Defenses de tesi

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Sociologist and economist from Guinea-Bissau Carlos Lopes, high representative of the African Union at the United Nations, will give a talk on “Global reconfigurations and centrality of the South: Africa as mirror and actor” on 5 June at 1:00 p.m., in Aula 4 of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting. The event is organised by the José Saramago Chair at the UAB. Lopes, honorary professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, will also present his new book The Self-Deception Trap. Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Charity Dependency within Africa-Europe Relations (Palgrave/Springer), which is open access. The event will be moderated by Professor Nazir Ahmed Can and will be attended by diplomatic representatives from Brazil, Portugal and Mozambique. Lopes was elected Economist of the Year 2024 at the annual awards of the pan-African magazine Financial Afrik.

Place: Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (Aula 4)

Date: Thursday 5, June2025 - 13:00h

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Stefania Giombini, lecturer in the Department of Public Law and Legal History Studies of the UAB, will give a conference within the Un cafè de Dret series, organised by the AmicsUAB. In her conference she will explore the rights of children related to their image in the digital era. The event will take place on 6 June at 6:30 p.m. in the Sala Sagarra of the Ateneu Barcelonès.

Place: Ateneu Barcelonès (Sala Sagarra)

Date: Friday 6, June2025 - 18:30h

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In June 2024, the first Chile-Spain meeting on crime and criminal justice was held. This year will mark the second edition, in which Chilean and Spanish academics, students and professionals will reflect together to solve problems of crime and criminal justice affecting both countries. The meeting will take place on 9 June from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the UAB Faculty of Law. The activity is organised by the Centro de Estudios de Justicia y Sociedad (Universidad Católica de Chile), SGR en Justicia Penal i Penologia (Universitat de Girona - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and the Núcleo Milenio Complejidad Criminal. The meeting is sponsored by the Embassy of Chile in Spain, the Department of Political Science and Public Law (UAB), and the National Agency for Research and Development - Chile (ANID). Attendance is limited, prior registration is required in the following form.

Place: Faculty of Law (Sala de graus)

Date: Monday 9, June2025 - 08:45h

End date: Monday 9, June2025 - 16:30h

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Lisa-Ann Richey, from the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, will visit ICTA-UAB to give a public seminar.

Seminar: "Ineffective Altruism? Everyday Humanitarianism in Times of Crisis in Tanzania"

Speaker: Lisa-Ann Richey, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Date: Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
• Time: From 2.30pm to 4.30pm
• Venue: Sala Montseny (room z/022 & z/023) ICTA-UAB

Michael Walzer writes in his blurb of Nancy Rosenblum’s book, Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America, that: ‘From now on, neighbors will stand with citizens in our understanding of the politics of the everyday and of the human response to crisis.’ As scholars of African politics, we welcome the ‘neighborly’ understanding of crisis response and propose a paper that examines what we know about everyday peoples’ help and how this may spur critical reflections on the global politics of humanitarianism. As formal humanitarianism comes increasingly under scrutiny for the ideological racism and pragmatic inefficiency, local responses may provide insight.  Over the past five years, we have led a collaborative multidisciplinary research project trying to document and understand the ways that Tanzanians help each other in times of acute and protracted crisis: specifically, in Kagera on the Bukoba earthquake, in Kigoma on the refugees issue, in Morogoro on the flooding and nationally on the Corona crisis. Exhibitions of altruism on the part of ordinary people, both strangers and neighbors provide the positive face of every disaster. Drawing from aspects of African culture of brotherhood, ‘ubuntu’ and of ‘holding one another’s hand,’ everyday giving is part and parcel of life among elites in Tanzania. Yet, once ‘helping’ is stripped of its sentimentality, complicated relations of social and moral negotiation can be analyzed. These are never solely political or emotional, but they are practices that arc towards particular politics.  Our findings suggest that everyday humanitarianism differs from international humanitarianism in terms of impartiality: Tanzanians do not necessarily help their neighbors, but they always help their friends in the neighborhood.  Reflecting on the tensions between global and local humanitarianism, we sketch an argument for ineffective altruism.

Lisa Ann Richey @BrandAid_World is Professor of Globalization in the Department of Management, Society and Communication at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. She completed a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Post-Doc in Anthropological Demography at Harvard University. Her current research projects are Commodifying Compassion: Implications of Turning People and Humanitarian Causes into Marketable Things (2016-2023) and Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania (2019-2025). She is the author or editor of seven books including Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power (2016) and Batman Saves the Congo: Business, Disruption and the Politics of Development with Alexandra Budabin (2021). She works in the areas of international aid and humanitarian politics, the aid business and commodification of causes, and new transnational actors and alliances in the global South. Lisa was the founding Vice-President of the Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA). www.lisaannrichey.com

Place: Sala Montseny (Sala Z/022 - Z/023) ICTA-UAB

Date: Tuesday 10, June2025 - 14:30h

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Maite Martín, president of the One Health Platform and physiology lecturer at the UAB, will give a conference on the concept of One Health to understand how the connection between the health of people, animals and ecosystems can help to reduce inequalities and foster an improved quality of life. The conference will take place on 10 June at 6:00 p.m. at the Mestre Martí Tauler Library in Rubí, and is organised by the AmicsUAB association.

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

Date: Tuesday 10, June2025 - 18:00h

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Within the FEMMEN 2025 series, on 10 June at 7:00 p.m., the Sala Beckett in Barcelona will host the round table “Female republican playwrights: between insile and exile”, organised with the participation of the Literary Exile Studies Group (GEXEL-CEDID) and the Chair in Republican Exile (CEXLIR) of the UAB. The speakers will be Aïda Ayats, Francesc Foguet and Yasmina Yousfi, and the event will be moderated by Professor Manuel Aznar, director of CEXLIR.

Place: Sala Beckett, Barcelona (Carrer Pere IV 228-232)

Date: Tuesday 10, June2025 - 19:00h