Film and psychoanalysis were almost born in agreement with one another. The nineteenth century was drawing to a close. Whilst in Vienna Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuers were engaged in publishing a study on hysteria, inventors Louis and Auguste Lumière were making history in the darkness of the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris projecting the first scene ever filmed in cinema: workers leaving the Lumière factory in Lyon Monplaisir.

Jordi Montaner | 28 june 2010

Today, Thursday, June 10 at 18:00, the “Llibre blanc matemàtica recerca a Catalunya” (The White Book of Mathematical Research in Catalonia”) will be presented at the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC; c/ del Carme 47, Barcelona). This white book, commissioned by the IEC, contains comprehensive information on the research carried out at Catalan universities, which, despite being public, is not always easy to find and, so far, had never been compiled into one source.

10 june 2010

The present seems increasingly complex, but does it have its origin in a simple past? John Maeda takes it for granted that this is so. He argues that everything original is essentially simple in nature. This designer, digital artist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) confesses in his most famous book to date that ever since he was a child he has gone crazy for simple things. A native of Seattle, but of Japanese descent, this 44-year-old researcher has been anointed the guru of simplicity by the digital community.

Jordi Montaner | 17 may 2010

From May 6 to 9, the Fira de Barcelona will host the 28th edition of the Barcelona International Comic Show. Coinciding with this event, the Documentation Department of SIDA STUDI has prepared a selection of comics on HIV/AIDS published in different countries and languages, all available on loan from the library of the this AIDS awareness association.

6 may 2010

”Real science is far stranger than science fiction, and the universe is far more incredible than any invented contrivance,” says Marcus Chown, a British physicist at the University of London who writes for New Scientist magazine and has previously published several popular science books such as “The Universe Next Door”.

Jordi Montaner | 3 may 2010

This Debate at the CCCB is to be held on the occasion of the publication of the book "Llums i ombres de l’urbanisme de Barcelona" (Lights and Shadows of Barcelona’s Urban Planning, Editorial Empúries, 2010), by Jordi Borja who raises a number of basic questions about the development of the city.

7 april 2010

Tomorrow Thursday the 25th of March at 18.00 pm, in the Prat de la Riba Hall of the Institute of Catalan Studies (c / del Carme, 47, Barcelona), will be the presentation of "Literary Geography. Counties of Barcelona" will be held by Llorenç i Soldevila Balart, a doctor of Catalan Studies and a professor at the University of Vic. The web project "Literary Geography of the Catalan Countries" will also be presented.

24 March 2010

About 150 volumes relating to the biography of Juan Negrín and 14 boxes of handwritten notes and information on the history of Spain and Europe is the legacy of the Hispanic Gabriel Jackson has given to the University Institute of History Jaume Vicens Vives (IUHJVV) of the UPF.

24 March 2010

The Department of Culture and Media has introduced a total of 28 e-book reader devices with 249 works in Catalan, Spanish and English in 19 libraries in the Public Reading System of Catalonia and the Library of Catalonia.

19 march 2010

Tomorrow, Thursday the 18th of March, at 19.00 h, the Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution presented, along with Rafael Dalmau Editor, the first three numbers of the new book series "Evolve". With a clear teaching vocation, the series tries to present the most relevant and innovative research and hypotheses in the field of research on human evolution.

17 March 2010

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Cerdà Plan, the Office for the Coordination of the Year Cerdà has decided to release in the neighbourhoods of the Eixample 150 books related to the city of Barcelona. From Tuesday 16 March until after Sant Jordi, the public spaces of the city will be filled with books in search of readers.

16 March 2010

Joan Domènech and the Federation of Educational Renewal Movement of Catalonia propose a revolution, and this book would serve as a manual of instructions. It is not a fanciful claim. It is, in fact, an international movement proposed by Maurice Holt, professor emeritus of education at the University of Colorado at Denver (United States), who currently lives in retirement in Oxford (England). The rush dehumanizes us, brutalizes us...

15 March 2010

The mundane nature, ideological dogmatism and a degree of unpopularity are some common points for the biography of the naturalist Cuvier and the philosopher Hegel, as pointed out in the book "The parallel lives of Georges Cuvier and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Nature and philosophy ", a study carried out by the Professor of the Department of Animal Biology Adrià Casinos, an expert in biomechanics and in studies on evolutionary theories. The book, published recently in the series "Monographs", from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), focuses on the biographical crosses and spatial and temporal coincidence of the lives of Cuvier and Hegel, two reference figures in the world of science and philosophical thought.

12 March 2010

The UB has just published the "Report of the 2008-2009 academic year”. This document, which reflects the highlights and key data from the institution from each year, is releasing a more attractive format with the goal of being a publication that serves to introduce to the general public the University and its current reality. The Report has been published in Catalan, Spanish and English.

9 March 2010

The Department of Culture and Media of the Generalitat of Catalonia has launched Argus a tool that provides service to 142 public libraries and unifies 4 pre-existing catalogs. It also increases the number of documents on loan and its term. From the 1 March, the people who use the 142 public libraries in Girona, Lleida, Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre and six towns of Barcelona, can access the document collections of these libraries via Argus.

8 March 2010