Agenda

Description:

The arts disciplines are introducing new methodologies for research. One of the new approaches is based on the theories of British philosopher J. L. Austin, and aims to focus the study on practice, instead of employing quantitative and qualitative methodologies. This is the paradigm of “performative research”.

Opera is a privileged space to apply it. For this reason, the first seminar on performative research in the artistic disciplines has focused on this field, articulated in five thematic axes: music and performing arts, design, architecture and scenography, photography and archiving, creation and interpretation, and video and communication.

The seminar is open to all centres attached to the Campus of the Arts, the organiser of this seminar and of which the UAB forms part. Students from the different bachelor's, master's and PhD programmes, as well as lecturers and researchers, are welcome to attend. Attendance is free upon registration, and a certificate of attendance will be issued.

More information on the seminar

Place: Casa Convalescència, Barcelona (Carrer Sant Antoni Maria Claret 171)

Date: Tuesday 26, November2024 - 09:00h

End date: Tuesday 26, November2024 - 17:00h

Organiser: Campus de les Arts

Description:

A round table reflecting on the synergies between the university and museums in terms of research will mark the starting point of the UAB Artistic Heritage Campus, a new source of stable collaborations among institutions, centres and administrations administering the artistic and cultural heritage of Catalonia.

The new initiative aims to create joint actions for the region, mainly in its museums and cities, with the objective of promoting knowledge of Catalonia's tangible and intangible heritage and work together in its management and dissemination.

The presentation will include the attendance of Carlos Cordón, mayor of Cerdanyola del Vallès; Rosa Maria Sebastián, vice-rector for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship at the UAB; and Margarita Freixas, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

The official presentation of the UAB Artistic Heritage Campus will be done by Daniel Rico, director of the Department of Art and Musicology, an affiliated member, and by Carles Sánchez, director of the new campus.

The round tabel “Museums and University. Synergies in the field of research” will include the participation of Daniel Rico, director of the Department of Art and Musicology; Pepe Serra, director of the National Art Museum of Catalonia; Txema Romero, director of the Cerdanyola Museum of Art; and Pepa Ventura, directora of the Abelló Museum of Mollet.

The event is open to the general public.

Place: Cerdanyola Museum of Art, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Carrer Sant Martí 88)

Date: Tuesday 28, January2025 - 18:00h

End date: Tuesday 28, January2025 - 20:00h

Organiser: UAB and the Cerdanyola del Vallès City Council

Description:

Researchers from different universities and research centres in Catalonia, including the UAB, have created the Catalan Association of Science and Technology Studies (STS-CAT). The official presentation will take place on 28 February at 9:30 a.m. at the Barcelona Research Residence.

The presentation will feature an inaugural lecture by Wiebe E. Bijker, lecturer and researcher at the University of Maastricht and advisor to the Dutch government as an expert on the relationship between democracy and technology. Biojker is one of the fathers of international Science and Technology Studies and one of the main exponents of the Theory on the Social Construction of Technologies. The engineer, philosopher and PhD in Sociology and History of Technology from the University of Twente (The Netherlands), studies the relationship between the development of technology and society, and how the emergence of new technologies impacts on democracy and can lead to the emergence of a new social order.

The lecture will be followed by a round table (STS in Action) with the participation of Blanca Callén (UAB), Israel Rodríguez (UOC), Ismael Ràfols (Ingenio CSIC-UPV & Univ Leiden) and Vincenzo Pavone (IPP-CSIC), and moderated by the vice-president of the STS-CAT, Núria Vallès (IIIA-CSIC). 

The closing speech will be given by Miquel Domènech (UAB), member of the STS-CAT.

Attendance is free, but prior registration is required.

Place: CSIC Researcher Residence, Barcelona (Carrer Hospital 64)

Date: Friday 28, February2025 - 09:30h