The XXIII Doctorsʼ Senate Award honors a thesis on cinema representation of Spanish exili and migration

The awarded study does not only analyze Spanish cinema but also cinema in other countries to see how Spanish migrants are represented.
The awarded study does not only analyze Spanish cinema but also cinema in other countries to see how Spanish migrants are represented.
Research
(18/12/2019)

Researcher Marta Piñol has been awarded the XXIII Doctorsʼ Senate Award, corresponding to 2019, for the thesis Cine y movimientos migratorios: la representación del exilio y la emigración econòmica española hacia Europa (1939-2016), supervised by lecturer José Enrique Monterde, from the Department of History of Art of the Faculty of Geography and History.

The awarded study does not only analyze Spanish cinema but also cinema in other countries to see how Spanish migrants are represented.
The awarded study does not only analyze Spanish cinema but also cinema in other countries to see how Spanish migrants are represented.
Research
18/12/2019

Researcher Marta Piñol has been awarded the XXIII Doctorsʼ Senate Award, corresponding to 2019, for the thesis Cine y movimientos migratorios: la representación del exilio y la emigración econòmica española hacia Europa (1939-2016), supervised by lecturer José Enrique Monterde, from the Department of History of Art of the Faculty of Geography and History.

The awarded study does not only analyze Spanish cinema but also cinema in other countries to see how Spanish migrants are represented, and it covers both economic and political migrants, the exile. During the study, the author analyses a comprehensive film corpus, so the thesis includes a database on films and news with more than 1,800 registrations. Moreover, the study analyzes two films in particular: Vente a Alemania, Pepe (Pedro Lazaga, 1970), and Españolas en París (Roberto Bodegas, 1970). The thesis analyzes the cinema representation of migration in diferent films, and it focuses on how cinema treats geographical, economic, political, ideological, urban, antropological and psychological aspects of emigration.

The jury awarded the first honorable mention of the XXIII Doctorsʼ Senate Awrd to researcher Francesc Xavier Grau for the thesis Lʼorigen de la multicel·lularitat en animals: una aproximació genòmica, supervised by lecturer Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, from the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics of the Faculty of Biology. The second honorable mention was given to Albert Cortijos, for the thesis Field-effects on single molecular circuitry, co-supervised by Fausto Sanz and Ismael Díez-Pérez, from the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Physics at the Faculty of Chemistry.

Also, the jury gave a diploma to Begoña Canovas for the thesis Role of p38 MAPK in breast cancer, supervised by Ángel Rodríguez, from the Department of Biochemistry and Phisiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences. Another diploma was given to Alba Anadon Rosell, for the thesis Subarbusts dʼalta muntanya davant el canvi climàtic. Efectes de lʼescalfament, lʼenriquiment de CO2 i la sequera experimentals in sutu en el seu creixement i funcionament, co-supervised by Sara Palacio and Salvador Nogués, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Biology.