Activities
Thursday, February 29 2024
Dia · Setmana
11:20
Science Carriage: let's talk about obesity and stigma
Description:
Lecturer David Sánchez will be in the Science Carriage expert's seet this week on the train travelling from Barcelona to the UAB and leaving from Plaça Catalunya at 11:28 a.m. Sánchez, lecturer in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and director of the Reseearch Group in Health and Weight-Related Problems, will be talking with passengers about obesity and eating disorders, and the associated stigma.
Sánchez has participated in the podcasts of the Science Carriage, which can be consulted at this link.
Place: Science Carriage, FGC Plaça Catalunya-UAB 11:28 a.m.
Date: Thursday 29, February2024 - 11:20h
Friday, March 8, 2024
09:00
Conference: "Awakening the Lady of the Mountains"
Description:
UAB researchers will participate in this conference, which will include the presentation of the results of the scientific research conducted on the archaeological site of Montanisell Cave (Coll de Nargó, Alt Urgell), dating back 5,500 years, and of the researchers' most outstanding discovery: a woman around 35 to 45 years old buried with extraordinary funerary objects, who they have named "The Lady of the Mountains".
The conference, organised by the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC), will include the participation of Núria Armentano and Cristina Santos, researchers in Physical Anthropology at the UAB, who will speak of the first anthropological results and the palaeogenetic studies and future research possibilities. Also speaking will by researchers from the Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), who conducted the stable isotope analysis of the archaeological site.
More information and conference programme
Place: Auditorium of the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC)
Date: Friday 8, March2024 - 09:00h
End date: Friday 8, March2024 - 17:30h
Organiser: Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC)