In this new edition of the UCEMA Lord Acton Chair a distinguished speaker will investigate the challenged posed to free entreprise by the big business lobby.

The UCEMA Lord Acton Chair was inaugurated on October 1, 2020, and was created by the international organization Acton Institute, based in the United States, and the University of CEMA, within their common objectives of promoting the debate of ideas, humanistic education and the ideas of an open society.

The History and Freedom seminar, organized by the professor and historian Alejandro Gómez, had a 2020 full of activities. Among the most outstanding sessions we can mention that of Ceferino Reato, who spoke about “La violencia política en los 70’s” (political violence in the 70´s). Reato addressed the causes and the consequences of the political violence lived in Argentina during the 1970 decade emphasizing the motivations of the armed groups that participated in that process and highlighting some of the most relevant events that took place during this dramatic period of recent history.

History and Freedom, an already classic cycle for reflection of UCEMA directed by historian Alejandro Gómez, began its 2021 sessions with two luxury analyses on the history of Peronism.

The History and Freedom seminar begins July with chapters dedicated to Nelson Rockefeller and cultural diplomacy in Latin America, and to Juan B. Justo.

En esta edición de la Cátedra Lord Acton, el prestigioso catedrático Jesús Fernández-Villaverde abordará el problema de las regulaciones y cómo afectan a las libertades económicas.

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The 200 years of the Declaration of Independence of 1816 motivated the publication of Reflexiones sobre el Bicentenario (Reflections on the Bicentennial), by Alejandro Gómez, an essay designed to review the most important events in the country´s history.

Clara Campoamor was elected deputy in her country for the Radical Party, which she had joined because it was “republican, liberal, secular and democratic”, values of her ideology which she determined to represent since a very young age. It took her 43 years to achieve that representation, to which she acceded even before being able to vote, without godfathers, without quotas, without cheating.

The second half of the 19th century is also known as the era of the Pax Britannica. That period saw the development of the classical naval thought and is related to the presence of global ties, imperialism, competition between the great powers and the emergence of early navalism. The presentation proposes a fresh view that seeks to establish the connections between the ideological, political and technological context with naval thought in an era of globalization and to the similarities with today.

La Cátedra Lord Acton fue una iniciativa conjunta entre Acton Institute USA y UCEMA, y tendrá su primer encuentro en septiembre, bajo la coordinación de Alejandro Chafuen (Ph.D.), managing director international COMA, Acton USA. Este espacio busca promover el debate de ideas, la formación humanística y las ideas de la sociedad abierta. La Cátedra Lord Acton será coordinada por Acton USA, quién sugerirá los expositores, contando para ello con el apoyo del Instituto Acton Argentina.

Dr. Guido will speak about the political career of Álvaro Alsogaray and his struggle for the dissemination of liberal ideas in the second half of the 20th century in Argentina. And about his trajectory in the party and the doctrinal sources on which he was based.