Description:

Lecturer Roser Granero will be sitting in the Science Carriage expert's seat this week on the train travelling from Barcelona to Sabadell and leaving at 9:28 a.m. from Plaça Catalunya. Granero, lecturer in the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences and main researcher of the Neuroscience Programme on Psychoneurobiology of Eating Disorders and Addictive Behaviours, will be speaking with passengers on how to recover and overcome eating disorders and addictive behaviour patterns.

Lecturer Granero has also participated in creating the Science Carriage podcasts, which can be consulted here.

Place: Science Carriage, FGC. UAB-Sabadell, 09:28 a.m.

Date: Thursday 15, February2024 - 09:20h

Description:

Ana Barajas, Ana Aznar and Daniela León, PhDs and lecturers from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, will be in the expert's seat of the Science Carriage this week from 9:41 a.m. to 2:22 p.m. They will be talking with train passengers about the stigma related to mental illnesses. 

The first trajectory will begin at 9:41 a.m. from Sarrià to Sabadell Parc del Nord.

All three lecturers have participated in the Science Carriage podcasts, which are available here.

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Place: Science Carriage, FGC. BCN-SABADELL 9:41 a.m. -> SABADELL PARC DEL NORD

Date: Thursday 22, February2024 - 09:41h

Description:

Lecturer David Sánchez will be in the Science Carriage expert's seet this week on the train travelling from Barcelona to the UAB and leaving from Plaça Catalunya at 11:28 a.m. Sánchez, lecturer in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and director of the Reseearch Group in Health and Weight-Related Problems, will be talking with passengers about obesity and eating disorders, and the associated stigma.

Sánchez has participated in the podcasts of the Science Carriage, which can be consulted at this link.

Place: Science Carriage, FGC Plaça Catalunya-UAB 11:28 a.m.

Date: Thursday 29, February2024 - 11:20h

Description:

Through virtual reality glasses, one can learn about three protected and endangered plant species of the natural park of Cap de Creus: the herbaceous plant Sèseli del cap de Creus (Seseli farrenyi), endemic to this natural park, the spurge olive (Cneorum tricoccon) endemic to the Mediterranean basin, and blue bindweed (Convolvulus siculus), in a vulnerable situation in Catalonia.

This event is the final phase of a teaching innovation project coordinated by Sandra Saura Mas, lecturer of ecology at the Faculty of Biosciences and CREAF researcher. The project is funded by the Coordination of Training and Teaching Innovation of the Institute of Education Studies and the Training Unit of the UAB. This project has succeeded in creating three 3D models of endemic and endangered plants of the Mediterranean basin, in order to make them freely available to students to work on during subjects dealing with the relationship between humans and nature. This has been possible thanks to the collaboration with the OpenLabs of the UAB, specifically the Digital Lab.

The Virtual Biodiversity project makes it possible to find 3D models of threatened plant species free of charge on the internet. With the result of this project, more traditional formats such as 2D herbariums or collections of living organisms, normally exclusive and located in inaccessible places that sometimes imply the death of the collected plants, have been renewed. New supports and media have been created that are more attractive, closer and more effective for learning and totally respectful with the life of other living organisms.

Place: UAB Digital Lab (Journals Hall, Library of Humanities)

Date: Wednesday 13, March2024 - 13:00h

Description:

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

Description:

Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) and head of research at the Australian National Science Agency (CSIRO), will give this conference, which has been organised by the UAB and CREAF, of which Canadell is, respectively, alumnus and scientific advisor.

Greenhouse gas emissions, which come mainly from fossil fuels and agricultural systems, continue to grow and the increase in their atmospheric concentrations has been accelerating in recent years. This continued increase jeopardises reaching the targets set in the 2016 Paris Agreement: the progressive reduction of greenhouse gases until 2050, when net zero emissions (matching what is emitted with what is captured) would have to be achieved to limit global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

In his lecture, Canadell will address questions such as: Is global warming accelerating, as some experts suggest? Will we be able to achieve the goal of stopping it at 1.5°C or, at least, of not exceeding the 2°C set by Paris? What efforts are needed and by whom? What are the dangers of not achieving this?

The Global Carbon Project (GCP) is an organisation made up of dozens of international scientists from more than 90 institutions that has been providing detailed information on natural and anthropogenic carbon dioxide sources and sinks every year since 2006. Its reports are a reference source for the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reports on climate change caused by human activities.

The conference is open tot he general public and will include the collaboration of the Catalan Biology Society through its Vallès Regional Section.

Place: Faculty of Science and Biosciences (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 27, June2024 - 13:00h

Organiser: UAB and CREAF