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Wednesday:

The Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness and Social Cohesion (INMIX) of the UAB Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, in collaboration with different administrative entities and organisations, will be holding a conference entitled "Catalunya barreja. Diversitat, mestissatge i cohesió social" on 17 December. It will discuss the reality of immigration, minorities, diversity and miscegenation in Catalonia in terms of social cohesion with the aim of generating a counterweight to the reactionary, xenophobic and racist far-right discourse, which is on the rise throughout Europe. The conference includes both an academic, political and technical view with representatives of the administration and entities. To attend, prior registration is required.

Place: Espai Àgora of the History Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona (Plaça Pau Vila 3)

Date: Wednesday 17, December de 2025 - 10:00h

Wednesday:

The Seminaris a l’Abast series is a dynamic and participatory training space where current issues are discussed. The series includes eight 2-hour sessions, independent of each other, with a total duration of 16 hours. Registration can be made for the entire series or for individual sessions, and can be attended online or in person.

On 14 January, the conference “History and stories about the transition to democracy” will take place, which will focus on the analysis of the transition from the Franco dictatorship to democracy, and the construction of stories that have been told about this period. The event will feature the participation of Carme Molinero, professor of contemporary history and former director of the Center for Studies on Dictatorships and Democracies (CEDID) at the UAB.

Place: UAB Auditorium, Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Date: Wednesday 14, January de 2026 - 17:00h

Wednesday:

The UAB Research Group on Dictatorships and Democracies (GReDD-CEDID) organises a seminar entitled The global far-right and the manufacturing of ideas: protests and performance by Ferraz in Valencia, which will be held on 27 January. David Rodríguez-Solás, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will participate. The session forms part of the training activities of the PhD programme in Comparative, Political and Social History.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (conference hall)

Date: Tuesday 27, January de 2026 - 16:00h

Wednesday:

On 29 January, the GEDIME research group, in collaboration with CER-Migrations and the UAB, will be organising the GEDIME Predoctoral Conference: Migration, work, family and public space, focused on the analysis of migration from the perspectives of the labour market, family, discrimination and public space. During the session, migratory experiences in different social and regional contexts will be analysed through speakers and debate spaces. Dahra Quintella, Iseo Morillas, Roser Ramis, Anna Clapés, Felipe Fernández, Helena Llonch, Mireia Pont and Emilio Morales, predoctoral researchers, will participate to offer their vision on the subject.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Sala de juntes)

Date: Thursday 29, January de 2026 - 10:00h

Wednesday:

The ministries for Language Policy, Education and Vocational Training, and Research and Universities, as well as the Programme for the Improvement of Initial Teacher Training and the Programme for the Improvement of the Master's Degree in Secondary Teacher Training of the Catalan Government organise the Second Conference on Initial Teacher Training and Multilingualism, focused on the current challenges of language immersion. The event will take place on 30 January and will include the participation of experts from the educational and university world. The meeting will be at the UAB Faculty of Education and will be attended by Maria Carme Bernal, Montserrat Cerdà, Alba Ambrós, Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé, Cesc Franquesa and Dolors Masats, who will provide their vision on the topic. To participate, it is necessary to register in advance.

Place: Faculty of Education (Sala de graus)

Date: Friday 30, January de 2026 - 09:00h

Wednesday:

Academic research has devoted relatively little attention to the means of image production, its epistemological meaning, and relationship to culture in general. Although the visual turn of recent years has brought new methodological perspectives, the understanding of images remains limited and is often considered only as a communicative resource to illustrate results, but not as part of the development of a “materialised epistemology” that integrates sensitive knowledge with scientific knowledge and allows for the generation of a different historiography.

Science historian Norton Wise argues that traditional dichotomies that tend to separate art from science, museums from laboratories, and geometric from algebraic methods have impoverished understanding of visualisation processes.

The seminar will use an interdisciplinary vocation to explore other ways of understanding images and their use in research.

Reference article: M. Norton Wise, Making visible, Isis 97 (1):75-82 (2006)

Participants: Andrea Soto Calderón (lecturer in Aestetics and Art Theories, UAB), Blanca Pujals (architect, writer and scriptwriter) and Agustí Nieto-Galan (lecturer in the History of Science, UAB)

Programme

12:00 p.m. Presentation

12:15-12:45 p.m. Projection and contextualisation of the audiovisual Quantum sensing infrastructures (Blanca Pujals)

12:45-1:15 p.m. Commentary (A. Soto Calderón)

1:15-1:45 p.m. Lunch break

1:45-2:15 p.m. Commentary (A. Nieto-Galan)

2:15-3:00 p.m. General debate

This seminar forms part of the "Workshops on Historiographic Tools" (WHITS) series. It is addressed particularly to PhD students, but open to all members of the academic community.

Place: Seminar Hall, iHC

Date: Wednesday 4, February de 2026 - 12:00h

Date: Wednesday 4, February de 2026 - 15:00h