(Another organization of the academic activity is available here.)
Memberships:
Member of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis. (view the website)
Member of the International Association for the Study of the Controversies. (view the website)
Member of Ergo, Associazione di Pratica e Teoria dell'Argomentazione. (view the website)
Member of the Editorial Board of Euphyía, philosophical journal of the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico. (view the website)
Member of the Editorial Board of e-scrita, electronic journal for linguistics and philology of the Universidad UNIABEU, Río de Janeiro. (view the website)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Electrônica do Istituto de Humanidades of the university UNIGRANRIO, Rio de Janeiro. (view the website)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Academic Journal of Modern Philology (Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw Branch). (view the website)
Member of the Scientific Board of Verbum et Lingua: Didáctica, lengua y cultura, journal of the Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico). (view the website)
Member of the Scientific Board of Eris. Rivista internazionale di argomentazione e dibattito. (view the website)
Member of the Editorial Council of Rhetoric and Communications E-Journal. (view the site)
Member of the Editorial Board of Church, Communication and Culture. (view the site)
He has been member of the Scientific Board of the Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw Branch (2018-2019).
- He has been member of the Editorial Council and of the Scientific Board of Studia Anglica Resoviensia (2018-2019). (view the site)
- Colloquy Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa en México y España, Seminario Guadalupano y Josefino de la Arquidiócesis de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México, November 23-24, 2023, with the relation "El papel de la mirada contemplativa en la poesía de Peñalosa".
- Webinar "Immagine di sé e realtá di sé: Rapporto efficiente secondo un'antropologia relazionale", Centro Ricerca Feldenkrais, Verona, November 19, 2023. (Session of the series Human Flourishing.)
- 10th International Conference "La Palabra en la Educación": Resiliencia y Espiritualidad, organized by CEU Fundación San Pablo Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain, October 26-27, 2023, with the paper: "Dimensiones de la imagen de sí y su eficiencia en la realidad de sí: análisis retórico fundado en una antropología relacional".
Doctoral session "El pensamiento de Octavio Paz", in the course "Los estudios humanísticos en el Perú y en América Latina: una aproximación metodológica", of the Doctorado en Humanidades con Mención en Estudios sobre Cultura (4 hours online), Universidad de Piura, Facultad de Humanidades, Lima, Perú, November 18, 2022.
Seminar "Rhetorical ethos and the dynamicity of the self. How to recognize personhood when the person is in progress", at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Theology, Atenas, Grecia, November 6, 2022, for the students of the Master programs: a) Religious Education and Conduct, and b) Theology and Human Sciences (Laboratory of Pedagogical Research and Applications, Educational Technology and Production of Educational Material of Religious Edu).
Updating seminar for profesors "Antropología del cuidado y del reconocimiento del otro", Universidad Panamericana, Instituto de Humanidades, Guadalajara, September 2-3, 2022.
5th Biennial Philosophy of Communication Conference: Pragmatism, organized by Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and the Communication Ethics Institute at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, United States, June 7-9, 2022, with the paper, together with Andrea Claudia Valente (York University, Toronto): "Revisiting the Absent Sign of Empathy in 'The Good Doctor'".
Webinar "Umani perché dipendiamo / Umani perché ci prendiamo cura: Il dispiegarsi della condizione umana nella risposta alla fragilità", Centro Ricerca Feldenkrais, Verona, May 19, 2022. (First of the Human Flourishing seminars.)
Among the most meaningful conventions:
XXIII Reuniones Filosóficas of the Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona March 3rd-5th, 1985. Paper: "El trasfondo moderno de los presupuestos gnoseológicos de Gottlob Frege".
International Symposium Ludwig Wittgenstein and the European Culture, L'Aquila, April 13rd-18th, 1988. Paper: "La relazione di raffigurazione nel contesto fregeano del Tractatus".
XXIX Reuniones Filosóficas of the Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, March 2nd-4th, 1992. Paper: "El mal en la poesía y en el ensayo de Octavio Paz".
III Symposium of the History of Logic, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, May 3rd-5th, 1993. Paper: "Copulatio in Peter of Capua (12th Century) and the Nature of the Proposition".
XXXIII Reuniones Filosóficas, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, March 25th-27th, 1996. Paper presented with Massimiliano Muzzi and Andrea Totò: " La musicología sacra: comunicación de una experiencia y de un proyecto".
Retorica e argomentazione, organized by The International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione dell'Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, April 22nd-23rd, 1997.
Dialogue Analysis and Mass Media, organized by The International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, April 2nd-3rd, 1998.
Pragmatics and Negotiation, Tel Aviv University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv - Jerusalem, June 13rd-16th, 1999. Paper: "Negotiating Meanings: The Appeal to Dictionaries".
Dialogue Analysis 2000, organized by The International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Università degli Studi di Bologna, June 15th-17th, 2000.
Recent Trends in Dialogue Analysis, organized by The International Association for Dialogue Analysis and the Gothenburg University, April 19th-21th, 2001. Paper presented in collaboration with I. García Martínez (Univ. of Oviedo): "Separating vs. Uniting Distance in Chicano Speech".
Argumentation in Dialogic Interaction, organized by the International Association for the Study of Argumentation, the International Association for the Study of Controversies and the International Association for Dialogue Analysis at the Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, June 30th - July 3rd, 2002. Paper: "A Topica between Logos and Ethos - The Evaluation of Understanding as a Means of Argumentation".
Retórica, Globalización y Cultura, organized by "Logo: Asociación española de estudios sobre lengua, pensamiento y cultura clásica" at the Universidad de Salamanca, December 9th-13th, 2002. Paper: "Babel y la retórica de la redención".
Dialogue in Literature and the Media, organized by the International Association for Dialogue Analysis at the Salzburg Universität (Salzburg, April 23th-27th, 2003). Paper: "Monologue and Dialogue in Politeness Choices".
He was one of the organizers of the conference Poetics & Christianity,within the Ongoing Seminar of the same name, at the Faculty of Institutional Communication of the Università della Santa Croce (Rome, April 28th-29th, 2003). He held one of the plenary sessions with the titel "Narrative della redenzione".
La filosofia come strumento di dialogo tra le culture, organized by the Società Filosofica Italiana (SFI) at the Università degli Studi di Bari (Bari, April 29th - May 2nd, 2004).
Language, Culture, Rhetoric: Linguistic Communication in a Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective, organized by Association Suédoise de Linguistique Appliquée (ASLA) at Örebro University (Örebro, Sweden, November 6th-7th 2003). Paper: "Wishful Thinking and Argumentation through Metonymy".
Literatura Hispanoamericana y sus valores, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, September 20th-22th, 2004. Paper: "El valor del cuerpo en Octavio Paz".
Homenaje a la memoria de David Mejía Velilla, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, September 23th, 2004. Paper: "Belleza e inconclusión en la poesía de David Mejía".
Conference La necessità dell'amicizia, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, School of Philosophy, Rome, February 24-25, 2005. Paper: "L'amicizia come fine dell'uomo nella cultura nahuatl".
He was one of the organizers, for the Ongoing Seminar Poetics & Christianity, of the conference "The Way Home" (University of the Holy Cross, School of Social Institutional Communication), Rome, April 28-29, 2005.
Conference Cooperation and Conflict in Ingroup and Intergroup Communication, organizad by the International Association for Dialogue Analysis and the University of Bucharest (Faculty of Letters, Department of General and Romanian Linguistics), May 26-29, 2005. Paper: "The Role of Goodwill in Conflictive Communication".
"IV Conferências Internacionais de Epistemologia e Filosofia. Sócrates, Octavio Paz, Michel Serres e José Saramago. Século XXI: um desafio socrático - como devir humano, uno e múltiplos", Instituto Piaget, Campus of Viseu, Portugal, November 10-12, 2005. Paper: "Historia e identidad en Octavio Paz: la libertad ante las libertades".
A Schnittke Day, Official Opening of the "Schnittke Archive", Centre for Russian Music, Goldsmiths College, University of London, February 25th 2006, with the paper: "Three Approaches to the Mystery of the Human Person through Schnittke's Music". (read)
I Encuentro Mesoamericano Escritura-Cultura, Universidad de Costa Rica - Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica - Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitectos, San José, Costa Rica, September 4-5, 2006, with the inaugural lecture "Familia y universalidad del hombre en Octavio Paz", and the paper "La hagiografía de Javier Sicilia".
Incontro-lettura e tavola rotonda "L'etica nel ventunesimo secolo": presentation of the book Die Möglichkeit des Guten. Ethik im XXI Jahrhundert, by Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (Beck, München 2006), Goethe Institut, Roma, October 19, 2006, with the professors Marco Ivaldo and Andrea Gentile, and the presence of the Author.
He has been one of the organizers of the third conference Poetica & Cristianesimo. Mimesi, verità, fiction, of the School of Institutional Comunication of the University of the Holy Cross, Rome, March 29-30, 2007.
II Encuentro Mesoamericano Escritura-Cultura, Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Lenguas Modernas, San José, Costa Rica, August 13-14, 2007, with the paper "La poética de Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa".
Videoconference "The Mystery of Man in Contemporary Music", for the UNED (Universidad Estatal a Distancia) and connected universities and schools, San José, Costa Rica, August 15, 2007.
III Coloquio Internacional Literatura Hispanoamericana y sus valores, organized by the Universidad de la Sabana (Bogotá) and the Universidad de Costa Rica, in San José, Costa Rica, August 16-17, 2007. Paper: "Los hijos de la Malinche, de Octavio Paz".
Conference for FIDAPA (BPW in Italy) "Il mistero della persona umana nella musica contemporanea", Ischia, November 24, 2007. (view article).
Professional Seminar Church Communication and the Culture of Controversy, Università della Santa Croce, Facoltà di Comunicazione Istituzionale, April 28-30, 2008, with the paper "Pregi ed insidie dei microfondamentalismi nella persuasione".
Conference Word Meaning in Argumentative Dialogue, by the International Association for Dialogue Analysis and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Miland, May 15-17, 2008, with the paper "What does sentimentalism mean? Emotive meaning in some elliptic and a fortiori argumentations".
Course "Antropología del cuerpo en Octavio Paz", for literature teachers of middle school, in the "Talleres de Capacitación para Profesores 2008", Instituto de investigación en Educación, Universidad de Costa Rica, February 2-6th 2009.
Conference "El relativismo del siglo XXI", Cátedra Karol Wojtyla - Colegio de Profesionales de Ciencias Económicas de Costa Rica, San José, February 4th, 2009.
"Il senso antropologico dell'amicizia nella poesia nahuatl", March 4th, session of the course Le lingue e le culture precolombiane, Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano, Rome, February 24th - May 19th, 2009.
Conference La fede e la ragione, Università della Santa Croce, schools of Philosophy and Theology, Rome, February 26-27, 2009, with the paper "Il valore critico della fiducia".
Member of the organizing comitee of Reason, Finction and Faith. An International Flannery O'Connor Conference, University of the Holy Cross, School of Institutional Communication, April 20-22, 2009, with the paper "Sopra e sotto, coordinate della vicenda umana". (view interview on Il Sussidiario)
Polyphony and Intertextuality in Dialogue, conference organized by the International Association for Dialogue Analysis and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, September 15th-17th, 2009, with the paper "La intertextualidad de la música de Alfred Schnittke".
Los indígenas en la literatura hispanoamericana, conference organized by the Red Internacional de Investigación "Literatura Hispanoamericana y sus Valores" and the Universität Passau (Lehrstuhl für Romanische Literaturen und Kulturen), Passau, September 24ht-27th, 2009, with the paper "Imagen de los indígenas en la obra de Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834-1893)".
Church Communications. Identity & Dialogue, conference organized by the University of the Holy Cross, School of Institutional Communication, Rome, April 26-28th, 2010, with the paper "Framing the Public Discourse about Life and Death in Italy".
Festival de Música de Cámara de Aguascalientes, organized by the Instituto de Cultura de Aguascalientes, July 18-25, 2010, with the conference "La pregunta por el sentido en la música contemporánea. La figura de Alfred Schnittke", July 24, 2010.
Symposium L'evangelizzazione e l'identità latinoamericana. 200º anniversario dell'indipendenza dell'America Latina, organized by the University of the Holy Cross, with the paper "La Madonna di Guadalupe e l'identità messicana", Roma, November 10th, 2010.
Congress Argomentare le proprie ragioni. Organizzare, condurre e valutare un dibattito, organized by the University of Padua, with the paper "Risorse per gestire stereotipi e fenomeni simili", Padua, November 18th-19th, 2010.
He was one of the organizers, for the Ongoing Seminar Poetics & Christianity, of the conference "The Catholic Factor in 20th Century Writing" (University of the Holy Cross, School of Social Institutional Communication), Rome, May 5-6, 2011. He presented a paper with the title "Due narrative della confessione: Juan José Arreola e Fernando del Paso".
Conference Dialogue Analysis: Literature as Dialogue, organized by International Association for Dialogue Analysis and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, April 2-4, 2012, with the paper "Literary Text's Freedom and ist Encounter with the Reader".
Conference The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty. Linguistic, Psychological, Philosophical Aspects, organized by the University of Macerata, the University of Verona and the University of Würzburg, with the paper "The scale certain/uncertain in the politeness polarity clear/delicate", Macerata (Italy), October 3-4, 2012.
Conference Dialogue-driven Change in the Public Sphere, organized by Estidia (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue) and the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (Department Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication), with the paper "What is Persuasive in Old and New Qualities of Things?", Bari, 2-5 ottobre 2013.
Conference (Inter)Faces of Dialogue: Constructing Identity through Language Use, organized by the International Association for Dialogue Analysis and the Transilvania University, June 5th-7th, 2014, Brasov, Rumania, with the paper "Taking Care of Identity through Politeness".
He was one of the organizers of the 6th conference Poetics & Christianity, Scrivere: per chi e perché. Gioie e fatiche dell'artista, University of the Holy Cross, School of Communication, Rome, April 27-28, 2015.
Conference Rhetoric in the Knowledge Society, organized by the Rhetoric Society of Europe, the Polish Society of Rhetoric and the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Modern Languages, Warsaw, June 24-26, 2015, with the paper: "La rilevanza della concezione di umanità nella persuasione".
Conference Anthropologies of Dialogue, organized by the International Association for Dialogue Analysis and the Université de Lorraine Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Nancy, France, August 27-29, 2015, with the paper: "Dialogue in View of Human Caring".
Conference Languages in Contact, organized by the Commitee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, May 28-29, 2016, with the paper: "Is there an Animal Goodwill? About Animal Persuasion".
Conference Dialogue without Borders, organized by Estidia (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue), the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridsky", the Institut for Rhetoric and Communication of Sofia and the Centre for New Media and Transdisciplinary Dialogue de Costanza (Rumania), September 29-30, 2017, with the paper: "Taking Care of Others' Image: when the Other is Beyond a Border".
Conference Dialogue, Interaction and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language Use in Everydey Life, organized by the International Association for Dialogue Analysis and the Università di Bologna, October 11th-14th, 2017, with the paper: "The social virtues in taking care of other's image".
XIII Coloquio Internacional Literatura Hispanoamericana y sus Valores. En el segundo centenario de la Independencia: relaciones entre Europa y América Latina, organized by Universidad de la Sabana (Colombia), University of Wroclaw (Poland) and Red Internacional de Investigación Literatura Hispanoamericana y sus Valores, Wroclaw, Poland, November 13-15 , 2017, with the paper: "El lugar de México en el mundo según Octavio Paz. La comprensión de la etapa virreinal".
Conference Rhetoric ad Equipment for Living, organized by Rhetoric Society of Europe - Ghent University (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences), Ghent, Belgium, September 11-13, 2019, with the paper "Errors and successes in metonymic denominations. The task of goodwill in the use of symbols"
Conference Hybrid Dialogues: Trascending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal Polarizations, organized by European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Estidia) - University of Neaples 'L'Orientale', Neaples, September 19-21, 2019, with the paper "Male vs. Female Resources for Care and for Dialogue on Concrete Care".
Conference Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue? Communicating Unity in/and Diversity through Language and Discourse, organized by International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA), University of Warsaw, and Discourse, Dialogicity & Dialogue (DDD), Varsavia, Poland, September 22-25, 2020, with the paper "Dialogue as person-centered common good".
- Conference Las tramas retóricas de las memorias, organized by Universidad de Buenos Aires and Organización Iberoamericana de Retórica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 11-13, 2021, with the paper, together with Andrea Claudia Valente (York University, Toronto): "La retórica del autismo en la cultura popular: ¿puede una construcción dialógica del cuidado reconfigurar nuestra comprensión de los autistas y de la empatía?"
Among the most meaningful courses:
"Pure and Applied Semantics in 12th and 13th Centuries", Doctorate Course for the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad Panamericana, campus of Mexico City, August 17th-30th, 1993.
"Introductory Seminar to Medieval Logic ", in the within of the History of the Medieval Philosophy (ordinary: Prof. Alfonso Maierù), Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", (Dipartimento di Studi Filosofici ed Epistemologici), academic year 1994-95.
"Antropología y lenguaje: ordinario, poético y musical", Doctorate Course for the Faculty of Philosophy Universidad Panamericana, campus of Mexico City, August 11th-22nd, 1997.
"La unidad del hombre en el lenguaje poético y musical", cycle of conferences, Universidad Panamericana, campus of Guadalajara, August 26th-28th, 1997.
"Semantic and Reasoning in 12th to 14th Centuries", Doctorate Course for the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad Panamericana, campus of Mexico City, August 1999.
"Lógica, argumentación y diálogo", course for graduates, Universidad Panamericana, campus of Guadalajara, August 1999.
Course "The Revelation of Human Condition in Musical Experience", Universidad Bonaterra (Aguascalientes, Mexico), September 12th-14th 2001.
Course "Lógica, argumentación y diálogo", Universidad Panamericana (Guadalajara, Mexico), August 3rd &endash; September 4th 2001.
Course about dialogue for the company Sicap (Tijuana, Mexico), September 19th-21st.
Course for Master in Humanities, "La antropología de la poética de Octavio Paz", at the Universidad Bonaterra, Aguascalientes (Mexico), August 9th-31st, 2002.
Continuity course for teachers of the Universidad Bonaterra, Aguascalientes (Mexico), "El valor unitivo de la distancia en el diálogo", August 22nd-28th, 2002.
Course "Dialogo e argomentazione" for the Speciality in Anthropology and Ethics of the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara (Messico), September 10th-24th, 2002.
Course "Dialogue and Argumentation" for philosophy untergraduates of Universidad Panamericana, campus of Mexico City (August 9th-26th, 2004) and for the Master in Humanism of Universidad Bonaterra (Aguascalientes, Mexico, August 27th - September 11th).
Course "Dialogue and Argumentation" for philosophy graduates of Universidad Panamericana, campus of Mexico City (August 14-18, 2006), for the Instituto Juan Pablo II at Guadalajara (September 28-30) and for the Master in Arts & Humanities of Universidad Bonaterra (Aguascalientes, Mexico, September 8-23).
Course "Mi verdad tu verdad. Diálogo y argumentación", para la Maestría en Historia del Pensamiento, Universidad Panamericana, Facultad de Filosofía, México DF, August 4-27, 2008.
Course "El misterio de la persona humana en la música contemporánea", Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, August 23, 2008.
Course "La virtud humanizadora de la experiencia artística", UPAEP, Puebla, August 29, 2008.
Course for graduate students (thesis seminar) "Comunicar las humanidades en el siglo XXI", Universidad Panamericana, Bonaterra campus (Aguascalientes), 9-13 de agosto de 2010.
Course for professors "El valor del cuerpo en Octavio Paz", Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, August 23-26, 2010.
Course for graduate students (Philosophy) "La experiencia artística como factor humanizador y de configuración de la persona", Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus, August 30 - September 3, 2010 .
Course for professors of the Anthropology and Ethics Academy "Pragmalinguistic Resources for the Understandig of Cultures", Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus, September 10-11, 2010.
Course for educative consulting experts "Take care: the human plenty of people's care", Forjando Hábitos AC, Guadalajara (Mexico), July 5-6, 2012.
Course "Anthropology of body and care" for Master in History of Thought at the Humanities Faculty, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, August 13-29, 2012.
Course "La plenitud humana del cuidado de la persona", Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Puebla (Mexico), September 3-12, 2012.
Course "Diálogo y argumentación", for Master in "Filosofía con mención en Antropología Filosófica" (view), Universidad de Piura (Peru), Facultad de Humanidades, August 24th - September 7th, 2013.
Course "Persuasión y cortesía en la acción directiva", for undergraduate students, Universidad de Piura (Peru) August 26th - September 5th, 2013.
Course La persuasión en la relación superior/subordinado, ICAMI: Centro de Formación y Perfeccionamiento Directivo, Culiacán (Sinaloa), Mexico, August 11th, 2014; Mexico City, September 5th; September 12th.
Course La retórica como antropología de la persuasión, per studenti di licenza in Filosofia, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, August 15-19th, 2016.
Course ¿Qué queda de la retórica después de la pragmática lingüística?, para profesores de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México, 27-30 de junio de 2016.
Course La retórica como antropología de la persuasión, per studenti di laurea in Filosofia,
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Messico, 15-19 agosto 2016.Corso La persuasión y lo humano contingente, di 24 ore per docenti di diverse sedi dell'Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Messico, 2-6 agosto 2017.
- Course "Rhetoric: Antropology of persuasion", for Maestría en Gobierno de las Organizaciones. PAD, Escuela de Dirección, Universidad de Piura, Peru, March 26 - April 30, 2021, online.
Among the most meaningful seminars and conferences:
"Wittgenstein y la autorrealización del hombre en el centenario de su nacimiento", Universidad Panamericana, campus de Guadalajara, October 27th, 1989.
"Esplendor y ocaso de la cultura occidental: persona e interdisciplinariedad", Magisterial Lesson held in closing of the course for managers "Valores y cultura occidental. Retrospección y perspectivas", Centro Panamericano de Humanidades, Monterrey (Mexico), July 5th, 1993.
"La poética de Octavio Paz y la antropología personalista de Juan Pablo II", conference for professors of the Universidad Panamericana, campus of Guadalajara, August 16th, 1993.
"L'immagine dell'uomo nel linguaggio poetico e musicale", conference held in Verona, March 15th, 1996, at the Marani Center.
"Man's Image in Poetic and Musical Language", Magisterial Lesson in opening of the scholastic year of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad Panamericana, campus of Mexico City, August 5th, 1997.
"Love, Family and Marriage in Octavio Paz ", three conferences held in McMinnville, Oregon (Linfield College, September 10th, 1997), in Clackamas County (Clackamas Comunity College, September 10th), and in Oregon City (Carnegie Center, September 11th). The latter two conferences for the Oregon Chamber of Commerce.
"La retorica in una considerazione integrale dell'uomo", conference held for the association Mosè & Aronne (society of formation for the communication), Rome, April 8th, 1998.
"El pensamiento antropológico en la poética de Octavio Paz", conference held at the Dirección General de Literatura of the Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes (Mexico), September 1999.
Seminar about dialogue for professors and graduates of the Center of Studies of the Traditions of the Colegio de Michoacán (Zamora, Mexico), August 29th 2001.
Conference "Autocreación y comunicación", Universidad Bonaterra (Aguascalientes, Mexico), September 14th 2001.
Conference about dialogue ("El diálogo en la educación"), Universidad Panamericana (Guadalajara, Mexico), August 30th 2001.
Seminar about search at the university, for coordinators of undergraduate courses, Universidad Bonaterra (Aguascalientes, Mexico), September 13th 2001.
Seminar for the Department of Cultural Diffusion of the Universidad Bonaterra, with the titel "¿Qué pasa con la música clásica?", about contemporary music, August 21st, 2002.
Conference "Cortesia, argomentazione e dialogo", for undergraduates of the Philosophy and Communication schools of the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, September 3rd, 2002.
Seminar "La poética de Octavio Paz" for teachers of the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, September 9th-23th, 2002.
Seminar "Narrativa a través del cine: 'Amores Perros' y '21 Gramos'", Universidad Bonaterra, September 9th and 14th. (view the placard)
Session about "Politeness as expression of human being's dignity", per teachers of the telesecundaria rural and the preparatoria agropecuariaof El Peñón, Jonacatepec, Mor. (Mexico), July 10, 2006.
Seminary about dialogue for professors of general studies of ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), August 21, 2006.
Lecture about "Il profilo professionale e umano dell'artista nel mondo nahuatl" for the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano, as part of the course "Le lingue e le culture precolombiane" (February 26th - May 13th, 2008), Rome, April 1st, 2008.
Lecture "La revelación de la condición humana en la experiencia artística", Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, August 22, 2008.
Lecture "El sentimentalismo en la persuasión", Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla, August 28, 2008. View the poster.
Lecture about "Quando gli indigeni scrivono sugli indigeni: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, s.XIX", for the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano, as part of the course Le lingue e le culture precolombiane (February 23th - May 18th, 2010), Rome, 24 marzo.
Lectio Magistralis at the ceremony for the opening of the academic year 2010-2011, "Il comportamento dialettico dello stereotipo", Rome, October 4th, 2010. (View)
Lecture "Il corpo: immagine, proiezione e realtà", for the Centro Feldenkrais Ricerca MenteCorpo, Verona, November 19th, 2010.
Seminary "Persuasión y cortesía en la acción directiva", Instituto de Capacitación para Mandos Intermedios, Guadalajara (Mexico), July 30, 2012.
Seminar Politeness Theory and Care Ethics: la cortesía y la vocación humana al cuidado, Centro Panamericano de Humanidades, Monterrey (Nuevo León), Mexico, August 13th, 2014.
Seminar Octavio Paz: la antropología que revela la experiencia poética, for the Master in Humanity Studies, Centro Panamericano de Humanidades, Monterrey (Nuevo León), Mexico, August 15th-16th, 2014.
Seminar La dimensión antropológica de la pragmalingüística, for the Master in Sociology of the Facultad de Estudios Superiores de Cuautla, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (Mexico), Septembre 2nd, 2014.
Workshop La virtud humanizadora de la experiencia artística, per studenti di laurea della
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (filosofia, letteratura, storia, antropologia, sociologia), Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Messico, 5-9 septiembre 2016.Workshop La atención a la persona en el uso del lenguaje, per studenti di laurea dell'Universidad Potosina, San Luis Potosí, Messico, 1º septiembre 2016.
Lecture Corporalidad, libertad y sociedad en Octavio Paz, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, opening lecture for the Faculty Week, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, September 5, 2016.
Seminar Rasgos de la condición humana a partir de textos nahuas sobre el artista y sobre la amistad, organized by Imágenes Históricas de San Luis Potosí and El Colegio de San Luis, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, September 8, 2016.
Lecture L'esperienza artistica come forza umanizzante, Centro Ricerca Feldenkrais, Auditorium Bisoffi, Verona, December 15th, 2016.Seminar La nueva era de la retórica después de la pragmática lingüística, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, session of the "Seminario de Introducción a la Investigación en Retórica y Educación: Aspectos Lingüísticos y Literarios en el Desarrollo de las Competencias Comunicativas", Mexico City, Mexico, August 25, 2017.Lecture Elementos de relacionalidad en Octavio Paz. El cuerpo, la libertad, la sociedad, Cátedra Carlos Llano (Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas - Universidad Panamericana), Mexico City, Mexico, August 24, 2017.
La cultura nahuatl prima e dopo la Conquista, session of the course Papa Francesco e la Cultura della Solidarietà. Le Culture e le Lingue Autoctone dell'America Latina, organized by the Department for America of the Pontifical Council of the Culture (2.22-5.10.2018; coord. Dr. Juan Valenzuela Vergara), March 22, 2018.
Lesson Il dialogo tra cortesia e cura della persona, Università del Sacro Cuore, Department of Philosophy, Miland, June 7th, 2018.
Seminar De la pasión a la argumentación. Bases antropológicas de la persuasión para el análisis bioético, Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada (Cisav), Querétaro (Mexico), August 10, 2018.
Lecture Retórica fundamental: Bases antropológicas para la credibilidad y la confianza, Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE), Reunión de Evaluación del Proceso Electoral Concurrente 2017-2018, San Luis Potosí (Mexico), August 21, 2018.
Lecture Las virtudes sociales en la persuasión. Filosofía del cuidado y teoría de la cortesía como aportación antropológica a la retórica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico), September 5, 2018.Lecture La etapa virreinal de la historia de México según Octavio Paz, Colegio de San Luis, San Luis Potosí (Mexico), August 23, 2018.
Lecture Las virtudes sociales en la persuasión. Filosofía del cuidado y teoría de la cortesía como aportación antropológica a la retórica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico), September 5, 2018.
Lecture "Buena voluntad y cortesía para entender a los demás", Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia, May 20, 2021, online.
Other activities:
He has listened to the course La retórica como herramienta de la comunicación, organized by the Asociación Española de Estudios sobre Lengua, Pensamiento y Cultura Clásica LOGO, University of Salamanca (Dirección de Cursos Extraordinarios), Spain, November 23rd-26th, 1999 (40 hours).
In Guadalajara (Mexico), stage of practices at the office of information (Dirección General de Comunicación) of the Government of the State of Jalisco (mutual collaboration with Governor's Speaker), August 1999.
Expertise for the Ministry of Public Education of Mexico (search project to be financed), September 2000.
Collaboration for the Scuola Superiore dell'Amministrazione dell'Interno (session about communication and dialogue, in the within of the "XVI Corso Dirigenziale per Viceprefetto Ispettore", Rome, October 31st. 2000).
Presentations of the book La debilidad del poder creador (view the index): August 17 in Mexico City (Universidad Panamericana), August 31 in Guadalajara (Universidad de Guadalajara), September 15 in Aguascalientes (Universidad Bonaterra) and September 21 in San Luis Potosí (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí). View information about the presentations.
Presentations of the book Lo desconocido es entrañable in Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Puebla, Mexico City, Monterrey, San Luis Potosí (view)
Thesis:
Philosophy (Philosophical Faculty at the University of the Holy Cross, except the first one, that is of the University of Navarra):
García Cuadrado, José Angel, La teoría de la suposición en los tratados filosóficos de San Vicente Ferrer, doctoral thesis, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona 1990. (Afterwards published as: Hacia una semántica realista: la filosofía del lenguaje de San Vicente Ferrer, EUNSA, Pamplona 1994.)
Muñoz Cho, Ricardo, Metáforas constitutivas de teorías. Génesis y configuración en Max Black y Richard Boyd, doctoral thesis, Roma 1992.
Salomón H., Eugenio R., Domingo de Soto y la enseñanza de la lógica en México en el siglo XVI, licenciate thesis, Roma 1992.
Lahoz Z., Carlos, Reglamentación del lenguaje trinitario en Pedro de Capua. Análisis semiótico y contextualización histórica, doctoral thesis, Roma 1992.
Gual G., Salvador, "Illatio" e "instantia" en la Summa Theologiae de Pedro de Capua, doctoral thesis, Roma 1997.
Mora Martín, Rafael M., La teoría del signo y la suppositio en la filosofía de Guillermo de Ockham, doctoral thesis, Rome 2002. (Published as: La teoría del signo y la "suppositio" en la filosofía de Guillermo de Ockham, EDUSC, Roma 2003.)
Maldonado Isla, Juan Pedro, Las fronteras del lenguaje en el pensamiento de George Steiner, doctoral thesis, Roma 2006. (Published as: Las fronteras del lenguaje en el pensamiento de George Steiner, Edusc, Rome 2007.)
Communication (Faculty of Institutional Communication at the University of the Holy Cross):
Pietrzykowski, Mariusz, Le strategie dell'argomentazione nella comunicazione istituzionale della Chiesa, doctoral thesis, Rome 2007.
Chlebowski, Tomasz Jan, L'incontro come compito essenziale dell'essere uomo nelle opere di Ryszard Kapuscinski, doctoral thesis, Rome 2011. (Published as: Orizzonti che si incontrano. L'incontro nelle opere di Ryszard Kapuscinski, Persiani, Bologna 2012. // Horyzonty spotkan Ryszarda Kapuscinskiego, Difin, Warsawa 2014.)
Malavé González, Mercedes Margarita, Alfonso Reyes en la tradición humanística de Hispanoamérica, doctoral thesis, Rome 2012.
Sisi, Kayan, Le concept de "politesse-charité" dans la régulation de l'interaction Occident - Autres cultures. Cas de l'accueil des autres cultures en Occident et de l'aide aux pauvres, doctoral thesis, Rome 2013. (Published as: La «Politesse-Charité» dans la régulation de l'interaction Occident-autres cultures. La gestion des faces dans l'accueil des autres cultures en Occident et dans l'aide aux pauvres, Edilivre, Paris 2015.)
Okpeitcha, Oloudé Eric, Communiquer la dignité du corps aux 16-35 ans. Jalons pour une pédagogie de l'éthique du corps, doctoral thesis, Rome 2014.
Ngalo Talo Ngandi, Monulphe, Critères de reconnaissance de la véracité d'un discours. Étude de la notion de verité en rapport avec la littérature oral congolaise, doctoral thesis, Rome 2017.