The books of the 2024 edition of the Literary Awards, jointly organised every year by the City Council of Cerdanyola del Vallès and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, were presented yesterday, Thursday 7 November, at 1pm, at the Institut Pozas in Cerdanyola del Vallès (Calle del Águila, 65).

The winners were announced last May at the awards ceremony held at the UAB. Carla Clúa Alcón, with her work Pausa, sucre, Sevilla, was the winner of the 15th ‘Caterina Albert’ short story prize for young people. Josep Antoni Aguilar Àvila, with the work Ballar amb els espectres, and Josep Domènech Ponsatí, with the work Eixint de fer, were declared ex-aequo winners of the 29th ‘Miquel Martí i Pol’ poetry prize. Miquel Ribas Figueras, with his work Ilha do Farol, became the winner of the XXX ‘Valldaura-Memorial Pere Calders’ novel prize.

The event was attended by the Mayor of Cerdanyola del Vallès, Carlos Cordón; the Councillor for Education of Cerdanyola del Vallès, Pilar Adell; the Vice-Rector for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Rosa María Sebastián; and the authors Josep Domènech Ponsatí and Miquel Ribas. Carla Clúa Alcón (Tarragona) and Josep Antoni Aguilar Àvila (València) were present, through videos with a few words of gratitude for the publication of their books.

The final part of the event included the presentation of the terms and conditions of the Literary Awards 2025, which will open for submissions on 13 December.

Cartes i salut al segle XVI. Hipòlita Roís de Liori i Estefania de Requesens will be presented on Friday 7 February in Oliva, on Monday 17 February in Gandia and on Thursday 27 February in Riba-roja de Túria. The presentations will be attended by the author himself, Francesc Devesa i Jordà, a medical expert who has dedicated his life to the study of medical anthropology and the history of medicine.

The book is a co-publication between Publications of the Universitat de València (PUV) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and reveals the intimate universe of Hipólita Roís de Liori and Estefanía de Requesens, mother and daughter who, through their correspondence, reveal surprising details about illnesses, remedies, food, violence, religious rituals and the work of doctors, midwives and apothecaries in the Renaissance.

Day: 07/02/25

Place: Biblioteca l’Envic (passeig de Gregori Maians, 36, Oliva)

Hour: 19 h

Organised by: Associació Centelles-Riusech.

Hosted by: Lluïsa Parra i Anna Parra

Day: 17/02/25

Place: Saló de Conferències de Foment AIC (carrer de Sant Francesc de Borja, 56, Gandia)

Hour: 19 h

Organised by: Foment AIC

Hosted by: Maria Josep Escrivà i Àngela Bañuls

Day: 27/02/25

Place: Castell de Riba-roja de Túria (carrer de la Cisterna, 28)

Hour: 18.30 h

Organised by: Regidoria de Cultura de Riba-roja de Túria

Hosted by: José V. Calatayud

In recent decades, some social and political movements, including feminism, have shifted their approaches towards discourses based on the ‘question of identity’. From this approach, proposals for social change have been based fundamentally on the affirmation of difference and singularity, largely forgetting egalitarian political objectives, as well as the possibility of a diagnosis that addresses the causes and consequences of social inequality in general and gender inequality in particular.
 
Feminismo no es sexismo. Conversaciones sobre género y desigualdad proposes a critical reflection on this type of displacement that part of the feminist discourse has undergone, both in terms of the analysis of social reality and in terms of the movement's objectives. The text begins with a discussion between Marc Barbeta-Viñas and María Jesús Izquierdo, one of the most relevant sociologists in the study of gender inequality, and moves on to the main issues that currently occupy the feminist agenda and discourse. The sexual division of labour and exploitation, the materialist conception of gender, the role of the state and supposedly anti-patriarchal laws and gender violence are some of the topics addressed in this conversation.

María Jesús Izquierdo holds a PhD in Economics and is a retired lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research interests are social inequality and the sociology of emotions and feelings. She is the founder of the Observatory for Equality at the UAB, and was awarded the University and Society prize by the Social Council of the UAB. She has written several books, including Sin vuelta de hoja. Sexismo: poder, placer y trabajo (Bellaterra, 2001) and El malestar en la desigualdad (Cátedra, 1998).

Marc Barbeta-Viñas holds a PhD in Sociology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is currently a lecturer at the same university. His main lines of research are the sociology of consumption and culture, as well as qualitative research methods. He also has research experience in social inequality and gender relations, among other fields. She has published articles in national and international scientific journals, as well as a book and book chapters in the CSIC and the CIS.

On Wednesday 26 February, the book was presented at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UAB. The event was attended by: Margarita León, lecturer and Head of Equality Policies at the Faculty; and María Jesús Izquierdo and Marc Barbeta-Viñas, authors of the book. At the end of the presentation, the Abacus bookshop on the Campus offered the possibility of purchasing the book in the same room.

In addition to this event, on 20 March, the authors plan to present the book at the Ateneu Fort Pienc Civic Centre in Barcelona, with the intervention of Daniel Rico Camps, director of the UAB collection ‘El espejo y la lámpara’.
 
The UAB Publications Service has been responsible for publishing the work, which corresponds to the latest volume (25) of this collection of essays of high dissemination, under the seal of Ediciones UAB. In addition to the paper format, Feminismo no es sexismo. Conversaciones sobre género y desigualdad can also be purchased in electronic format for payment, through book e-commerce platforms, such as Unebook.es or Google Play Books.

Presentations:
 
Day: 26/02/2025
Time: 13 h
Place: in classroom 12 of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UAB (Edifici B2, Av. de l'Eix Central, 08193 Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès)
Organised by: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UAB
Speakers: Margarita León, María Jesús Izquierdo and Marc Barbeta-Viñas

Date: 20/03/2025
Time: 19 h
Place: Ateneu Fort Pienc Civic Centre (Pl. del Fort Pienc, 4-5, 08013 Barcelona)
Organised by: El Safareig
Speakers: Daniel Rico Camps, María Jesús Izquierdo and Marc Barbeta-Viñas

Book sample:

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Ja03EQAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA6&hl=ca

One hundred and ninety-two works have been accepted for this year's short story, poetry, and novel competition. The jury's decision will be announced on May 28.

Participation in this year's literary awards has increased at a very high level. The deadline for entries closed last February and a total of 192 original works were submitted, 82 of them for the novel prize, 85 for the poetry prize and 25 for the short story prize. These figures are the highest since 2002, when the organizers -the City Council and the University- decided to merge their respective contests and start the competition together.

This year, the 15th “Caterina Albert” Short Narrative Prize for Young People, worth 500 euros; the 29th “Miquel Martí i Pol” Poetry Prize, worth 1,000 euros; and the 30th “Valldaura - Pere Calders Memorial” Novel Prize, worth 3,000 euros.

Currently, the members of the juries of each category are reviewing the works and the verdict will be announced on May 28, at 4 pm, at the awards ceremony to be held at the Auditorium of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UAB. The event will be attended by: Javier Lafuente Sancho, Rector of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Rosa María Sebastián, Vice-rector of Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship of the UAB; and Margarita Freixas i Alás, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UAB. Regarding the City Council, the event will be attended by: Carlos Cordón, Mayor of the Cerdanyola del Vallès City Council; and David González Chanca, Councilor of Culture, Communication and EMD of Bellater.

The event will be recorded and can be followed live on the UAB YouTube Channel.

Tributes to Àngel Guimerà and Maria-Mercè Marçal

The organization of the awards wishes to pay tribute in this edition to Àngel Guimerà (1845-1924), the Catalan playwright who has enjoyed the greatest international projection and one of the great poets of the Catalan 19th century, coinciding with the centenary of his death and the commemoration of the Guimerà Year by the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya. In fact, the City Council of Cerdanyola already paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of the death of Àngel Guimerà to the 23rd Marathon of reading, which organized last April 23 for St. George. In this line, the assistants to the awards ceremony will be able to enjoy a performance dedicated to Guimerà's work, by the UAB Chamber Choir, conducted by Poire Vallvé.

On the other hand, the event will also recognize the work of the poet and feminist activist, Maria-Mercè Marçal (1952-1998), through the poetic recital Marçal sentida, which will be given by Sofia Oliva Sabater and Laia Solé Moreno, predoctoral researcher in Greek Philology at the UAB and student of Fine Arts at the UB, respectively.

Noms. Revista de la Societat d'Onomàstica has published a review of the book Tot un món en català in its latest issue (22).

Tot un món en català is the work of David Paloma Sanllehí, PhD in Catalan Philology and professor of Catalan language at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

The book deals with exonymy, that is, the exogenous or foreign toponymy that has a Catalan form, one of the least treated aspects of toponymy, but which is today one of the most lively topics and one that generates the most doubts and queries, both in the world of the media and in the world of linguistic advice.

You can consult the whole issue and the review (pages 21-22) at the following link: https://www.imatgies.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Noms22.pdf

Until 3 February, researchers who are authors of publications included in the Intercambio Científico (IC) system of digital books for the use of the university community can include the statistics of consultation of this project as an indication of relevance and impact to the current call for research sexenios of 2024.

Lo IC is a project that the Union of Spanish University Publishers (UNE) promoted in 2016 and since then more than 14,000 ebooks, corresponding to monographs and manuals of all areas of knowledge, are exchanged by 63 universities and are available to researchers, teachers and students through the libraries of the campuses and research centres adhered to the programme. In the case of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Publications Service makes available its entire digital collection, which consists of more than 180 publications. In this sense, researchers who have published an e-book with our Service will be able to compute the statistics of the CI for their six-year periods.

To find out which books are part of the CI and their data, please visit the following page: https://www.une.es/estadisticas-intercambio-cientifico. The statistics show the evolution of consultations, according to publisher, library or publication. In the case of the UAB, the work Investigación en psicologia i logopedia, by Mariona Portell and Jaume Vives, professors of the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences at the UAB, is the second most consulted university publication. Investigación en psicologia y logopedia has a total of 360,088 page views and is available in open access digital format and in paid paper format

Alexandre Planas Ballet is the author of the book Projeccions, which won the XVIII Poetry Prize "Miquel Martí i Pol", awarded by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the City Council of Cerdanyola del Vallès in 2023.

On the occasion of Sant Jordi's Day 2024, on Tuesday, April 23, the writer will sign copies of Projeccions, from 12 pm to 2 pm, at the Francesc Layret square in Cerdanyola del Vallès. The author will share a literary space with other authors of the city, where they will also read and recommend their works. From 4 pm in the afternoon, Planas will move to Corberà de Llobregat, his home town, to finish his book signing and give a live interview to Radio Corbera, in the Plaza del Mil·lenari.

Coinciding with the celebration of Sant Jordi, the website Lletresbàrbares.cat has published a review of the book, which can be consulted at the following link: https://www.lletresbarbares.cat/articles/versos-a-24-fotogrames-per-segon

On Thursday 13 February, at 7 p.m., the book Desinformación y poder. Alquimias de la persuasión, at Documenta bookshop in Barcelona. The book is co-published by four universities in the Aldea Global collection: the UAB, the Universitat Jaume I, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Universitat de València. The event was attended by Virginia Luzón, lecturer in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and Vice Rector of Communication at the UAB; Catalina Gayà, lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication and Culture at the UAB and member of the Aldea Global Board of Directors; and Raúl Rodríguez Fernándiz, Professor of Semiotics of Mass Communication at the University of Alicante and author of the book. The book is aimed at people who work in communication and all those who want to know how truth is displacing the power of information.

On June 5, the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences interviewed Julio Mario Hoyos and Juan Carlos Moreno, Biologist and Philosopher, respectively, and authors of the book Las claves de la investigación Científica, recently published by the Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcleona (UAB).

The interview was included in the project “Diàlegs amb la ciència a Colòmbia”, to answer some of the questions that Hoyos and Moreno unveil in their book: How does science work; what are the main methods used in scientific research; how is knowledge organized and administered in the field of science? The conversation, in a non-specialized language and with a pedagogical purpose, offered useful orientations for scientists in their research work, for educators in the training of research skills and for science administrators in the management of research projects.

The program was broadcasted live and can be heard in its entirety at the following link: https://radio.unal.edu.co/detalle/claves-para-entender-la-investigacion-cientifica

Yesterday, Thursday, the certificates of the CEA-APQ Seal of Quality in Academic Publishing for the evaluation of scientific monographs were delivered to Madrid. This is the first time that the National Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation (ANECA), the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the Union of Spanish University Publishers (UNE) have announced the award.

Thirty-five monographs, belonging to different universities and research centres, have been accredited for their quality and transparency of information, quality of editorial policy and quality of the editorial process and scientific evaluation.

Among the accredited monographs is El Papus (1973-1987). Contrapoder informativo en la Transición española, a work by Maria Iranzo Cabrera, and included in the collection on communication and communication technologies, "Aldea Global", which is co-published by the Universitat Jaume I, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Universitat de València and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

The event was attended by Susana Quicios, director of the ANECA Teacher Evaluation Division, Imma Aguilar, director general of the FECYT, and María Isabel Cabrera, president of the UNE, who handed out the certificates.

Joan Carles Marset, director of the UAB Publications Service, was in charge of collecting the certificate for El Papus (1973-1987). Contrapoder informativo en la Transición española, on behalf of the UAB. During his speech, Marset stressed "the importance of inter-university co-publications as a way of promoting knowledge transfer, reinforcing cooperation between universities and adding synergies to make scientific publications viable that would otherwise be difficult for a single institution to undertake". Even so, the editor called for co-publishing to be valued as a factor of collaboration, which contributes to enriching the ecosystem of university publishing in our country.

Since its creation in 2017, the CEA-APQ Seal has been recognised as an indication of the quality of publications in the evaluation of research activity, a recognition carried out by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI), and in the evaluation criteria of the research merits claimed for the different figures of accreditation of teaching staff carried out by ANECA. Until 2023, the Seal was only awarded for collections. With the new call for monographs, this evaluation criterion is consolidated and enhances the importance of this certification for the authors of the works, the publishers, the evaluation system of research activity and Spanish science.