Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 27 Fall 2009

              Carta desde Espana
An international seminar on Santayana was held in Toledo, Spain at the University of
Castilla-La Mancha on November 17-18, 2008
I    Seminario   Internacional:   La   filosofia   de   George   Santayana:   Interpretaciones
contemporaneas
The main organizer was Dr. Angel Manuel Faerna (Universidad de Castilla-La
Mancha in Toledo), whose dedication and skilful arrangement of the entire conference
was appreciated by all. There were two presentations during the first session; namely,
El pragmatismo abulense de George Santayana en relacion con los valores y los
poderes, by Chris Skowronski (Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland), and
Materiales para una Utopia? Santayana mas olid del espejo by Jose Beltran Llavador
(Universidad de Valencia). During the evening session we could listen to Carmen
Garcia Marin (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) and her paper entitled What is called
love. El test de Platon.
On the second day of the conference were four presentations. Angel Manuel
Faerna presented "Oh tiempo tus pirdmides". Sobre el Prefacio a El reino de la
verdad. Ramon del Castillo (Univerdidad Nacional de Education a Distanca, UNED,
Madrid) presented a paper Naturaleza y experiencia: Santayana y James, una vez mas.
Maria Aurelia di Berardino (Universidad Nacional de La Plata/CONICET, Argentina),
presented Un didlogo en el limbo: Santayana y el pragmatismo sobre la verdad.
Finally, Daniel Moreno Moreno (IES "Miguel Servef, Zaragoza) presented Santayana
sobre el materialismo: ultimos desarolios.
The seminar was concluded by a meeting during which there was a preliminary
discussion on the shape and character of III International Conference on George
Santayana, to be held in November, in Valencia, Spain. The whole event shows a
growing interest in Santayana in Spain's academic world. There are more and more
new translations of Santayana's texts and more and more works devoted to him. Also,
Limbo, the journal devoted to Santayana, has grown enormously in providing us
comprehensive studies. Last, but not least, there are interesting conferences. Here are
two examples:
Seminario de Filosofia "Visiones del ser humano: Unamuno, Santayana, Ortega,
Zubiri, Aranguren y Zambrano." See:
http://www.unirioia.es/apnoticias/servlet/Noticias7codnot-l 251 &accion=defnot
Seminario Internacional Complutense: Pensamiento Anglonorteamericano. See:
http://www.ucm.es/info/FInglesa/pensamiento.htm)
KRZYSZTOF (CHRIS) PIOTR SKOWRONSKI
Opole University, Poland