Judit Carrera
CCCB Director
Judit Carrera (Barcelona, 1974) has led four major projects as head of Debate and Education at the CCCB. Working with an extensive local and international network of intellectuals and institutions, she has initiated and been responsible for cycles of lectures and debates on the great challenges faced by contemporary society. She is also in charge of the CCCB’s Education programme which takes into account the fact that the future of culture lies at the intersection where the domains of education and culture meet. She is director of the European Prize for Urban Public Space which, working with Europe’s leading architecture museums, constitutes a privileged observatory of European cities, and is also head of the CCCB Archive, a multimedia space which makes available to the public a wide range of material created by the CCCB over the years of its activity.
With a degree in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Judit Carrera went on to complete a postgraduate degree (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) at the Institut d’Études Politiques-Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies). In Paris she worked in UNESCO’s Analysis and Forecasting Office and, subsequently, in the UNESCO Centre of Catalonia, in Forum 2004, and in the Department of International Relations of the Barcelona City Council.
With more than twenty years’ experience in the areas of culture and international relations, Judit Carrera has initiated and led European projects and has worked with such institutions as the Open Society Foundation, the Rolex Arts Initiative, the British Academy, the London School of Economics, the European Time to Talk network, the Collège d’Études Mondiales in Paris, the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Circle) in Madrid, ICREA (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) and PEN International Catalan Centre. She has lectured in Bard College (New York), the Venice Biennale, the Accademia di architettura (Mendrisio, Switzerland), the Center for Architecture (New York), Cerisy (Normandy), l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille, among many others.
She has been a member of the Barcelona Culture Council (2011-2016) and, on several occasions, a member of the jury for the City of Barcelona Prize. She is also a columnist for the newspaper Ara.
Update: 23 July 2018
Contents
Patrick Radden Keefe
Fragile Truths
Opening
Francesc Muñoz, Josep Báguena and Judit Carrera
Carolin Emcke and Ricard Solé
Living in Bewildering Times
Power on Stage
Visual Motifs in the Public Sphere
Peace, the value of our days
Jordi Armadans
Judit Carrera: “The purpose of cultural centres is to generate connections”
Interview with Mathieu Potte-Bonneville and Judit Carrera
Rahel Jaeggi
Progress and Regression
Future Cultures
Bernd Scherer, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville and Judit Carrera
Beatriz Jaguaribe
Masks: ecstasy, anonymity and contagion
Marta Marín-Dòmine
Primo Levi and Testimony, Today
Timothy Snyder
Health and Freedom: Some Thoughts from the United States
Teresa Caldeira and Judit Carrera
The Future of Cities: A View from the Global South
Carolin Emcke
Silence and Emancipation
A morning with Marta Segarra
What does it mean to be a feminist today?
Lecture by Cesc Gelabert
Keys and locks of the imagination
Timothy Snyder
A Defence of Freedom: On the Rise of Authoritarianism Today
Lecture by Carolin Emcke
Spiral of hatred. From Online Networks to Political Reality
Judy Dempsey
Is Russia Europe?
Timothy Garton Ash
Free speech under attack
Judy Wajcman
Time in the Digital Age
The Posthuman Condition
Lecture by Rosi Braidotti
Judith Butler
Bodies That Still Matter
The possible city. What is a Decent City?
Lectures by Richard Sennett and Ira Katznelson
War and the Islamic State
Lecture by Patrick Cockburn
Seyla Benhabib
Wield the Word. Citizenship
The Barcelona Debate: Open City
Judit Carrera
Soy Cámara #21. Europe City
The CCCB’s Programme
Virtues. Dignity
Lecture by Claudio Lomnitz
‘Culture of Crisis’ season
Preview season
Publications
Europe City
Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space
In Favour of Public Space
Ten Years of the European Prize for Urban Public Space
