (LIMITED SPACES)

Philosophy of Law I
Professor: Rodolfo Vigo
Format: In-person (Buenos Aires location)
Dates: June 6-10, from 9 a.m. to 18 p.m.
Subject program
Credits: 4

Philosophy of Law II (correlative to Philosophy of Law I)
Professor: Rodolfo Vigo
Format: In-person (Buenos Aires location)
Dates: November 7-11, from 9 a.m. to 18 p.m.
Subject program
Credits: 4

Questions of Anthropology. Anthropology of Education
Professor: Juan Assirio
Format: Hybrid (students can choose whether to participate in person at the Cerrito campus or virtually via Zoom)
Dates: 23/06, 07/07, 14/07, 04/08 (from 17pm to 21pm)
Credits: 1,5

Ethical Issues. Ethics and Professional Conduct of Teachers.
Professors: Juan Assirio
Format: Hybrid (students can choose whether to participate in person at the Cerrito campus or virtually via Zoom)
Dates: 28/06, 05/07, 12/07, 02/08 (from 17pm to 21pm)
Credits: 1,5

Philosophical foundations of contemporary thought. Aesthetics
Teacher: Cristina Arranz
Mode: virtual – asynchronous
Date: from 08/08 to 04/09. The seminar consists of 3 modules, requiring an estimated weekly dedication of 4 hours.
Subject program
Credits: 1,5

Questions of Anthropology. Anthropology of Education
Professor: A. María Sanguinetti
Format: virtual - with synchronous and asynchronous sessions
Date: From Saturday, August 13th to October 22nd
The course consists of 6 units, requiring an estimated weekly dedication of 2 hours. It has bi-weekly synchronous classes and asynchronous activities.
Credits: 2

Training for new roles and functions 
Teacher: Alejandra Vatrano
Mode: asynchronous virtual
Date: 23/08
Subject program
Credits: 1,5

Theology: a luminous vision of God and the person in society
Professor: Father Manuel de Elía
Mode: synchronous virtual
Course dates and times: Mondays from 18 to 20 pm, from 05/09 to 31/10 (with a concluding asynchronous activity)
Subject program
Total duration: 20 hours
Inscription y consultas: aravera@austral.edu.ar

Keys to understanding the History of the Church

Foundations of theology. Theological anthropology
Teacher: Ana María Sanguineti
Mode: virtual – asynchronous
Date: 03/10 to 30/10
The seminar consists of 4 modules, requiring an estimated weekly dedication of 4 hours.
Subject program
Credits: 2

The seminars on the didactic-pedagogical axis seek to enable teachers, as mediators between the learner and knowledge, to illuminate their daily practice through the correct use of teaching strategies and techniques.

• Art and transmission of culture – Female voices in literature I
  Teacher: María Cristina Viñuela
  Format: blended learning (there will be in-person meetings and meetings via Zoom)
  Date: Mondays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., between August and December, according to the schedule shown in the program.
  Subject program
  Credits: 2
• Education, Family and Society
  Professor: Laura Contreras
  Format: Hybrid (students can choose whether to participate in person at the Cerrito campus or virtually via Zoom)
  Dates: 16/08, 23/08, 30/08, 06/09 (from 17pm to 21pm)
  Credits: 1,5
• Theories Pedagogical and Contemporary Debates
  Teachers: Graciela Hernández
  Format: Hybrid (students can choose whether to participate in person at the Cerrito campus or virtually via Zoom)
  Dates: 18/08, 01/09, 15/09 and 29/08 (from 17pm to 21pm)
  Credits: 1,5

Through the incorporation of curricular pathways related to research methodologies, the program seeks to understand the methodological foundations of research work and provide tools that facilitate the search and analysis of information, the writing of scientific articles, the formulation of research projects, and the communication of research results.

The proposal for the seminars in this area is currently being developed.