Two experts meetings held this year – one in Barcelona and the other in Washington, D.C. – managed to bring most participants together physically in STI’s traditional format. A third meeting, with a larger, academic conference format, gathered participants both in Barcelona and through remote digital connections.
The year 2022 also saw the publication of four volumes stemming from previous experts meetings. Additionally, following the third annual STI-IESE joint call for papers, STI awarded research grants to another three projects led by IESE professors.
Meetings:
From April 21-23, a multidisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners came together in Barcelona under the academic leadership of Calum MacKellar to debate Heritable Genome Editing and Equality, in the first of two experts meetings planned on the topic. The second edition is scheduled for March 2023 in London, to be followed by a publication directed at the general public.
STI worked with the Home Renaissance Foundation to hold the two institutions’ fourth jointly organized experts meeting – The Home and Displaced People – at the Catholic University of America.
Finally, Corporate Governance, Corporate Culture and the Board’s Culture was held at IESE’s Barcelona campus (and online) on October 3 – the fourth in a series of IESE-ECGI conferences sponsored by STI.
Publications:
Under the academic leadership of Marta Bertolaso, Luca Capone and Carlos Rodriguez-Lluesma, a series of online discussion sessions in April and May 2021 led to the (Palgrave) publication of a volume entitled, Digital Humanism: A Human-centric Approach to Digital Technologies. Tech pioneer Mei Lin Fung summarized for STI her chapter contribution in a February news article.
An earlier experts meeting held in 2020 in Rome at the Campus Bio Médico, also under Marta Bertolaso’s academic leadership, was published as Personalized Medicine in the Making: Philosophical Perspectives from Biology to Healthcare by Springer.
After the online experts meeting Happy Homes, Happy Society? The Contribution of Domestic Life in a Time of Social Changes, additional contributions were included in the Routledge volume, Happiness and Domestic Life: The Influence of the Home on Subjective and Social Wellbeing.
Another 2020 online experts meeting resulted in the book, Human Flourishing: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Neuroscience, Health, Organizations and Arts, available from Springer in Open Access as well as in hard- and soft-cover editions.
Research Grants:
Three separate 2022-23 STI Research Grants were awarded to investigate how various institutions can contribute to thriving and sustainable societies: firms by AI adoption; real estate by green economy transition; and state, business, and civil institutions by acknowledging their inter-related roles in order to strengthen their eroding societal legitimacy. The details were revealed in this August 30 news item.
