Activities
Tuesday, October 14 2025
Dia · Setmana
11:00
Among walls and promises: the human price of political decisions in the US and Mexico
Description:
Nilda Flores-González, John O. Whiteman Dean's Distinguished Professor and sociology professor at Arizona State University, and Irsaema Coronado, director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, will offer a conference entitled "Among walls and promises: the human price of political decisions in the US and Mexico". the conference iwl ltake place on 14 October at 11 a.m. at the meetings hall of the MRA building (Plaça del Coneixement). The event is organised by the UAB's GEDIME research group (CER Migracions).
Place: MRA building (meeting hall)
Date: Tuesday 14, October2025 - 11:00h
12:30
Inauguration of the academic year at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies
Description:
Economist Elena Flores will deliver the lecture "Evolution of the economy and global governance during the past three decades" at the institutional inauguration of the 2025/26 academic year of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies. The event will take place on 14 October at 12:30 p.m. in the faculty's conference hall.
Elena Flores holds a degree in Economics from the UAB and has worked many years in several European institutions. Among the positions she has held is Deputy Director General for Investment and International Affairs of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission. The opening ceremony of the academic year will also include recognition for the teaching staff with the best results in the teaching evaluation surveys and for the students with the best academic records of the Faculty in the 2024/25 academic year. UAB Rector Javier Lafuente and Faculty Dean Àlex Rialp will give the institutional speeches.
Place: Faculty of Economics and Business Studies (conference hall)
Date: Tuesday 14, October2025 - 12:30h
Thursday, October 16, 2025
09:00
The UAB's First Artistic Heritage Campus Research Conference
Description:
The aim of the First Artistic Heritage Campus Research Conference is to promote synergies between the University and the organisations making up this network, inviting participating institutions to present their ongoing research projects and propose new lines of research related to the collections, which could be developed in the final degree projects (TFG) and final master theses (TFM) of the studies linked to the Campus.
The conference, aimed at undergraduate and master's students affiliated with the Artistic Heritage Campus network, consists of three sessions which will include the participation of several museum directors and local institutional representatives.
The conference is free and no prior registration is required.
Programme of the UAB's First Artistic Heritage Campus Research Conference
Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Humanities Library (Periodicals Room)
Date: Thursday 16, October2025 - 09:00h
End date: Thursday 16, October2025 - 14:00h
Organiser: Department of Art and Musicology
09:00
Session on "Ten Years of University and Refuge"
Description:
This October marks ten years since the statement "Catalan universities: on the side of the refugees" was published by the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP). In many ways, the document marked the starting point of university programmes created to defend and give support to people who were being forced to seek refuge in another country.
This session is organised by the UAB Refugee Programme, and aims to ba a space for collective reflection and networking by Catalonia's public universities, civil society and the public administration.
The activity forms part of the work plan of the Technical Network for Cooperation, Volunteering and Refuge of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia and includes the support of the Catalan Development Cooperation Agency (ACCD).
Programme
9:30 a.m. – Inaugural speeches
Andrea Costafreda Quesada, directora general of Cooperation (ACCD)
Xavier Martínez-Celorrio, secretary general of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia
Esther Zapater Duque, secretary general of the UAB
10:00 a.m. – Ten Years of University and Refuge: accords, consensus and challenges
Artistic proposal: Yuyay: Memory. A monologue combining humour and dance to address migration, loss and resilience, inviting reflection on memory and violence. Written and starring Edith Laverde, Colombian human rights defender, refugee in Catalonia and PhD student at the UAB.
Round table: University and Refuge: where do we come from and where are we going? With representatives of university and social entities working with refugees:
Shurouq Alimam Alnajjar, UAB student and Palestinian refugee
Xavier López Arnabat, director of the UB Fundació Solidaritat
Estel·la Pareja Morte, lecturer, consultant and social researcher, and former director of CCAR
Jordi Prat Fernàndez, director of the UAB Fundació Autònoma Solidària
Laura Riba Singla, director of Irídia and member of the board of directors of La Fede
Moderated by: Pamela Urrutia, researcher from the School for a Culture of Peace
11:10 a.m. – Coffee break
11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Group work session: Protocol of guidelines for the academic reception of people in refugee situations at Catalan universities.
2:00 p.m. – Closing event
Oscar Jané Checa, vice-rector for International Relations (UAB)
Place: Rectorat building (Board Room)
Date: Thursday 16, October2025 - 09:00h
End date: Thursday 16, October2025 - 14:00h
10:00
World Food Day
Description:
Within the framework of the Healthy and Sustainable Campus (Campus SiS) project, the UAB and Justícia Alimentària are organising the International Day of Sustainable Food, which will take place on 16 October (World Food Day) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This event has the support of the Catalan Development Cooperation Agency and aims to highlight and promote sustainable food practices and responsible consumption among the university community. Participatory activities will be offered in which local producers and members of the university community will meet to reflect on food and economic models that favor sustainability, proximity and social justice.
Place: Plaça Cívica of the UAB campus
Date: Thursday 16, October2025 - 10:00h
11:30
IndiFest, Festival de Cinema Indígena de Barcelona
Description:
18th edition. ancestral intelligences.
The IndiFest Universitats, organised with the collaboration of the Catalan Institute of Anthropology (ICA), dedicates sessions to five Catalan universities with the aim of decentralising the IndiFest and bringing it closer to the young student audience.
The films that will be screened at the UAB are still pending confirmation, but you can consult all the selection, different venues and festival information on this page.
Place: UAB CINEMA
Date: Thursday 16, October2025 - 11:30h
Telephone: 935812204
E-mail: cultura.enviu@uab.cat