!!Professor Genoveva Marti approved as New Chair of the Humanities and Arts Class
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__Academia Europaea is pleased to announce that [Professor Genoveva Marti|Member/Marti_Genoveva] was approved unanimously with immediate effect as a new Class Chair of the Humanities and Arts Class.__
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__The Board of Academia Europaea would like to express its deep gratitude to [Professor Poul Holm|Member/Holm_Poul], the former Chair of the Humanities and Arts Class for his more than 6 years lasting leadership and dedicated service as Class Chair. Professor Holm's commitment and efforts have significantly strengthened the Class and contributed to the broader mission of the Academy.
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__Academia Europaea thank Professor Holm for the time and energy he invested in his role as Class Chair and wishes him continued success in his future endeavors.__
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!About Genoveva Marti
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Professor Genoveva Marti, an ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona, was born in Barcelona and obtained my "Licenciatura" (BA) at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1981. In 1982 she joined the PhD program at Stanford University, where her PhD was awarded in January 1989. She was Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Reader at the London School of Economics. 2014 - 2015 she was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). She was coordinator of the research group LOGOS ([http://www.ub.es/grc_logos]). Prof. Marti was awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2012. She was elected as member of the [Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies|Acad_Main/Sections/Philosophy_theology_and_religious_studies] section in 2009 and was the the Academic Director of the [Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub|https://aebarcelona.eu/en] in Barcelona from January 2013 till July 2014. 
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Professor Marti about her research topics:
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"''I am primarily interested in the exploration of reference, the relation between words and pieces of the world that makes it possible to talk about things. A traditional explanation of the relation of reference is the view that reference is mediated by our cognitive perspective on things. On this view, which objects we talk about is determined by the concepts we associate with the expressions we use. Against this view I defend an approach according to which what we refer to is not determined by our internal mental states nor by the concepts we entertain; it rather depends on social and causal factors that are external to our mind. This area of research is connected to other research areas, especially in Linguistics and Psychology.  I also have worked on the explanation of legal disputes from the point of view of different theories of reference, on the role of the theory of reference in the defense of scientific realism and on the impact of experimental data on semantics."''