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Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró will present her book, "Decolonizing Feminist Economics – Possibilities for Just Futures",  at ICTA-UAB in Sala Montseny. The event will also be available online for those who cannot attend in person. You can find the online link below.

Book presentation: "Decolonizing Feminist Economics – Possibilities for Just Futures"

By Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró, Independent researcher and Lecturer at Escola Massana on Feminism, Decolonial Thought and Ecology

• Date: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
• Time: 12.00-13.00 (CET)
• Venue: Sala Montseny (Z/022 & Z/023) and Online - Join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83753899254?pwd=Xak5XU3Ms2KabHU31a6JGYr8JdUEbA.1

Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró holds a PhD in Gender and Post/Decolonial Studies from Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London. With nearly twenty years of experience, Gisela has worked as a feminist researcher for international organizations and grassroots movements across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Balkans. She has taught feminisms, development economics, and decolonial thought at institutions such as the University of Cambridge and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As a Visiting Assistant Professor at Central European University (Vienna), she developed and taught Feminist Economics and Decolonizing Development - the first courses of their kind.

Her research has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and international reports. She currently works as an independent researcher and is a collaborative lecturer at Escola Massana (Autonomous University of Barcelona), focusing on feminisms, decolonial thought, and ecological economics.

Book Introduction

Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures explores how postcolonial and decolonial critiques challenge the Western-centric foundations of feminist economics. The book addresses the intersections of colonialism, capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and ecological degradation, offering critical tools for imagining transformative alternatives. Through engagement with global struggles, it unveils our hijacked present and envisions the emergence of decolonizing feminist economic landscapes.

Transdisciplinary and innovative, it fills a crucial gap by exploring the synergy between decolonization and feminist economics — challenging growth logic, capitalism, and Eurocentrism, while opening space for just futures.https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/decolonizing-feminist-economics

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Date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 12:00h

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Professor Maron Greenleaf  will present her book, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism" at ICTA-UAB in Sala Montseny. 

Book launch: "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism"

By Professor Maron Greenleaf, Dartmouth University

Featuring discussion from Prof. Esteve Corbera, Dr. Annie James, and Bruno Gastal of ICTA-UAB

• Date: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
• Time: 14 - 16h (CET)
• Venue: Sala Montseny (Z/022 & Z/023) 

Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protection. Maron E. Greenleaf explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism—the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage. She traces cultural, environmental, governmental, material, and multispecies relations involved in making forest carbon valuable as well as how forest carbon’s commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth. At the same time, Greenleaf shows how making forest carbon monetarily valuable created an unexpected set of uneven, contingent, and contested social and political relations. While forest carbon in the Amazon demonstrates that green capitalism can be socially inclusive, it also shows that green capitalism can reinforce the marginalization it purportedly seeks to combat. By outlining these complex relations and tensions, Greenleaf elucidates broader efforts to create a capitalism suited to the Anthropocene and those efforts’ alluring promises and vexing failures.

Maron Greenleaf is a cultural anthropologist, political ecologist, and legal scholar studying human-environment relations in this time of environmental change and crisis. Her published work has centered on green capitalism, carbon credits, deforestation, tree planting, postindustrial restoration, and energy transitions in Brazil, the US, and the UK. Her current research centers on tree planting and environmental restoration in postindustrial England. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth University.

Date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 14:00h

Description:

PerCientEx, an initiative that identifies and disseminates journalistic works of excellence in science, technology, health and environment in Ibero-America, is organising its sixth conference on science journalism, dedicated this year to exploring the relationship between narrative podcasting and science.

The event is organised by the PerCientEx Observatory and coordinated by the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC) and the Communication and Education Office of the UAB, with the support of the “la Caixa” Foundation.

The event will feature the participation of Argentine-Chilean journalist Nicolás Alonso, known for his work in Radio Ambulante and podcasts such as Adiós, Plutón, and Spanish journalist Belén Remacha, member of the Hoy en El País team and winner of the Prismas 2024 Award for her work Tu cerebro es oro. Both will present sound stories specially created for the occasion, focusing on scientific and social issues. In addition, the writer and cultural critic Jorge Carrión, author of the podcasts Solaris and Ecos, will offer a reflection on the role of the narrative podcast in the popularisation of science and its ability to connect knowledge with the contemporary cultural narrative.

La sessió serà moderada per Michele Catanzaro, professor lector del Departament de Periodisme i Ciències de la Comunicació de la UAB i periodista científic, i Verónica Couto Antelo, biòloga i comunicadora científica; director i subdirectora de l’Observatori PerCienEx.

The session will be moderated by Michele Catanzaro, lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences at the UAB and science journalist, and Verónica Couto Antelo, biologist and science communicator; director and deputy director of the PerCienEx Observatory.

More information on event

Place: Cosmocaixa Museum, Barcelona (Carrer Isaac Newton 26)

Date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 18:00h

End date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 20:00h

Description:

The Tahina-Can Expedition by the Communication and Education Bureau of the UAB and the Faculty of Communication Studies organises on 20 May an event in remembrance of photographer, traveller and businessman Toni Espadas. The event will commemorate his death one year ago, on 20 May 2024, in Ethiopia and aims to pay tribute to him for his support in organising the Tahina-Can Expedition to Ethiopia in 2023, as well as his commitment and professional career, always linked to the African continent and its people. The event will include the attandance of some of his colleagues from the different professional sectors he worked in: travels, photography, documentaries and dissemination of Africa in general. the tribute will take place at the Faculty's Aula Magna at 6:30 p.m.

Place: Faculty of Communication Studies (Aula Magna)

Date: Tuesday 20, May2025 - 18:30h

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On 21 May the UAB Manuel Ballbé Chair in Human Safety and Global Law will be organising a dialogue entitled The challenges of the energy sector in the face of the development of AI. The dialogue will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Law. Speakers will include Cristina Blasi, Roser Martínez, Antonio Morales, Carlos Padrós and Joaquín David Rodríguez, lecturers in the Department of Public Law and Legal History Studies of the UAB; Francisco Javier Arias, professor of law at the University Rey Juan Carlos; and Andrés Recalde, professor of law at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Debate issues will include the optimisation of production and distribution of energy through artificial intelligence, the legal and ethical challenges posed by integrating this technology into the sector, and possible boost AI can give to transitioning to greener and more sustainable energy.

Place: Faculty of Law (Aula Magna)

Date: Wednesday 21, May2025 - 10:00h

Description:

Presentation session of the project "From the Euro to the Joule" (eur2j), an initiative led by UAB Department of Physics researchers Daniel Campos and Xavier Àlvarez. The project aims to promote science education in the field of energy transition and encourage public debate on this crucial issue.

Event programme

The presentation session of the project results is aimed at those interested in environmental education and communication, especially secondary school teachers interested in incorporating (through class problems, didactic units, research work, etc.) aspects related to sustainability and energy in the secondary school curriculum.

5:00 - 5:30 p.m. Inaugural speech by environmental journalist and scientific disseminator Cori Calero (TV3): “How to communicate the climate crisis: tools for secondary school teachers”

5:30 – 6 p.m. Presentation of the eur2j project results

6 – 6:20 p.m. Coffee break 

6:20 – 7:20 p.m. Demonstration session: “How to incorporate sustainability and energy transition concepts into the secondary school curriculum”

7:20 – 8 p.m. Networking session: “Creation of a network to promote scientific education on energy”

Attendants will receive a welcome gift and a certificate of attendance.

More information and registration form:
https://eur2j.cat/inscripcions/

Place: Cosmocaixa Museum, Barcelona (Carrer Isaac Newton 26)

Date: Wednesday 21, May2025 - 17:00h

Organiser: Department of Physics