On Friday, June 12, 2026, the Research Group on Geography and Gender at the UAB organized the seminar “Hilvanar: contar, narrar, resistir. Space, emotions and everyday resistances from feminist research”, delivered by Dr. Macarena Trujillo Cristoffanini, PhD in Sociology and faculty member at the Department of Gender, Politics and Culture at the University of Playa […]
Valentina Saavedra Meléndez defended, on 11 June 2026, her doctoral thesis entitled “La política de vivienda social y su relación con la violencia doméstica hacia las mujeres. El caso de Santiago de Chile y Barcelona”, at the Department of Geography of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), under the supervision of Dr. Maria Prats Ferret. […]
This Friday, May 22, 2026, the Geography and Gender Group hosted the seminar “Geography of feminist memory in the farmhouses of a historical cross-border region between Castellón, Tarragona and Teruel,” delivered by Núria Salvador, a geographer from the University of Valencia and currently a PhD candidate in gender, rural and mountain geography. Núria Salvador, who […]
On April 28, 2026, Laura Soler defended her PhD thesis on youth, rurality, and sexual dissidence, titled “El retorn al camp des de la geografia de les sexualitats: joventut i arrelament al món rural català”, supervised by Dr. Mireia Baylina. The study analyzes the trajectories of sexually and/or gender-dissident young people in rural areas of […]
On Friday, March 20, 2026, the seminar “Returning to the countryside from the geography of sexualities: youth and belonging in rural Catalonia” was held. The session was delivered by Laura Soler, a PhD candidate from the same research group. During the seminar, the main findings of her doctoral thesis were presented, focusing on the trajectories […]
On Monday 9 March, during the institutional event marking International Women’s Day, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona honored Maria Prats, professor and member of the Research Group on Geography and Gender, in recognition of her career and her contribution to research and teaching from a feminist perspective. During the event, Rector Javier Lafuente presented the […]
On Friday 27 February 2026, the Research Group on Geography and Gender organised the seminar “Women, Territory and Popular Art. Lace-makers’ associations as a model for the preservation of Catalan culture”, delivered by Dr Beatriz Navarrete. The session took place in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the UAB. The […]
On Friday, January 23, 2026, the seminar “Caring in Times of Pandemic. Methodological Reflections” took place. The session was delivered by Dolors Comas d’Argemir, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She presented the main findings of her research on the gendered impact of the pandemic […]
The podcast Pioneres del coneixement. Les dones de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans has closed the season with six new voices who are leaders in their respective fields. Among them is geographer Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon. In this episode, Garcia Ramon shares her academic and personal trajectory and reflects on the evolution of gender studies in geography, […]
Researchers from diverse contexts shared tools and creative approaches to rethink space and inequality through feminist lenses On Friday, May 16th, 2025, the Sala de Graus of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the UAB hosted the Seminar on Innovative Methodologies in Feminist Geographies, organized by the Gender and Geography Research Group. The event […]