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Wednesday:

On 17 December, Alejandro García-Salmerón, lecturer in the Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology of the zoology area of the UAB, will present the book Guia dels rèptils de Catalunya (Cossetània Edicions), a guide to reptile species found in Catalonia. The presentation will take place at 12:30 p.m. as part of the La Tarima series, at the UAB Science and Technology Library.

The guide was put together in collaboration with Gerard Carbonell, Nil Torres, Albert Martínez, Oriol Baena, Carme Mora, Josep Antoni, Fernando Loras, Júlia Valera, Xavier Rivera and Joan Maluquer.

Place: Science and Technology Library, UAB campus

Date: Tuesday 17, December de 2024 - 12:30h

Wednesday:

On Thursday 13 February at 12 noon a conference will be given by Carme Viladrich, professor in the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology  of Health Science of the UAB, entitled Calcula'm una omega: com valorar la fiabilitat de la puntuació total d'un qüestionari. The conference will take place at the Sala de graus (B3/012) of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies and is organised by the Applied Statistics Service and the research group in Statistical Modeling of Extreme Events and Health Risks. In her conference, Carme Viladrich will present the concepts needed to take informed decisions and calculate the appropriate ratio depending on the type of questionnaire and study group. The conference will also be streamed live via Microsoft Teams.

Place: Faculty of Economics and Business Studies (Sala de graus)

Date: Thursday 13, February de 2025 - 12:00h

Wednesday:

On Thursday 13 February at 7:00 p.m., the book Desinformación y poder. Alquimias de la persuasión will be presented in Barcelona. The book is co-published by four universities within the Aldea Global collection: the UAB, Universitat Jaume I, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de València. The event will be attended by Virginia Luzón, professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and vice-rector of Communication at the UAB; Catalina Gayà, professor of the Department of Media, Communication and Culture at the UAB and member of the Board of Aldea Global; and Raúl Rodríguez Fernándiz, professor of Semiotics of Mass Communication at the Universitat d'Alacant and author of the book. The book is aimed at people involved in communication and all those who want to know how truth is displacing the power of information.

Place: Llibreria Documenta, Barcelona (Carrer Pau Claris 144)

Date: Thursday 13, February de 2025 - 19:00h

Wednesday:

The “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024” was awarded to economists Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA), Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA) and James A. Robinson (University of Chicago, IL, USA). On 17 February at 1:30 p.m., Martí Mestieri, researcher at the IAE-CSIC, BSc in Economia (2006) from the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies at the UAB and former student of Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu, will give a conference at the Sala de graus of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies.

Place: Faculty of Economics and Business Studies (Sala de graus)

Date: Monday 17, February de 2025 - 13:30h

Wednesday:

The UAB Faculty of Political Science and Sociology will host the presentation of the book Feminismo no es sexismo. Conversaciones sobre género y desigualdad, from the El Espejo y la Lámpara and Edicions UAB series. The book proposes a critical reflection on the displacement that part of the feminist discourse has suffered. Margarita Leon, professor and head of Equality Policies of the Faculty; and María Jesús Izquierdo and Marc Barbeta-Viñas, members of the Department of Sociology of the UAB and authors of the book, will intervene in the event. It will take place on 26 February at 1:00 p.m. in Aula 12.

In addition to this event, on 20 March at 7:00 p.m., the authors will present the book at the Ateneu Fort Pienc Civic Centre in Barcelona, accompanied by Daniel Rico Camps, director of the UAB's El Espejo y la Lámpara series.

The book can be bought through the platforms Unebook.es and Google Play Llibres.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Aula 12)

Date: Wednesday 26, February de 2025 - 13:00h

Wednesday:

Researchers from different universities and research centres in Catalonia, including the UAB, have created the Catalan Association of Science and Technology Studies (STS-CAT). The official presentation will take place on 28 February at 9:30 a.m. at the Barcelona Research Residence.

The presentation will feature an inaugural lecture by Wiebe E. Bijker, lecturer and researcher at the University of Maastricht and advisor to the Dutch government as an expert on the relationship between democracy and technology. Biojker is one of the fathers of international Science and Technology Studies and one of the main exponents of the Theory on the Social Construction of Technologies. The engineer, philosopher and PhD in Sociology and History of Technology from the University of Twente (The Netherlands), studies the relationship between the development of technology and society, and how the emergence of new technologies impacts on democracy and can lead to the emergence of a new social order.

The lecture will be followed by a round table (STS in Action) with the participation of Blanca Callén (UAB), Israel Rodríguez (UOC), Ismael Ràfols (Ingenio CSIC-UPV & Univ Leiden) and Vincenzo Pavone (IPP-CSIC), and moderated by the vice-president of the STS-CAT, Núria Vallès (IIIA-CSIC). 

The closing speech will be given by Miquel Domènech (UAB), member of the STS-CAT.

Attendance is free, but prior registration is required.

Place: CSIC Researcher Residence, Barcelona (Carrer Hospital 64)

Date: Friday 28, February de 2025 - 09:30h