Defenses de tesi

Description:

Michel Martinez Perez, lecturer at the Sorbonne University, will present his lecture on 13 October in the conference hall of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, as part of the GReDD ongoing seminars—a forum for academic debate coordinated by the UAB’s Centre for the Study of Dictatorships and Democracies (CEDID).

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (conference hall)

Date: Tuesday 13, October2026 - 16:00h

Description:

On 14 October, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the Sala Carles Perelló of the Schools for Doctoral Studies and Continuing Education will host the 2nd UAB University Social Responsibility Conference, organised with the aim of sharing the good practices that different universities are developing in the field of USR, especially in the areas of value chains, suppliers, and responsible purchasing and contracting. To attend, please register by completing the following form.

Place: Schools for Doctoral Studies and Continuing Education (Sala Carles Perelló)

Date: Wednesday 14, October2026 - 10:00h

Description:

A painting, health, and well-being workshop that uses artistic knowledge and dynamics to support and stimulate processes of healing and development.  

Workshop directed by Ezequiel Rosenfeldt.

Places are limited, please sign up using this form.

Place: Plaça Cívica (Edifici Àgora)

Date: Wednesday 14, October2026 - 13:30h

Description:

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

Description:

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

Description:

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