The Barcelona City Awards honor the UB
The Barcelona City Awards 2021 ceremony was held on February 15, in Saló de Cent in the Barcelona City Council. The awards, which are divided into 14 categories, honour the creation, research and production carried out in the city by people, entities, institutions or organizations from Barcelona. Among the awardees were the lecturers of the Faculty of Philology and Communication Edgardo Dobry, Miquel Cabal and Joana Masó. A research taht counted on the collaboration of the lecturers of the Faculty of Earth Sciences Alberto Sáez and Olga Margalef was also awarded.
The Barcelona City Awards 2021 ceremony was held on February 15, in Saló de Cent in the Barcelona City Council. The awards, which are divided into 14 categories, honour the creation, research and production carried out in the city by people, entities, institutions or organizations from Barcelona. Among the awardees were the lecturers of the Faculty of Philology and Communication Edgardo Dobry, Miquel Cabal and Joana Masó. A research taht counted on the collaboration of the lecturers of the Faculty of Earth Sciences Alberto Sáez and Olga Margalef was also awarded.
In the category of Spanish literature, the awardee was the lecturer of the Department of Hispanic Studies, Literary Theory and Communication, Edgardo Dobry, for El parasimpático, edited by Club Editor. This book of poems with humoristic distance brings a warm light on ordinary facts to make them extraordinary.
In the category of Catalan translation, the award was given to Miquel Cabal, lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of English Studies, for his translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment, edited by Bernat Metge Universal. In this work, the jury valued the richness of the language and the diversity of registers, as well as the contextualization task.
The Agustí Duran i Sanpere Prize on Essay, Humanities and History was given to the lecturer of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of English Studies Joana Masó, for Tosquelles. Curar les institucions, edited by Arcàdia. The jury highlighted the research task in this work to treat such a current and relevant topic like the understanding of the psychic suffering under a context of political, cultural and social crisis.
In the category of environmental and earth sciences, the awardee was Santiago Giralt, researcher at Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), for "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 study counts on the participation of the lectuers of the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics of the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the UB Alberto Sáez and Olga Margalef, apart from CREAF, ICTA and UAB. 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.