Activities
Thursday, May 7 2026
Dia · Setmana
09:28
“LGBTI-phobia: how to resolve school bullying” with Cristian Carrer in the Science Carriage's Expert Seat
Description:
Cristian Carrer is lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology of the UAB and member of the AFIN research group.
Cristian Carrer will sit in the Science Carriage's Expert Seat to talk about school bullying for reasons of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and about what needs to be done to address LGBTI-phobia among children and adolescents, a social problem to be solved and in which schools can play a key role.
The activity will take place on 7 May on the 9:28 a.m. train from Plaça Catalunya to the UAB.
Place: FGC train from Plaça Catalunya to the UAB at 9:28 a.m.
Date: Thursday 7, May2026 - 09:28h
11:00
Open Day at the Computer Vision Centre
Description:
The Computer Vision Centre organises a new "CVC Open Day" on 7 May at 11:00 a.m. Once a year, the CVC wants to introduce the world of computer vision and artificial intelligence through an immersive and interactive experience, as well as an educational and understandable one.
Visitors will be able to see the centre's facilities and laboratories to discover how research is done, learn about the corresponding lines of research through innovative and experimental technological demonstrations, discover the usefulness of computer vision in different sectors of the field, and opt for new professional training opportunities (thesis projects, internships, master's and doctorates, among others) through meetings with teaching staff and researchers. These activities are a way to offer a practical experience in the fields of science and technology.
The day will offer two shifts: a morning shift, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and an afternoon shift, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. This is a free event, but with limited capacity. To attend, you must register in advance through this form. Depending on the total number of attendees at the event, there is the possibility of extending the time slot of the day. However, if none of the aforementioned shifts fit your availability, contact press@cvc.uab.es and indicate the times to organise a possible new group.
Place: Computer Vision Centre (Building O)
Date: Thursday 7, May2026 - 11:00h
Friday, May 8, 2026
12:00
The role of the EU Court of Justice in a changing international context
Description:
The Institute for European Studies and the Faculty of Law of the UAB will be holding on 8 May at 12 noon a conference entitled "The role of the EU Court of Justice in a changing international context". The event will be held in commemoration of Europe Day at the Aula Magna of the UAB Faculty of Law.
The talk will be given by José Martín, judge and advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Martín will analyse the key role played by the CJEU in a context of international change, marked by political, legal and geostrategic changes that test the functioning and projection of European law.
Place: Faculty of Law (Aula Magna)
Date: Friday 8, May2026 - 12:00h
Sunday, May 10, 2026
09:00
The UAB to participate in the Interhack BCN 2026
Description:
On 9 and 10 May the Parc Tecnològic of Barcelona Activa will be hosting the Interhack BCN 2026, an event organised by the UAB, the UB, the UPF and the UPC. This 36-hour competition is made up of teams in which a designer from one university, a programmer from another, and a visionary person from a third university all sit together at the same table to see what happens when there is a mix of talents.
Place: Parc Tecnològic, Barcelona Activa, Barcelona (Carrer Marie Curie 8-14)
Date: Sunday 10, May2026 - 09:00h
Monday, May 11, 2026
12:30
James Schwoch: The battle for 24 GHz. Radio astronomy, Earth observation satellites, passive collection data, and the Cold War origins of radio frequency spectrum auctions
Description:
This talk brings together emergent ideas and scholarship about planetary concepts and climate change with selected studies of various instances of radiocommunication: the human uses of radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum.
The historical focus herein is meteorology, radio astronomy and global radio spectrum management during the Cold War. The rise of radio astronomy in the 1930s and 1940s raised recognition of the significance of the radio spectrum in planet-wide and extraplanetary research and awareness. The initial ITU assignments of radio frequencies crucial to radio astronomy in the 1950s (and in the 1960s, weather satellites) protected spectrum and “radio silence” for extraplanetary radio frequencies, crucial to space missions and satellites; yet such protective efforts were and still are often undermined by corporate interests eager to access and control as much radio spectrum as possible, particularly in a 21st century world where radio spectrum is now seen as a scarce resource.
The case study used in this talk is 24 GHz, a crucial bandwidth formerly protected for passive data collection tomeasure atmospheric levels of planetary water vapor that is now licensed for commercial services by government radio spectrum auctions, thus introducing contamination into the data.
James Schwoch is professor at Northwestern University, with appointments in the Department of Communication Studies, the Program in Science and Human Culture, the Ph. D. Programs in Media, Technology, and Society and in Technology and Social Behavior, and the Ph. D. cluster in Environment, Culture, and Society. He is also a related faculty in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, the Program in Environmental Policy and Culture, and a faculty affiliate at the Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy and at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern. Schwoch conducts research and teaching in areas related to global media, media history, outer space, planetary boundaries, and media-communication-environment. He has published seven books and many articles, and his most recent book is Wired Into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier (University of Illinois Press, 2018). He is a Contributing Member with the International Astronomical Union Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference.
Link to join the talk: https://meet.jit.si/Climasat_Schwoch_11May
This activity is part of the CLIMASAT ERC-StG project's series of seminars on "Data, satellites and environment".
Place: Online
Date: Monday 11, May2026 - 12:30h
End date: Monday 11, May2026 - 16:00h
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
09:30
The Apocalypse Is Not Coming: transdisciplinary debate on crisis, imagination and regenerative futures at the UAB
Description:
From 12 to 15 May the UAB organises The Apocalypse Is Not Coming (TANC), an international conference in which to reflect on apocalyptic imaginaries and their implications in the context of contemporary ecological, technological and geopolitical crises. The Faculty of Arts & Humanities will host academic debates, workshops and theatrical performances that question the discourse of the end of the world and propose alternative futures based on research, critical analysis and collective participation.
Apocalyptic imaginaries shape perceptions of fear and influence both thought and action, as well as the effectiveness of certain political discourses that construct distressing and fatalistic future scenarios. TANC aims to question end-of-time ideologies and propose alternatives to contemporary apocalyptic thinking from sociology to ecofeminism and artificial intelligence.
The programme combines academic exchange, artistic practice and collaborative experimentation in two master lectures, nine round tables, ten workshops, four theatrical performances, an audiovisual session and two experimental activities.
The two keynote lectures will be given by Marco Armiero, renowned expert in environmental history, with "Ghosts of the Apocalypse: Capitalist Imaginaries and Silenced Stories", and Malcom Ferdinand, expert in political ecology, environmental justice and decolonial thinking from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), who will close the event. Armiero will be accompanied in the post-conference debate by Mar Griera, professor of Sociology at the UAB and director of the Research in Sociology of Religion (ISOR) centre, and by Sergio Ruiz Cayuela, postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) of the ICTA-UAB. Ana Fernández-Aballí, Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Religion, Conflict and Globalization at the University of Groningen, and Ione Avila-Palencia, senior researcher at the Centro de Innovación en Tecnología para el Desarrollo (itdUPM) at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, will participate in the debate with Ferdinand.
The round tables will revolve around narratives of permanent crisis; the relationships between ecology, power and coloniality; the social, technological and cultural transformations linked to the end of time, and the possibilities of generating alternative collective responses to these imaginaries.
The workshops will explore alternative ways of thinking, feeling and inhabiting the crisis, combining arts, sciences, humanities and collective practices. They will address the culture of prepping, dominant climate models and audiovisual imaginaries of the end of the world, among other issues.
Finally, four plays developed within the framework of the "Viable Unknowns" project will be performed by the companies Cantieri Meticci (Italy), Voice Lab (Poland), La Xixa Teatre (Spain) and Gruppe Tag (Germany).
The event is the culmination of “Viable Unknowns” and “Ontological Diversity in Environmental Education” (ODEEN), Creative Europe and Horizon Europe projects, respectively, which have brought together social sciences, environmental sciences and participatory theatre methodologies to imagine and promote sustainable and inclusive urban futures. The projects have been carried out over the past year by the UAB and the University of Groningen, together with a transdisciplinary consortium.
Researchers from different UAB centres will be participating in the conference: from Research in Sociology of Religion (ISOR), the Institute of Environmental Science and Technonlogy (ICTA), the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (iHC), the Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques (IGOP), and from the departments of Sociology, Journalism and Communication Studies, Art and Musicology, and Business. Experts from the University of Groningen, the Roma Tre University, the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, the BC3 Basque Center for Climate Change, the University of Barcelona, and the Global Health Institute of Barcelona (ISGlobal) will also be participating. In addition, numerous artists and professionals from cultural groups will also collaborate.
The organising committe of TANC is formed by members of ISOR, the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Science and Technology (BCNUEJ) at ICTA-UAB, and the Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization at the University of Groningen, as well as a broad range of external collaborators. The conference receives the support of the Communities Oriented to Strategic Challenges (CORE) of the UAB.
The conference is free and open to all those interested, but prior registration is necessary.
All information on TANC is available here:
https://webs.uab.cat/apocalypse-conf/
Place: UAB Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Date: Tuesday 12, May2026 - 09:30h
End date: Friday 15, May2026 - 19:30h
Organiser: UAB