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Barcelona, city of crime. Why are we so fascinated by true crime?
True crime fever has caught on in Catalonia in recent years through such unorthodox products as Carles Porta’s Crims programme, Clàudia Pujol’s books and the...
Barcelona, capital of comics. Who’s (still) afraid of manga?
We have had access to manga publications for more than thirty years. More and more international publishers are launching new comic...
Women in the audiovisual industry. Flash in the pan or rising trend
The number of female filmmakers has been burgeoning in the past few years. The presence of female directors, screenwriters, producers, and so on, is growing...
The futures of the book. Where is the publishing market going?
Things are looking promising for the publishing sector right now. The pandemic, which has broadly been catastrophic for the cultural sector, has generated an...
The art of dissent: the price of freedom
Today we wonder whether dissent can still be exercised in a culture subsidised and domesticated by the official discourse of institutions. Is it feasible today to...
Technological humanism
Barcelona is furnished with the conditions and the talents to become a benchmark for technological humanism. At a time when the European model for the ethics of...
Ecological limits and limits of science
Climate change is the major political, social and cultural challenge of our time, but it also constitutes a major challenge for science and technology. The City and...
Turisme i cultura després de la pandèmia
The debate forum “City, tourism and culture: a joint opportunity” – organised by the Department of Tourism and Creative Industries in conjunction with the Sixth...
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