Agenda

Description:

Marga Almirall (La Floresta, 1989) has a degree in Audiovisual Communication (UAB), a postgraduate degree in Audiovisual Editing (UPF) and has completed the Feminist Laboratory of Documentary Creation in La Bonne, as well as studies of film theory and criticism. She is currently working at the Drac Màgic cooperative, where she is a co-responsible for educational training projects in audiovisual languages, as well as other projects of the entity. 

In this talk, Marga will talk about her work at Drac Màgic, a cooperative of social initiative founded in 1971 and dedicated to the study and dissemination of audiovisual culture. Its mission is to generate thought and action around the image in order to contribute to the construction of a responsible, active and creative society towards visual culture and its role in the creation of imaginaries. Its activity aims to contribute to social transformation based on the values of cooperativism, feminism, commitment to the culture of peace and attention to diversities. 

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Place: Plató 2

Date: Friday 5, April2024 - 17:00h

End date: Friday 5, April2024 - 19:00h

Description:

Within the framework of the Economics subjects of the Department, the E-COM LAB talks are once again organized. The invited speakers are Cristina Villar (3CAT) and Clàudia Tornos (Secuoya Studios). The objective is to know the management of companies in the communication industry and is open to everyone.

Date: Tuesday 9, April2024 - 10:30h

End date: Tuesday 9, April2024 - 14:00h

Description:

The student Jordi Évole will explain at the conference “The production of non-fiction content for platforms and TV” the case of his production company, Producciones Del Barrio. Together with Ramon Lara, co-founder of the production company, they will explain the difficulties and processes to present projects on Netflix, Movistar +, Disney +, etc. and work them until their broadcast.

The event will also present the new postgraduate course that the Faculty and the Producciones Del Barrio will offer from next academic year at the facilities of the production company of Esplugues. Professor Carles Llorens will also participate, who will give a brief presentation on the situation of the non-fiction production sector for platforms. At the end of the presentation there will be an open turn of words for the students of degree and master of the faculty. The event will end at 13:30 after a few words of closing of the dean of the Faculty, Enric Marín.

Date: Wednesday 10, April2024 - 11:00h

Description:

Screening of the film The Master who promised the sea.

Date: Wednesday 17, April2024 - 12:00h

End date: Wednesday 17, April2024 - 15:00h

Description:

The MediaLab Innova UAB conference cycle: Innovation and challenges of media systems is inaugurated at the Faculty of Communication Sciences with the aim of bringing experiences from the professional world to the classrooms. The talks are organized by the teaching team of Communication Structure of the Degree in Journalism, and are linked to this subject.

The speakers this year are Albert Salord, director of Digital Strategy of Nation and the Grup Edicions de Premsa Local (22 March); Adrià Serra, head of Digital Contents and Transmedia Strategy of the Catalan Corporation of Audiovisual Media-3Cat (April 19); and Sylvia Montilla, head of the Research, Studies and Publications Unit of the Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC) (3 May). 

The programme of the cycle aims to provide students with the point of view of several relevant actors in the Catalan media system, with representation of a private medium, of an audience, and of the audiovisual regulatory body. In this way, the aim is to address the challenges of digitization from different perspectives and with the involvement of the sectors involved. The talks are open to all the students and teachers of the Faculty who want to attend.

Date: Friday 19, April2024 - 11:00h

Description:

The Faculty of Communication Sciences and the Prisa Group will hold a dialogue with four Latin American journalists who won the Ortega and Gasset Awards for Journalism.

The winners of two of the awards will participate in the day. Salvadoran journalists Bryan Avelar and Juan José Martínez will present the report Moskitia: the Honduran rainforest drowns in cocaine. This project, published in the magazine Insight Crime, won the Best History or Journalistic Research award at the 41st edition of the awards. The journalistic work narrates how the indigenous population of Moskitia, on the border between Honduras and Nicaragua, faces the poverty caused by the robbery of land by drug traffickers.

On the other hand, Mexican journalists Jennifer Gonz'lez Posadas and Alejandro Melgoza Rocha will describe the construction of the special newspaper City without water, a town against the specific giant, winner of the prize for the best multimedia coverage. Published in N+Focus, the report describes the struggle of the people of San Sebasti'n Xoco, who live in the south of Mexico City, in front of a large real estate group.

The Ortega and Gasset awards are awarded annually to the best journalistic works written in Spanish and constitute a very high recognition within the profession. They were created by the newspaper El País, and have been delivered uninterruptedly since 1984.

Attendance at the meeting is open to the entire interested university community.

Place: Aula 15 de l'Aulari J de la UAB

Date: Monday 22, April2024 - 10:30h

End date: Monday 22, April2024 - 12:00h