Activities
Tuesday, June 2 2026
Dia · Setmana
16:00
Thinking in the Trenches: revolutionary intellectuals from 1914 to the Spanish Civil War
Description:
The Dictatorships and Democracies Research Group (GREDD) of the UAB organises for 2 June at 4:00 p.m. a new session of the GREDD seminar entitled "Thinking in the Trenches: revolutionary intellectuals from 1914 to the Spanish Civil War". The activity will take place at the conference hall of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and will focus on the analysis of the political and cultural commitment of revolutionary intellectuals in times of war and social transformations.
The seminar will be led by Juan Andrade, lecturer in History at the Complutense University of Madrid. Andrade will reflect on the relationship between revolutionary thought, the experience of war, and the construction of political projects during the period between the First World War and the Spanish Civil War.
Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Date: Tuesday 2, June2026 - 16:00h
Thursday, June 4, 2026
10:00
Hands Across the City: Musicians and Handedness in Urban Contexts
Description:
The Scenic Arts Research Centre organises for 4 June at 11:00 a.m. an international symposium entitled Hands Across the City: Musicians and Handedness in Urban Contexts. The activity will take place in the Sala Tarotdequinze of the UAB Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
The symposium aims to investigate laterality through musicological, paedagogical and neuropsychological perspectives based on practice. Those interested can sign up on this online form.
- Folk Songs for Inverted Guitar. Practice-based observations on playing guitar transcriptions ‘upside down’., by Danica Hobden, musician and researcher specialised in instrumental practice and laterality from the Hamburg University of Music and Drama.
- ‘Left-handed’ instrumental play in Germany – from an artistic, educational and academic perspective., by Laila Kirchner, musician and researcher from the Cologne Unviersity of Music and Dance.
- Maybe YOU’RE Playing Backwards. Laterality, identity and the case for the idiodextrous brain., by Greg Gottlieb, researcher in art and musicology at the UAB.
- Flipping guitar. An essential analysis of historical and contemporary approaches to the classical guitar posture, by Francesca Naibo, guitarist, lecturer and researcher at Siena Jazz University.
- "Introduction to the research project Music and City: places, institutions and encounters since the Industrial Revolution", by Francesc Cortès, lecturer in art and musicology at the UAB.
Place: Online and on-site at the Sala Tarot de quinze of the Faculty of arts & Humanities
Date: Thursday 4, June2026 - 10:00h