PhD Thesis defenses

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PhD thesis defense

PhD in Geology

Place: C1/070-1 Graduate Room - Faculty of Sciences

Date: Tuesday 9, April2024 - 11:00h

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The awards ceremony for the 33 best Final Degree Projects (TFGs) with a gender perspective of the 2022/23 academic year will take place in the conference hall of the Rectorat building. This 8th edition of the awards recognises 33 different projects from 12 UAB faculties, with economic support from the Catalan Institute for Women.

The celebration will be chaired by the secretary general, Esther Zapater. The event will also be attended by the executive director of the Catalan Institute for Women, Èlia Soriano, and the director of the UAB Observatory, Maria Prats. During the awards ceremony, the winning students will take the stage to explain a brief summary of their TFG.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Tuesday 9, April2024 - 12:30h

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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

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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

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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