Defenses de tesi

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The opening ceremony for the new academic year at the Faculty of Communication Studies will take place on Wednesday 14 October 2026, at 4:00 p.m. in the faculty’s Aula Magna.

Ana Palencia, Senior Communications Advisor at the communications and public relations agency Tinkle, will deliver the inaugural lecture, titled "Communication and Purpose: Communicating to Transform".

The event will also feature addresses by Juan José Perona, Dean of the Faculty of Communication Studies; Virgina Luzón, Vice-Rector for Communication; and Ana Maria Enrique, lecturer at the Faculty.

Following the inaugural lecture, students will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with Ana Palencia. The event will conclude with a performance of Gaudeamus Igitur.

Place: Faculty of Communication Studies (Aula Magna)

Date: Wednesday 14, October2026 - 16:00h

End date: Wednesday 14, October2026 - 18:00h

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Journalist and writer Cristina Fallarás will be offering a conference entitled "El testimoni com a acte revolucionari". The event will take place on Thursday 15 October at 1:00 p.m. at the Sala de graus of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

Fallarás has been director of Diario 16, editor-in-chief of El Mundo in Catalonia, and deputy director of Factual. She was honoured by the Association of Women Journalists of Catalonia and received the María Luz Morales Feminist Journalism Award. She is the founder of La Nuestra, a platform dedicated to combating gender-based violence. This lecture is organised as the inaugural session for the UAB's Bachelor’s Degree in Sociocultural Gender Studies.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Sala de graus)

Date: Thursday 15, October2026 - 13:00h

End date: Thursday 15, October2026 - 14:40h

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The Centre for the Study of Dictatorships and Democracies (CEDID) and the Centre for Research in Performing Arts (CRAE) at the UAB,  together with the Research Group on the Global South and the East at Paul Valéry University Montpellier III, France, are organising the "Symposium on History and Theatre in the Iberian Peninsula (20th and 21st centuries)". The session will take place on 16 October at 9:30 a.m. at the Sala de graus of the UAB Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The symposium will reflect on and debate the relationships between history and theatre in the Iberian Peninsula during the 20th and 21st centuries.

The day will begin with a presentation by Pau Casanellas, director of the CEDID-UAB, and Francesc Foguet, director of the CRAE-UAB. Next, two central talks will take place; at 10:00 a.m. the session "What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Memory?" by Ricard Vinyes, professor of History at the University of Barcelona, who will speak on the concept of memory; and, at 10:40 a.m., the session “Memorabilia and Theatre: Bonds and Affects in the Construction of Heritage” by Antonia Amo, lecturer of Hispanic Studies at the University of Avignon, who will address the relationship between memorabilia, theatre, emotions and heritage. Also included are ten further talks, five for each century, which will address more specific approaches to the link between history and theatre from the perspective of the peninsula's stages.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Sala de graus)

Date: Friday 16, October2026 - 09:30h

Description:

From 19 to 23 October 2026, the UAB will organise the fourth edition of Innovation Week. The aim is to reach out to the wider region, showcase the university's innovation ecosystem, and make the technologies and innovative knowledge generated on campus more accessible to the public.

The varied programme of activities and themes will provide opportunities for the UAB community, start-ups, companies and investors to meet and network. Some of the activities include:

• Innovation Fair
• UAB-Cruïlla Chair: Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Arts and Music
• -Emprèn UAB: generating spin-offs and start-ups from the university
• -Eines Awards Ceremony
• From Research to Impact: Experiences of Public Innovation and Knowledge Transfer from the University to Society
• Women in Science and Entrepreneurship
• Inauguration of the Cerdanyola Activa Innovation Hub
• Beyond the Hype: How (Not) to Use AI for Entrepreneurship
• Innovation from Catalan Forests for the Bioeconomy: Construction and Green Chemistry
• UAB Virtual Reality Conference

Place: Campus UAB

Date: Monday 19, October2026 - 10:00h

End date: Friday 23, October2026 - 15:00h

Organiser: UAB Research Park

Description:

Charlotte Bigg, historian of science and research director at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS, Paris), will offer the inaugural lecture of the 2026/27 academic year for the bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology and Humanities.

In her inaugural lecture, Bigg will outline the interconnected history of techniques for the visual representation of the universe and for the popularisation of astronomy in the modern era, as well as how these advances have contributed to shaping our perception of the universe and humanity's place within it.

After earning her degree in history at the University of Oxford and in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge, Bigg worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at ETH Zurich. She is an expert in the social and cultural history of science—particularly 19th- and 20th-century chemistry, physics, and astronomy—and has published numerous works exploring the visual and material cultures of science and technology.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Room 501)

Date: Monday 19, October2026 - 11:30h

End date: Monday 19, October2026 - 13:00h

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The UAB Innovation Fair 2026 will take place on 20 October. This event aims to foster connections between the research community and the business world, and was designed to showcase knowledge transfer from research groups at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and display the wide range of technologies, services, and innovative ideas generated on campus.

Here, visitors will be able to explore the latest trends and technologies developed at the University and connect with researchers.

Place: Hotel Exe Campus

Date: Tuesday 20, October2026 - 09:00h