Dr. Janice Monk has left us. Teacher, friend, companion and unconditional support of the Geography and Gender Research Group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since its beginnings.She has been a driving force for Geography and Gender in the world and mentor to several generations of Catalan and international women geographers. She was awarded Honoris […]
On 19 June, Júlia Pascual Bordas successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Opening the doors of the house: Experiences and resistance of young LGBT+ people from Bages in the domestic space”, from the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Gender Studies: Cultures, Societies and Politics, directed by Mireia Baylina (UAB) and Maria Rodó-Zárate (UPF). The thesis addresses […]
On Friday 31 May, the Geography and Gender Research Group organised a seminar with the participation of two prominent researchers: Beatriz Navarrete Sepúlveda from the Catholic University of Temuco, Chile, presented ‘The Role of Women in Rural Popular Culture. Towards a Critical Gender Cartography of Popular Art (CCGap). Comparative experiences between Chile and Spain’. Her […]
On 6 and 8 May, the renowned postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Nuria Font, gave a workshop focused on data visualisation and cartographic practices applied to geographic research with a gender perspective.The main objective of the workshop was to explore in a practical way the potential of visual and cartographic tools for research […]
On 7 March 2024, Geanina Zagal Ehrenfeld presented at the UAB the doctoral thesis “Feminist geographies of public space: urban safety and gentrification in the municipalities of San Miguel and Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Chile”, from the PhD Programme in Geography, and directed by Maria Prats (UAB). This research analyses the socio-spatial practices of women in […]
El viernes 2 de febrero, Natalia Ribas- Mateos, Maria Borràs Escayola y Magdalena Moreno, participaron en la tercera sesión del curso 2023-2024 del seminario del Grupo de Investigación en Geografía y Género. Natalia Ribas-Mateos es la investigadora Maria Zambrano en TRANSMENA (UAB, Barcelona) y Mesopolhis (Aix-Marsella). También es miembro de la Cátedra Fatéma Mernissi (Rabat). Actualmente, […]
On Friday, December 15, Amalia Calderon Argelich and Nicole Chávez González participated in the second session of the 23-24 academic year of the Geography and Gender Research Group seminar. Amalia Calderon Argelich is a researcher at the Barcelona Laboratory for Urban and Environmental Justice and Sustainability and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB). The […]
On December 12, 2023, Mariana Tafur Rueda presented the doctoral thesis “Risking life to live. Rural women defending environmental and territorial rights in Colombia” at the UAB. Doctoral Programme in Geography. Thesis directed by Mireia Baylina (UAB). In recent years, the defense of land, territories and nature has put Colombian rural women in danger, since […]
On the occasion of Geography Day at the University of Girona, the doctor and member of the Geography and Gender Research Group, Isabel Salamaña, has organized a session called: “Geography, Gender and intersectionality”. Dr. Mireia Baylina also participates as a guest speaker. The day’s program is as follows: 10:00h. Conference. Place: Classroom C3 Núria FONT CASASECA: […]
On October 26, Ángel Alcides Aronés Cisneros presented at he UAB the doctoral thesis “Rural development in Los Morochucos (Ayacucho, Peru): the voice of local knowledge in the sustainable planning of the territory”. Doctoral Programme in Geography. Thesis directed by Anna Badia, Jordi Nadal and Anna Ortiz (UAB). The main objective of the research is […]