Defenses de tesi

Description:

On 3, 4 and 5 June, the Association of Public Relations Researchers organises the 20th International Public Relations Research Congress, which will be hosted by the UAB. The 20th edition of this congress will take place at the Palau Macaya in Barcelona, with the title "Rebels with a Cause. Public Relations as an Agent of Change". The international event will bring together researchers and academics in the field of public relations to discuss advances in research and teaching in this discipline. The congress also provides an opportunity to project the promising future of public relations, analysing the subject from a perspective that is critical, transformative, and committed to the today's great social challenges.

The full programme, which can be found on the congress' official website, will include inaugural conferences, scientific communication panels, academic forums, social activities, and debate spaces around issues such as sustainability, disinformation, artificial intelligence, institutional communication, inclusion, and digital reputation.

Among the highlights will be the opening conference by Pep Martorell, artificial intelligence researcher and lecturer at the ESADE Business School, as well as several sessions dedicated to the impact of AI on public relations, communicative transparency, and new forms of digital citizen participation. The congress will also feature cultural and networking activities, such as a visit to the Chez Matisse exhibition at the CaixaForum Barcelona, or a visit to the former Estrella Damm beer factory.

Place: Palau Macaya, Barcelona (Passeig Sant Joan 108)

Date: Wednesday 3, June2026 - 08:00h

Description:

This seminar explores the intersections between reproductive politics, networks and production of knowledge from a historical, sociological and science and technology studies (STS) perspective.

Departing from the notion of reproductive politics, the seminar analyzes activist movements, communication and global market networks that have configured reproductive rights, scientific knowledge of reproduction and access to public health resources. On one hand, feminist and activist networks are studied as forms of organizing, circulating knowledge and doing historical research; on the other hand, the role of reproductive markets, the commercialization of fertility and the global circulation of reproductive cells in the transformation of contemporary reproductive biology is examined.

The language will be English, but questions or contributions may be raised in Catalan or Spanish.

Online participation by this Teams link.

Programme:

11:00 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. Introduction (Laia Iturrizaga Zurita)
11:05 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. Oocyte biology networked entanglements in fertility crisis times (Rebecca Close)
11:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Compliance as valorization: Ukrainian donor eggs and the global reproductive bioeconomy (Polina Vlasenko)
12:05 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. Coffee break
12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Feminist net-working: The work of networks as a critical historical methodology (Lina Chordaki)
12:45 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Discussion

Participants:

Lina Chordaki (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
Rebecca Close (UAB)
Laia Iturrizaga Zurita (UAB)
Polina Vlasenko (ReproMob)

Place: iHC Seminar room + Teams

Date: Wednesday 3, June2026 - 11:00h

End date: Wednesday 3, June2026 - 13:00h

Description:

On 1, 2 and 3 June the UAB will host the scientific and practical conferences on social reintegration, a space for transmitting research on desistance and reintegration and for making visible policies and practices aimed at reintegration. The meeting also aims to generate a space for reflection and debate on the challenges faced by the penitentiary system and re-entry programmes. It is aimed at professionals from prison administrations and juvenile justice and from foundations and third sector entities working in the field of reintegration, as well as researchers interested in desistance and reintegration. The first day will be held at the Palau Macaya in Barcelona; on the second day, the conferences will continue in the Aula Magna, and on the third day in the Boardroom of the UAB Faculty of Law. The conferences are organised by the Research Group on Crime Desistance and Reintegration Policies of the UAB, by the research project "Third degree, parole and reintegration", funded by the Spanish Research Agency (PID2022-140171NB-I00), the Justice and Society Centre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and the Foundation for Applied Research in Crime and Security (FIADYS).

Place: Faculty of Law (Boardroom)

Date: Wednesday 3, June2026 - 12:00h

Description:

On 3, 4 and 5 June, the Association of Public Relations Researchers organises the 20th International Public Relations Research Congress, which will be hosted by the UAB. The 20th edition of this congress will take place at the Palau Macaya in Barcelona, with the title "Rebels with a Cause. Public Relations as an Agent of Change". The international event will bring together researchers and academics in the field of public relations to discuss advances in research and teaching in this discipline. The congress also provides an opportunity to project the promising future of public relations, analysing the subject from a perspective that is critical, transformative, and committed to the today's great social challenges.

The full programme, which can be found on the congress' official website, will include inaugural conferences, scientific communication panels, academic forums, social activities, and debate spaces around issues such as sustainability, disinformation, artificial intelligence, institutional communication, inclusion, and digital reputation.

Among the highlights will be the opening conference by Pep Martorell, artificial intelligence researcher and lecturer at the ESADE Business School, as well as several sessions dedicated to the impact of AI on public relations, communicative transparency, and new forms of digital citizen participation. The congress will also feature cultural and networking activities, such as a visit to the Chez Matisse exhibition at the CaixaForum Barcelona, or a visit to the former Estrella Damm beer factory.

Place: Palau Macaya, Barcelona (Passeig Sant Joan 108)

Date: Thursday 4, June2026 - 09:00h

Description:

The Scenic Arts Research Centre organises for 4 June at 11:00 a.m. an international symposium entitled Hands Across the City: Musicians and Handedness in Urban Contexts. The activity will take place in the Sala Tarotdequinze of the UAB Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

The symposium aims to investigate laterality through musicological, paedagogical and neuropsychological perspectives based on practice. Those interested can sign up on this online form. 

• Folk Songs for Inverted Guitar. Practice-based observations on playing guitar transcriptions ‘upside down’., by Danica Hobden, musician and researcher specialised in instrumental practice and laterality from the Hamburg University of Music and Drama.
• ‘Left-handed’ instrumental play in Germany – from an artistic, educational and academic perspective., by Laila Kirchner, musician and researcher from the Cologne Unviersity of Music and Dance.  
• Maybe YOU’RE Playing Backwards. Laterality, identity and the case for the idiodextrous brain., by Greg Gottlieb, researcher in art and musicology at the UAB.
• Flipping guitar. An essential analysis of historical and contemporary approaches to the classical guitar posture, by Francesca Naibo, guitarist, lecturer and researcher at Siena Jazz University. 
• "Introduction to the research project Music and City: places, institutions and encounters since the Industrial Revolution", by Francesc Cortès, lecturer in art and musicology at the UAB.

Place: Online and on-site at the Sala Tarot de quinze of the Faculty of arts & Humanities

Date: Thursday 4, June2026 - 10:00h

Description:

The Spring Concert will offer a broad and diverse musical journey, which will connect tradition, classicism and contemporaneity through works from different eras and styles.

The UAB Choir and Chamber Choir, directed by Poire Vallvé, will begin the concert with a trip to the Renaissance thanks to Con qué la lavaré, by Juan Vásquez, and will continue with a contemporary revision of the traditional Catalan melody La dama d’Aragó, with arrangements by Aran Monserdà and Helena Leiva. The choir will then move on to more contemporary languages ​​with Better Days, a choral adaptation of a modern metal piece, and with Entre el espanto y la ternura, a work by Beatriz Corona on verses by Silvio Rodríguez. The second part of the repertoire will include 20th century classics such as Over the Rainbow and Autumn Leaves, before delving into the jazz universe of Duke Ellington with a choral suite made up of emblematic pieces such as Take the “A” Train, Satin Doll, Lush Life, Things Ain’t What They Used to Be and Perdido.

The UAB Orchestra, conducted by Jesús Badia, will perform Franz Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 83, La Poule, from the ‘Paris’ symphonies. The work stands out for its combination of brilliance, elegance and expressive vitality. The orchestral programme will continue with Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, written from popular melodies collected by the Hungarian composer at the beginning of the 20th century. The concert will end with one of Astor Piazzolla’s most renowned tangos.

The concert will end with a joint performance by the UAB orchestra and choirs of the Kyrie from the Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater, an 18th-century work by the Montserrat monk Anselm Viola, considered one of the most outstanding figures of Catalan classicism.

Place: Theatre Hall

Date: Thursday 4, June2026 - 13:45h

End date: Thursday 4, June2026 - 13:45h