Agenda

Description:

Ana Barajas, Ana Aznar and Daniela León, PhDs and lecturers from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, will be in the expert's seat of the Science Carriage this week from 9:41 a.m. to 2:22 p.m. They will be talking with train passengers about the stigma related to mental illnesses. 

The first trajectory will begin at 9:41 a.m. from Sarrià to Sabadell Parc del Nord.

All three lecturers have participated in the Science Carriage podcasts, which are available here.

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Place: Science Carriage, FGC. BCN-SABADELL 9:41 a.m. -> SABADELL PARC DEL NORD

Date: Thursday 22, February2024 - 09:41h

Description:

Lecturer David Sánchez will be in the Science Carriage expert's seet this week on the train travelling from Barcelona to the UAB and leaving from Plaça Catalunya at 11:28 a.m. Sánchez, lecturer in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and director of the Reseearch Group in Health and Weight-Related Problems, will be talking with passengers about obesity and eating disorders, and the associated stigma.

Sánchez has participated in the podcasts of the Science Carriage, which can be consulted at this link.

Place: Science Carriage, FGC Plaça Catalunya-UAB 11:28 a.m.

Date: Thursday 29, February2024 - 11:20h

Description:

UAB researchers will participate in this conference, which will include the presentation of the results of the scientific research conducted on the archaeological site of Montanisell Cave (Coll de Nargó, Alt Urgell), dating back 5,500 years, and of the researchers' most outstanding discovery: a woman around 35 to 45 years old buried with extraordinary funerary objects, who they have named "The Lady of the Mountains".

The conference, organised by the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC), will include the participation of Núria Armentano and Cristina Santos, researchers in Physical Anthropology at the UAB, who will speak of the first anthropological results and the palaeogenetic studies and future research possibilities. Also speaking will by researchers from the Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), who conducted the stable isotope analysis of the archaeological site.

More information and conference programme

Place: Auditorium of the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC)

Date: Friday 8, March2024 - 09:00h

End date: Friday 8, March2024 - 17:30h

Organiser: Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC)

Description:

Daniel Campos and Xavier Álvarez hold PhDs in Physics and their research focuses on the physics of biological and social systems and the transport of energy. In the Expert's Seat of the UAB Science Carriage, the two will converse with passengers on energetic transition, a change from non-renewable energy sources to a model in which the energy used is more sustainable, and how citizens play an important role in this process. 

The journey will begin at 9:28 a.m. on the FGC train travelling from Plaça Catalunya to the Universitat Autònoma train station.

Place: FGC - Plaça Catalunya station

Date: Thursday 3, October2024 - 09:28h

Organiser: UAB and FGC

Description:

Joan C. Tronto, emeritus professor of the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota, and one of the greatest exponents of the ethics of care and democracy, will visit the UAB and offer a conference at the Rectorat building on 10 October at 4 p.m. The conference will be open to all members of the UAB community. Organised by the UAB Department of Philosophy, the conference is entitled "El potencial revolucionario de una democracia del cuidado" and will focus on the revolutionary potential of a care democracy.

In her books Moral Boundaries, Caring Democracy and Who cares?, Tronto details a conceptual approach to care. Her ideas have inspired sectors such as nursing and the processes of humanising health, as well as ethics, sociology and the study of sex division in the workplace, economics, political sciences, and in the art and architectural world, as well as other areas.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 10, October2024 - 16:00h

End date: Thursday 10, October2024 - 18:00h

Organiser: Department of Philosophy

Description:

Sara Marañón holds a PhD in Ecology and her research focuses on the effects of global change and the disturbances caused to ecosystems. At the UAB Science Carriage Expert's Seat, she will converse with passengers on regenerative agriculture, which aims to replenish the soil and guarantee that it has enough organic material and carbon to help it continue to be fertile land. Regenerative agriculture is based on the basic pillars of agriculture: soil and its quality, and how this relates to its capacity to store or release CO2.

The journey will begin at 10:42 a.m. on the FGC train travelling from the Universitat Autònoma to the Plaça Catalunya station.

Place: FGC Universitat Autònoma station

Date: Thursday 24, October2024 - 10:42h

Organiser: UAB and FGC