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Description:

This workshop aims to familiarize participants with the conceptual tools which have been developed in the history of emotions and, more recently, in the history of experience for the renewal of the history of science, medicine, and technology.

Drawing on the most significant research that has been conducted since the announcement of the so-called "affective turn", we will show that emotions have a long history that is intimately linked to the social, cultural, and material history of science. We will examine the main theories that have transformed emotions into an object of scientific study, as well as the role that emotions have played in the processes of observation and experimentation, and in shaping the social formation of the scientific ethos.

Finally, we will analyze the inherent methodological limitations of using emotion as a category of analysis and the advantages of adopting the approach proposed by the history of experience in order to understand the history of science. This exercise will lead us to explore how marginalized groups within the scientific field have —through their experiences— constituted a plurality of knowledge(s), which has the potential to broaden the horizons of the history of science.

Dolores Martín Moruno is a senior research scientist at the Milà i Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities (CSIC) in Barcelona. Her publications include Emotional bodies: The historicalresearch scientist at the Milà i Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities (CSIC) in Barcelona. Her publications include Emotional bodies: The historical performativity of emotions (Illinois University Press, 2019), Making Humanitarian crises: Emotions and images in history (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and Beyond compassion: Gender and humanitarian action (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

This seminar is part of the “Workshops on Historiographic Tools” (WHITS) series and is part of Module 7 "Individual, health and society: Science and biopower" in the "University Master’s degree in History of Science: Science, History and Society" (UAB-UB-UPF-CSIC). It is primarily aimed at master students but is open to the entire academic community.

Place: iHC Seminar room

Date: Thursday 9, April de 2026 - 15:30h

Date: Thursday 9, April de 2026 - 17:00h

Description:

With the aim of introducing the University's students to the different options that board games and video games offer to deepen research and knowledge, the UAB libraries have organised an entire day of demonstrations on how games with very diverse themes work.

Activities at the UAB Jugató 

• Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives

Location: COMTEC Video Games Service Centre, Second Floor 
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The Library will exhibit and explain how board games related to the field of communication work. For example, games on journalism (Pulitzer), photography (Red Carpet), radio (Días de Radio), film (Spoilers, Black Stories), and television (El Joc de TV3). The games will be available to play. The Video Games Service will also display a selection of video games related to communication that are available on the Steam platform.

• Science and Technology Library

Location: Espai BCT
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Library will dedicate this space to sessions in which staff will explain how to play a selection of the available games, all of them fast-paced, related to mathematics (Ubongo, Quarto), the natural environment (Embosca’t, Wingspan, Catalunya Birds Memory Game), and genetics (PhyloGenome, with a special session given by Sònia Casillas, Vice-Dean of Students, Employability and Communication of the Faculty of Science and creator of the game).

• Social Sciences Library

Location: Ground Floor
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Library staff will offer a demonstration of the game El Crimen de Quintana de la Matanza, an investigation case that will test the deductive skills of participants and invite them to solve a mystery step by step.

In addition, attendees will be able to participate in an unboxing of several board games, such as Cluedo, La resistència and Pandèmia. This activity will consist of opening the boxes, discovering their components and trying out the dynamics and mechanics of each game.

• Veterinary Library

Location: Game Space
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The library invites you to try out the new virtual reality glasses, which offer an immersive and relaxing experience to reflect, from a one health approach, on the connection between human, animal and environmental health.

Attendees will start with Pollinator Park, an experience that transports one to a dystopian future in which pollinators have disappeared, to discover how their absence affects the entire food chain and our own wellbeing. Then, with the Honeybee VR game, you will completely change your perspective to understand the essential role of bees in the ecosystem

The Birds of Catalonia Memory Game will also be available to play. This memory game launched by scientific illustrator Àlex Mascarell was created to learn about the different species of bird fauna existing in different parts of Catalonia in a fun and entertaining way.

• Sabadell University Library

Location: Ground Floor
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The Library will test the ingenuity of players with games such as Monopoly, to buy, sell and negotiate properties with the aim of achieving a great fortune; Catan, in which towns and cities are built on the island of Catan while exchanging resources with other participants; Le Havre, based on developing a city and obtaining the maximum wealth possible, and many other games.

• Humanities Library

Location: Digital Lab, Room 1 (Periodicals Room)
Time: 11:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m.

The Library invites you to take a journey through history with board games. From prehistory, with Carcassonne: Cazadores y Recolectores and Stone Age, to the 20th century with Votes for Women and Twilight Struggle, passing through the empires of antiquity with Mediterranean Empires.

• Medical Library (Bellaterra)

Location: Espai Àgora
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The Library will offer a full morning of challenges, diagnoses and critical decisions with the most exciting board games about medicine: Medical Challenges, with 800 questions about medicine; New York: Emergency Service, in which a patient's symptoms and history are analysed to find out what disease they have, with real cases of highly complex clinical histories; Save Patient Zero, in which players must find the antidote before their opponents; Pandemic: Iberia, to stop the progress of historical diseases; Dice Hospital, in which you manage a hospital, and Rush M.D., to experience the adrenaline of an intensive care unit in real time.

• Josep Laporte Library (Barcelona)

Location: games and resting space
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Attendees will be able to play the game Desafíos Médicos.
 

• Vall d’Hebron Hospital Campus Library (Barcelona)

Location: Espai de dinamització, Library Hall
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Students can discover and enjoy games that inspire a passion for solving and controlling dangerous diseases: Virus, a card game in which you compete to eradicate a virus; and Pandemic, a cooperative board game in which the team must keep four dangerous diseases under control, while fighting to discover how to eradicate them.

Place: UAB Libraries

Date: Wednesday 15, April de 2026 - 09:00h

Promotor: UAB

Description:

The Cicle Seminaris a l’Abast series is a training space for dynamisation and participation, where current and interesting topics are discussed. The series includes 8 sessions lasting 2 hours each, independent of each other, with a total duration of 16 hours. Registration can be made for the entire cycle or for single sessions, online or in person.

The seminar “Physical activity, nature and emotional well-being: what does the scientific evidence tell us?” will take place on 15 April. It will focus on the analysis of connection between exercising in natural environments and mental and emotional health. The seminar will reflect on its implications for improving human health and preserving the environment. The event will feature the participation of Antoni Sanz, lecturer at the Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology at the UAB.

Place: UAB Auditorium (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)

Date: Wednesday 15, April de 2026 - 17:00h

Description:

The UAB will be the scenario of the tenth edition of this conference, organised by the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) in collaboration with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

The welcome session will be given by Javier Lafuente, rector of the UAB, Josep Maria López Martín, deputy director general of Fauna Cinegètica, Caça i Pesca Continental of the Government of Catalonia, and Monique Principi, director general of BIWFC.

The congress will once again bring together the international scientific and professional community in this specialised field to provide continuity to previous international forums dedicated to the control of wildlife fertility and the role that these strategies can play in mitigating conflicts between humans and wildlife.

With the title "Bridging the Gap: From Science to Management", the meeting aims to bring scientific research closer to practical management on the ground. Professionals from various disciplines will gather to share the latest advances in areas such as research and development of new strategies, improvement of existing methods, ongoing and completed field studies, identification and management systems, practical application case studies, the human dimension of wildlife management, stakeholder participation, scientific communication, and the social, regulatory and political challenges associated with this field.

The plenary session programme will feature the participation of four prominent international voices in the field of wildlife fertility control:

- Giovanna Massei, director of BIWFC in Europe and professor of Human Interactions with Wildlife at the University of York, United Kingdom, will present the paper "Too many? Wildlife fertility control in the future".

- Jordan Hampton, senior professor of Veterinary Physiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine Harry Butler Institute of Murdoch University, Australia, will offer the conference "Navigating contemporary animal welfare expectations in wildlife fertility control".

- Cameron Kovach, head of programmes at The Wildlife Society (TWS), will give the presentation "Transforming wildlife management: making space for new ideas".

- John Boone, research director of the Great Basin Bird Observatory, United States, will address the management of free-roaming cat populations with the session "Making the most of fertility control: Insights from free-roaming cat population management".

Attendance at the conference will allow participants to obtain up to 14.5 Category I continuing education credits (CEUs) within the Certified Wildlife Biologist title renewal and professional development programme, offered by The Wildlife Society, with the equivalence of one credit for each hour of training.

The fact that this conference is being held at the UAB consolidates the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine as an international reference space in research, knowledge transfer, and debate on the sustainable management of wildlife.

Congress programme

Place: Hotel Campus and Convention Centre, UAB Campus

Date: Thursday 23, April de 2026 - 08:15h

Date: Friday 24, April de 2026 - 17:30h

Promotor: Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Description:

Gravitational waves (GWs) can be produced by a first-order phase transition in the early Universe via the fluid perturbations induced in the primordial plasma by the expansion and collision of broken-phase bubbles. Alberto Roper Pol, professor of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), will review the production of GWs by the anisotropic stresses of velocity and magnetic fields induced in a first-order phase transition and present recent developments on the analytical estimates and numerical simulations that address the stochastic GW background produced by acoustic motion (sound waves) and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. These GWs could be detectable by current and future GW detectors like LISA or PTA, potentially providing us with direct clean information of the physics at the high energies of the early Universe and probing beyond the Standard Model physics. In addition, the presence of magnetic fields at a phase transition leads to coupled non-linear fluid perturbations, described by MHD turbulence, that will impact the cosmological GW background. The study of these effects can be used to put constraints on primordial magnetic fields. These fields would evolve until present time and leave observable imprints in, for example, the CMB and in the cosmic voids of the large-scale structure of the Universe, allowing us to combine GW observations with other cosmological and astrophysical observations in a multi-messenger approach.

You can access the full event here: https://indico.ifae.es/event/2434

Place: IFAE Seminar Room C7b/064

Date: Thursday 23, April de 2026 - 15:00h

Description:

The REAL-Postgrowth project (Post-growth – REAL – A Post-Growth Deal) is excited to announce that Richard York and Stefano B. Longo will present a public talk as part of our monthly public seminar series.

Seminar: "Environmental sociology, ecological crisis & degrowth" 

Speakers: Richard York, University of Oregon, & Stefano B. Longo, University of Gothenburg.

• Date: Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
• Time:  12 -13h (CET)
• Venue: Sala Z/032 ICTA-UAB and online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89902459669?pwd=3mnkCJeyZ6o60nIIAXHHJNsh1qPZ5k.1

What social structures drive societies beyond planetary boundaries? Drawing on York’s analyses of energy, pollution, and technological displacement and Longo’s work on global development, food systems, and critical sustainability science, this talk examines the growth-dependent political economies that lock modern societies into ecological overshoot. It argues that contemporary provisioning systems reproduce unsustainable resource use and unequal exchange, obstruct just North–South convergence, and help explain why techno-fixes and mainstream sustainability approaches so often fall short. Bringing environmental sociology into dialogue with degrowth and post-growth scholarship, the talk examines the structural and political-economic drivers of ecological change and the constraints they place on more just and ecologically viable forms of social provisioning. 

Richard York is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. An environmental sociologist working at the intersection of human ecology and political economy, he studies how the structural characteristics of modern societies shape energy use, resource consumption, and pollution, and has been especially influential in showing the limits of technological substitution as a sustainability strategy.

Stefano B. Longo is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. His research examines global development, agri-food and marine systems, and the social drivers of ecological change, while also advancing a more sociologically grounded sustainability science attentive to power, historical specificity, and just transitions.

Date: Tuesday 28, April de 2026 - 12:00h