Activities
Tuesday, June 3 2025
Dia · Setmana
16:00
Olympia: Memory, music and inherited exile
Description:
Under the framework of the Permanent Seminar of the Literary Exile Studies Group (GEXEL-CEDID), the seminar Olympia: Memory, music and inherited exile. A conversation with stage director Carlota Subirós will take place on 3 June. The session will take place from 4:00 p.m., in the Board Room of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the UAB. It will also be streamed live through this link.
Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Sala de juntes)
Date: Tuesday 3, June2025 - 16:00h
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
09:30
Impact of artificial intelligence in knowledge management and organisations in the 5.0 society
Description:
From 4 to 6 June, the Centre for Research and Studies for Organisational Development (CRiEDO) of the UAB will co-organise the 8th International Congress EDO 2025, which will be held at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and will address the impact of artificial intelligence on knowledge management and organisations in the 5.0 society.
Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Date: Wednesday 4, June2025 - 09:30h
09:30
Thirteenth annual meeting of the Institute for Employment Studies
Description:
The Employment, Economic and Social Council of Catalonia (CTESC) will host the 13th annual meeting of the UAB's Institute for Employment Studies (IET), entitled “Velles i noves professions: impacte en el mercat de treball de les transicions digital i verda” [Old and New Professions: impact of the digital and green transition on the labour market]. The activity will take place on 4 June and proposes a reflection on the profound changes the labour market is undergoind due to digitalisation and automation, and the transition towards a more sustainable economy. To attend please fill out the following form.
Place: CTESC, Barcelona (Carrer de la Diputació 284)
Date: Wednesday 4, June2025 - 09:30h
End date: Wednesday 4, June2025 - 13:15h
11:00
Public lecture: "Movements in crisis and a world on fire: social movement research, climate crisis and authoritarianism", by Laurence Cox
Description:
Laurence Cox, Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and one of Europe’s best-known social movement scholars, will visit ICTA-UAB to give a public lecture.
Title: "Movements in crisis and a world on fire: social movement research, climate crisis and authoritarianism"
Speaker: Laurence Cox, Professor at the National University of Ireland Maynooth
- Date: Wednesday, June 4th 2025
- Time: 11 AM – 12:30 PM
- Place: Sala Polivalent de l’Eureka and online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83569964591?pwd=pbbDmz6Y1bjb30VK8TcrSgRSeXjaGb.1
The most recent wave of climate activism in the global North seems to have hit its limits, while the growth of the far right and intensified repression threaten movement organising in general. In this context many dominant discourses about environmental and climate justice seem to have little real relevance for what we should actually do – as activists, as researchers or both. This lecture asks what we already know about how social movements from below develop and decline, how to understand “movements from above” in periods of historical crisis, how popular struggles can contribute towards large-scale social transformation and how we can help. It draws on a broad historical and decolonial perspective and close empirical study of actual movements on many different levels to outline a theoretical alternative both to despair and to wishful thinking. This in turn makes it possible to identify forms of action that have a realistic chance of making a difference.
Bio: Laurence Cox is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and one of Europe’s best-known social movement scholars. He is author/editor of fifteen books, including Why Social Movements Matter; We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism; Silence Would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa; Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Social Movements; and Haciendo otros mundos posibles: porqué los zapatistas nos importan, and founding co-editor of the activist-academic social movements journal Interface. He has been active in social movements since the 1980s and is currently involved in activist training work with the Ulex Project and the Movement Learning Catalyst.
Date: Wednesday 4, June2025 - 11:00h
18:30
Growing older and grief. How to face menopause, andropause and retirement
Description:
The AFIN group, a research and laboratory group providing scientific-technical and academic services at the UAB, in collaboration with the “la Caixa” Foundation, is organising a conference series entitled "Humanistic Challenges on recognising and dealing with grief to live better", under the scientific direction of Diana Marre, professor of anthropology at the UAB and director of the AFIN group.
The second conference, on grieving at an older age, will deal with processes that we face throughout life and that are necessary to grow, such as menopause, andropause and retirement. The conference will be given by María Fernanda Peraza, a medical expert in urology, andrology and sexual and reproductive medicine at the Clínica Corachán Urology Department; Elisa Llurba, medical expert in gynaecology, obstetrics and menopause and head of the Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Assisted Reproduction Service of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau; and Josep Vilajoana, doctor in psychology and expert in bereavement with more than 20 years of practice in various foundations and social services.
The conference will take place on 4 June at 6:30 p.m. at the Palau Macaya (Pg. de St. Joan, 108, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona). Please sign up here to attend.
Place: Palau Macaya, Barcelona (Passeig de Sant Joan 108)
Date: Wednesday 4, June2025 - 18:30h
Thursday, June 5, 2025
09:00
First Conference on Animal Biosecurity at the UAB campus
Description:
The UAB campus organises the First Conference on Animal Biosecurity in which topics such as the importance of the human factor in the implementation of biosecurity measures, the role of technologies, and future needs in research and education will be presented.
Representatives of the conference will be experts in the field of animal biosecurity, working in European research projects such as Biosecure, industry and international organisations: World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). The congress will also serve to present the results of four years of work of the European biosafety network BETTER and the new World Animal Biosafety Association (WABA) will be launched.
The conference will take place on 5 June from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Those interested in attending can register at https://project-better.bocemtium.com/registration/.
Place: UAB campus
Date: Thursday 5, June2025 - 09:00h
End date: Friday 6, June2025 - 17:00h