Defenses de tesi

Description:

American researcher Craig Cameron Mello, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2006 for his discovery of RNA interference, will deliver the lecture “RNAi: A molecular spark in an information inferno.” Mello has been a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland since the year 2000.

The conference is part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative, a programme organised by the Nobel Prize Outreach, in collaboration with the AstraZeneca Foundation, to bring Nobel prize winners closer to the scientific community and, especially, to young researchers.

Professor Mello will describe the research and challenges faced before and after receiving the award, which he was awarded together with fellow American pathologist Andrew Fire. He also will describe the history of the discovery of RNA interference, a fundamental mechanism in controlling the flow of genetic information.

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Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Wednesday 5, November2025 - 12:00h

Organiser: Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative

Description:

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the social pact against corruption signed in the Parliament of Catalonia by civic entities and political parties, the Sala de graus of the Faculty of Law will host the presentation of the Citizen Observatory Against Corruption on 5 november at 1:00 p.m. Gemma Rubí, professor of contemporary history at the UAB and director of the Research Group on Political Studies, Identities, Institutions and Corruption (GREPIIC-UAB), will present the event. Joan Lluís Pérez Francesch, professor of constitutional law at the UAB, will then give a presentation entitled "The culture of integrity". The president of the Observatory, Itzíar González, will also give a speech.

Place: Faculty of Law (Sala de graus)

Date: Wednesday 5, November2025 - 13:00h

Description:

The UAB organises its PhD degrees and extraordinary awards ceremony, to be held on 7 November. In the ceremony, the PhD degrees will be awarded and the work of the winners will be presented. The ceremony programme and link to follow the event live on the UAB YouTube channel, can be found here. People who wish to attend in person must register using this form.

Place: Sala Arnau de Vilanova, Hotel Exe Campus (Vila Universitària)

Date: Friday 7, November2025 - 18:00h

Description:

The UAB School of Engineering is organising the new edition of the UAB THE HACK! hackathon on the weekend of 8 and 9 November. The hackathon will focus on artificial intelligence, data analysis and technological development under the theme "Pirates".

The event will take place over 32 hours of learning and fun, with total technological immersion. During the session, participants will face challenges imposed by companies in the sector, working in multidisciplinary teams and using next-generation tools.

It will feature the participation of prominent companies and institutions such as Caixa Enginyers, Quether, the UAB's Information and Communication Technologies Department, Deloitte and the Aina project, promoted by the Government of Catalonia and developed by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS).

Place: School of Engineering, UAB campus

Date: Saturday 8, November2025 - 10:00h

Description:

The Rubí University Outreach programme organises the conference “Salut mental i solitud en la gent gran”, as part of the AmicsUAB conference series. The event will include the participation of lecturer Guillermo Parra from the Department of Psychology and Speech Therapy at the UAB. This free session will reflect on the effects of solitude on the emotional health of older people and strategies to help increase their psychological wellbeing.

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

Date: Tuesday 11, November2025 - 18:00h

Description:

On 12 November the UAB Faculty of Arts & Humanities will inaugurate an exhibition entitled “Going Extreme: How Extremist Narratives Are Destroying Democracies”. The exhibition will be on display until 18 December and forms part of the ARENAS research project, in charge of analysing the effects of extremist narratives on the internet and in today's society. Visitors will be able to discover the main extremist narratives circulating currently around Europe, as well as historical patterns, formats and evolution, and mechanisms existing to help detect them. The exhibition puts emphasis on the issues of nation, gender and science, and alerts about their growing influence on political and social life. The inauguration will include the participation of Margarita Freixas, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities; Nicola di Nino, vice-dean of Employability, International Mobility and Culture; and Steven Forti, exhibition curator and lecturer in Modern History at the UAB.

Extremist narratives and hate speech are being spread increasingly on the internet and social networks, reaching the computers and mobile phones of millions of people. In many cases, these narratives and speeches have become normalised and mainstream. The dynamics that occur in the digital world are intertwined with what happens in real life, causing a continuous feedback loop that is difficult to regulate. In the past decade, the rise of far-right parties and anti-democratic leaders around the world has accelerated the spread of these speeches and has favoured their legitimation.

An infinite number of websites and profiles on social networks, as well as traditional media and far-right politicians, are dedicated to spreading not only lies and conspiracy theories, but also racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist and/or aporophobic discourses, calling into question the foundations of democratic coexistence and, in the long term, the very survival of our democracies. In addition, there are increasingly more influencers, with hundreds of thousands of followers, who present themselves as transgressors, provocateurs and cool and who make these ideas go viral. But there are not only the so-called "fascist tubers": these discourses also sneak up in unexpected contexts, such as in the videos of fashion and cooking influencers, reaching an even wider audience who may end up accepting them without even realising it. 

This exhibition presents a journey through the extremist narratives currently circulating in Europe and warns of their influence, impact and consequences. What is an extremist narrative? What are its patterns and formats? How have they evolved and adapted throughout the history of the past century? How can we detect them? These are some of the questions to which an answer has been sought, focusing on the thematic axes of nation, gender and science.

The exhibition presents the first results of the Horizon Europe research project "Analysis of and Response to Extremist Narratives" (ARENAS), of which Steven Forti, lecturer of Modern History at the UAB, ​​is the local coordinator. Curated by Forti himself, "Going Extreme" was coordinated by researchers Sergi Soler and Nathalie Paris, and carried out in collaboration with a group of students from the bachelor's degree in Contemporary History, Politics and Economics at the UAB.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (entrance hall)

Date: Wednesday 12, November2025 - 13:00h