On Friday February the 9th, at the Sala d’Actes of the Facultat de Economia of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, as a part of the PhD program in Geography, the defense of the doctoral thesis by Margot Mecca was held, titled Descubriendo el ocio nocturno cotidiano. Primeras experiencias entre adolescentes en Barcelona and directed by Maria Prats […]
From 13 to 15 September international academics, professionals and activists will meet at the Espai Francesca Bonnemaisone in Barcelona to analyse sexual and gender diversity from the perspective which takes into account the differences implied in places of origin, social class, age, religion and (dis)capacities. Click here for more information.
The Gender and Geography research groups collaborates in the organization of the IV European Geographies of Sexualities Conference. IV European Geographies of Sexualities Conference Relationality, Scales and Intersections 13- 15 September 2017 Barcelona Presentation and call for papers Following the previous Geographies of Sexualities conferences in Brussels (2011), Lisbon (2013) and Rome (2015), the 2017 conference […]
Professor Maria-Dolors Garcia-Ramon was awarded with the Prize Vautrin-Lud “Nobel of Geography 2016” during the Festival International de la Géographie that took place at Saint -Die des Vosgues (France) from the 30th September to the 2nd of October. This honour has been already awarded in 28 occasions but this is only the fourth one given to a woman and […]
At the August 2016 Congress of the International Geographical Union (IGU) in Beijing Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon was one of three scholars presented with the Lauréat d’Honneur, the highest award given by the organization. She is only the fifth woman and the first Spanish geographer to have received the Lauréat since it was established in 1976. Maria-Dolors is recognized as […]
Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon has been awarded the Lauréat d’Honneur from the International Geographical Union (IGU), and it will be handed over during the upcoming 33rd IGU Congress in Beijing (August 21-25, 2016). This award was established in 1976 in order to recognize individuals who have achieved particular distinction in the work of the IGU or in international […]
The Geography and Gender Research Group organizes the NTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FEMINIST GEOGRAPHIES AND INTERSECTIONALITY: PLACES, IDENTITIES AND KNOWLEDGES, to be held in the Departament of Geography at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from 14 to 16 July 2016. To read more information lat the Call for Papers click here.
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016, in the Sala de Grados of the Faculty of Humanities at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and within the framework of the Doctoral Program in Geography, the reading and defense of Victoria Cedro Barrionuevo’s thesis took place. The thesis, titled Citizen Participation in the Urban Development of Vila de Santa […]
In the context of the Research Seminars of the Geography and Gender Group, on Thursday, January 28, 2016, Professor Kristin Sziarto from the University of Milwaukee delivered a lecture titled: Whose Reproductive Futures? Race-Biopolitics and Resistance in the Black Infant Mortality Reduction Campaign in Milwaukee. Dr. Sziarto is conducting a research stay in the Department […]
On Tuesday, September 22, 2015, in the Assembly Hall (B7/1056) of the Faculty of Humanities at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and within the framework of the Doctoral Program in Geography, Miguel Ángel Castela Egido’s thesis was presented. The thesis, titled Walking Hand in Hand with Children: An Analysis from the Geography of Children’s Mobility […]