Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia
Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work

Outreach activities 2026

In this conference, Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the UAB, explored the history and networks that Gnawa culture and music - recognised in 2019 by UNESCO as intangible heritage of humanity - are weaving between Europe and the Maghreb.This is the first event of the 2026 cycle of the Aula Mediterrània of the IEMed (European Institute of the Mediterranean), on this occasion co-organised with the DAFiTS, and which took place on Tuesday, January 13, in the Arxiu room (classroom 521) of the Catalonia Campus.

This second session of the Social Anthropology Group Seminars, entitled "Collaborative Designs in Social Sciences", took place in the Arxiu d'Etnografia of the Catalonia campus on 3 February. On this occasion, the presentations were given by Cristina Andrade Sampaio, Elena Blanco de Tena and Eva Zafra. Cristina Sampaio (Unimontes, Brazil) presented her research on the implementation of Autonomous Medication Management in the context of mental health in Brazil. Elena Blanco de Tena proposed a dialogue around the pilot test of the Guide to the Collaborative Management of Medication in Barcelona. Thirdly, Eva Zafra presented a teaching innovation experience whose objective is to co-design a prototype of GEOMAP with a real impact on the improvement of intervention strategies related to femicide.

On Wednesday, March 18 at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the URV, the documentary No estás loca. La verdad sobre la violencia vicaria was screened. The activity, co-organised by the FEMMINOR research project, also included a colloquium with the director, Maria Bestar. The film takes an intimate and collective journey through the stories of women who have suffered vicarious violence in Spain. The piece brings together more than forty testimonies of women, adolescents and professionals - judges, psychologists, journalists, paediatricians - who reveal how the judicial system systematically fails children. The film is, at the same time, a cry for help and a song to hope; a reminder that there is still much to be done, but also that the strength and unity of the victims and those who accompany them can drive necessary change.

The Faculty of Legal Sciences, the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work of the extranet, the Delegation of Terres del Ebro and Tarragona of the College organized the XIX Conference of the World Day of Social Work that was held on Thursday, March 19 in the Auditorium of the Provincial Council of Tarragona. This year the title was "Youth and Emotional Well-being: The role of Social Work" and it was a space for reflection and debate for Social Work professionals, university professors and students.

Within the framework of the Interuniversity Master's Degree in Women's, Gender and Citizenship Studies, a seminar was held on Thursday, April 16, with the participation of Sam Fernández Garrido. The author presented his new book Artesanías biológicas: Por qué la biología y la clínica necesitan las culturas intersex (Bellaterra Edicions) in which he proposes a very suggestive look at the practices, knowledge and modes of relationship that shape the biological in our present.

In this series of talks, a group of professionals from different entities proposed two sessions, the first on April 28 on "Saberes intersex y no binarios para futuros científicos habitables" and a second session on May 26 on "La pericia en disputa: saberes profanos y otras intensidades contrahegemónicas en salud mental". Activist, academic, artist, indigenous, and often hybrid voices have long invited us to question what we consider valid knowledge and who has the right to produce it.

On June 10 at 7 p.m. at the Casal Popular Sageta de Foc, the event Vivencias y Saberes was held, with the participation of Sam Fernández, Laia Ventura and Martín Correa-Urquiza. It is a space for conversation between perspectives that rarely dialogue together. From intersexes to cervical cancer, we think about what these experiences and knowledge reveal to us about gynecology and the cure, and we imagine other gynecologies and forms of possible and desirable care. A book and a comic were also launched during the event: "Artesanías Biológicas. Por qué la biología y la clínica necesitan a las personas intersex"(2025), by Sam Fernández, and "Listening to the Cervix: a Handbook on Early-Stages Cervical Cancer, Embodied Knowledge and Power" (2026), by Laia Ventura and Lyona. The event was organized in collaboration with the Casal Popular Sageta de Foc, El Soterrani bookstore, the SALHISOC-UCLM Group, the MARC-URV and the DAFITS-URV.

In collaboration with MIISE, this webinar was held on June 11, 2026, aimed at researchers, graduate students and professionals interested in qualitative methodologies applied to complex social contexts. It brought together the PIs of four R+D+i projects with the aim of addressing the important methodological and ethical challenges in contexts marked by inequality, violence or social exclusion such as those studied in these four projects: #FriendsMatter: Friendship Networks of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Women that Are Conducive to Social Integration (UAM); RESIYOUTH: Estrategias resilientes desarrolladas por personas jóvenes de origen inmigrante frente a la exclusión social (URV); FEMMINOR: Necesidades y derechos de las hijas e hijos del feminicidio ( URV) y Surv Child: Infancia que convive con la violencia de género. Redes de apoyo que les ayudan a ser supervivientes ( UdG).

On June 17, the 2026 edition of the Master's Degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention Workshop was held, with the title of "La ciudad etnográfica: actores, procesos, debates" in hybrid mode. The workshop was attended by Francisco J. Cuberos, Irene Sabaté Muriel and Joan Josep Pujadas, and aimed at both teachers and students of the department, as well as all those interested in urban anthropology and ethnographic research.

This online workshop took place on June 19, 2026. The event, which was of special interest to students, researchers and professionals in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, care and health studies, was organized by Dr Annette Leibing (Université de Montréal), Dr Fernando Vidal (ICREA/URV) and Dr Federico Zilio (Università di Padova), within the framework of the "MyRobot" project.