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Lisa-Ann Richey, from the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, will visit ICTA-UAB to give a public seminar.

Seminar: "Ineffective Altruism? Everyday Humanitarianism in Times of Crisis in Tanzania"

Speaker: Lisa-Ann Richey, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Date: Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
• Time: From 2.30pm to 4.30pm
• Venue: Sala Montseny (room z/022 & z/023) ICTA-UAB

Michael Walzer writes in his blurb of Nancy Rosenblum’s book, Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America, that: ‘From now on, neighbors will stand with citizens in our understanding of the politics of the everyday and of the human response to crisis.’ As scholars of African politics, we welcome the ‘neighborly’ understanding of crisis response and propose a paper that examines what we know about everyday peoples’ help and how this may spur critical reflections on the global politics of humanitarianism. As formal humanitarianism comes increasingly under scrutiny for the ideological racism and pragmatic inefficiency, local responses may provide insight.  Over the past five years, we have led a collaborative multidisciplinary research project trying to document and understand the ways that Tanzanians help each other in times of acute and protracted crisis: specifically, in Kagera on the Bukoba earthquake, in Kigoma on the refugees issue, in Morogoro on the flooding and nationally on the Corona crisis. Exhibitions of altruism on the part of ordinary people, both strangers and neighbors provide the positive face of every disaster. Drawing from aspects of African culture of brotherhood, ‘ubuntu’ and of ‘holding one another’s hand,’ everyday giving is part and parcel of life among elites in Tanzania. Yet, once ‘helping’ is stripped of its sentimentality, complicated relations of social and moral negotiation can be analyzed. These are never solely political or emotional, but they are practices that arc towards particular politics.  Our findings suggest that everyday humanitarianism differs from international humanitarianism in terms of impartiality: Tanzanians do not necessarily help their neighbors, but they always help their friends in the neighborhood.  Reflecting on the tensions between global and local humanitarianism, we sketch an argument for ineffective altruism.

Lisa Ann Richey @BrandAid_World is Professor of Globalization in the Department of Management, Society and Communication at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. She completed a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Post-Doc in Anthropological Demography at Harvard University. Her current research projects are Commodifying Compassion: Implications of Turning People and Humanitarian Causes into Marketable Things (2016-2023) and Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania (2019-2025). She is the author or editor of seven books including Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power (2016) and Batman Saves the Congo: Business, Disruption and the Politics of Development with Alexandra Budabin (2021). She works in the areas of international aid and humanitarian politics, the aid business and commodification of causes, and new transnational actors and alliances in the global South. Lisa was the founding Vice-President of the Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA). www.lisaannrichey.com

Place: Sala Montseny (Sala Z/022 - Z/023) ICTA-UAB

Date: Tuesday 10, June2025 - 14:30h

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Maite Martín, president of the One Health Platform and physiology lecturer at the UAB, will give a conference on the concept of One Health to understand how the connection between the health of people, animals and ecosystems can help to reduce inequalities and foster an improved quality of life. The conference will take place on 10 June at 6:00 p.m. at the Mestre Martí Tauler Library in Rubí, and is organised by the AmicsUAB association.

Place: Mestre Martí Tauler Library, Rubí (Carrer Aribau 5)

Date: Tuesday 10, June2025 - 18:00h

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Within the FEMMEN 2025 series, on 10 June at 7:00 p.m., the Sala Beckett in Barcelona will host the round table “Female republican playwrights: between insile and exile”, organised with the participation of the Literary Exile Studies Group (GEXEL-CEDID) and the Chair in Republican Exile (CEXLIR) of the UAB. The speakers will be Aïda Ayats, Francesc Foguet and Yasmina Yousfi, and the event will be moderated by Professor Manuel Aznar, director of CEXLIR.

Place: Sala Beckett, Barcelona (Carrer Pere IV 228-232)

Date: Tuesday 10, June2025 - 19:00h

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The UAB Teaching Quality Day, which will take place on Thursday 12 June at the UAB School of Engineering, will be developed with the following programme:

9:15 – 9:45 a.m.: Institutional welcoming 

• Ian Blanes, director of the School of Engineering
• Ramon Vilanova, vice-rector of Studies and Quality.
•  Javier Lafuente, rector of the UAB.

09:45 – 10:30 a.m.: Presentation of the new Marc QUALINS 

• Jaume Valls, director of the Catalan University System Quality Agency (AQU Catalunya) .

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.: Coffee break 

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.: Presentation of the computer application UNIKUDE for the SGIQ management 

• Joan Antoni Alcaide, head of the Office of Teaching Quality  

11.30 – 12.15: Round table: La formació dual a la universitat 

• Gloria Estapé, head of the Dual Training programmes of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies.
• Ignasi Florensa, director of the Salesiana de Sarrià University School.
• Margarita Freixas, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. 

 Modera Albert Basart, coordinator of the Quality Evaluation Area, AQU Catalunya.

12:15 – 1:00 p.m.: Presentation of experience and good practices in teaching centres. 

• Faculty of Science: “Formació al professorat sobre el SGIQ del centre”, Juan Jesús Donaire, dean, and Mar Jorba, qualtiy manager.
• Faculty of Translation and Interpreting: “Pla d’Acció Tutorial (PAT_NESE)”, Lupe Romero, vice-dean for Students and Promotion 
• Salesiana de Sarrià University School:“Experiència d’acreditació institucional d’un centre adscrit”, Olga Vendrell and Joan Ramon Molero, former and current head of Internal Service Quality

 1:00 - 1:10 p.m.: Closing speech

Ramon Vilanova, vice-rector for Studies and Quality 

Place: School of Engineering (Sala de graus)

Date: Thursday 12, June2025 - 09:15h

End date: Thursday 12, June2025 - 13:10h

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Stefano Ponte, from the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, will visit ICTA-UAB to give a public seminar.

Seminar: "Value struggles: Looking at capitalism through the wine glass"

Speaker: Stefano Ponte, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Date: Thusday, June 12th, 2025
• Time: From 2.30pm to 4.30pm
• Venue: Sala Montseny (room z/022 & z/023) ICTA-UAB and online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87691275821?pwd=sG0CJqc7tjNfK4TdA3O8y5XZPxR5fb.1

There is no better product than wine to unmask some of the contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Wine is one of the most fragmented and diversified industries, and one that is not yet completely dominated by large corporate interests. It is also where all sorts of antagonisms against the power of capital are taking place. The expansion of uniform and branded offerings is counterbalanced by alternative discourses and practices valorising how place, nature and craft can deliver a range of different wines. At the same time, viticulture often comes at the cost of biodiversity and the exploitation of gendered and racialized labour.

Stefano Ponte’s forthcoming book Value struggles: Looking at capitalism through the wine glass shows how these tensions and contradictions play out within three sites of struggle: place, nature and people (class, race and gender). The book examines how different ‘worlds of valuation’ are leveraged by specific groups of actors to maintain existing power imbalances or to attempt to challenge them. Through a detailed analysis of South African and Italian wine, it shows that predatory accumulation is about extracting value not only from labour, but also from place, nature and people’s identities as owners of tangible and intangible assets. Value struggles provides a poignant example of how power is exercised in contemporary capitalism and explains the consequences for producers, workers and nature – both in the global South and the global North.

Stefano Ponte is Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, where he teaches on governance and sustainable development, international business and politics, and global value chains. He is happiest at work when doing fieldwork along agricultural and food value chains from production to retail, but particularly at trade fairs, on coffee farms in East Africa, and in vineyards and wine cellars in Italy and South Africa. Stefano is the author or editor of eleven other books – including Contested sustainability: The political ecology of conservation and development partnerships in Tanzania (edited collection, with Christine Noe and Daniel Brockington), Business, power and sustainability in a world of global value chains, and Brand aid: Shopping well to save the world (with Lisa Ann Richey). He is currently a co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy.

Place: Sala Montseny (Sala Z/022 - Z/023) ICTA-UAB

Date: Thursday 12, June2025 - 14:30h

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As part of the permanent seminar of the Literary Exile Studies Group (GEXEL-CEDID) of the UAB on 12 June at 4:30 p.m., the Board room of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities will host the session “‘Un pasado cargado de ahora’: la lucha por el significado de la II República española en la historiografía y en la narrativa (1937-2021)” [A past loaded with now: the struggle for the meaning of the Second Spanish Republic in historiography and narrative (1937-2021)]. It will be given by Rebeca Rodríguez Hoz, lecturer at the University of Cantabria and author of the essays "¿Qué fue de la niña bonita? La experiencia republicana en la narrativa (1937-2021)" and "Lo que fue de la República... la experiencia republicana en la historiografía (1940-2021)". The event can also be followed online through the Microsoft Teams platform.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Board room)

Date: Thursday 12, June2025 - 16:30h