30 November 2020
UOC Research Staff
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2020
13 November 2020
KU Leuven Doctoral Scholarships
KU Leuven promoters can apply for a 4 year PhD project for a candidate from a developing country who wishes to obtain a doctorate at KU Leuven. The project m...
12 November 2020
Call of “la Caixa” Foundation Doctoral Fellowships
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 ...
26 October 2020
Women Writers Day
19 October marked the Women Writers Day. To commemorate women writers around the world, GlobaLS has joind the initiative of the National Library of Spain and...
25 May 2020
La literatura de urgencia durante el coronavirus: ¿cuándo hay que escribir para no caer en la banalidad?
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...
8 May 2020
Call for Abstracts: Conference ‘The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, Semiotics and Translation Studies’ - KU Leuven (Belgium), 26-28 August 2021
Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts and Maud Gonne are organisng a conference on ‘The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, Semiotics and Translat...
4 May 2020
Cosmopolitanism: Virtual seminar with Paulo Lemos Horta (NYU-Abu Dhabi) and Bruce Robbins (Columbia University)
Last Tuesday, April 28, GlobaLS organized a virtual seminar with Paulo Lemos Horta and Bruce Robbins. The discussion explored the concept of cosmopolitanism ...
30 April 2020
9th Making of the Humanities conference, UOC-UPF - POSTPONED to 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 s...
23 April 2020
International conference Cultural Organizations: Between the Local and the Global (1880-1960)
We are pleased to announce the next international conference Cultural Organizations: Between the Local and the Global (1880s-1960s). It will take place in Ba...
20 March 2020
100 World Histories in 100 Words
What does Global History mean for us? With this video Diana Roig Sanz joins the project “100 World Histories in 100 Words”, that gathers 100 scholars all ove...
11 February 2020
Call for papers for the 9th Making of the Humanities conference, UOC-UPF. Barcelona, 21-23 September 2020
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 co...
10 February 2020
UOC opens call for postdoctoral research stays
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...
29 January 2020
Doctoral fellowship programme INPhINIT “la Caixa”
30 PhD fellowships for researchers willing to carry out their PhD project in any research domain and any university or research center in Spain or Portugal. ...
29 January 2020
Literatura latinoamericana mundial. Dispositivos y disidencias
Literatura latinoamericana mundial. Dispositivos y disidencias, edited by Gustavo Guerrero, Jorge J. Locane, Benjamin Loy and Gesine Müller, has just been pu...
29 January 2020
Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America
Routledge has just published Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America, edited by Diana Roig Sanz and Jaume Subirana. The ...
2019
25 October 2019
Special issue of the Journal of Global History
Neus Rotger, Diana Roig Sanz and Marta Puxan-Oliva have edited the special issue Historicizing the global: an interdisciplinary perspective of the Journal of...
25 October 2019
Workshop on translating humour
Laura Fólica will give a workshop on translating humour at the “36es Assises de la Traduction Littéraires”, in Arles (8-10 November). The workshop will explo...
9 October 2019
CFP: Dossier “Gatekeepers o cómo se produce la literatura latinoamericana mundial”
We are happy to announce a call for papers for the dossier “Gatekeepers o cómo se produce la literatura latinoamericana mundial”, edited by Ana Gallego Cuiña...
25 September 2019
Dossier “Políticas de la poesía latinoamericana. Soportes y circulaciones disidentes”
Coordinated by Irina Garbatzky (UNR) and Jorge J. Locane (UOC), the dossier “Políticas de la poesía latinoamericana. Soportes y circulaciones disidentes” bri...
23 September 2019
European Research and Innovation Days
Diana Roig Sanz attends the European Research and Innovation Days. The event takes place in Brussels, Belgium, from 24 to 26 of September 2019.
22 September 2019
Two new researchers join our team
Ainamar Clariana and Pablo Suárez-Mansilla have joined our team at the beginning of this month. As doctoral students, they will be involved in the project “S...
9 September 2019
9th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies
Diana Roig Sanz and Laura Fólica organise a panel on ‘Big Translation History: The Use of Data Mining and Big Data Approaches’ at the 9th Congress of the Eur...
18 July 2019
Call for applications: 4-year fully funded doctoral fellowship
We are inviting applications for one fully funded PhD position as part of the project ERC StG project Social Networks of the Past.
10 April 2019
Call for applications: 4-year fully funded doctoral fellowship
We are inviting applications for one fully funded PhD position as part of the project ERC StG project Social Networks of the Past.
4 April 2019
Diana Roig Sanz will attend the First ERC Iberian Summit
Diana Roig Sanz will attend the First ERC Iberian Summit, which will take place in Braga, Portugal, on 8-9 April 2019.
5 March 2019
New book by Diana Roig Sanz and Jaume Subirana
Diana Roig Sanz and Jaume Subirana will publish in the Routledge Cultural History Series the book Cultural Organisations, Networks and Mediators in Contempor...
5 March 2019
Aina Vidal has been awarded a FI 2019 grant
Aina Vidal wins a PhD Fellowship (FI 2019) from the Government of Catalonia co-funded by the European Social Fund that awards outstanding graduate students w...
30 January 2019
New book by Marta Puxan Oliva
Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel, edited by Marta Puxan Oliva will be published in the coming months by Routledge.
2018
13 December 2018
Laura Fólica wins AIETI’s “Best Thesis of the Biennium” research award
The Iberian Association for Translation and Interpreting Studies (AIETI) has awarded Laura Fólica with the “Best Thesis of the Biennium” research award for h...
1 December 2018
Diana Roig Sanz attends the 1st Meeting of the Leonardo Fellowship Network
Diana Roig Sanz took part in the 1st Meeting of the Leonardo Fellowship Network, an initiative of the BBVA Foundation which supports Researchers and Cultural...
16 November 2018
Interview with Diana Roig Sanz on her ERC Project “Social Networks of the Past”
Diana Roig Sanz has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. An informative interview on the ERC Project “Social Networks of the Past. Mapping Hispanic and Lusoph...
15 November 2018
Diana Roig Sanz has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant!
UOC researcher Diana Roig-Sanz has been awarded a grant amounting to 1.5 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC) to carry out the project MapMod...
2 November 2018
Pau Bosch and Ana Kvirikashvili attend the Frankfurt International Book Fair
Pau Bosch and Ana Kvirikashvili attended the Frankfurt International Book Fair between 8th and 14th October on a brief stay of field work and research.