Defenses de tesi

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The UAB Exe Campus will host the Second Media Literacy and Global Understanding Conference (MILID & Global Understanding) on 28 and 29 April. The event will bring together over 100 international experts and representatives of 50 institutions to design a Common Action Plan that promotes media literacy, critical thinking and intercultural dialogue. Organised by the UAB and the Arab Academy, through the MIL Institute and the Communication and Education Bureau, this conference is offered under the framework of the UNESCO MILID cooperation programme and includes the support of the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE).

Place: Exe Campus, UAB

Date: Monday 28, April2025 - 00:00h

End date: Tuesday 29, April2025 - 00:00h

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The REAL-Postgrowth project (Post-growth – REAL – A Post-Growth Deal) is excited to announce that our colleagues Dylan Sullivan and Lea Tamberg, both post-doctoral researchers present a talk as part of our monthly public seminar series. 

Talk: "The ecological efficiency of human development in 20th century socialist and capitalist economies" 

Speakers: Dylan Sullivan and Lea Tamberg.

• Date: Tuesday, 29th April 2025
• Time: 15.00-16.00 (CET)
• Venue. Online  - Join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86290631896?pwd=asziByRvPebZaw53x5olgpcRHCbzaj.1

A key challenge for the 21st century is to achieve good social outcomes for all with ecologically sustainable levels of production and resource use. Existing research indicates this can be achieved by organizing production more specifically around human wellbeing, including through socialist policies such as public finance, public services, and job guarantees. We investigate this question empirically by comparing the performance of socialist and capitalist economies in the late 20th century, using the United Nations’ classification framework, across 19 human development indicators as a function of aggregate production and resource use. We find that socialist economies performed better than capitalist economies at any given level of GDP, material footprint and, less significantly, CO2 emissions per capita, for 18 of the 19 indicators covering poverty, life expectancy, child mortality, healthcare, education, essential services, income equality and gender equality, except for physical integrity rights. In other words, socialist economies were generally more efficient at converting production and resources into human development. We argue that these results indicate socialist policy may help countries to achieve good lives for all within ecological limits. However, we also point to ways that the weaknesses of 20th century socialist policy should be improved, including through stronger democratic participation and human rights protections.

Dylan Sullivan is a doctoral researcher under a cotutelle agreement between ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, and Macquarie University, Sydney. At Macquarie University, he also teaches in political science, sociology, and anthropology. Dylan has published in top journals, including World Development, New Political Economy, and World Development Perspectives. His research focuses on political economy, global inequality, poverty measurement, and the economics of socialist planning.

Lea Tamberg is a doctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne. She researches, both conceptually and empirically, the socio-economic and biophysical prerequisites of human wellbeing. Lea holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Systems Science from the University of Osnabrück and a Master's degree in Data Science from ETH Zurich.

Place: Online

Date: Tuesday 29, April2025 - 15:00h

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The Permanent Theatre Group will kick off this spring’s UAB Stage series with a performance of Everything’s Fine Between Us, by Dorota Masłowska. The group, directed by Ricard Gázquez, will stage this play on May 29 and 30 at 6:30 p.m. at the UAB Theatre. This play is one of the most significant works by the Polish author, known for her powerful voice and the importance she places on language.

In Everything’s Fine Between Us, three generations of women coexist — women who did NOT survive the political and social collapse that shook Poland throughout the 20th century: the grandmother did NOT survive the occupation nor the subsequent destruction under the Nazi German armies; the mother did NOT withstand the hardships of the Soviet-backed communist regime; the daughters do NOT live and CANNOT breathe in a society ruled by the dictates of savage capitalism. And then comes the 21st century, with its successive economic, health, identity, and migration crises... and once again, ultra-conservative nationalisms — and still, they say to each other: "everything’s fine between us."

Place: UAB Theatre

Date: Tuesday 29, April2025 - 18:30h

Organiser: Cultura UAB

Telephone: 935812202

E-mail: cultura.enviu@uab.cat

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Within the series "From Dictatorship to Democracy", coordinated by the professor of contemporary history at the UAB Carme Molinero, the Faculty of Arts & Humanities will host the colloquium "Nusos opositors en la lluita contra la dictadura" [Opposition knots in the fight against the dictatorship]. The various papers of the conference will address the role of the anti-Franco opposition in the delegitimisation, questioning and crisis of Francoism, an activism that made it impossible to maintain the dictatorship. The colloquium is coordinated by Professor Molinero and Pere Ysàs, professor of contemporary history at the UAB, and will feature a series of presentations on the spaces of dissidence during the dictatorship, the role of communists and the “revolutionary left” in the democratic struggle, the renewal of nationalism, the reconstruction of the PSOE and anti-Francoist cultural expressions. The series is part of “Spain in Freedom. 50 Years”, a set of activities organised by the Spanish government throughout 2025 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of dictator Francisco Franco and the beginning of the transition to a democratic regime.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Date: Wednesday 30, April2025 - 10:00h

Description:

The Permanent Theatre Group will kick off this spring’s UAB Stage series with a performance of Everything’s Fine Between Us, by Dorota Masłowska. The group, directed by Ricard Gázquez, will stage this play on 29 and 30 May at 6:30 p.m. at the UAB Theatre Hall. This play is one of the most significant works by the Polish author, known for her powerful voice and the importance she places on language.

In Everything’s Fine Between Us, three generations of women coexist — women who did NOT survive the political and social collapse that shook Poland throughout the 20th century: the grandmother did NOT survive the occupation nor the subsequent destruction under the Nazi German armies; the mother did NOT withstand the hardships of the Soviet-backed communist regime; the daughters do NOT live and CANNOT breathe in a society ruled by the dictates of savage capitalism. And then comes the 21st century, with its successive economic, health, identity, and migration crises... and once again, ultra-conservative nationalisms — and still, they say to each other: "Everything’s fine between us".

Place: UAB Theatre

Date: Wednesday 30, April2025 - 18:30h

Organiser: Cultura UAB

Telephone: 935812202

E-mail: cultura.enviu@uab.cat

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The UAB will play host to the first FEMMEM conference, entitled Mujer, Segunda República y exilio, organised by the FEMMEM Research – Creation, a joint project between the UAB and the Sala Beckett, with the involvement of the Studies Group on Literary Exile (GEXEL-CEDID), the Chair in Republican Literary Exile (CEXLIR) and the Research Centre for Scenic Arts (CRAE) of the UAB. The conference is coordinated by Esther Lázaro, research in the Department of Spanish Studies at the UAB. The event will take place on 2 May at 10:00 a.m. in the Board Room (Sala de juntes) of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and will also be streamed live at the following link.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Board Room)

Date: Friday 2, May2025 - 10:00h