Defenses de tesi

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A comparative study carried out by the Institute of Government and Public Policy of the UAB (IGOP-UAB) with the support of the “la Caixa” Foundation has analysed how social innovation in the 0-3 years stage can improve equality and the universalisation of early childhood education and care services.

The study was coordinated by and included researchers Raquel Gallego and Lara Maestripieri (IGOP-UAB), and Sheila González Motos (UB) and analysed seven cases of social innovation initiatives in cities around the world: Barcelona, Oslo, Seine-Saint-Denis, Portsmouth, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Venice.

The results of the research, which have been published in book format by Emerald Publishing Limited under the title "Innovation and Welfare State Retrenchment. A Comparative Analysis of Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe and Beyond", will now be presented at this event organised by the IGOP-UAB at the Palacio Macaya.

Places are limited, so please register to attend.

More information on the study and presentation programme.

Place: Palau Macaya, Barcelona (Passeig de St. Joan 108)

Date: Thursday 15, May2025 - 18:00h

End date: Thursday 15, May2025 - 20:00h

Organiser: IGOP-UAB

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Under the framework of the UAB Heritage Campus, during the month of May there will be a programme of activities organised by the Department of Art and Musicology, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and the CORE in Cultural Heritage, which includes various proposals on heritage from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective.

Among the activities is the First Conference on Uncomfortable Heritages, an interdisciplinary debate on the challenges posed by conflictive memory and controversial heritage legacies in the academic, institutional and social spheres.

The conference will begin with a presentation by Daniel Rico Camps and Carles Sánchez Márquez, director and lecturer in the Department of Art and Musicology, respectively. Then, UAB Heritage Management students Pau Argemí Hernández; Paula Cordobés Martínez; Andrea López Borràs and Andrei Rodríguez Ortega will speak about the mural identity project. Germán Labrador Méndez, lecturer at the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology and researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) of the ATRAE programme, will speak about censorship in the construction of the democratic city (art, public space, memory and freedom of expression). Jordi Guixé Coromines, director of the European Observatory of Memories (EUROM), will explain the projects, reflections and interventions on the uncomfortable memorial heritage of wars and dictatorships.

The activity will take place on 16 May at 9:15 a.m. in Aula 603 of the Department of Art and Musicology, Faculty of Arts & Humanities. For further information and registration, please contact this e-mail address.

Place: Department of Art and Musicology, Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Aula 603)

Date: Friday 16, May2025 - 09:15h

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The restaurant in Plaça Cívica, on the Bellaterra campus, and the Wild Geese in Sabadell, will host a new edition of the UAB Pint of Science series of informative talks. On Friday 16 May the activity will take place at the bar of the Plaça Cívica starting at 5:30 p.m.; and on 19, 20 and 21 May, the talks will take place at the Wild Geese bar (Plaça de l'Àngel, 4, Sabadell), all three days starting at 7:30 p.m.

Place: Plaça Cívica restaurant

Date: Friday 16, May2025 - 17:30h

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Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró will present her book, "Decolonizing Feminist Economics – Possibilities for Just Futures",  at ICTA-UAB in Sala Montseny. The event will also be available online for those who cannot attend in person. You can find the online link below.

Book presentation: "Decolonizing Feminist Economics – Possibilities for Just Futures"

By Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró, Independent researcher and Lecturer at Escola Massana on Feminism, Decolonial Thought and Ecology

• Date: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
• Time: 12.00-13.00 (CET)
• Venue: Sala Montseny (Z/022 & Z/023) and Online - Join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83753899254?pwd=Xak5XU3Ms2KabHU31a6JGYr8JdUEbA.1

Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró holds a PhD in Gender and Post/Decolonial Studies from Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London. With nearly twenty years of experience, Gisela has worked as a feminist researcher for international organizations and grassroots movements across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Balkans. She has taught feminisms, development economics, and decolonial thought at institutions such as the University of Cambridge and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As a Visiting Assistant Professor at Central European University (Vienna), she developed and taught Feminist Economics and Decolonizing Development - the first courses of their kind.

Her research has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and international reports. She currently works as an independent researcher and is a collaborative lecturer at Escola Massana (Autonomous University of Barcelona), focusing on feminisms, decolonial thought, and ecological economics.

Book Introduction

Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures explores how postcolonial and decolonial critiques challenge the Western-centric foundations of feminist economics. The book addresses the intersections of colonialism, capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and ecological degradation, offering critical tools for imagining transformative alternatives. Through engagement with global struggles, it unveils our hijacked present and envisions the emergence of decolonizing feminist economic landscapes.

Transdisciplinary and innovative, it fills a crucial gap by exploring the synergy between decolonization and feminist economics — challenging growth logic, capitalism, and Eurocentrism, while opening space for just futures.https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/decolonizing-feminist-economics

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Date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 12:00h

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Professor Maron Greenleaf  will present her book, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism" at ICTA-UAB in Sala Montseny. 

Book launch: "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism"

By Professor Maron Greenleaf, Dartmouth University

Featuring discussion from Prof. Esteve Corbera, Dr. Annie James, and Bruno Gastal of ICTA-UAB

• Date: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
• Time: 14 - 16h (CET)
• Venue: Sala Montseny (Z/022 & Z/023) 

Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protection. Maron E. Greenleaf explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism—the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage. She traces cultural, environmental, governmental, material, and multispecies relations involved in making forest carbon valuable as well as how forest carbon’s commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth. At the same time, Greenleaf shows how making forest carbon monetarily valuable created an unexpected set of uneven, contingent, and contested social and political relations. While forest carbon in the Amazon demonstrates that green capitalism can be socially inclusive, it also shows that green capitalism can reinforce the marginalization it purportedly seeks to combat. By outlining these complex relations and tensions, Greenleaf elucidates broader efforts to create a capitalism suited to the Anthropocene and those efforts’ alluring promises and vexing failures.

Maron Greenleaf is a cultural anthropologist, political ecologist, and legal scholar studying human-environment relations in this time of environmental change and crisis. Her published work has centered on green capitalism, carbon credits, deforestation, tree planting, postindustrial restoration, and energy transitions in Brazil, the US, and the UK. Her current research centers on tree planting and environmental restoration in postindustrial England. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth University.

Date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 14:00h

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PerCientEx, an initiative that identifies and disseminates journalistic works of excellence in science, technology, health and environment in Ibero-America, is organising its sixth conference on science journalism, dedicated this year to exploring the relationship between narrative podcasting and science.

The event is organised by the PerCientEx Observatory and coordinated by the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC) and the Communication and Education Office of the UAB, with the support of the “la Caixa” Foundation.

The event will feature the participation of Argentine-Chilean journalist Nicolás Alonso, known for his work in Radio Ambulante and podcasts such as Adiós, Plutón, and Spanish journalist Belén Remacha, member of the Hoy en El País team and winner of the Prismas 2024 Award for her work Tu cerebro es oro. Both will present sound stories specially created for the occasion, focusing on scientific and social issues. In addition, the writer and cultural critic Jorge Carrión, author of the podcasts Solaris and Ecos, will offer a reflection on the role of the narrative podcast in the popularisation of science and its ability to connect knowledge with the contemporary cultural narrative.

La sessió serà moderada per Michele Catanzaro, professor lector del Departament de Periodisme i Ciències de la Comunicació de la UAB i periodista científic, i Verónica Couto Antelo, biòloga i comunicadora científica; director i subdirectora de l’Observatori PerCienEx.

The session will be moderated by Michele Catanzaro, lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences at the UAB and science journalist, and Verónica Couto Antelo, biologist and science communicator; director and deputy director of the PerCienEx Observatory.

More information on event

Place: Cosmocaixa Museum, Barcelona (Carrer Isaac Newton 26)

Date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 18:00h

End date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 20:00h