Agenda

Description:

Screening of the filmPsycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960). Free entrance limited to the capacity of the room.

Place: Sala Cinema UAB

Date: Monday 18, March2024 - 12:00h

Organiser: Departament de comunicació audiovisual i publicitat, Cultura en Viu UAB, UAB

Description:

What is beauty? Is it a gift of nature, a personal choice or a social obligation? Is it important in the world we live in? Sandra Gonfaus, graduate in Communication and Cultural Industries (UB), Master in Gender and Communication (UAB) and working member of the Trama cooperative, will give a session on how aesthetic violence and fatophobia are represented in the media. As a woman traversed by fatness, she is an activist and also teaches workshops and researches on the intersection between gender, grassophobia and aesthetic violence. Based on our own experiences, the analysis of images and audiovisual pieces we will reflect on the aesthetic violence and the grassophobia that surrounds us and how it oppresses us, especially women and dissident genres.

Place: Aula 5

Date: Monday 18, March2024 - 18:00h

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 22, March2024 - 11:00h

Description:

Santiago Giraldo, from the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, will give a workshop on attention economy. Following the research he has been doing for years, he will first do the workshop part and then the talk.

Date: Thursday 4, April2024 - 12:00h

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. 

Registration: https://forms.gle/krZmy7iinHr8UiMZ6

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