Activities
Wednesday, October 8 2025
Dia · Setmana
12:00
Journalist Txell Feixas to inaugurate the 2025/26 academic year at the UAB
Description:
Txell Feixas, editor of the international section of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio, will give the inaugural speech of the 2025/26 academic year in the institutional event organised by the UAB. The event will be held on 8 October at 12 noon at the conference hall of the Rectorat building and will be presided by Rector Javier Lafuente. At the event, the theme of the new academic year, diversity, will be presented, as well as a video of the annual report of 2024/25. The inauguration will be streamed live on the UAB YouTube channel.
Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)
Date: Wednesday 8, October2025 - 12:00h
18:30
First seminar on "Chinacult.es. Artistic production between China and Spain: conversation between Paloma Chen and Minke Wang
Description:
On 8 October, at 6:30 p.m., the Fort Pienc-Ana María Moix Library in Barcelona will host the first edition of the Jornades Chinacult.es. Producció artística entre Xina i Espanya [Chinacult.es Conference. Artistic production between China and Spain]. The conference was born with the vocation of creating a space for meeting and dialogue between artists, creators, cultural managers, the general public, students and academics interested in mobility, synergies and cultural exchanges between China and Spain.
The meeting will feature the presence of poet, writer and journalist Paloma Chen and author of theater, poetry and fiction Minke Wang, both descendants of Chinese migrants with different life trajectories that illustrate the historical and generational changes of the Chinese diaspora. Taking their works as a starting point and reference, we will talk about how the two artists have taken the floor, the difficulties they have had to face, identities, frictions, representations, positioning and power relations in the context of the cultural industries. The conversation will be moderated by Irene Masdeu, anthropologist and professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting & East Asian Studies at the UAB, and Laia Manonelles, art historian and professor in the Department of Art History at the UB.
This activity is organised by Irene Masdeu and Roberto Figliulo, members of the Interasia Research Group at the UAB, and has the collaboration of the Humanities Library, the Confucius Institute Foundation of Barcelona, and the Department of Translation and Interpreting & East Asian Studies at the UAB.
Place: Fort Pienc - Ana Maria Moix Library, Barcelona (Plaça Fort Pienc 4)
Date: Wednesday 8, October2025 - 18:30h
Thursday, October 9, 2025
17:15
Presentation of the report on "Educational Opportunities in Barcelona 2024"
Description:
The Barcelona Municipal Education Council (CEMB) and the Basic Training Cycles (CFPB), in collaboration with the Metròpoli Institute of the UAB Sphere, are organising the fifth edition of the "Educational Opportunities in Barcelona 2024" report, with the participation of Andreu Termes, researcher and author of the study.
The main educational challenges will be presented and working groups will be formed on areas such as early childhood, compulsory and post-compulsory education, school segregation, education outside school hours and academic results. It is worth noting the presence of Rafa Merino, professor at the UAB Department of Sociology, who will be moderating one of the working sessions.
All those interested can sign up to attend the event here.
Place: Institut Barri Besòs, Barcelona (Carrer Josep Pla 56)
Date: Thursday 9, October2025 - 17:15h
Friday, October 10, 2025
12:00
Conference by Enrique Barón, former president of the European Parliament
Description:
Economist and lawyer Enrique Barón was president of the European Parliament (1989-1992) and Spanish Minister for Transport, Tourism and Communications (1982-1985). He will offer the inaugural lecture of the UAB's Master's Degree in European Integration, which this year reaches its 40th anniversary. The event will take place on 10 October at 12 noon at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Law.
Place: Faculty of Law (Aula Magna)
Date: Friday 10, October2025 - 12:00h
Monday, October 13, 2025
12:30
Screening of the documentary "Anhedonia: Inside Depression" by Fidel Masreal
Description:
"Anhedonia, Inside Depression" is an observational documentary directed by Fidel Masreal and Facu Beraudi, following the depression journey of seven anonymous individuals over the course of more than a year. It is an unprecedented, intimate, and unfiltered portrait produced by Broadcaster with the support of the Government of Catalonia. The film serves as an educational, awareness-raising, and advocacy tool, the result of five years of work by a team of professionals.
After the screening, there will be a roundtable discussion featuring:
- Fidel Masreal: Documentary Director
- Marcel·lí López: Documentary Participant
- Susana Subirà: Director of the Department of Clinical Psychology, UAB
- Diego Palao: Director of the Department of Psychiatry at UAB and Head of Psychiatry at Parc Taulí Hospital
- Ana Barajas: Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, UAB
This session is part of the 1st Culture and Health Week program.
Place: UAB CINEMA
Date: Monday 13, October2025 - 12:30h
Telephone: 935812204
E-mail: cultura.enviu@uab.cat
13:00
Inauguration of the academic year at the Faculty of Biosciences
Description:
Jaime Martínez, professor of Genetics in the UAB Department of Genetics and Microbiology, will give the inaugural conference entitled "Changing pathogens in a changing world. Novel genomic approaches to predict how pathogens survive and thrive in a changing climate". The conference forms part of the inauguration of the 2025/26 academic year at the Faculty of Biosciences and will take place on 13 October at 1:00 p.m. at the faculty's conference halls. The event will include a recognition for the final projects presented and a tribute to the best academic trajectories of the bachelor's degrees in Biochemistry and Biotechnology by the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. There will also be institutional speeches by the rector of the UAB, Javier Lafuente, and the dean of the Faculty, Isidre Gibert.
Place: Faculty of Biosciences (conference hall)
Date: Monday 13, October2025 - 13:00h