PhD Thesis defenses

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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

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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

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PhD thesis defense

PhD in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Place: Xi'an Jiaotong University, Innovation Harbor Campus, 4-7045. COTUTELA

Date: Thursday 11, April2024 - 10:00h

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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

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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

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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