{"id":160018,"date":"2026-10-27T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/?p=160018"},"modified":"2026-11-05T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:56:34","slug":"an-autumn-school-for-new-researchers-addresses-structural-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/an-autumn-school-for-new-researchers-addresses-structural-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"An autumn school for new researchers addresses structural violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) is hosting the Autumn School ‘Invisible Injustices: Combating Structural and Systemic <\/em>Violence’. It is an initiative that brings together new researchers and specialist speakers to reflect on forms of structural and systemic violence and to delve deeper into inequalities and injustices from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective.<\/p>\n

Over the course of this week, the programme will hold academic sessions, workshops and discussions involving more than 40 researchers from various international institutions and fields of knowledge. The aim is to foster the exchange of perspectives and tools to understand how different forms of oppression intersect and contribute to generating inequalities, vulnerabilities and forms of injustice that often remain invisible.<\/p>\n

The Autumn School also aims to help new researchers from the Aurora Alliance of European Universities (of which the URV is a member) to expand their collaborative networks. In fact, the event is one of the winning projects of the 2025 Aurora Incentive Research Collaboration call, which aims to promote collaborative, interdisciplinary research focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also closely linked to the Gender Studies research line of the URV’s consolidated research group on Territory, Citizenship and Sustainability, which studies gender issues and inequalities from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective.<\/p>\n

The activities began on 26 October in the Seminar Room of the Faculty of Law at the URV\u2019s Catalunya Campus, with an informal introductory session and coffee led by Janaina Minelli de Oliveira from the URV\u2019s Department of Pedagogy, followed by the official opening of the Autumn School.<\/p>\n

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Muriel Gonz\u00e1lez Athenas and Gundula Ludwig, from the University of Innsbruck, during the lecture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first academic session, “Violence: Histories, Structures and Utopias”, featured Gundula Ludwig and Muriel Gonz\u00e1lez Athenas from the University of Innsbruck, who addressed violence from different historical and structural perspectives and reflected on the possibilities for transformation and new social imaginaries. The day also included the session ‘Intersectional Understanding of Gender-Based Violences’, led by Barbara Biglia from the URV\u2019s Department of Pedagogy.<\/p>\n

The Autumn School itself runs until Thursday, 29 October, with new sessions and discussion spaces throughout the week, but the initiative will culminate on Friday 30 October with the international seminar ‘Invisible Injustices: Interdisciplinary Dialogues through an Intersectional Lens’.<\/p>\n

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N\u00faria Torres, researcher in the Department of Public Law; Cilia Willem, Director of the URV Equality Unit; and Victor Merino, researcher in the Department of Public Law and coordinator of the Autumn School ‘Invisible Injustices: Combating Structural and Systemic Violence’ during the opening session.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project is coordinated by V\u00edctor Merino with the support of N\u00faria Torres-Rosell, both professors in the URV\u2019s Department of Public Law and members of the Research Group on Territory, Citizenship and Sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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