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The UAB inaugurates a peace series with university members from Eastern Europe

01 Apr 2022
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On 6 April, the UAB will be holding an institutional event entitled "Vent de l'est: guerra i pau als confins d'Europa" [Wind From the East: war and peace on the edges of Europe], in which members of the university community from Serbia, Rumania, Russia and Ukraine will share their impressions on the conflict currently taking place in Ukraine. The event will begin at 1 p.m. at the Journals Hall of the Humanities Library, at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

Minut de silenci per la pau

UAB Rector Javier Lafuente will open the event. This will be followed by brief speeches by Igor Bogdanovich, lecturer and technician at OpenLabs; Liudmila Navtanovich and Inna Kozlova, lecturers at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting; and Costina Banica, graduate student at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The event will be moderated by Oscar Jané, lecturer of the Department of Modern and Early Modern History.

The debates held on 6 April will inaugurate the conference series "La UAB en favor de la pau" [The UAB in Favour of Peace], with which the University aims to manifest its rejection of the military aggressions occurring in Ukraine and show solidarity towards all those affected by this and so many other armed conflicts. The UAB has prepared a series of actions coordinated with the international emergencies committee.

 

The event will be made available online on the UAB's YouTube channel.

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