Last August, the Graduate Program in Sociology and Political Science of the Federal University of Pelotas held the seminar Discussing Modernity Today: Discourses, Inequalities and Emotions. Professors Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel and Maria del Carmen Marimón Llorca from the University of Alicante addressed current modernity issues such as the ideological discourse of language, love and inequality, creativity, and social and cultural contradictions in modernity.

Also happening last August, the Graduate Program in Chemistry at UFPel held the seminar Changing Paradigm for Organoselenium Compounds in Medicinal Chemistry, taught by Professor Claudio Santi, from the University of Perugia.