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Wednesday: Oceanographer and climate scientist Erik van Sebille will be visiting the UAB campus on Thursday 3 October to offer a conference at the ICTA-UAB in which he will speak on the contanimation of oceans caused by plastics, and their distribution and accumulation around the world.

Leading world expert in the problems caused by plastic, Erik van Sebille will offer a conference at 12 noon at the ICTA-UAB building. His conference is entitled "Where's all the plastic in our oceans? Simulating ocean transport to identify sources, fate and risks of marine waste” and focuses on the need to understand how this debris moves around the ocean before being able to elaborate plans and strategies to help mitigate this global problem.

Place: ICTA-UAB

Date: Thursday 3, October de 2019 - 12:00h

Wednesday: Silvia de Bianchi, Ramón y Cajal researcher at the UAB Department of Philosophy, will participate in the seventh edition of the "Disputa de Barcelona", alongside Maciej Lewenstein, ICREA research lecturer at the Institute for Photonic Sciences. The debate, which is entitled “A New Humanism for the 21st Century? Specialisation vs. Generalisation”, will be coordinated by Alexander Fidora, ICREA research lecturer at the UAB Department of Antiquity and Medieval Studies.

De Bianchi and Lewenstein will debate on the present and future of knowledge, through key notions such as specialisation, generalisation, interdisciplinarity, the humanities, science and development, and personal fulfilment.

The event is open to the general public and will be in English.

Place: Institute of Catalan Studies (Prat de la Riba Room)

Date: Wednesday 13, November de 2019 - 18:30h

Date: Wednesday 13, November de 2019 - 20:30h

Promotor: Barcelona Knowledge Hub, Academia Europeae

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Disputatio Barcelona 2019

Wednesday:

Prof. Stefania Barca, from University of Uppsala, will give a virtual seminar on her new book "Forces of reproduction" (2020). She will present her book and the participants will comment and discuss it. The activity is organised in the framework of the EnvJustice Project.

EnvJustice Project Seminar

Title: “Forces of reproduction”
Speaker: Prof. Stefania Barca, University of Uppsala
Link   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82320781804?pwd=bWQ0V3RhQjRhQkxTa1MrVzlyT0UzQT09

Notes on the book "Forces of Reproduction"(2020)
The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a counter-hegemonic narrative based on the perspective of earthcare labour – or the 'forces of reproduction'. It brings to the fore the historical agency of reproductive and subsistence workers as those subjects that, through both daily practices and organized political action, take care of the biophysical conditions for human reproduction, thus keeping the world alive. Adopting a narrative justice approach, and placing feminist political ecology right at the core of its critique of the Anthropocene storyline, this Element offers a novel and timely contribution to the environmental humanities.

Notes on the Author
Stefania Barca (Naples 1968) is the current "Zennström visiting professor" in Climate Change Leadership at the University of Uppsala (SE); she has been recently awarded a "Beatriz Galindo" senior position as Distinguished Researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela (ES), where she will move in september 2021. Previously, she has worked as senior researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES/UC), where she has lectured and coordinated research in Environmental History and Political Ecology. Her 2010 book monograph Enclosing Water. Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley (Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press ), was awarded the Turku Book Prize in 2011. Her research interests cover the environmental impact of industry in the Anthropocene, the relationship between labor and the environment, environmental justice, degrowth and commoning.

Place: On line

Date: Wednesday 17, February de 2021 - 15:00h

Date: Wednesday 17, February de 2021 - 17:00h

Wednesday:

Ivan Martínez, Deputy Executive Administrator for Research at the UAB, will speak on “The IBB in the Management of Public Administration”.

Place: Aula de Seminaris, IBB

Date: Friday 15, October de 2021 - 12:30h

Promotor: IBB

Wednesday:

Film forum to celebrate 50 years of the IBB, with the participation of UAB lecturer Carlos Tabernero.

Programme

3:30 p.m. Institutional welcome by Nerea Roher, director of the IBB.

3:35 p.m. Presentation of the film forum by Carlos Tabernero

3:40 p.m. Screening of the film GATTACA

5:40 p.m. Film forum debate

The activity is free. All those interested in attending must register here before 18 October 2021.

Carlos Tabernero Holgado is Associated Lecturer in History of Science at the UAB Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and coordinator of the official master's degree in History of Science: Science, History and Society at the Institute for the History of Science (IHC) - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is also lead researcher of the project "Urban narratives about nature. Contemporary construction of natural history knowledge (Spain and Great Britain, 1950-1980) (NATURB / PID2019-106208GB-I00)".

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Place: UAB Cinema Hall

Date: Wednesday 20, October de 2021 - 15:30h

Promotor: IBB

Wednesday:

Salvador Ventura, researcher at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and at the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB-UAB), will be participating in the sessions entitled “Els cafès científics” to talk about proteins and how three-dimensional images allows us to understand how they function within our organism.

“Els cafès científics” are an initiative by the Science in Society Foundation and by the Casa Orlandai Cultural Association.

Place: Casa Orlandai, Barcelona

Date: Wednesday 19, January de 2022 - 19:00h

Date: Wednesday 19, January de 2022 - 20:00h

Promotor: Science in Society Foundation and Casa Orlandai Cultural Association