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Regnar Kristensen presented his book at the Department.

You can now access the Department's Newsletter for the month of April.

Forum l’Escala-Empúries, with the support of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the AHCISP Research Group, the Autonomous Solidarity Foundation and the CORE of Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​together with the NGO AlterNativa-Intercanvi amb pobles Indígenes de Barcelona, ​​l'Escala City Council and l'Escala-Empúries's Cultura, present the Exhibition La Mar de Dones, dedicated to showing the persistent presence and key role of women in the economic, socio-ecological and cultural life of the sea. The exhibition begins on the Costa Brava and the Mediterranean and ends with a display of the active life of women at sea around the world.

The exhibition was curated by Assumpció Vila (CSIC) and Jordi Estévez (UAB).

Thursday, April 9 at 4:00 p.m. in the Graduate Room of the Faculty of Arts.

• Day and time: 03/26 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• Graus Room of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature

The program “30 Minuts” on 3CAT (February 22, 2026), “An uncomfortable heritage” featured the participation of anthropologists from the Trafricants group (Museums and collections of Catalonia facing coloniality), including Alba Valenciano, a researcher from our Department.

For master's students in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Human Geography, Environmental Studies and related disciplines.

The main associations and all the Anthropology departments of Catalan universities have promoted the Commission for the Professional College of Anthropology, presented on January 29 within the framework of the IV Catalan Congress of Anthropology (CoCA).

From January 14 to February 4, the posters prepared by students of the subject Anthropology of the Peoples of Spain of the Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, with professor Montserrat Clua (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, UAB), prepared as a final year project, will be exhibited in the lobby of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The posters can also be seen on Instagram and the subject website.

It is a pleasure to present you with the new digital publication from our Department's Ethnography and Anthropology collection:
"The Pilgrimage. The Union of a Cartel Between God and the Devil", by Regnar Kristensen.
In open access: Link