Activities
Thursday, September 25 2025
Dia · Setmana
18:00
Presentation of the Àlex Seglers Memorial Awards
Description:
The Àlex Seglers Memorial Awards honours the work of people and/or organisations committed to defending diversity and fostering co-existence. The awards ceremony will take place on 25 September at 6:00 p.m. at the Teatre Principal in Sabadell. This initiative is organised by the Sabadell City Council, the UAB, the Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Catalan Federation of Municipalities, the Catalan Association of Municipalities, and the Fundació Bosch i Cardellach.
Place: Teatre Principal, Sabadell (Carrer Sant Pau 6)
Date: Thursday 25, September2025 - 18:00h
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
12:00
Autumn's La Comunitària
Description:
Between 12:00 noon and 4:00 p.m. on 30 September, the Bellaterra campus will host its autumn edition of La Comunitària. This cultural day aims to bring together the university community in a series of leisure and cultural activities organised by the associations registered with elDirectori, the UAB's registry of associations, the student councils and the different community services.
The activity will take place in the Plaça del Coneixement. You can also find activities in other areas of the campus such as the Humanities Library and the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.
Come and discover all the activities and take part!
More info: https://webs.uab.cat/lacomunitariauab/
Date: Tuesday 30, September2025 - 12:00h
End date: Tuesday 30, September2025 - 16:00h
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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