Journalist Txell Feixas to give the inaugural speech of the UAB's 2025/26 academic year
Journalist Txell Feixas, from the international section of the TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio, will inaugurate the 2025/26 academic year with a speech entitled "Sense diversitat no hi ha mirades, sense mirades no hi ha periodisme. El cas de Gaza". The institutional event will take place on 8 October at 12 noon at the conference hall of the Rectorat building. The event will be presided by Rector Javier Lafuente and will mark the start of the academic year dedicated to diversity. The event will be streamed live on the UAB's YouTube channel.
Txell Feixas has received many awards in recognition for her rigorousness, humanity and determination as a journalist to give visibility to the life of women in vulnerable or conflictive areas.
Journalist Txell Feixas Torras, editor of the international news section at TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio, will speak at the inauguration of the 2025/26 academic year. Her speech focuses on the importance of diversity in journalism, with Gaza as an example, and is entitled "Sense diversitat no hi ha mirades, sense mirades no hi ha periodisme. El cas de Gaza".
the event will be presided by UAB Rector Javier Lafuente and will mark the start of the academic year dedicated to diversity, with the goal of recognising, understanding, accepting and valuing diversity as a way to enrich our existence and how we do things, as well as appreciate the uniqueness and differences of each individual. With this in mind, the UAB has created the concept of unidiversity, which will be the central theme of this new academic year.
The rector will be accompanied by Esther Zapater, secretary general of the UAB; Carlos Cordón, mayor of Cerdanyola del Vallès; Tania Nadal, President of the UAB Social Council; and Oriol Escardíbul, secretary general of the Ministry for Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia. The inauguration will include a video report of the past academic year, a highlight of the most outstanding events and projects conducted at the UAB. There will also be a performance by the Quartet Moana, who will perform several musical themes.
The journalist career of Txell Feixas
Txell Feixas earned her degree in Journalism at the UAB, and spent five years as a TV3 correspondent in the Middle East, during which she reported from countries such as Lebanon, Syria and Israel. She has also published books such as Dones valentes (Ara Llibres, 2020) and Aliades (Ara Llibres, 2023), where she showed how new generations of women in the Middle East survive thanks to a network of complicities.
In 2017 she received the Communication Award form the Federació d’Associacions d’Editors de Premsa, Revistes i Mitjans Digitals and in 2020 she was awarded the Good Practices in Non-Sexist Gommunication Awards by the Associació de Dones Periodistes de Catalunya for her "rigorous journalism and making women in conflict zones visible". In 2023 she also received the special prize from the jury of the Barcelona City Council's Premis Montserrat Roig and in 2024, the Government of Catalonia awarded her the National Journalism and Media Award for her "role as a rigorous, brave and committed journalist".
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