Holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI, 2006–2007) and a research fellow at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI, 2007–2008). He has been Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Autonomous University of Madrid since 2008 and currently serves as Dean of its Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (since 2026).

His research examines digital communication and how the internet is transforming human behaviour and social life. This has led him to work on Digital Humanities and Technopolitics. His current projects focus on social conflict, political discourse, and the emotions embedded within them.

Manuel Alcántara Plá (moderator)

Holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a PhD from the University of Barcelona. She has taught at the University of Cádiz and the University of Zaragoza, and she currently teaches at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she is the coordinator of the Degree in Translation and Interpreting and also participates in the Master’s Programme in Audiovisual Translation and Localisation. Her main lines of research focus on poetic translation and on author‑translators of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as on the reception of French authors of the same period.

Irene Atalaya

Holds a Licentiate degree and a PhD in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1989 and 1999). He also completed a Master’s degree in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (1989–1991). He began his university teaching career in 1999 at the SEK University of Segovia, later teaching at UNED and IE University. He has been an Associate Professor since 2004 and an Interim Senior Lecturer since 2010 in the area of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). He has taught in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Philosophy, Art History, History and Music Sciences, as well as in the Double Degree in Philosophy and History and Sciences of Music and Musical Technology.

José G. Birlanga Trigueros

Holds a PhD in Philosophy and Language Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), where she currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. She holds degrees in Physics and Philosophy, as well as Master’s degrees in Astrophysics and in Democracy and Government. She has been a visiting fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University.

Lucía Ortiz de Zárate Alcarazo

Associate Professor in the Department of General Linguistics, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Modern Languages, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, and East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he has taught since 2001. He is a member of the PhD Programme in Philosophy and Language Sciences and coordinates the Research Group on Online Conflicts – Panoptikuhn, dedicated to the critical analysis of digital society and argumentative practices in technological environments.

His research focuses on Logic and the Philosophy of Science, with particular attention to the philosophy of technology, the information society, the history of contemporary logic, and the study of argumentation in digital media. He has supervised and continues to supervise doctoral theses in areas such as computation theory, the history of logic, and the philosophy of technology.

He has published in journals such as History and Philosophy of Logic and Studies in Universal Logic, and is the author of monographs including Sócrates en Viena: una biografía intelectual de Kurt Gödel. His contributions include studies on Gödel, Henkin, and the evolution of logical systems, as well as analyses of the political and social dimensions of digital networks.

Enrique Alonso González

Associate Professor of Italian Philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he also directs the Master’s Programme in Italian Studies. He studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza and earned an MA and a PhD from the University of Toronto with a dissertation on art and writing in fifteenth‑century Florence. He has been a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and a visiting professor at institutions such as Barnard College (Columbia University) and the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

He has published widely on Italian literature and culture of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries in international journals, and is the author of the critical edition of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Commentarii (Giunti, 1998). He is a founding member of the University Institute La Corte en Europa (IULCE), where he also serves on the Scientific Council. His research focuses on the relationships between art and literature, and between literature and justice, fields in which he develops projects within IULCE and the research group IRMA, which he co‑directs.

Lorenzo Bartoli