Activities
Wednesday, October 1 2025
Dia · Setmana
13:00
Inauguration of the academic year at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting
Description:
Poet Mario Obrero, presenter of the TVE's literary programme Un país para leerlo, will offer the inaugural conference of the 2025/26 academic year at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting. The conference, entitled "Plaer placer: goig i col·lectivitat de les llengües" will take place on 1 October at 1:00 p.m. at the Aula 4. Obrero will also be speaking with Carles Biosca, Antía Tàboas and Mar Ufano in a debate that will be moderated by Marc Miranda. The event will also include institutional speeches by UAB Rector Javier Lafuente and Dean Simona Škrabec.
Place: Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (Aula 4)
Date: Wednesday 1, October2025 - 13:00h
16:00
Gabriela Bernal to talk on indigenous rights in modern Ecuador
Description:
Gabriela Bernal, lecturer at the Universidad Central del Ecuador, will inaugurate the conference series entitled El pueblo de derecha. El conservadurismo popular en las Américas y Europa (siglos XIX, XX y XXI) on 1 October. She will give a conference entitled "El triunfo de la blanquitud. La derecha indígena de Ecuador contemporáneo". The series is co-organised by the Centre for Studies on Dictatorships and Democracies at the UAB (CEDID-UAB) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Mondes Américains. The conference will begin at 4:00 p.m. and will take place at the EHESS headquarters in Paris. It will also be streamed online on the Zoom platform.
Place: Online event
Date: Wednesday 1, October2025 - 16:00h
18:00
Joan Rieradevall and Carles Gasol to talk on circular economy
Description:
The authors of the book Economía circular. El camino hacia la sostenibilidad (UAB Publications Service), Joan Rieradevall and Carles Gasol, will be offering a conference on the main concepts of circular economy on 1 October at 6:00 p.m. at the Espai Mirador of the Museu del Disseny in Barcelona. Gasol and Rieradevall, both lecturers in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at the UAB, will compare their book presenting circular economics as a decisive strategy in sustainable development with some of the objects found in the museum's permanent exhibition of "Matter Matters. Dissenyar amb el món". The activity is free and open to the general public; to enter the Hub, attendants will need to register at the reception hall at 5:30 p.m. After the conference, all attendants will be able to visit the museum's exhibition free of charge.
Place: Museu del Disseny, Barcelona (Plaça de les Glòries 38)
Date: Wednesday 1, October2025 - 18:00h
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
13:30
Performative ritual and authority among Shiites in Europe
Description:
The UAB research group ISOR organises a seminar on 7 October entitled Performative Ritual and Authority among Shia in Europe (PRASE), which will include conferences by Carlos Méndez, lecturer of the University of Edinburgh, and Hutan Hejazi, from the Universidad Europea. The seminar will take place at 1:30 p.m in the board room (Sala de juntes) of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.
Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Board Room)
Date: Tuesday 7, October2025 - 13:30h
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
10:00
What differentiates La Marató de 3Cat from other international telemarathons?
Description:
Journalist and communicator of 3Cat and Catalunya Ràdio, Elisenda Carod, will present a Masterclass on La Marató de 3Cat on Wednesday 8 October in which some of the top people responsible for this solidarity programme will explain what a project of the magnitude of La Marató de 3Cat is like and how it is prepared, a telemarathon that has already become a benchmark at European communication level.
The class will feature Juan José Perona, dean of the Faculty of Communication Studies at the UAB; Lluís Bernabé, director of the 3Cat La Marató Foundation; Aleix Bou, creative head of the 3Cat Marketing Department; Jordi Català, director of the Audience and Analysis Area at 3Cat; Oriol Talon, director of TV3's La Marató for 2024 and 2025; and Virgínia Luzón, vice-rector for Communication at the UAB. Presenter Elisenda Carod, co-presenter in several editions of La Marató, will also provide her personal experience.
Attendees will be able to see first-hand how a programme as complex and diverse as La Marató is organised, where different programme formats coincide - discussion panels, entertainment, news, interviews - and with such an extensive duration of live television.
There will be a Q&A session before ending the event.
Place: Faculty of Communication Studies (Aula Magna)
Date: Wednesday 8, October2025 - 10:00h
End date: Wednesday 8, October2025 - 12:00h
12:00
Journalist Txell Feixas to inaugurate the 2025/26 academic year at the UAB
Description:
Txell Feixas, editor of the international section of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio, will give the inaugural speech of the 2025/26 academic year in the institutional event organised by the UAB. The event will be held on 8 October at 12 noon at the conference hall of the Rectorat building and will be presided by Rector Javier Lafuente. At the event, the theme of the new academic year, diversity, will be presented, as well as a video of the annual report of 2024/25. The inauguration will be streamed live on the UAB YouTube channel.
Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)
Date: Wednesday 8, October2025 - 12:00h