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Description:

European Researchers' Night, a public event dedicated to science communication and scheduled for today, 2 October, at the UAB, has been postponed due to rain. Information on the new scheduled date will be provided soon.

The UAB organises a wide array of activities as part of Researcher's Night, an event open to all publics that is dedidated to science communication. Starting at 5:00 p.m., the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona will be holding a research fair, with workshops and demonstrations, games and micro-talks with researchers from the University and research institutes that are members of Esfera UAB.

The NitRecerCat2627 project is an event associated with the European Union’s MSCA and Citizens initiative, funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-CITIZENS-01.

For more information:
https://webs.uab.cat/nitrecercat/

Place: UAB Central Axis

Date: Friday 2, October de 2026 - 17:00h

Date: Friday 2, October de 2026 - 21:00h

Description:

The Centre for the Study of Dictatorships and Democracies (CEDID) and the Centre for Research in Performing Arts (CRAE) at the UAB,  together with the Research Group on the Global South and the East at Paul Valéry University Montpellier III, France, are organising the "Symposium on History and Theatre in the Iberian Peninsula (20th and 21st centuries)". The session will take place on 16 October at 9:30 a.m. at the Sala de graus of the UAB Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The symposium will reflect on and debate the relationships between history and theatre in the Iberian Peninsula during the 20th and 21st centuries.

The day will begin with a presentation by Pau Casanellas, director of the CEDID-UAB, and Francesc Foguet, director of the CRAE-UAB. Next, two central talks will take place; at 10:00 a.m. the session "What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Memory?" by Ricard Vinyes, professor of History at the University of Barcelona, who will speak on the concept of memory; and, at 10:40 a.m., the session “Memorabilia and Theatre: Bonds and Affects in the Construction of Heritage” by Antonia Amo, lecturer of Hispanic Studies at the University of Avignon, who will address the relationship between memorabilia, theatre, emotions and heritage. Also included are ten further talks, five for each century, which will address more specific approaches to the link between history and theatre from the perspective of the peninsula's stages.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Sala de graus)

Date: Friday 16, October de 2026 - 09:30h