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Description:

Academic research has devoted relatively little attention to the means of image production, its epistemological meaning, and relationship to culture in general. Although the visual turn of recent years has brought new methodological perspectives, the understanding of images remains limited and is often considered only as a communicative resource to illustrate results, but not as part of the development of a “materialised epistemology” that integrates sensitive knowledge with scientific knowledge and allows for the generation of a different historiography.

Science historian Norton Wise argues that traditional dichotomies that tend to separate art from science, museums from laboratories, and geometric from algebraic methods have impoverished understanding of visualisation processes.

The seminar will use an interdisciplinary vocation to explore other ways of understanding images and their use in research.

Reference article: M. Norton Wise, Making visible, Isis 97 (1):75-82 (2006)

Participants: Andrea Soto Calderón (lecturer in Aestetics and Art Theories, UAB), Blanca Pujals (architect, writer and scriptwriter) and Agustí Nieto-Galan (lecturer in the History of Science, UAB)

Programme

12:00 p.m. Presentation

12:15-12:45 p.m. Projection and contextualisation of the audiovisual Quantum sensing infrastructures (Blanca Pujals)

12:45-1:15 p.m. Commentary (A. Soto Calderón)

1:15-1:45 p.m. Lunch break

1:45-2:15 p.m. Commentary (A. Nieto-Galan)

2:15-3:00 p.m. General debate

This seminar forms part of the "Workshops on Historiographic Tools" (WHITS) series. It is addressed particularly to PhD students, but open to all members of the academic community.

Place: Seminar Hall, iHC

Date: Wednesday 4, February de 2026 - 12:00h

Date: Wednesday 4, February de 2026 - 15:00h

Description:

The Seminaris a l’Abast series is a training space for dynamism and participation, where current issues are discussed. The series includes 8 sessions lasting two hours each, independent of each other, with a total duration of 16 hours. Registration can be made for the entire series or for isolated sessions, and can be attended  online or in person.

On 11 February, the conference “Forensic Consideration of Victimology” will take place. The conference will focus on the analysis of the role of victims in the judicial process, as well as their psychological, social and legal consideration. The event will feature the participation of Elena Garrido, clinical psychologist, accredited forensic scientist, and graduate of the master's degree in Legal Psychology and Forensic Psychological Expertise at the UAB.

Place: UAB Auditorium, Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Date: Wednesday 11, February de 2026 - 17:00h

Description:

Training program to learn how to create a personal brand and use social networks with a feminist perspective.

Date: Thursday 12, February de 2026 - 17:00h

Date: Thursday 12, February de 2026 - 19:00h

Description:

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, lecturer of the Freie Universität Berlin and specialist in the history of the Holocaust, fascism and the politics of memory, will give a conference within the block of conference offered this year by the bachelor's degree in Contemporary History, Politics and Economics.

Rossoliński-Liebe, is author of the book Stepan Bandera. Leben und Kult, published in German in 2025 and recently translated into Spanish with the title Stepan Bandera. Fascismo, genocidio y culto. This is the first comprehensive academic biography of Ukrainian nationalist politician Stepan Bandera: in it, the historian from the Freie Universität Berlin offers a critical and rigorous reflection on a highly controversial historical figure and how he is remembered after 1945. The research conducted by Rossoliński-Liebe contextualises these different ways of recalling Bandera in their political, social and historical dimensions, and focuses on both the Ukrainian diaspora, as well as the politics of memory of the USSR and Poland.

The conference will also feature the presence of lecturers Javier Rodrigo and Steven Forti from the Department of Modern and Contemporary History.

Date: Thursday 26, February de 2026 - 12:30h

Description:

Víctor Albert-Blanco is researcher at the Research into the Sociology of Religion (ISOR) group at the UAB and lecturer at the UOC.

In the Science Carriage's Expert Seat, the researcher will speak about the religous diversity in Catalonia and  about the more public and communal dimension that iftar, the meal that breaks the daily fast during the month of Ramadan, is taking on in European societies, mainly in cities.

The activity will take place on 12 March, departing from Plaça Catalunya at 9:28 a.m. to the UAB.

Place: FGC, 9:28 a.m. train from Plaça Catalunya to the UAB

Date: Thursday 12, March de 2026 - 09:28h

Description:

The 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, and with a total duration of 16 hours. Registration can be made for the entire series or for individual sessions, and can be attended online or in person.

On 18 March, the seminar “Humans and animals: a vital bond. Health, emotions and coexistence” will take place. The relationship between people and animals will be reflected on from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will explore how this bond influences people's physical and emotional health and, specifically, the benefits of animal-assisted therapies. The event will feature the participation of Manel López Béjar, veterinarian and dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Place: UAB Auditorium (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)

Date: Wednesday 18, March de 2026 - 17:00h