Date of event: Sat, 02/12/2017 Place: Washington DC, US Olga Jubany presented her new book Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief, edited by Palgrave MacMillan, at the American Anthropological Association’s 2017 Meeting in Washington. Presenting @OlgaJB's book SCREENING ASYLUM IN A CULTURE OF DISBELIEF at #AmAnth17 !https://t.co/KN8i9TXm6l pic.twitter.com/lcpVcc2wqt — Palgrave Sociology (@PalgraveSoc) December 2, 2017
This month has also seen the start of a new project, REACT, which aims to address online hate speech by the study of this phenomenon and further identification and dissemination of positive actions to counter it, especially among youngsters.
Today we inaugurate the project SupportVoC, on support of victims of crime, with a Kick-Off Meeting in Barcelona. SupportVoC is a international and interdisciplinary project which addresses the promotion and protection of the rights of victims of crime through the analysis of the implementation of Directive 2012/29/EU and further development of a model of standard procedures […]
We are happy to say that the DIVERCITY Final Conference was a great success! Partners and experts from all over Europe joined us in Barcelona last Friday November 3rd to share the conclusions of the DIVERCITY Project in the Final Conference. All speakers were excellent and their contributions were compelling which translated into a high […]
During the celebration of the Week of Anthropology (24-29 April, Barcelona), the research group GENI on gender, identity and diversity with the Catalan Insitute of Anthropology (ICA) collaborated with the European Social Research Unit (UB) to coordinate the round table “Transgènere i sistema de sexe/gènere. Normativitats, violències i resistències” (Transgender and the sex/gender system. […]
Date of event: Thu, 17/11/2016 Place of event: Facultat de Filologia de la Universitat de Barcelona, edifici Josep Carner. Sala del professorat, 5a planta. Carrer Aribau, 2. Barcelona On November 17th, the ESRU director Olga Jubany will participate in a seminar on innovation in social sciences and humanities, organized by the Fundació Bosch i Gimpera. For […]
On July 22nd, 2016 Dr Olga Jubany and Dr Miguel Pajares participated in a press conference in order to disseminate the findings of the PRISM project. This lead to the publication of news pieces on the PRISM findings in over 40 different media platforms, including in print media such as LaVanguardia and ElPeriodico, in digital media such as VilaWeb, and […]
Date of event: Thu, 09/06/2016 Place of event: Sala d’Actes de la Residència d’Investigadors CSIC Dr Olga Jubany will present the findings of the PRISM project at the CSIC conference “Converses al Raval. Tal com som, tal com érem” on June 9th at 18.00. The conference takes place at Sala d’Actes de la Residència d’Investigadors CSIC-Generalitat de […]
Date of event: Tue, 10/05/2016 – Thu, 30/06/2016 The ESRU launches a video and radio campaign against hate speech in the new media within the PRISM project. This campaign aims to raise awareness of this phenomenon and foster positive messages to stop discrimination related to racism and xenophobia in social media like Twitter or Facebook, as well as in other […]
Date of event: Tue, 10/05/2016 – Thu, 30/06/2016 The ESRU launches a video and radio campaign against hate speech in the new media within the PRISM project. This campaign aims to raise awareness of this phenomenon and foster positive messages to stop discrimination related to racism and xenophobia in social media like Twitter or Facebook, as well as in other […]