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Me at Univeristy of Navarra I had the opportunity to visit Pamplona during a conference organised by Discourse Analyses ,  in March, 2016. Was for the first time in Spain,  and took any chance to see and experience as much as I could.                                       Pompey The name of Pamplona comes from the Roman General Pompey, which camped in Navarra in the winter of 75-74 BC, when fought against Sertorius (the latter has a fascinated life and he was compared with 'Hannibal' for his courage; he was assassinated though, by means of tracery exactly when he was about to establish an independent Roman republic in Hispania  - the modern Spain). Sertorius As I read about it, this land was the centre of numerous military campaigns between V to VIII century,  and even before and after: the  Roman sovereignty, the Germanic invasion, the Visigoth dom...

As an academic or even passionate about science, it’s always good and a great added value to participate in the international conferences, scientific debates or presentations. First, you listen to new papers that maybe cannot be found elsewhere, then you can expand your academic network and, not least, you can practice your presentation skills (in case that you are a speaker). Per total, it’s always a great experience to participate to these types of events.   But what if the international conferences, scientific debates and presentations become boring, awkward, stressful and time consuming? How many times have you found a presentation boring? -   Not because of its topic, but because of the way that the speaker chooses to present his paper- . How many times you expected that someone would ask a question, but in fact, the person gives a real speech making you confused about what the question is or what comment is that the person wants to make.   How many ti...