Lecture of the doctoral tesis “Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca in Peru: Paths and Andean geographies” by Nathalia Quintero

On 7 February 2022 Nathalia Quintero Castro presented her doctoral thesis “Red de Bibliotecas Rurales de Cajamarca en el Perú: Trayectos y geografías andinas”. Doctoral Program in Geography, Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Thesis directed by Enric Mendizábal Riera and Anna Ortiz Guitart. The Cajamarca Rural Library Network (RBRC), in Peru, is the […]

Conference by Núria Font-Casaseca: How to incorporate the gender perspective into GIS and data visualization?

This Wednesday, September 27, within the framework of the Geography and Gender subject (teachers Mireia Baylina and Maria Prats), of the Degree in Geography, Environment and Territorial Planning, Dr. Núria Font-Casaseca, gave a conference called: “How to incorporate the gender perspective into GIS and data visualization?”. The architect and doctor in geography is currently a […]

Participation in the 3rd European Rural Geographies Conference 2023

The Geography and Gender Research Group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) participated in the 3rd European Conference Rural Geographies in Transition at the University of Groningen from 26-29 June 2023. Three papers were presented in two different sessions: “Exploring new masculinities in rural Spain” and “From the city to the countryside: sexual and […]

III Seminar of the Research Group in Geography and Gender of the academic year 22/23

Last Friday 24th March, researcher Stefany Álvarez (Geography UAB) participated in the 3rd session of the seminar of the Research Group in Geography and Gender of the academic year 22-23. She presented her research, carried out as part of the Final Project of the Master’s Degree in Women’s, Gender and Citizenship Studies in 2021, entitled […]

Lecture of the doctoral thesis “Urban cycling in Barcelona: A feminist look” by Azahara Sillero

On 7 July 2022 Azahara Sillero presented her doctoral thesis “Urban cycling in Barcelona: A feminist perspective” to the UAB. Doctoral Programme in Geography. Thesis supervised by Àngel Cebollada Frontera and Anna Ortiz Guitart. This doctoral analyzes urban cycling in Barcelona from a feminist perspective. This general issue has been addressed here from three specific […]

Lecture of the doctoral thesis: “El espacio como agente coeducador. Participación y transformación feminista de patios escolares en Santa Coloma de Gramenet” by Dafne Saldaña

On 12 February 2021 Dafne Saldaña presented her doctoral thesis to the UAB: “El espacio como agente coeducador. Participación y transformación feminista de patios escolares en Santa Coloma de Gramenet”. Inter-University Doctoral Programme in Gender Studies: Culture, Societies and Politics, Inter-University Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies. Thesis supervised by Anna Ortiz Guitart. Spaces are […]

The economist and collaborator of our group Lourdes Beneria, new doctor honoris causa of the URV

Lourdes Beneria, economist and collaborator of the Geography and Gender research group, will be Honorary Doctor of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) from the end of November 2022. A pioneer in the incorporation of the gender perspective in economic analysis, she has contributed to laying the foundations of feminist economics as a current of […]

I Seminar of the Research Group on Geography and Gender of the course 22/23

On Friday 4 November, the researcher Magdalena Moreno (CIG-IGEHCS/CONICET -Argentina) participated in the 1st session of this 22-23 course of the seminar of the Research Group on Geography and Gender. She presented her research entitled “La trata de personas cono fines de explotación sexual: configuración espacial en Argentina, 2008-2018”, and described and analysed the spatial […]