Autor: Belen Pina

We like to inform you that the Call of “la Caixa” Foundation Doctoral Fellowships is open in case you are interested. The deadline of the different Doctoral Fellowships is in February 2021. More information here!

19th October 2020 marked the Women Writers Day. To commemorate women writers around the world, GlobaLS has joined the initiative of the National Library of Spain and has compiled a list of 10 women writers who have changed literature. See our selection on the blog of the Arts and Humanities department of the UOC (in… Seguir leyendo Women Writers Day

Marta Puxan-Oliva was interviewed by eldiario.es to discuss when to write about COVID-19 and not to fall into banality. She mentions that it is always a good time to write. Furthermore, times of literature and illness are multiple, as is the case with the times of war. She concludes by saying that the historical moment… Seguir leyendo La literatura de urgencia durante el coronavirus: ¿cuándo hay que escribir para no caer en la banalidad?

Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts and Maud Gonne are organising a conference on ‘The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, Semiotics and Translation Studies’, to be celebrated on 26-28 August 2021 at the KU Leuven. The call for abstracts is open until 01 December 2020. For more information read the full call here. Organizers:● Kobus Marais (University… Seguir leyendo Call for Abstracts: Conference ‘The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, Semiotics and Translation Studies’ – KU Leuven (Belgium), 26-28 August 2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Society for the History of the Humanities has decided to postpone the 9th Making of the Humanities conference, originally scheduled for the fall of 2020, to 20-22 September 2021. Panels and papers on any period or region are welcome. Special interest is given to work that transcends the history… Seguir leyendo 9th Making of the Humanities conference, UOC-UPF – POSTPONED to 2021

We are pleased to announce the next international conference Cultural Organizations: Between the Local and the Global (1880s-1960s). It will take place in Barcelona from November 18 to 20, 2020. Even though an on-site format is preferred, an online version of this conference might be considered if future updates on the Covid-19 outbreak advise it.… Seguir leyendo International conference Cultural Organizations: Between the Local and the Global (1880-1960)

What does Global History mean for us? With this video, Diana Roig-Sanz (CON ENLACE INTERNO A TEAM > RESEARCHERS > DIANA ROIG-SANZ) joins the project “100 World Histories in 100 Words”, that gathers 100 scholars all over the world working with the notion of the global in different fields. The project is led by the… Seguir leyendo 100 World Histories in 100 Words: Interview to our Principal Investigator Diana Roig-Sanz

Panels and papers on any period or region are welcome. Special interest is given to work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilisations. Neus Rotger is part of the local organizing committee. Final deadline for the submission of abstracts and panel proposals: 7 May 2020.

The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day. The… Seguir leyendo Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH) Conferences

The UOC’s Research and Innovation Committee has approved the publication of a call for five new three-year postdoctoral research stays at the UOC. The places are aimed at teaching staff and postdoctoral researchers specialized in any of the areas of knowledge covered by the University’s research groups. The deadline to apply is 1 March. The… Seguir leyendo UOC opens call for postdoctoral research stays