The reason for the Professors' Forum letter
The LSE and Catalonia: Pluralism?
The letter written by the Professors' Forum and addressed to the Director and Director of Communications and Public Affairs of the London School of Economics (LSE) is an open response to the conference organized by this prestigious London School that will take place on the 31st of January. A round table with a biased participation and in which only one vision of the complicated Catalan conflict is represented.
The session will be developed under the title “What Now? The Political and Judicial future of the Catalan Independentist Movement”, and in the call and announcement of the event only appear people clearly positioned in favour of the Catalan independence movement: Clara Ponsati, currently escaped from the Spanish Justice in Scotland, Professor of Economics at the University of Saint Andrews and former Minister of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia; Aamer Anwar, lawyer of the ex-minister, and the current Minister for External Action of the Generalitat, Alfred Bosch.
The round table is organized by the Catalan Observatory and the Cañada Blanch Center, both integrated into the LSE.
The Professors’ Forum, in favour of a balanced debate
The organization in the LSE of London of a round table on the Catalan independence movement has caused discomfort in a large number of Spanish professors from various universities members of the Forum of Professors. The reason is none other than the lack of pluralism in this event in which only the pro-independence part of Catalonia is represented, while other opinions and points of view from the constitutionalism are silenced.
Given this fact, the Forum of Professors has published an open letter to the director of the LSE and the director of Communication expressing their displeasure at the lack of balance in the event to be held on January 31 under the title "What Now? The Political and Judicial future of the Catalan Independentist Movement”.
The letter includes:
-Welcome to any balanced debate on the subject of Catalan secession, as the LSE itself has done in the past.
-The Professors’ Forum complains that this balance is broken in the round table on January 31, where only one part in the conflict, the independence movement, is represented.
-The Professors’ Forum is afraid that Professor Ponsatí will take the opportunity to use the prestigious platform offered by LSE to misrepresent her case and delegitimize the Spanish courts of justice.
-It asks the management of the LSE to request the organizers to reconsider "the panel of participants to allow for a wider expression of opinions, since the current panel is clearly biased".
-The Forum is clear about the fact that a plural representation, with all the voices represented (including, of course, that of Professor Ponsatí), "is the best and fairest approach to addressing the complex and divisive issue of the Catalan civil conflict"
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