Category: Events

In this interview by Estrella Montolío and Carles Mesa, at RNE’s Gente despierta broadcast, we discuss Talking Brains, an exhibition I developed for the CosmoCaixa science museum in Barcelona. Estrella Montolío, professor at the University of Barcelona, is a renowned linguist with a long trajectory in language and communication popularization. It was a dream come…

Last November, the people from the newspaper El Punt Avui, 7 portes, Big Van Science and the ACCC invited me and professor Anna Gavarró to a talk with round table, as a part of the cycle Breakfast with Science, in the celebrated restaurant 7 portes, at Barcelona. You can see the whole talk here as…

Following the Talking Brains exhibition, we coordinated a series of lectures featuring diverse professionals who discussed topics such as the relationship between dementia and language, the genetics of language, linguistic and cognitive diversity among humans, and the characterization of language in the brain. The participants were: Wolfram Hinzen (ICREA-UPF researcher), Jaume Bertranpetit (ICREA-UPF researcher), Peter…

If you do not know Pint of Science, you should immediately go and attend one of their events. They organize a festival of talks on science popularization across many European countries. The talks are informal monologues delivered by the researchers themselves, in order to bring science to a wide audience in bars, pubs and other…

We have been invited to Mossega la poma (Bite the apple), a space about technology with a long trajectory that started when, years ago, its director Tomàs Manzanares discovered the first Macs. His blog and his program have grown up to have guests like Els amics de les arts, Antoni Bassas or Xavier Tries. It…

Nothing like ending April visiting our friends at Zetatesters. We laughed a lot and they gave us chocolate and tons of love. Thanks a lot, pals! You can listen to the full podcast here. [Audio in Spanish]