Matthias M. Tischler will be the new ICREA Senior Research Professor at the Institute for Medieval Studies starting in January 2017. Tischler co-directs the European project HERA on the construction of Europe after the fall of the Carolingian Empire and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies.
The UAB Rector has appointed as new director of the Observatory for Equality journalist and writer Joana Gallego, professor of Communication Studies and co-director of the master's degree in Gender and Communication.
On 25 November, at noon, the UAB community held a minute of silence in memory of victims of gender violence. The initiative was held as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Department of Art and Musicology lecturer Francesc Cortès recently identified the composer's unpublished score of an Italian song based on the text Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri. The study was published in Dante e l’Arte, a journal by the UAB Institute of Medieval Studies.
The exhibit "Children of the War" was on display at the UAB theatre until 9 December. The exhibit focused on one of the nicest examples of solidarity between communities: the reception of refugee children during the Spanish Civil War.
On 30 November, the UAB will be hosting the first of the series of #debatspúblicaXXI debates to discuss degree structure: a highly controversial subject that affects all university degrees on an educational and economic level.
An international research project with the involvement of the UAB offers widespread evidence of milk production in southern Europe. The first Neolithic communities began using milk from the onset of agriculture some 9,000 years ago.
The CVC and ICTA participate with three of their projects in the Smart City Expo World Congress which took place until 17 November in Barcelona.
On 24 and 25 November at 10 a.m. the auditorium (Sala d'Actes) of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts will host a symposium entitled “Catalonia: Transition and Democracy. Politics and Culture (1975-2005)”.