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Description:

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Catalan organist Montserrat Torrent, the Auditorium of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities is hosting a seminar-concert to highlight her artistic career and her legacy in the recovery and promotion of organ music and historic organs. Montserrat Torrent was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UAB in 2007.

The event will include presentations by specialists on the Catalan concert organist: María Sanhuesa, lecturer at the University of Oviedo; Oriol Pérez Treviño, musicologist, essayist, and board member of the Montserrat Torrent Foundation; and Òscar Candendo, organist and lecturer at the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC). Òscar Candendo will give an organ-illustrated lecture on key early publications in the revival of the Iberian repertoire for the instrument.

The event is organised by the UAB and the Montserrat Torrent Year Commission. The inauguration will be attended by Jordi Cerdà, Vice-Rector for Culture of the UAB; Margarita Freixas, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities; and Albert Casals, lecturer in the Department of Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression. The closing will be given by Francesc Cortès, professor in the Department of Art and Musicology.

The event is open to all those interested in attending.

Event programme

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Auditorium)

Date: Tuesday 20, October2026 - 09:00h

End date: Tuesday 20, October2026 - 13:00h

Organiser: UAB and the Montserrat Torrent Year Commission

Description:

Charlotte Bigg, historian of science and research director at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS) in Paris, will deliver the inaugural lecture for the 2026/27 academic year of the new inter-university master's degree in the History of Science: History, Heritage and Scientific Communication, which is embarking on a new phase with a greater emphasis on museology and science popularisation.

The researcher will give a lecture titled "The Palais de la Découverte 1937–2027: A Participant-Observer’s Perspective", focusing on her involvement in the major renovation project of this iconic Parisian museum—set to reopen in March 2027—where she has been responsible for incorporating perspectives from the history of science and science, technology, and society (STS) studies.

Charlotte Big earned her degree in history at the University of Oxford and in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge. She subsequently worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at ETH Zurich. Bigg is an expert in the social and cultural history of science (especially 19th and 20th-century chemistry, physics and astronomy) and has published numerous works exploring the visual and material cultures of science and technology from the late 18th century to the present day.

Place: Seminar Hall, IHC

Date: Tuesday 20, October2026 - 11:30h

End date: Tuesday 20, October2026 - 13:00h

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The 5th ceremony of the Eines 2026 Awards for the best social transformation projects will take place on 20 October at the Margarida Xirgu Theatre in Montornès del Vallès. The awards aim to recognise and promote projects with a positive social impact, fostering social transformation through innovation and entrepreneurship. 

The Eines 2026 Awards, which include a cash prize of between €750 and €3,000, are awarded to the best social transformation and innovation projects in four categories: General (Catalonia), Vallesà (Vallès Oriental and Vallès Occidental), Local (Cerdanyola, Mollet and Montornès) and a new category: Thematic Award (Digital Transformation with Social Impact) – Province of Barcelona.

Place: Margarida Xirgu Theatre, Montornès del Vallès (Plaça Margarida Xirgu 4)

Date: Tuesday 20, October2026 - 18:30h

End date: Tuesday 20, October2026 - 20:40h

Description:

The UAB through its QUIT research group and the CED, organises and hosts Time Use Week, the leading international gathering dedicated to advancing the debate, knowledge, and public policies regarding the right to time and improved time organisation. The meeting will take place on Wednesday 21 October and the full programme can be consulted here.

From 19 to 21 October, the Setmana dels Horaris i el Temps [Schedules and Time Week] will bring together researchers, policymakers, companies, social organisations, and citizens from around the world in Barcelona and at the UAB to foster debate—drawing on their diverse fields of knowledge and experience—aimed at improving the social organisation of time.

Time policies are the key tools at the disposal of administrations and organisations to reduce the inequalities caused by time poverty and to build a healthier, fairer, more efficient and more sustainable society in which the right to time is guaranteed for all. 

The event on Wednesday 21 October, to be held at the UAB, is expected to attract between 100 and 150 participants. It will be attended by the various institutions co-organising the Time Use Week (Government of Catalonia, Barcelona Provincial Council, Barcelona City Hall, and the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona).

The programme also includes the presence of the official statistical institutes of Catalonia (IDESCAT) and Europe (Eurostat), and a research presentation session on time use, which will feature research from the UAB.

To view the provisional programme, please visit Time Use Week website.

Date: Wednesday 21, October2026 - 09:30h

End date: Wednesday 21, October2026 - 14:00h

Description:

On 23 October at 9:30 a.m., the UAB and the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation will be hosting a conference in celebration of 25 years of the programme InfoK, under the title "El repte d’informar als infants en l’entorn digital" [The Challenge of Informing Children in the Digital Environment]. The conference will take place in the Aula Magna of the UAB Faculty of Communication Studies. To attend, one must register here. The event aims to reflect on and debate the way information is presented to children, as well as its educational aspect and the challenge facing the media in a context where screens define adolescent media consumption.

There will be three round-table discussions organised around the three aforementioned debate axes. Journalists affiliated with InfoK and researchers from across the country in information, childhood, education, outreach and psychology will take part. The opening address will be delivered by Lewis James, editor of the BBC's children's news programme “Newsround”.

Place: Faculty of Communication Studies (Aula Magna)

Date: Friday 23, October2026 - 09:30h

Description:

Economist Matthew O. Jackson will be invested with an honorary doctorate by the UAB, at the proposal of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, in a ceremony that will take place on 26 October at 12 noon in the conference hall of the Rectorat building. The ceremony will be presided over by Rector Javier Lafuente and streamed live on the UAB's YouTube channel.

Professor Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His research centres on the study of economic agents' decision-making and the consequences these decisions have for society. He has published numerous research articles in the fields of game theory, decision theory, social choice theory, and artificial intelligence. His pioneering contributions to the analysis of the role of networks in the economy and social life are particularly notable.

Places are limited. Those interested in attending must fill out this form by 22 October.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Monday 26, October2026 - 12:00h

End date: Monday 26, October2026 - 14:00h