The Barcelona City Awards honor the UB
The Barcelona City Council announced the awardees of the Barcelona City Awards 2021, to be awarded on February 15 in an institutional ceremony in Saló de Cent. The awards, this year divided into 14 categories, honor the creation, research and production of the quality made in the city by people, entities, institutions and organizations of Barcelona. Among the awardees are the lecturers of the Faculty of Philosophy and Communication Edgardo Dobry, Miquel Cabal and Joana Masó; the lecturers of the Faculty of Earth Sciences Alberto Sáez and Olga Margalef; and the ICREA researchers of Institute for Biomedical Research at the Barcelona Science Park Núria López-Bigas, Ferran Muiños and Abel González-Pérez.
In the category of Spanish Literature, the awardee was Edgardo Dobry, lecturer at the Department of Hispanic Studies, Literary Theory and Communication, for his book El parasimpático, edited by Club Editor. A book of poems that brings, with a humoristic distance, a warm light on the ordinary fact to turn it into extraordinary.
In the field of Catalan Translation, the award was given to Miquel Cabal Guarro, lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of English Studies, for the translation of Fyodor Dostoyevskyʼs Crime and Punishment, a translation edited by Bernat Metge Universal. The jury has valued the richness of the language and range of registers, and the contextualization work.
The Agustí Duran i Sanpere Prize on Essay, Humanities and History was awarded to Joana Masó, lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of English Studies, for the book Tosquelles. Curar les institutcions, edited by Arcadia. The jury valued her research task in treating such an updated and relevant topic such as the understanding of psychic suffering in contexts of political, cultural and social context.
In the category of Environmental Sciences, the awardee was Santiago Giralt, researcher at Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), for his study “Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times”, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. This multidisciplinary study counts on the participation of the experts Alberto Sáez and Olga Margalef, from the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics of the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the UB, apart from UABʼs CREAF and ICTA. The study concludes that the colonization of the Azores islands took place 700 years before the arrival of the Portuguese, thanks to favourable climate conditions.
The Barcelona City Council announced the awardees of the Barcelona City Awards 2021, to be awarded on February 15 in an institutional ceremony in Saló de Cent. The awards, this year divided into 14 categories, honor the creation, research and production of the quality made in the city by people, entities, institutions and organizations of Barcelona. Among the awardees are the lecturers of the Faculty of Philosophy and Communication Edgardo Dobry, Miquel Cabal and Joana Masó; the lecturers of the Faculty of Earth Sciences Alberto Sáez and Olga Margalef; and the ICREA researchers of Institute for Biomedical Research at the Barcelona Science Park Núria López-Bigas, Ferran Muiños and Abel González-Pérez.
In the category of Spanish Literature, the awardee was Edgardo Dobry, lecturer at the Department of Hispanic Studies, Literary Theory and Communication, for his book El parasimpático, edited by Club Editor. A book of poems that brings, with a humoristic distance, a warm light on the ordinary fact to turn it into extraordinary.
In the field of Catalan Translation, the award was given to Miquel Cabal Guarro, lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of English Studies, for the translation of Fyodor Dostoyevskyʼs Crime and Punishment, a translation edited by Bernat Metge Universal. The jury has valued the richness of the language and range of registers, and the contextualization work.
The Agustí Duran i Sanpere Prize on Essay, Humanities and History was awarded to Joana Masó, lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of English Studies, for the book Tosquelles. Curar les institutcions, edited by Arcadia. The jury valued her research task in treating such an updated and relevant topic such as the understanding of psychic suffering in contexts of political, cultural and social context.
In the category of Environmental Sciences, the awardee was Santiago Giralt, researcher at Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), for his study “Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times”, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. This multidisciplinary study counts on the participation of the experts Alberto Sáez and Olga Margalef, from the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics of the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the UB, apart from UABʼs CREAF and ICTA. The study concludes that the colonization of the Azores islands took place 700 years before the arrival of the Portuguese, thanks to favourable climate conditions.