Science at UM [S03-ep10]: Politics in Spain

[Podcast] - Published on December 7, 2023 in Science-Society

This week on A l’UM la science, Hubert Peres, a researcher at Cepel, the center for political and social studies celebrating its 40th anniversary this month, talks to us about his book La politique en Espagne(Politics in Spain). Our last-minute guest is Christine Lerrede, who presents the upcoming OREME conference. A program co-produced with Divergence FM and broadcast every Wednesday at 6 p.m. on 93.9.

Forty years ago, CEPEL was founded in Montpellier. Established in 1983 under the leadership of Paul Alliès, a well-known figure in the Faculty of Law and Political Science, it was initially a "Center for Comparative Public Policy and Local Areas." In 1999, Jean-Pierre Gaudin took over, and two years later CEPEL became the "Center for Political Studies of Latin Europe," reflecting the special relationship that the researchers in this team have with academic subjects and networks in southern European countries.

In 2003, Hubert Peres took over as director of the laboratory. He was replaced in 2014 by William Genieys, but CEPEL had not yet completed its transformation. In 2020, under the leadership of Emmanuel Négrier, CEPEL became the Center for Political and Social Studies to better include the sociologists, philosophers, ethnologists, and even epidemiologists who had joined the team.

To celebrate 40 years of research, exchanges, and collaborations, CEPEL is organizing an international symposium entitled "Le territoire dans tous ces états" (Territory in all its forms) on December 14 and 15, featuring a dozen conferences whose eclectic themes reflect the diversity of research topics covered by this 40-year-old study center.

And to join in the celebrations, we have chosen to invite a figure who is emblematic of CEPEL: Hubert Peres, political scientist and former director of the laboratory. This is particularly fitting as he has just published a book entitled La politique en Espagne(Politics in Spain) with La Découverte publishers. 

How did the Spanish nation come into being? How did the transition to democracy take place after Franco? How did the demands for independence and the response for autonomy come about? How has the current political scene been reorganized? We will address all these questions with him over the next 20 minutes.

Our last-minute guest is Christine Leredde, a geophysicist at the Géoscience Montpellier laboratory. She presents the next in a series of short lectures organized byOreme, Montpellier's environmental research observatory, which will be held onThursday, December 14, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on the Triolet campus on the topic: Global warming: talking about it to take action.

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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Aline Périault / Lucie Lecherbonnier
Production: Alice Rollet

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