Inici Institute of Studies Education
The Institute works in two main areas: education and outreach. We offer academic and scholarly programmes that include the organisation of international conferences, lecture series, language, culture and history courses, seminars aimed at different groups (such as education and tourism professionals), workshops, and activities for families and children of all ages. We also participate in activities organised by other organisations and institutions with the aim of promoting awareness of the city's Jewish history and culture.
The Institute collaborates regularly with the Ferrater Mora Chair in Contemporary Thought at the University of Girona. Since 2005, we have jointly organised lecture series on thought and culture related to Judaism. The lectures take place in the Institute's classroom during the first five months of each year. Since 2010, all lectures have been recorded and can be streamed or downloaded through the following links:

Violence, a problem in Jewish thought?
2026

The Jewish World on the Big Screen. Cinema as a tool, and as a pretext
2025

Philosophers. The importance (or not) of being Jewish
2024

Reflections around Walter Benjamin
2023

In divine image and likeness: feminism and gender in the Jewish tradition
2023

Episodes of Jewish history
2022

Reviving the time lived: memory and history in Judaism
2021

Judaisms: heterodox looks
2020

Catalonia and Judaism: shared identities, diverse relationships
2019

The Jewish contribution to the idea of Europe
2018

The identity from absence: the imagined otherness and a nation building
2017

Pyrenees, border and refuge
2016

Dissidence: differently living, believing and thinking (16th-18th centuries)
2015

Women, Jewish and wise
2014

The languages of Judaism
2013

Music and judaism
2012

Judaism and the press in Europe during the second half of 20th century
2011

The judaism and the press in Europe
2010

Judaism and the dramatic arts
2009

The arts in Judaism
2008

Jewish authors of the 20th century
2007

Israel and Palestine, the voices of conflict
2006

The Jews of Europe: from emancipation to destruction
2005