Activities
Thursday, April 11 2024
Dia · Setmana
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
14:00
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.
Thursday's group is composed of the following languages: German, Italian, English and French.
More information in the following link.
Place: Àgora building (Sala polivalent)
Date: Thursday 11, April2024 - 14:00h
End date: Thursday 11, April2024 - 15:00h
15:15
Screening of the documentary `La controversia de Valladolid. El amanecer de los Derechos Humanos¿
Description:
Within the Impact! festival, Film and Human Rights Festival of Catalonia.
The documentary tells the story of what is considered the first debate in history about human rights. Based in 1550, in Valladolid, fray Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, advisor to Charles V, discuss where the rights of Spanish colonizers end, and where those of the colonized, the Native Americans, begin.
Place: Sala Cinema de la UAB
Date: Thursday 11, April2024 - 15:15h
Friday, April 12, 2024
09:15
First Conference on Addictions, Well-being and Mental Health in Youth and Adolescents
Description:
The Stress and Health Research Group (GIES) of the UAB organises a conference on addictions, well-being and mental health in young people and adolescents.
Registration is free: https://forms.office.com/e/7ma0bgNKnN
PROGRAMME
9:15 a.m. Conference badge pick-up
9:30 h Welcoming speeches
- Dr Tatiana Rovira, VIce Rector for Quality, UAB
- Dr Ander Chamarro, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, UAB
- Dr Joaquim T. Limonero, Coordinator of the Stress and Health Research Group (GIES), UAB
9:45 a.m. Opening conference "Young people and partying, an (im)possible relationship?"
- Dr Joan Colom, Deputy Director General of Addictions, HIV, STIs and Viral Hepatitis of the Public Health Agency of Catalonia.
10:45 a.m. "Canabis abuse and suicide risk in university students"
- Iván Bonilla, member of the Stress and Health Research Group (GIES)
11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:30 a.m. "Binge drinking in adolescents"
- Adrián Díaz, member of the Stress and Health Research Group (GIES)
11:45 h "Us problemàtic d’ internet i malestar emocional en adolescents"
- Dr Ander Chamarro, member of the Stress and Health Research Group (GIES)
12:00 noon "Stress, alcohol and emotional regulation"
- Queralt Ballabrera, member of the Stress and Health Research Group (GIES)
12:15 p.m. "Experiences of community prevention in Emotional Well-being and prevention on Risky Behaviours"
- Laura Buch, technician in community projects on Emotional Well-being and Prevention
- Laia Càrdenas, technician of the Escolta Jove programme
12:30 p.m. "Challenges and opportunities to promote well-being on the UAB campus"
- Dr Sònia Sànchez, CORE in Mental Health and Deputy Executive Director, UAB
12:45 p.m. Round table "Adolescents, youth, risky behaviour and emotional well-being"
- Dr Joan Colom
- Dr Joaquim T. Limonero
- Dr Ander Chamarro
- Dr Sònia Sànchez
- Dr Laura i Buch
- Dr Laia Cárdenas
1:30 p.m. Closing speech
Place: Faculty of Psychology (Sala de Graus)
Date: Friday 12, April2024 - 09:15h