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Description:

Information session addressed to UAB PDI and PTGAS interested in applying for the XLIII Call for Applications, aimed at supporting projects that analyze and transform the causes of major global challenges.

During the session, the lines of the call, participation criteria, application procedure will be explained, and questions will be answered.

Meeting link (Teams): Access here

Place: Online (Teams)

Date: Tuesday 27, January2026 - 13:00h

End date: Tuesday 27, January2026 - 14:00h

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The UAB Research Group on Dictatorships and Democracies (GReDD-CEDID) organises a seminar entitled The global far-right and the manufacturing of ideas: protests and performance by Ferraz in Valencia, which will be held on 27 January. David Rodríguez-Solás, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will participate. The session forms part of the training activities of the PhD programme in Comparative, Political and Social History.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (conference hall)

Date: Tuesday 27, January2026 - 16:00h

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The UAB Department of Anthropology and Caritas organise the FOESSA Catalunya conference, entitled "De la societat fragmentada a l'esperança compartida", which will be conducted by journalist Yolanda Marzabal from the TV3 news section on Society.

The institutional welcome will be offered at 10:00 a.m. by Salvador Busquets, president of Caritas, who will give way to the presentation of the Report on Exclusion and Social Development in Catalonia by Raúl Flores, technical secretary of the FOESSA Foundation, and Miriam Feu, general secretary and coordinator of the Observatory of Social Reality of Càritas Catalunya. In addition to them, this report was coordinated by UAB lecturer and director of the UAB Anthropology Department, Hugo Valenzuela-García, and member of the FOESSA Foundation, Thomas Ubrich.

Following that, different research articles will be presented through a dialogue with some of their authors. Thus, at 12:00 noon there will be a round table on Housing and Minimum Income; after lunch, at 2:35 p.m., another on The Inheritance of Poverty; and at 3:50 p.m . the closing session will take place, entitled The Future We Are Building.

Different research staff from the UAB will participate throughout the day (as well as researchers from other universities and entities): Margarita León, professor of Political Science and director of the Institute of Government and Public Policies of the UAB; Miranda Jessica Lubbers, professor of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the UAB (GRAFO); Sara Moreno-Colom, lecturer of the Department of Sociology of the UAB and researcher at the Centre for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT-UAB), and the Institute for Labour Studies (IET-UAB); and Hugo Valenzuela-García, professor of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the UAB (GRAFO). 

The FOESSA Foundation is a private, non-profit, state-level institution founded by Caritas Spain, which aims to serve general interests in the field of research and dissemination of social issues.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (conference hall)

Date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 09:30h

End date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 16:20h

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Description:

Information session addressed to UAB postgraduate students interested in applying for the E2025-2026 Call for Applications, aimed at promoting international cooperation projects.

During the session, the requirements and application procedure will be explained, and questions will be answered. 

Meeting link (Teams): Access here

Place: Online (Teams)

Date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 13:00h

End date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 14:30h

Description:

Since 2019, the UAB has participated through the Master in European Integration in the "Cross-border Masterclass and Dialogue of Disciplines", a joint initiative by 18 universities in Germany, France and Italy. The activity brings together students from different disciplines who work on a common theme and culminates in a three-day face-to-face meeting. This year, the Masterclass will take place at the UAB on 28, 29 and 30 January. Moreover, the BIP (Blended Intensive Programme) + Masterclass will take place throughout the week, from Monday 26 to Friday 30 January, with academic activities scheduled on all days.

On 28 January, the inaugural session of the Masterclass will take place, focused on cross-border cooperation from a global and European perspective. During the afternoon, the participating universities will be presented and two international forums on cross-border cooperation will be held, with speakers from Europe, Africa and Latin America. Some of the participants of the first session will be Jean-Marie Katubadi-Bakenge and Jean-Marie Melchior (University of Burundi), Eduardo Giugliano-Garcia (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and Bernard Reitel (University of Artois).

For more information please consult the full programme of the Masterclass.

Place: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona (Carrer del Carme 47)

Date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 15:00h

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On 29 January, the GEDIME research group, in collaboration with CER-Migrations and the UAB, will be organising the GEDIME Predoctoral Conference: Migration, work, family and public space, focused on the analysis of migration from the perspectives of the labour market, family, discrimination and public space. During the session, migratory experiences in different social and regional contexts will be analysed through speakers and debate spaces. Dahra Quintella, Iseo Morillas, Roser Ramis, Anna Clapés, Felipe Fernández, Helena Llonch, Mireia Pont and Emilio Morales, predoctoral researchers, will participate to offer their vision on the subject.

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

Date: Thursday 29, January2026 - 10:00h