Defenses de tesi

Description:

The Research Centre in Sociology of Religion (ISOR-UAB) is organising the seminar “Santos motivos, santas virtudes” on 11 December, which will focus on racialisation, whiteness, and popular pedagogies in Andean comics (1960–1980). It will feature Malena Bedoya, researcher from the University of Manchester, who will offer her perspective on racial representation and pedagogical dynamics in Andean comics. The event will take place at 1:00 p.m. in the Boardroom of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.

The presentation will pay special attention to the cases of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to analyse how this medium became a privileged space for promoting narratives linked to liberation theology and what is known as the “preferential option for the poor.” The talk focuses on two particularly influential figures of sainthood, Saint Peter Claver and Saint Martin de Porres, through a reading of the hagiographies and their translations into the language of comics. At the same time, the presentation will address the tensions between these liberating approaches and the persistence of the structures of whiteness in the graphic and symbolic construction of sainthood, and will propose a view of the comics not only as cultural or devotional products, but as pedagogical devices deeply rooted in debates about race, power, and political imagination in the Andes. The analysis aims to illuminate the ambivalences, potentials, and limits of comics as technologies for ethical formation, and as spaces in which identities, memories, and possible futures are negotiated.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Sala de juntes)

Date: Thursday 11, December2025 - 13:00h

Description:

In addition to the presentation of the book by its author, Marc Belzunces, the event will open the debate on the electrification of university campuses. For this reason, it will also feature the participation of the director of the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences, Albert Bonillo; the vice-rector for Campus and Sustainability of the UAB, Xavier Gabarrell; and the director of the Institute of the Environment of the University of Girona, Ignasi R-Roda.

Place: Periodicals Room (Sala Polivalent)

Date: Thursday 11, December2025 - 13:00h

Organiser: UAB

Description:

On 11 December at 1:45 p.m., the traditional UAB Winter Concert will take place. This eagerly awaited annual event takes on a profound meaning this year: the concert will be dedicated to the memory of Joan Casals i Clotet. He was the driving force and soul of the university orchestra, a key figure in the musical life of the campus, and a lecturer cherished across generations.

Place: UAB Theatre Hall

Date: Thursday 11, December2025 - 13:45h

Description:

On Monday 15 December at 6:00 p.m., the Permanent Group of the UAB Theatre Workshop will present a staged reading of Dona dins un maleter, by Pol Borrel Falcó.

The play addresses the issue of violence against women from a multifaceted perspective. Through society’s reactions to a murder, the author depicts the behaviour of the police, media narratives, the experience of affected families, educational debates, and ideological and political controversies.

Place: UAB Theatre Hall, Plaça Cívica

Date: Monday 15, December2025 - 18:00h

Telephone: 93 581 22 04

E-mail: cultura.enviu@uab.cat

Description:

The Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of the UAB will host the 50th edition of the Symposium of the Spanish Economic Association (SAEe) on 17, 18 and 19 December. This nationally and internationally renowned academic meeting in economic research returns this year to its place of origin to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The conference will include 4 plenary sessions and 8 regular sessions, with 14 classrooms participting simultaneously in each session and more than 400 researchers.

In the afternoon, a special round table discussion will take place with former presidents of the AEE and founders of the Symposium and the Association, who will highlight the evolution of economic research from different perspectives.

More information can be found through the following link.

Place: Faculty of Economics and Business Studies

Date: Wednesday 17, December2025 - 08:15h

Description:

The Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness and Social Cohesion (INMIX) of the UAB Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, in collaboration with different administrative entities and organisations, will be holding a conference entitled "Catalunya barreja. Diversitat, mestissatge i cohesió social" on 17 December. It will discuss the reality of immigration, minorities, diversity and miscegenation in Catalonia in terms of social cohesion with the aim of generating a counterweight to the reactionary, xenophobic and racist far-right discourse, which is on the rise throughout Europe. The conference includes both an academic, political and technical view with representatives of the administration and entities. To attend, prior registration is required.

Place: Espai Àgora of the History Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona (Plaça Pau Vila 3)

Date: Wednesday 17, December2025 - 10:00h