Activities
Wednesday, April 10 2024
Dia · Setmana
11:00
Conference on "The production of non-fiction content for platforms and TV" with Jordi Évole
Description:
Alumni Jordi Évole will explain the case of his production company, Producciones Del Barrio, in the conference "The production of non-fiction content for platforms and TV". Together with Ramon Lara, co-founder of the production company, they will explain the difficulties and processes to submit projects to Netflix, Movistar+, Disney+, etc. and work on them until they are broadcast.
The event will also present the new postgraduate course that the Faculty and Producciones Del Barrio will offer starting next year at the production company's facilities in Esplugues de Llobregat. Professor Carles Llorens will also participate, who will make a brief presentation on the situation of the non-fiction production sector for platforms. At the end of the presentation there will be a Q&A session for undergraduate and graduate students of the faculty. The event will end at 1:30 p. m. after a closing speech by Faculty Dean Enric Marín.
Place: Faculty of Communication Studies (Aula Magna)
Date: Wednesday 10, April2024 - 11:00h
12:00
Talk by UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Description:
Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, will give a talk via streaming next Wednesday 10 April at 12 noon, for several higher education institutions grouped within the University Network for Palestine. The broadcast can be followed in the conference hall of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. Albanese will speak on the current situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from the point of view of international law.
Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (conference hall)
Date: Wednesday 10, April2024 - 12:00h
13:00
Tàndem programme group language exchange
Description:
Language exchange in groups: Tàndem programme
Tàndem is a programme of activities where you will meet Catalan speakers and others from all over the world, where you will share conversations and games, all speaking different languages.
Wednesday's group is composed of the following languages: Chinese, Korean, English and French.
More information in the following link.
Date: Wednesday 10, April2024 - 13:00h
End date: Wednesday 10, April2024 - 14:00h
Thursday, April 11, 2024
09:00
Seminar on "Disciplinary crossroads: between the history of science and environmental history"
Description:
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, April2024 - 09:00h
End date: Friday 12, April2024 - 13:30h
Organiser: Max Bautista Perpinyà (UCLouvain), Carolina Granado Torres (iHC-UAB) and Hèctor Isern Alsina (iHC-UAB).
E-mail: max.bautista@uclouvain.be
10:00
Multi-dimensional Multipath Mitigation for GNSS Signals,by Ning Chang
Description:
PhD thesis defense
PhD in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
| PhD candidate: | Ning Chang |
| Academic tutor: | Gonzalo Seco-Granados |
| Thesis supervisors: |
Gonzalo Seco-Granados Wenjie Wang |
Place: Xi'an Jiaotong University, Innovation Harbor Campus, 4-7045. COTUTELA
Date: Thursday 11, April2024 - 10:00h
14:00
Migrations studies: interculturality and intersectionality
Description:
As part of the online series on dialogues between Brazil and Spain, entitled “Diàlegs Brasil-Espanya entorn la comunicació: Interculturalitat, canvi climàtic i pràctica periodística”, the dialogue on migration studies “Estudi de les migracions: interculturalitat i interseccionalitat” will be held on 11 April and will include the participation of Liliane Dutra Brignol (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria) and Amparo Huertas (UAB). The meeting will serve to talk about the difficulties of introducing the notion of identity into methodological designs.
The series is an initiative conducted under the framework of the Capes/Print Programme (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria-Brasil) and launched by the UNESCO Chair in Communication of the UAB Institute of Communication. The objective is to foster cooperation and scientific dissemination through an exchange of experiences. These conference series are structured into thematic blocks. Each session will include research teams from both countries who will talk about their experiences.
Those interested can sign up at this link.
Place: Google Meet
Date: Thursday 11, April2024 - 14:00h