La publicació de referència sobre l'obra de Lope de Vega i la literatura del Segle d'Or espanyol que edita el grup de recerca Prolope del Departament de Filologia Espanyola commemora el número 30 amb dos monogràfics i una introducció especial sobre la història de la revista.

El primer monogràfic, titulat “Prácticas editoriales y sociabilidad literaria en torno a Lope de Vega” i coordinat per Ignacio García Aguilar, professor de la Universitat de Còrdova, pretén reflexionar sobre les tensions i els vincles, més o menys clientelars i d'institucionalització literària, que van influir en l'activitat creadora del Fénix de los Ingenios. El segon està coordinat per Elena Di Pinto, professora de la Universitat Complutense de Madrid. Amb el títol de “La alquimia en un mundo inventado: mixturas literarias en tiempos de Lope”, posa de manifest l'habitual i fructífera barreja d'arts a l'època de l'escriptor, que suposava una multitud de variacions, hibridacions i jocs de contrastos. El número 30 es completa amb dos articles més sobre un paper d'actor inèdit i sobre la modernització ortogràfica de textos del Segle d'Or automatitzada gràcies a la intel·ligència artificial.

L'Anuario Lope de Vega va ser fundat l’any 1995 pel que va ser professor de la UAB Alberto Blecua (1941-2020), fou dirigit per ell mateix i Guillermo Serés, i, successivament, pels professors Victoria Pineda, Enrico Di Pastena i Guillermo Gómez Sánchez-Ferrer. Sempre ha estat vinculat al Grup de recerca Prolope i a la UAB, tot i que ha rebut suports externs, com el de l'Editorial Milenio, que el va publicar en paper fins a l’any 2011. Des d'aquella data, la publicació s'ha difós en línia mitjançant la plataforma Revistes Digitals UAB (ReDi) del Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat.

En aquest recorregut de trenta anys i trenta números, l'Anuario Lope de Vega ha aconseguit assolir un prestigi en el seu àmbit de coneixement, tant a nivell nacional com internacional, amb l'obtenció ininterrompuda dels segells de qualitat i les avaluacions positives de les institucions més exigents. Tot això ha estat possible gràcies a la col·laboració d'autors, ressenyistes, avaluadors, correctors i lectors, que, en una tasca conjunta que suma més de 700 textos publicats, ha contribuït de manera decisiva a mantenir els treballs sobre Lope de Vega i el teatre del Segle d'Or en un nivell de recerca excel·lent i convertir-los en un lloc de referència per als estudis de lletres. La seva història demostra que ha sabut adaptar-se a les noves tecnologies i donar cabuda als estudiosos més joves, que han treballat amb els més autoritzats lopistes, cosa que li ha permès mantenir la vigència de la publicació i garantir un futur prometedor.

Next Friday, April 12, at 7.30 pm, Antonio Loriguillo López will present his book "Anime complejo. La ambigüedad narrativa en la animación japonesa", at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication of the Universitat de València (UV).

The book was published in 2021 and is number 43 of the collection on communication and ICT, Aldea Global, co-published by the Universitat de València, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Universitat Jaume I, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

On the occasion of the recent recognition of the volume with the mention to the "Book where Asian Film, Media and Communication Sciences" in the IBP 2023 Portuguese/Spanish Language Edition granted by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), the author will give this conference, organized by the Consulate General of Japan in Barcelona, Tradiasia Project, Universitat de València, and with the collaboration of Casa Asia, GREGAL-UAB and InterAsia.

About the book

Recognizable to successive generations of viewers around the world for the charm of its character design and simple animation, "anime" arrives in the second decade of the new millennium as one of the ambassadors of Japanese culture, a consumer good manufactured by one of the most important mass culture production centers on the planet. 

But is it a formulaic art, devoid of narrative sophistication? This book proposes an approach to complex narrative in "anime", a key feature in its construction as a cultural identity through series such as Evangelion or films such as Ghost in the Shell. Is this narrative complexity the reaction of producers to the threat of the interactivity of videogames? Does it obey a strategy that uses narrative experimentation in the multi-screen era to focus on its multiple market niches? Or is it the definitive hybridization of previously opposed narrative modes: classicism versus art and essay? 

Through the historical poetics of narrative modes and the tools of filmic analysis of narratology, Antonio Loriguillo suggests a brief chronology of complex "anime" in which we see that its narrative obscurity is key to its establishment as another type of narration in the global commercial audiovisual.

About the author

Antonio Loriguillo-López is Associate Professor at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) and member of the ITACA research group at the same university, as well as the GREGAL research group (UAB) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He teaches in the degrees in Audiovisual Communication and in Video Game Design and Development, as well as in the Official Master in New Trends and Innovation Processes in Communication at the UJI. His research interests focus on post-classical storytelling in contemporary audiovisual and Japanese commercial animation. In this regard, he is the author of the monographs Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997): Guía para ver y analizar (Nau Llibres, 2020) and Anime complejo: la ambigüedad narrativa en la animación japonesa (Aldea Global, 2021).

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From Tuesday 1 to Thursday 3 October, Feria de Barcelona will host the 42nd edition of the International Book Fair (LIBER), promoted by the Federation of Publishers' Guilds of Spain (FGEE).

LIBER is one of the main trade fairs for the export, exhibition and promotion of publishing in Spanish. The event will bring together publishers of all subject areas who will present their bibliographic collections and novelties, and companies with products and services related to the production, marketing and distribution of books, as well as digital content (ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts), and professional associations.

Some of the latest new publications from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), such as Pensar con el paladar. Una estética gustatoria, by Jèssica Jaques and Gerard Vilar; Las claves de la investigación científica, by Julio Mario Hoyos and Juan Carlos Moreno, or Innovación y liderazgo. El nacimiento del código de barras, by Gabriel Izard, will be on display at the fair. As usual, the UAB Publications Service will be present at LIBER through the stands of the Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas (UNE) and Pujol y Amadó Export.

Eduard Roure Blàvia, author of the novel ‘El metall i els turons’, will take part in a unique activity that will combine nature and literature, next 21st September in his town, Torregrossa (Lleida). It is a walk around the village that will culminate with the presentation of the book by the writer.

The work, winner of the XXIX Premi de Novel-la ‘Valldaura- Memorial Pere Calders’ in 2023, organised by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Ajuntament de Cerdanyola del Vallès, explores the social conflicts and conflicting interests that exist in a village in the interior of Catalonia. Through a plot rich in intrigue and corruption, the author paints an in-depth portrait of the inhabitants of a tense territory. The walk, which is expected to last about fifty minutes, will start at 5.30 p.m., at Plaça 11 de setembre in Torregrossa, and will end at the Cabana de la partida de Paradell. The activity proposes to visit places that could be scenes from the novel, in a setting that evokes the conflicts described in the work. At the end, there will be a conversation with the author, where participants will have the opportunity to learn more details about the novel and share impressions with him in a privileged natural environment.

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El País dedicates an article to the fight against climate change in Africa led by the young people of generation Z in recent years. The article highlights, among other current issues, the constant alarm that the continent has been suffering since the seventies, and mentions the examples that Johari Gautier lists in his book África: cambio climático y resiliencia. Retos y oportunidades ante el calentamiento global, published in 2022 by the UAB Publications Service.

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The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the City Council of Cerdanyola del Vallès have announced a new edition of the Literary Awards for 2025. The original works can be submitted from Friday 13 December via the form on the competition's website.

The cultural event, which aims to promote the dissemination of original and unpublished works written in the Catalan language, will be held once again this year with the following types of prizes and financial awards:

• XXXI ‘Valldaura-Memorial Pere Calders’ Novel Prize, worth 3,000 euros. 
• XXX Prize for Poetry ‘Miquel Martí i Pol’, with a prize of 1,000 euros. 
• XVI ‘Caterina Albert’ Short Narrative Prize, with a prize of 500 euros. 

The deadline for submission of original works is Friday 7 February 2025. As usual, the method of submission will be via an online form on the website of the awards, where you can also consult the rules for each award and follow the news of the evolution of the contest.

The winners of this new edition will be announced at an awards ceremony to be held in May.

The winning books of 2024 

The winning works of the 2024 edition, Ilha do Farol, by Miquel Ribas Figueras; Ballar amb els espectres, by Josep Antoni Aguilar Àvila; Eixint de fer, by Josep Domènech Ponsatí; and Pausa, sucre, Sevilla, by Carla Clúa Alcón, have been published by the UAB Publications Service and can now be purchased in print and electronic format on the website of the university publishing house (the short narrative work is only available in open access electronic format).

The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has published the ninth call for the Evaluation of the Editorial and Scientific Quality of Spanish Academic Journals. On the FECYT website you can consult the Participation Procedure and the Evaluation Guide to apply for the call. The deadline for applications opened on 10 March and will close on 10 April 2025. The provisional list of journals will be published in July 2025.

The main new features of this edition are:

• In order to renew the FECYT Seal, it will be compulsory to take part in the process and pass the evaluation of the editorial quality criteria.
• The validity of the Seal of Quality and the Mention of Good Practice in Gender Equality has been extended from one to two years.
• The visibility and impact indicators have been disaggregated.
• The sources of measurement have been changed, in line with open science practices.
• New editorial quality assessment criteria for recommended compliance have been added.
• The evaluation of the gender perspective has been improved.

In addition, for this edition, a plugin compatible with OJS 3.2x and 3.3 has been developed, designed to automate the downloading of the documentation required in the accreditation process for obtaining and/or renewing the FECYT quality seal. This plugin is already available for the whole community at this link, and it is already available for all UAB journals managed with OJS.

The UAB journals that obtained the Quality Seal in the previous call (eighth) were: Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language & Literature, Dante e l'Arte, Rubrica Contemporanea and Tradumàtica. In addition to the recognition of editorial and scientific quality, the journals Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language & Literature and Tradumàtica obtained the Mention of Good Practices in Gender Equality.

Currently, the UAB has a total of 26 accredited journals.

On 19 November, the Research, Transfer and Innovation Commission of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) approved the call for grants for the publication of scientific research journals (REV2025-2028), with the aim of encouraging their constant improvement, guaranteeing their economic stability, promoting their dissemination and visibility, and increasing their scientific and academic impact.

This aid programme is based on the signing of programme-contracts between the journals and the Vice-rectorate for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship of the UAB, linked to the fulfilment of objectives, and with the aim of providing stable institutional support that allows the journals to work to progressively improve (or maintain) their quality standards.

This year, scientific research journals published or co-published by the UAB that are recognised in the official UAB Directory of Scientific Journals can apply, which guarantees that the journals registered meet the minimum requirements to be considered UAB publications.

Interested research groups, departments, institutes or centres of the UAB can consult the call for applications and the procedure for the allocation of grants on the website of the Publications Service and the UAB Research Calls Portal. Grants can be applied for from 1 December to 15 January by submitting the specific form at the UAB Electronic Office.

Desinformación y poder. Alquimias de la persuasión is the latest title in the ‘Aldea Global’ collection, which is co-published by the university publishers: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Jaume I, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de València. The book is the work of Raúl Rodríguez Ferrándiz, Professor of Semiotics of Mass Communication at the University of Alicante, who specialises in post-truth politics, disinformation, conspiracy theories and ‘fake news’.

In Desinformación y poder. Alquimias de la persuasión, the author dismantles the slogan ‘information is power’, to open our eyes to a current media society where truth has become the true value that is traded on the market: it is privatised, viralised and monetised without any relation to the facts. This book provides a brief introduction to ‘trumpology’, the Cambridge Analytica case and computational propaganda, the Pizzagate case and the role of Wikileaks, but also refers to those who contribute to polarisation by attacking immigration, feminism or LGTBI rights. It discusses the content (in)moderation strategies of Facebook and X, and the advertisers who fund, often unwittingly, pseudo-media that spread misleading news or promote hate, the conspiracies that lied with the ‘plandemia’ story when the virus arrived, and now continue to deny climate change or scare with the Great Replacement. It analyses our penchant for rumours and novelistic lies and for sharing them for a handful of ‘likes’. Finally, a coda is dedicated to the DANA that hit the province of Valencia and Trump's second victory in the US elections.

The work has been selected by the Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas (UNE) to star in the twenty-sixth episode of its podcast ‘Libros para comprender’. The episode is a conversation with Raúl Rodríguez Ferrándiz and Maite Simón, author and editor of PUV (Publicaciones de València), respectively. The programme can be listened to on the main podcasting platforms (Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube Podcast and iVoox) and also seen on YouTube Podcast, through the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1daLMPUbjk.

On Thursday 13 February, at 7 p.m., the book will be presented at the Documenta bookshop in Barcelona (Carrer de Pau Claris, 144), with the following speakers: Virginia Luzón Fernández, Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and Vice Rector of Communication at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Catalina Gayà Morlà, Serra Hunter Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication and Culture at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and member of the Board of Aldea Global; and Raúl Rodríguez Ferrándiz, Professor of Semiotics of Mass Communication at the University of Alicante and author of the book.

On Tuesday 15 October, at 1pm, the Faculty of Law of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) will host the presentation of the InnovaDret Group, as part of the University's Innovation Week.

The conference will include a talk entitled ‘Teaching innovation as the backbone of the Law degree’, given by Dr. Josep Cañabate Pérez, coordinator of InnovaDret; a debate focused on the work in the Service Learning (ApS) modality; and the presentation of the first volume of the book series ‘InnovaDret’, published by the UAB Publications Service last June.

The book is entitled Innovació docent i aprenentatge jurídic. Desafiaments i oportunitats del nou model docent del grau de Dret and gathers the works presented by the professors of the research group in the periodic seminars that have been developed in the same Faculty. The work focuses on teaching innovation within the new model of the Bachelor's Degree in Law and aims to share experiences and tools to improve teaching practice.

More information about the conference at: https://webs.uab.cat/setmanainnovacio/activitats-2024/innovadret/