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Description:

The UAB Department of Anthropology and Caritas organise the FOESSA Catalunya conference, entitled "De la societat fragmentada a l'esperança compartida", which will be conducted by journalist Yolanda Marzabal from the TV3 news section on Society.

The institutional welcome will be offered at 10:00 a.m. by Salvador Busquets, president of Caritas, who will give way to the presentation of the Report on Exclusion and Social Development in Catalonia by Raúl Flores, technical secretary of the FOESSA Foundation, and Miriam Feu, general secretary and coordinator of the Observatory of Social Reality of Càritas Catalunya. In addition to them, this report was coordinated by UAB lecturer and director of the UAB Anthropology Department, Hugo Valenzuela-García, and member of the FOESSA Foundation, Thomas Ubrich.

Following that, different research articles will be presented through a dialogue with some of their authors. Thus, at 12:00 noon there will be a round table on Housing and Minimum Income; after lunch, at 2:35 p.m., another on The Inheritance of Poverty; and at 3:50 p.m . the closing session will take place, entitled The Future We Are Building.

Different research staff from the UAB will participate throughout the day (as well as researchers from other universities and entities): Margarita León, professor of Political Science and director of the Institute of Government and Public Policies of the UAB; Miranda Jessica Lubbers, professor of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the UAB (GRAFO); Sara Moreno-Colom, lecturer of the Department of Sociology of the UAB and researcher at the Centre for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT-UAB), and the Institute for Labour Studies (IET-UAB); and Hugo Valenzuela-García, professor of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the UAB (GRAFO). 

The FOESSA Foundation is a private, non-profit, state-level institution founded by Caritas Spain, which aims to serve general interests in the field of research and dissemination of social issues.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (conference hall)

Date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 09:30h

End date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 16:20h

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Description:

Information session addressed to UAB postgraduate students interested in applying for the E2025-2026 Call for Applications, aimed at promoting international cooperation projects.

During the session, the requirements and application procedure will be explained, and questions will be answered. 

Meeting link (Teams): Access here

Place: Online (Teams)

Date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 13:00h

End date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 14:30h

Description:

Since 2019, the UAB has participated through the Master in European Integration in the "Cross-border Masterclass and Dialogue of Disciplines", a joint initiative by 18 universities in Germany, France and Italy. The activity brings together students from different disciplines who work on a common theme and culminates in a three-day face-to-face meeting. This year, the Masterclass will take place at the UAB on 28, 29 and 30 January. Moreover, the BIP (Blended Intensive Programme) + Masterclass will take place throughout the week, from Monday 26 to Friday 30 January, with academic activities scheduled on all days.

On 28 January, the inaugural session of the Masterclass will take place, focused on cross-border cooperation from a global and European perspective. During the afternoon, the participating universities will be presented and two international forums on cross-border cooperation will be held, with speakers from Europe, Africa and Latin America. Some of the participants of the first session will be Jean-Marie Katubadi-Bakenge and Jean-Marie Melchior (University of Burundi), Eduardo Giugliano-Garcia (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and Bernard Reitel (University of Artois).

For more information please consult the full programme of the Masterclass.

Place: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona (Carrer del Carme 47)

Date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 15:00h

Description:

On 29 January, the GEDIME research group, in collaboration with CER-Migrations and the UAB, will be organising the GEDIME Predoctoral Conference: Migration, work, family and public space, focused on the analysis of migration from the perspectives of the labour market, family, discrimination and public space. During the session, migratory experiences in different social and regional contexts will be analysed through speakers and debate spaces. Dahra Quintella, Iseo Morillas, Roser Ramis, Anna Clapés, Felipe Fernández, Helena Llonch, Mireia Pont and Emilio Morales, predoctoral researchers, will participate to offer their vision on the subject.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Sala de juntes)

Date: Thursday 29, January2026 - 10:00h

Description:

The next session of the permanent seminar of the Literary Exile Study Group (GEXEL-CEDID) and the Republican Literary Exile Chair (CEXLIR) of the UAB will take place on 29 January at 4:30 p.m., in the board room of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. It will be entitled Zenobia & Co. Writers, artists and intellectuals in the orbit of Zenobia Camprubí and will feature speeches by María Luz Bort Caballero (University of Málaga) and Rosa García Gutiérrez (University of Huelva - Juan Ramón Jiménez Chair). The event will be presented by Francisca Montiel Rayo (UAB-GEXEL-CEDID).

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Board Room)

Date: Thursday 29, January2026 - 16:30h

Description:

The ministries for Language Policy, Education and Vocational Training, and Research and Universities, as well as the Programme for the Improvement of Initial Teacher Training and the Programme for the Improvement of the Master's Degree in Secondary Teacher Training of the Catalan Government organise the Second Conference on Initial Teacher Training and Multilingualism, focused on the current challenges of language immersion. The event will take place on 30 January and will include the participation of experts from the educational and university world. The meeting will be at the UAB Faculty of Education and will be attended by Maria Carme Bernal, Montserrat Cerdà, Alba Ambrós, Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé, Cesc Franquesa and Dolors Masats, who will provide their vision on the topic. To participate, it is necessary to register in advance.

Place: Faculty of Education (Sala de graus)

Date: Friday 30, January2026 - 09:00h