The deSignis journal has launched a new Call for Papers as part of the Circulaciones series. This issue, sponsored by the MDYRS Project (I+D+i PID2023-147064OB-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and co-funded by the European Union – FEDER/UE) and by the LAPREC research group, falls within deSignis’s areas of semiotic interest, such as those linked to digital […]
The Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) hosted the International deSignis Colloquium, “The Effectiveness of Signs,” on June 3, 2026. The event brought together leading researchers from Latin America and Spain to explore how the circulation, materiality, and power of signification processes shape today’s public sphere. Organised by the Latin […]
The specialized journal deSignis celebrated twenty years with an international colloquium that took place in Paris between February 10 and 12. The meeting was attended by the director of LAPREC, Teresa Velázquez, and the group’s researcher, Lucrecia Escudero, as well as different academics who analyzed current issues, such as social protests in Chile or the […]
The LAPREC group has held two days of doctoral training within the framework of the PhD program in Communication and Journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The first, in cooperation with the Ibero-American Communication Observatory, consisted of a Journal Club. The second, organized entirely by LAPREC, was a Methodological Seminar. The doctoral training activities […]
The Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB and UNRWA Catalunya organize the training “Refugees in Palestine and Peace Journalism”. The course, which is supported by OMEC, aims to foster the acquisition of knowledge and skills on how to cross-functionalize the gender-based and human-rights approach to media coverage of humanitarian crises, conflicts and […]
The year 2019 has been proclaimed the International Year of Moderation by the UN, and it is precisely in this context that this international seminar will analyze hate speech and the role of the media, in turn, to review the initiatives of different organizations to contribute to social change. This seminar, along with other activities, […]
In this context marked by humanitarian crises, such as the situation of migrants and refugees that flee from their countries of origin, the Mediterranean Communication Observatory (OMEC) has organized a series of activities to involve UAB students in these debates and processes of social change. The first initiative is the Photographic Contest entitled ‘The image […]
The director of LAPREC, Teresa Velázquez, and the researcher Ricardo Carniel Bugs participated in the panel entitled “Borders, migrations and imaginaries of European territories of a global Latin America”, in which they presented the presentations “Media, migrations and thematic agenda” and “The presence of Human Rights in the journalistic stories on Migration “, respectively. Also, […]
The aforementioned session was presented and moderated by Teresa Velázquez, Professor of Journalism and Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Crossing the Mediterranean: Towards Investment and Integration (MIM) at the UAB; and with the participation of Çiğdem Bozdağ (Professor of the Department of New Media, Faculty of Communication, Kadir Has University, Istanbul), Helena Nassif (Executive Director […]
Conversation will last three hours, during which participants will share experiences from the interventions of Yosef Bakali, political science student and member of Podemos, as well as Btíssam El Hannach, economics student and feminist, who will make reference from its origins and shared identities to relative issues of human rights, gender and religion. During the […]