On-line interpreting during the international meeting of GoodElectronics

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The GoodElectronics network brings together networks, organisations and individuals that are concerned about human rights and sustainability issues in the global electronics supply chain. Members include trade unions, grassroots organisations, campaigning and research organisations, academia and activists. GoodElectronics and its members are not-for-profit only.

The GoodElectronics network has a vision of a global electronics industry characterised by adherence to the highest international human rights and sustainability standards. Labour rights and environmental norms are protected and respected throughout the entire production cycle, from the mining of minerals used in electronics products, to the manufacturing phase, and the recycling and disposal of electronics waste, both on the level of companies’ own operations and in the value chain.

In January 2014, the GoodElectronics network began a five-year programme funded by the European Union. The objective of the programme is to contribute to an electronics industry characterised by compliance with the highest international human rights and sustainability standards, where labour rights and environmental norms are respected throughout the entire production cycle.

This cycle includes everything from the mining of minerals to manufacturing of electronics devices to the recycling and disposal of electronics waste.

The programme aims for three results:

  1. Civil society organisations, including trade unions, are informed, supported and capacitated to play their role as a countervailing power in the electronics sector in order to empower precarious workers and address corporate abuse, both on the local and international levels.
  2. Mature industrial relations involving trade unions and electronics companies have been established on both global and national levels.
  3. Meaningful engagement between civil society and electronics companies and other relevant actors along the global electronics supply chain has developed.

 

 

Conference interpreter during the conference “Patrimoni en conflicte”.

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Source of information: Conference open to the public

The European Observatory of Memories of the UB Solidarity Foundation (EUROM) and the Regidoria de Memòria Democràtica de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona have jointly organised the international conference Patrimoni en conflicte. Museus i llegat colonial, to reflect on decolonial movements and heritage.

The programme began with a lecture by Dan Hicks, professor of contemporary archaeology at Oxford University, curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum and author of “The British Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution.

The day continued with three round tables of experts linked to art institutions, such as the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, UNESCO’s “Movable Heritage and Museums” programme, the National Museum of Anthropology in Madrid and the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

 

 

Foto by: Programa oficial

 

Conference interpreter during the 11th Barcelona Biennial of Landscape Architecture.

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The 11th edition of the Barcelona International Biennial of Landscape Architecture consisted of a series of eight conferences under the slogan “Climate Change: City and Nature”, the presentation of the 11 projects that aspired to win the Rosa Barba Professional Award by their authors and the conferences of the eight universities that participated in the International Landscape Schools Award.

The symposium has been adapted to this year’s circumstances to make it an open-participation event, held as always from Barcelona. True to the commitment to the Biennial over the years, and sharing the concern for health security during this period of pandemic, the organisation proposed to transform the challenges into a new adventure to broaden the scope of the Barcelona Landscape Biennial and thus contribute to raising the profile of the profession and the education of landscape architecture.

 

 

Conference interpreter during the presentation of FC Barcelona Baloncesto’s new signings.

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Happy to accompany the four new FC Barcelona Baloncesto signings during the press conference held at FC Barcelona Baloncesto, with Sertac Sanli, Rokas Jokubaitis, Nico Laprovittola and Nigel Hayes.

All of them have been working and playing with the team for several weeks, both preseason and Lliga Catalana and Supercopa, but it has not been until today when they have been officially presented.

 

 

Conference interpreter during the Seminar A neoliberal counter-revolution? Cultural Imaginaries, Political Subjectivities and New World Order.

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In response to the reflections developed in the framework of the research projects Decentralised Modernity(ies) and Fossil Aesthetics, this international conference asks about the role that cultural imaginaries have played in the shaping of neoliberal subjectivity during the period from 1979 to 2019.

Marked by key historical milestones such as the beginning of perestroika and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this chronological framework determines the effective implementation of the economic, cultural and political model that shapes our present. Although the historical origin of neoliberalism as an ideological project can be traced back several decades, it is from the end of the 1970s, after the experiment of the Chilean dictatorship and with the arrival of Margaret Thatcher to power, that its cultural hegemony began to take shape on a global level.

 

 

Conference interpreter during the XII Fabry Masterclass

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Today we learned…

that Fabry disease is an inherited disorder of glycosphingolipid catabolism caused by deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme α-galactosidase A (α-GAL A), which leads to intracellular deposition, especially globotriaosylceramide (Gb-3), in the vascular endothelium and other tissues.

It was described by Johannes Fabry in 1898.

It is transmitted X-linked, and more than 400 mutations have been described to date (Human Gene Mutation Database, Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff).

There is currently no cure for Fabry disease. The symptoms and health problems resulting from the disease can be addressed with different types of therapies.

The aim of the well-known enzyme replacement therapies is to replace the natural enzyme, thereby removing GL-3 from the cells and preventing its further accumulation in the cells.

 

 

 

Conference interpreter during the IX Jornada Ambiental Torres

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With the slogan “Money is coming from Europe, will it help to break the current passivity in the face of climate change?”, this year’s edition of the conference brought together a dozen experts with the aim of analysing how European funds could unblock climate inaction.

Representatives of the different administrations were present to explain the strategies and action plans against climate change.

The closing speech was given by the rector Joan Guàrdia, Miguel A. Torres, president of Familia Torres, and the meteorologist and professor of physics at the UB, Tomàs Molina.