Agenda

Description:

Daniel Campos and Xavier Álvarez hold PhDs in Physics and their research focuses on the physics of biological and social systems and the transport of energy. In the Expert's Seat of the UAB Science Carriage, the two will converse with passengers on energetic transition, a change from non-renewable energy sources to a model in which the energy used is more sustainable, and how citizens play an important role in this process. 

The journey will begin at 9:28 a.m. on the FGC train travelling from Plaça Catalunya to the Universitat Autònoma train station.

Place: FGC - Plaça Catalunya station

Date: Thursday 3, October2024 - 09:28h

Organiser: UAB and FGC

Description:

Joan C. Tronto, emeritus professor of the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota, and one of the greatest exponents of the ethics of care and democracy, will visit the UAB and offer a conference at the Rectorat building on 10 October at 4 p.m. The conference will be open to all members of the UAB community. Organised by the UAB Department of Philosophy, the conference is entitled "El potencial revolucionario de una democracia del cuidado" and will focus on the revolutionary potential of a care democracy.

In her books Moral Boundaries, Caring Democracy and Who cares?, Tronto details a conceptual approach to care. Her ideas have inspired sectors such as nursing and the processes of humanising health, as well as ethics, sociology and the study of sex division in the workplace, economics, political sciences, and in the art and architectural world, as well as other areas.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 10, October2024 - 16:00h

End date: Thursday 10, October2024 - 18:00h

Organiser: Department of Philosophy

Description:

Sara Marañón holds a PhD in Ecology and her research focuses on the effects of global change and the disturbances caused to ecosystems. At the UAB Science Carriage Expert's Seat, she will converse with passengers on regenerative agriculture, which aims to replenish the soil and guarantee that it has enough organic material and carbon to help it continue to be fertile land. Regenerative agriculture is based on the basic pillars of agriculture: soil and its quality, and how this relates to its capacity to store or release CO2.

The journey will begin at 10:42 a.m. on the FGC train travelling from the Universitat Autònoma to the Plaça Catalunya station.

Place: FGC Universitat Autònoma station

Date: Thursday 24, October2024 - 10:42h

Organiser: UAB and FGC

Description:

Bernat Claramunt is a researcher at CREAF and lecturer of Ecology at the UAB. His research focuses on strategies for sustainable development of mountain socio-ecological systems, with a holistic approach that includes not only the natural components of a region, but also its social and economic context. In the expert's seat he will talk with passengers about how climate change modifies these mountain systems and the ecosystem services and the benefits that humans obtain.

The journey will begin at 9:28 a.m. and will go from the Plaça Catalunya ---> Universitat Autònoma stations.

For more information please visit: https://www.uab.cat/ca/cultura-cientifica/vago-combustibles-fossils

Place: FGC - Plaça Catalunya station

Date: Thursday 31, October2024 - 09:28h

Organiser: UAB and FGC