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Wednesday:

On 11 and 12 April, the seminar "Disciplinary crossroads: between the history of science and environmental history" will take place in the iHC building (Institute of History of Science at the UAB), organised by the doctoral students Max Bautista (UCLouvain), Carolina Granado (iHC-UAB) and Héctor Isern (iHC-UAB). The seminar features both local and international researchers in environmental history and history of science to facilitate academic dialogue in cycles of talks with a focus on elucidating plausible relationships and intersections between disciplinary fields. Key points of discussion will include temporality, geographic scale, thematic concerns and methodological approaches, with a special emphasis on addressing environmental activism in contemporary ecosocial crises.

The following researchers will speak at the event on the following schedule:

• Thursday 11 April 2024

9:00 - 10:00 
Max Bautista, Carolina Granado, Héctor Isern and Carlos Tabernero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. "Welcome, presentation and contextualisation of the Seminar".

10:00 - 11:00 
Lino Camprubí, University of Seville. "History of the oceans: confluences between the history of oceanography and the history of the ocean environment".

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30
Sarah Dry, University of Cambridge. "Time is a resource, how should we spend it? On history, climate and activism".

12:30 - 1:30 
Sarah Hamilton, University of Bergen. "Scientists, activists, and science activists: control over Knowledge in Histories of Environmental Activism".

1:30 - 3:30: Lunch break

3:30 - 5:00 
Marco Armiero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin, Madison). "A passion for entry. Disobeying borders as an intellectual project"

• Friday 12 April 2024

9:30 - 10:30 
Judit Gil-Farrero, University of Zaragoza. "Historical research on environmental issues: an interdisciplinary route".

10:30 - 11:30  
Santiago Gorostiza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. "Beyond the disciplinary trenches. War at the crossroads of environmental history and history of science".

11:30 - 12:00: Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30 
Agustí Nieto-Galán, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. "A fruitful alliance: history of science and environmental history at UAB".

12:30 - 1:30
Closing remarks and open round table discussion.

For more information and/or to register: max.bautista@uclouvain.be

Join in person or online using this link.

Place: Institut d'Història de la Ciència (iHC). Carrer Can Magrans s/n, module C, Bellaterra.

Date: Thursday 11, April de 2024 - 09:00h

Date: Friday 12, April de 2024 - 13:30h

Promotor: Max Bautista Perpinyà (UCLouvain), Carolina Granado Torres (iHC-UAB) and Hèctor Isern Alsina (iHC-UAB).

Email:: max.bautista@uclouvain.be

Wednesday:

The CVC's Open Days are aimed directly to university students and the public in general as a way to share with other the activities conducted at the CVC and the work done in the research centre. The visit is aimed at showing what the computer vision centre is and what sectors it can benefit, as well as helping the public discover its main projects and lines of research, experience how research is conducted "live", and discover the academic and professional opportunities available at the centre (TFGs, work placements, master's degrees, PhD programmes, etc.).

The meeting will include a visit to the CVC's facilities, with different demonstrations of interactive technologies. 

For more information and registrations please visit:
https://www.cvc.uab.es/cvc-portes-obertes/

Place: Computer Vision Centre, UAB Bellaterra campus (Building O)

Date: Wednesday 8, May de 2024 - 11:00h

Promotor: Computer Vision Centre

Wednesday:

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Biosciences will celebrate the International Day of Light with a conference entitled "Managing Light Propagation with Scalable Nanophotonic Architectures", by Agustín Mihi, researcher at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). 

Agustin Mihi is an expert in large area and low-cost crystalline and plasmonic photonic structures using unconventional nanofabrication techniques. His group investigates the design, fabrication and characterisation of photonic architectures that enhance the interaction between light and matter applied to emerging optoelectronic devices.

Place: Building C (conference hall)

Date: Friday 10, May de 2024 - 12:00h

Promotor: Faculties of Science and Biosciences

Wednesday:

Under the framework of the 17th Science Festival, a conference will be held on various topics related to greenhouses, to reflect on their role from a social, architectural and productive vision in urban environments. Participating in the conference will be Xavier Gabarrell i Durany, vice-rector for Campus and Sustainability, and researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering of the UAB; and Verónica Arcas Pilz, researcher at ICTA-UAB.

The Ciutadella Hivernacle will also offer the exhibition entitled “Màquina Climàtica”, on display until 8 December. The exhibition plays with the simile of the warming effect produced by the greenhouse itself and the so-called greenhouse effect that makes life on Earth possible. It shows how human activity is accentuating this effect and will go through the history and evolution of greenhouses, as well as take a look at the productive future of these facilities. Sostenipra-ICTA-UAB has provided the content of the exhibition and the plants.

Place: Hivernacle, Parc de la Ciutadella, Barcelona (Passeig de Picasso 7)

Date: Sunday 9, June de 2024 - 12:00h

Date: Sunday 9, June de 2024 - 13:30h

Promotor: Barcelona City Council

Wednesday:

The Institutional Projects Bureau, in collaboration with the Department of Teaching of Mathematics and Experimental Sciences of the UAB, organises a session on the power and impact of citizen science.

Registration form: 

https://forms.office.com/e/yDzmH3JPYS

Session Programme:

9 – 10 a.m.: Heidi L. Ballard, UC Davis. “Beyond “Potential”: Documenting Learning and Stewardship Outcomes of Community and Citizen Science”

10 – 10:20 a.m.: Caterina Solé Martín, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. “La ciència ciutadana escolar”

10:20 – 10:30 a.m.: Sofia Mojica Baquero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. "El Hub de Ciència Ciutadana de la UAB"

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.: Q&A

Place: Plaça del Coneixement (Building G), Bellaterra campus

Date: Tuesday 25, June de 2024 - 09:00h

Date: Tuesday 25, June de 2024 - 10:45h

Promotor: Institutional Projects Bureau and Department of Teaching of Mathematics and Experimental Sciences, UAB

Wednesday:

Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) and head of research at the Australian National Science Agency (CSIRO), will give this conference, which has been organised by the UAB and CREAF, of which Canadell is, respectively, alumnus and scientific advisor.

Greenhouse gas emissions, which come mainly from fossil fuels and agricultural systems, continue to grow and the increase in their atmospheric concentrations has been accelerating in recent years. This continued increase jeopardises reaching the targets set in the 2016 Paris Agreement: the progressive reduction of greenhouse gases until 2050, when net zero emissions (matching what is emitted with what is captured) would have to be achieved to limit global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

In his lecture, Canadell will address questions such as: Is global warming accelerating, as some experts suggest? Will we be able to achieve the goal of stopping it at 1.5°C or, at least, of not exceeding the 2°C set by Paris? What efforts are needed and by whom? What are the dangers of not achieving this?

The Global Carbon Project (GCP) is an organisation made up of dozens of international scientists from more than 90 institutions that has been providing detailed information on natural and anthropogenic carbon dioxide sources and sinks every year since 2006. Its reports are a reference source for the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reports on climate change caused by human activities.

The conference is open tot he general public and will include the collaboration of the Catalan Biology Society through its Vallès Regional Section.

Place: Faculty of Science and Biosciences (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 27, June de 2024 - 13:00h

Promotor: UAB and CREAF