Degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies
Master Universitario en Gestión Cultural
University Master’s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management
Ceremony Programme
- Introduction to the event given by Dr Marta Crispí, Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management director
- Master class from the Ms. Vinyet Panyella i Balcells, National Council for Culture and Arts (CONCA) director
- Award of graduation diplomas
- Speech from the class representatives
- Closing speech from Dr Judith Urbano, Dean of the Faculty
- University anthem: Gaudeamus igitur
Speech by the Director of the University Master’s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management: Dr Marta Crispí
Today, particularly after the academic year we have had, is the moment to thank you.
First of all, I would like to warmly thank the teaching staff from the Master’s programme for their generous efforts to introduce themselves to the use of digital teaching platforms, by using new teaching methodologies that adapt to these formats and for by their ability to adapt and reorganise the content and introduce new themes that respond to the changing scenario and paradigm that the cultural sector is currently experiencing. I would like to highlight your flexibility in terms of adapting to the changed formats. I could give many names and examples, but I will tell you about a very recent case, when Management of Visual Arts lecturer Ainhoa González worked very hard to prepare a visit to MACBA and negotiated and renegotiated the date with the museum and in the end, It had to be cancelled due to a case of COVID. There are many lecturers who have had to schedule and reschedule visits or guests with the extra work that this has involved. I thank you on behalf of the University.
A very special thanks to the Master's coordination team as well. Especially Naghieli and Patrícia. Among many other reasons, I would like to thank Patricia for her infinite patience in programming and reprogramming classes on the Google calendar always with a smile. And Naghieli, for her unconditional support in the coordination of the master's degree, for the perseverance and creativity, often thinking outside the box, with which she tackled the work entrusted to her in recent years. We will miss you!
A few words of thanks also to the Faculty Board at the Faculty of Humanities, the Dean for placing her trust in this Master’s degree and to Ingrid, the Faculty’s office manager, for her ability to efficiently resolve the multiple issues involved in an academic year like this one.
And finally, my most profound thanks go to the Master's students and also to their parents for trusting in both the UIC and in their children's decision. It has not been an easy year for you either.
Local students have had to work together and study in non-optimal conditions, the people who travelled here from other parts of the country or from abroad, sometimes crossing the ocean, have found a different city than they expected and a cultural life that, although it still had more on offer than other European cities, did not reach its usual level of activity. As far as the master's degree is concerned, no classes were lost but we were at 50% for on-site classes during most of the academic year. In spite of all this, I am convinced that your decision to take this master's degree was the right one. Now, with all the tools provided by the classes and work placements, with the deepest knowledge of today’s cultural sector, with the trends pointed out by the lecturers, you are better prepared to face the new challenge of labour insertion. Finally, I would also like to ask you explicitly to forgive any errors that took place, for any changes in plans that we have had to make and for any issues we were unable to resolve.
And I am coming to the end now. Always believe in culture, in its intrinsic value, in its ability to transform and enrich people. You will always have a home at UIC Barcelona and you will always have our support.
Master class from the Ms. Vinyet Panyella i Balcells, National Council for Culture and Arts (CONCA) director
Notes for a guide to go around the world of culture
Dear graduates,
I would like to thank UIC Barcelona and its academic authorities for their kind invitation to offer me this two-fold opportunity to join you in the celebration of your graduation. First of all, because graduating is an important milestone for all of you, especially considering the circumstances that have conditioned our lives these past two years. And secondly, to welcome you into the professional universe for which you have thoroughly prepared yourselves throughout your studies in Humanities and Cultural Management. Maybe you knew a bit about it, but now you have more knowledge and more tools that have enriched your minds and have prepared you to face your own professional development in order to start or consolidate a career in the professional sector. The world of work is waiting for you and expects you to contribute with the science, knowledge, skills, conviction and enthusiasm that correspond to the vocational intensity of a moment like this. There is a world of possibilities opening up in front of you, and you will need to discover and seize the opportunities presenting themselves in these uncertain and challenging times. Today’s world is defined by changes, instability, and by the lack of a clear and undisturbed horizon. But things will get better. The world of culture is a blend of uncertainty, enthusiasm and passion, which is reborn after every crisis. Possibilities coexist with difficulties to be overcome and with success to be achieved, and they often depend on our own convictions pushing us towards improvement. Ultimately, what I want to say is that our willingness, not to be confused with availability, is key when it comes to charting a path forward towards our professional future.
When the dean of the faculty of Humanities offered me to deliver this speech to celebrate your graduation, I thought carefully about it. I do not have a lot of teaching experience, so I thought that the words I would speak to you might not correspond to the academic achievement that crowns your university path. I therefore decided to talk to you from a perspective I know well: my professional experience after 4 decades managing and directing cultural heritage projects in the field of research and knowledge construction. And also, as I have been doing for two years now, from the perspective of analysing and evaluating political cultures as the president of the National Council for Arts and Culture (CoNCA).
Just before the pandemic, I had prepared some notes about political cultures and their impact in the professional field that were useful to organise my ideas and prepare a first approach to this speech. The notes were based on the duality between experience and thought, and they answered some questions regarding the cultural ecosystem of the country. When, very recently, we started to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I realised that the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic only accelerated the processes of change transformation of the ecosystem. Likewise, going back to ‘normality’ also means returning to the endemic problems of questionable managing and low funding, and of a discriminatory precariousness often encountered in the main sectors of culture. The amazing digital revolution we have witnessed, and that we need to integrate and promote because of its infinite possibilities, does not solve the structural problems of cultural services.
All of this has led me to decide to share a summary of my notes with you, for you to question them and reflect on them following your own thoughts and preferences. These considerations may create conversation and debates aimed at the research of strategies and solutions, and I truly hope they will. I am formulating these thoughts wanting to be specific and, maybe, a little forceful, but it is for you to think about them in accordance with your own studies and specialisations, as if it were a guide to travel around the world of culture. If you want to incorporate them into your knowledge, great, but if you create your own personal travel guide, even better. After synthesising my thoughts, I have organised them into five sections: definitions, the responsibilities of public administration, individuals, tools, and the different fields of culture.
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I will start the definitions section by providing the latest definition of culture. A pandemic was needed in order to declare culture an essential asset. The government proclaimed it on the 22nd of September of 2020, with the will to place the cultural ecosystem in a fair and safe position in the face of the anti-Covid measures, so that cultural activities and services could enlarge their capacity, and cultural facilities such as libraries, museums theatres and cinemas could reopen under the slogan “Culture is safe”. Culture is indeed an essential asset, as well as a social asset comparable to health care and education. It is an essential asset from which rights such as access to culture derive, rights that are pending to be legally formalised.
It is an essential and social asset that requires an exceptional fiscal treatment due to the exceptionality of its nature. This exception was formulated in France and central Europe some decades ago in relation to the tax liberation considering that cultural creations are not just commercial products. Over the years, this concept of cultural exception has spread around the world because, although it is necessary to recognise the economic value of culture and use it to its own benefits, the fact that culture can’t be just qualified according to economic reasons can’t be denied and therefore it requires a special treatment.
And last, culture is a social essential asset, an ecosystem, because it consists of multiple and diverse sectors that are interrelated and osmotic. It is incorrect to refer to the cultural field in the singular as if it were a homogeneous block when it is such a wide and diverse ecosystem. Creation, industry, services, and agents take part in it, in a continuous and changing diversification.
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The responsibilities of public administration regarding culture include the concepts of government, legislation and funding. These are responsibilities that need to be assumed by the public administration because culture is a common, social and essential asset. Cultural legislation is crucial and it demands as many changes and innovations as the cultural circumstances request. In this sense, it is urgent to update the Catalan cultural legislation, which has undergone excessive modifications, and to promote a jurisdiction with new and effective cultural rights for the population. As culture is under the direct management of the government, there shouldn’t be any excuses or delays for these improvements.
Good management is divided up into different areas of competence: the government, the local administration, the supralocal administration, and the activities promoted by the state. Management needs to be institutionally diverged through strategic agreements that elevate the development and excellence of services and institutions, avoiding the duplicities provoked to the fear to change.
Management also depends on the decision-making by the cultural infrastructures, as well as the organisation and appointment of its government bodies. This is a hot topic due to the numerous vacancies existing in the managing positions in several museums, and to the arbitrariness of the selection processes that deny the current legal and cultural legislation. Unfortunately, the voice of the institutions that need to defend the professionalism and the professionals of culture in the doing of their duties and rights has remained mute and inconsequential because of the symbiotic dependence on public administration.
The responsibilities regarding the funding of culture rest on the public administration in accordance with the areas of competence they manage. The Catalan government one hand, and the local and supralocal administration, on the other, spend part of their budget on it. In some cases, the central Government also makes some economic contributions under the premise of being part of the managing board as is the case of the Liceu theatre or the National Art Museum of Catalonia. However, the funding of culture has always been low and it has often been reported. Since 2013, the National Council of Arts and Culture has repeatedly asked for 2% of the budget of the Catalan Government, and it wasn’t until 2020 that the Committee on Culture of the Parliament agreed to enlarge the budget for 4 years until reaching the percentage demanded. 2% is an accepted ratio. Another one is the European standard of a specific amount of euros per inhabitant. In 2020 in Catalonia, we reached 136€ per inhabitant in the budget of the Catalan government, which is 5% more than last year. But it is still necessary to find the way to standardise public funding taking into account the contributions of all the institutions that are involved in funding culture.
And last, there is the controversial issue is the partnership between public and private funding of culture through sponsorships. In other societies, in Europe and in North America, this division is a way of co-responsibilisation between the two parties in order for the private part to cover those aspects the public part cannot cover, but, in return, getting the resulting tax benefits. The Spanish and Catalan governments, however, consider these benefits of private sponsorship a reduction in tax income instead of a social investment. The interest in levying and the rulers’ lack of a socio-cultural view make it impossible to attain more progressive and socially generous tax formulas the Parliament should promote unanimously and with conviction if they truly believe that culture is a social and essential good.
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Individuals, human beings who coexist in the cultural ecosystem, do it from different perspectives which are summarised in two aspects: creation, and institutional professionalisation.
Cultural creation is essential for the development of culture and people, it is the centre of culture and we should never forget that without creativity there is no cultural industry. In a more poetic way of speaking, “Creating is living twice” is what Albert Camus wrote. It concerns music, or literature, or research, or the practice of Art in all its diverse languages and technologies, or anything inside the eternal etcetera that is included in the concept of creating.
The position of artistic creation is terribly precarious and a severe imbalance is observed when comparing it to the situation in the rest of Europe. The Artist’s Statute, understood as the group of legal, fiscal, social and labour rights that pursue the protection of creators is another duty the Spanish Government has failed to fulfil. The document called “36 proposals for the improvement of the professional condition in the world of culture”, drawn up by the National Council for Arts and Culture in 2014, in agreement with the Catalan government, enabled conducting the first census of artists of the State in order to quantify as the first measure that should allow applying strategies of funding and development during the pandemic and the return to normality.
The other area related to individuals concerns professionals of cultural services. It is a wide and diverse sector in which the common thread is a salary regulated by the statute, mainly in in the public sector, but also in the private one, and working conditions go from precariousness to the comfort of public administration officers. The professionalisation of culture is essential and unnegotiable. It has some expenses that question its own stability and it has a system of hiring that is increasingly counterproductive.
The creation of cultural job positions in public administration has always linked the professionals in this field to the figure of the public officer. And, over time, this has led to static situations that harm organisations, institutions and people. Currently, and after years of observing that the public administration does not respond to the human resources’ needs of the cultural world, a tendency of hiring cultural services through private companies has been developed. This has only generated problems, and has increased the wage differences in the same tasks carried out in the same centre. On the other hand, the lack of creating cultural jobs by the public administration, the use of an impractical job notice board that only leads to endless waiting lists, and the systematic amortisation of public employment without any other hiring alternatives, show a blurred and erratic panorama that discourages the necessary professionalisation of culture. Unless, of course, public administrations introduce a new hiring system with new structural reforms to heal the professionalisation of culture.
Access, mobility and versatility should constitute new ways of employment to promote the principles of professionalisation against the ones of an immobile tradition unable to meet the current and future needs of culture. It should not be forgotten that resistance, resilience and experience are 3 values and forms of professional life that are essential in any adverse circumstance.
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Tools are key. Technology is a tool, and nowadays, it is the most important one. We live in a time of fragmentations, and one of the most notorious ones is the split between humanities and science, a classic debate. The future of Humanities is considered to be reaching its end, and humanism will inevitably be substituted by technology. Knowledge would be substituted by technologies and wisdom by utilities. If this happens, we would have great technocrats that would be totally illiterate. The Taj Mahal anecdote serves to explain this. A professor from MIT (Massachusetts) asked his students to undertake a research study on the Taj Mahal, and eight days after analysing the results, he congratulated them on the quality and comprehensiveness of their work, especially the part of the research technologies. Except for one small detail. The professor meant the Taj Mahal monument in India, one of the seven wonders of the world, not the American supermarkets in Wyoming, Nevada and Montana.
The Taj Mahal case illustrates how technology will never substitute the essential foundation of knowledge. It also shows technology is constantly changing and it is an almost perfect tool to facilitate processes, but without content or meaning, it makes no sense. The danger lies in being dazzled by the user-friendliness of technologies and overvaluing its usefulness against the effort and creation of new knowledge. The danger lies in creating a status of technocracy that nullifies the meaning of sciences and humanities.
Who says technologies also says management, because we have witnessed the increasing supremacy of managerialism. Management is crucial, and, just like technology, managerialism without knowledge is useless and harmful. The proliferation and prevalence of managements in the face of the global view and expertise necessary to run cultural institutions caused havoc, both when strategic decisions had to be made, and in the ordinary management of cultural institutions.
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The fields of culture are multiple, maybe endless, but I would like to highlight four of them: the educational field, the associative field, the territorial field, and the users of culture.
Education is part of the fundamentals of every society, and the future of a country depends on it. That is why culture has to be a key part of education. However, Humanities are despised and underrated, and they are hardly present in the curricular structure of education. But educating without the opportunities and interests of the cultural ecosystem means taking away an important opportunity for society to grow individually and collectively. The legally recognised inclusion of arts in education is still very far away from being a reality in the entire educational circle. The Forum of Arts and Education that Conca is preparing for 2022 will reveal important experiences in the European context and will offer proposals for the progressive achievement of including artistic practices in educational cycles, such as encouraging culture as a crucial part of education.
The associative field constitutes the undergrowth of the culture that caters for the entire country. It is the first step of socialisation and expression for the community to enjoy cultural practices, an infallible indicator of social evolution. It includes volunteering and hiring professionals, and it has boosted a generational and definitive change responsible for the birth of new institutions and the transformation of those that have existed for more than a century.
Completely independent of any political intervention, it claims the support of administrations for different needs, such as repurposing and adapting its patrimonial and cultural goods, often declared as assets of cultural and local interest, and the development of activities for all kinds of audiences. Closely related to popular culture, the associative field is one of the most important cultural assets of the country.
Territory is another key area necessary to understand the complexity of the cultural ecosystem of Catalonia. There is life outside Barcelona, you will notice it as soon as you get out of the city. The cultural reality of the country surprises because of its variety and quality, whether it is patrimonial, scenic, music or festive-related. In this sense, neither the private nor the public media dedicates enough time or space to broadcasting the culture that takes place anywhere in the territory, except for specific celebrations such as the Patum in Berga, the Dasnàneu festival in Valls d’Àneu, the Flower festival in Girona, the Mediterranean Fair in Manresa, the Market of Live Music in Vic, etc. Furthermore, the existing data do not enable quantifying or measuring the daily and constant cultural activity throughout the country. We therefore need a wide and generous view of the territory to be translated into promoting and providing opportunities of access and a statistical ecosystem to collect the data to ensure the quantitative and qualitative measurement of reality.
The human factor, the user and receptor, is the public in its plural expression. The term users, comparing the use, participation and enjoyment of culture to mere consumption, denotes a mercantilist and reductionist attitude that goes against the very essence of culture. It is true that, in terms of cultural industries, the concept has become widespread, but, to its own detriment, I believe, because even in cultural industries not everything is about commercialisation. The audience is diverse, infinite and changing and its classification is open to all kinds of interests. If we are talking about school children, for example, we offer them an educational programme, but we can also offer educational programmes to families and even to an elderly audience, or people at risk of social exclusion. The social needs, present and future, demand the skills and competences of cultural mediation in order to offer each kind of audience the level and profile of participation requested, which means the training of cultural professionals must be wide and open enough to detect and cover the idiosyncrasy of all the variety of audiences they will work with.
I have just realised that what should have been some brief thoughts have grown larger than expected in a speech to celebrate and welcome new professionals of culture. But, since this is not a lesson, you do not need to pay more attention to it than what the event we are celebrating entails. I am not sure I have introduced the tools necessary to create the guide to go around the world of culture. What I would like is that, beyond the blurred reality and problems, you could feel the passion and enthusiasm I want to share with you through my words. Because, in the end, dedicating your life to culture in any of its fields is a way of reaching and finding happiness. This is something I can assure you. Congratulations and good luck on your path!
Speech by class representative: Jorge Bonet. Degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies
A very good afternoon to you all. I would like to say a few brief but sincere words to my classmates from the 2020/2021 bachelor’s degree in Humanities.
For many of us this year was a leap into the unknown. The start of a new educational stage for many, for others, a new city and for almost everyone, a new university. We faced a number of new challenges and each of us thought that we were alone. However, from the very first moment we in fact felt accompanied, there was great mutual understanding and team spirit among the students, alongside such friendly and kind treatment by the staff. This made it possible for everyone to fulfil their potential and investigate within this particular sphere of knowledge. Because after all, this is what a humanities degree consists of, we studied this degree not only to prepare ourselves for a new stage that is opening up to us, but also to enjoy the actual studying. Each of the Romanesque churches we saw, the different ways of writing throughout time on the same literary topic we discovered, learning about events that have shaped the present and how to bring it together into a possible interpretation, these are just some of the endless things we are taking away with us from this degree programme.
But above all, I would like to highlight the ability to interpret things. Faced with a world that very often sees things unambiguously, the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya has given us the opportunity to bring teachers and students together into the same space. A space for listening, discussions and laughter on more than one occasion. In this way, each of us has been forced out of ourselves and we have broadened our world view. And the latter, I believe, is precisely the greatest achievement that we have all been able to share throughout our time doing this degree. We have raised our eyes to the new challenges opening up around us that are waiting to be discovered in this new stage that is now starting for us. But we must always remember where we started on this path, so that we do not lose ourselves and must always retain the memories of these very good years of learning. I would therefore like to thank the UIC Faculty of Humanities staff and the lecturers and professors from the degree programme for all the work they put into teaching us.
Congratulations to all my classmates who have graduated, we are closing one door today, but we are also opening up a new one.
Speech by class representatives: Karen Samudio, Ekaterina Vargas & i Alejandra Salinas. Master’s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management. Spanish group
The future is always uncertain, but in times of pandemic, this truth becomes even more palpable. We do not have control over our circumstances, but we have learned to be resilient and persistent. When we started this journey, they called us crazy for taking such a risk. But despite their concerns, we decided to continue, because we all believed the risk was worth taking. Learning.
We’ve done a great deal of learning… about the audiovisual, publishing, performing arts, and visual arts industry, with endless content: For us, cultural managers, immersing ourselves in such precious topics brought our hearts, souls and minds to life. There is no doubt that we are no longer who we used to be; questioning and relearning is our motto.
In no time at all, our classmates, so diverse and unique, have become our family. We come from all over the world, from different backgrounds and with different dreams, but united by the same passion: managing culture and the arts.
Alejandra, Lucía, Andrea, Kristine, Simón, Jorge, Carme, Martina, Sonia, Tomás de, Carmen, Marina, Vanessa, Estefanía, Paula, Lucas and Teressa: May our paths continue to cross and may we never stop fighting for our dreams to come true! Because that’s who we are, brave and ambitious!
Finally, none of this would have been possible without the support of our families and friends who were there for us at a time when news from around the world felt overwhelming.
We would also like to thank all UIC Barcelona teaching and management staff for how well they adapted to the ‘new normal’, their diligent work and for making it possible to complete this master's degree using a blended format. Thank you all for making our dream of becoming cultural managers come true.
Thank you very much.
Speech by class representatives: Francesca Rama, Òscar Montes i Allison Clement. Master’s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management. English group
Faculty, staff, graduates, we’re so grateful to be here today.
Commencement speeches are challenging. We are well aware of the difficulty of saying something that is not a cliché or superficial, but trust us, it is really hard. But we know we’re all eager to celebrate so we’ll keep it short.
First off, we’d like to say thank you to everyone that helped us get to this point and shared their knowledge with us. Your support, encouragement, and expertise have prepared us to contribute and innovate in our chosen fields for years to come.
We all came from different backgrounds to explore different interests. Music, art, theater, dance. But a love of arts and culture brought us together and we were lucky enough to be able to learn about and experience these things while studying during a global pandemic. Even still, Barcelona has been a wonderful place to study, welcoming us all and persisting through adversity to share its culture with us.
Every end has a new beginning. Today might be the last day for some of us as students, but we believe our learning will continue after today.
International universities provide an opportunity for both national and international students to network, share each other's culture, and make this world a global village. This is a huge opportunity for us students. Let us not just keep the friendship within the class or group assignments, but help each other build bilateral relations with our respective countries. Some of us will stay here, but many of us will return to our home countries or new city with new adventures awaiting. No matter where we go, we will carry with us these memories and friendships, ready to share our newfound knowledge with others.
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. As you know, no one is here today because they did it on their own (I think you all remember the 2nd trimester…). In this last year, we have faced new challenges and grown personally and professionally thanks to those around us.
We leave with a greater understanding of the paths we want to pursue and what it takes to get there and for that we say thank you.
Speech by the Faculty Dean: Dr. Judith Urbano
Ms Vinyet Panyella, President of the National Council of Culture and Arts
Dr Marta Crispí, Director of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Management
Professors and lecturers from the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Dear students, relatives and friends,
First of all, I would like to thank all the attendees for accompanying us today on such a special day. Since Dr Marta Crispí has said a few words to students taking the master's degree she directs, I will first address our students who are taking a bachelor’s degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies, who today end an important stage in their lives and begin another equally important one. It is without a doubt a moment of both sadness and joy, for you and also for us.
You have got here based on a lot of hard work, through good times and other more difficult times, but you have been learning to overcome obstacles and achieve your final objective. We are happy that you have achieved this, happy to see how you have evolved as people, since you have managed to overcome many obstacles so you can now enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done. But on the other hand, we also feel some sadness, since we know that the time has come to let you go, now you must learn to fly alone. I believe that our lecturers and professors have taught you to think, to be critical, not to prejudge, to hold a dialogue, to be tolerant, empathic and respectful of others, to open yourself up to new cultures and people who think differently. I hope that this imprint, that of a humanist, can be seen in you. The professors and lecturers in the Faculty of Humanities have passed on knowledge, but also values, so I want to thank all of them a great deal, publicly, for the work they do every day to ensure their job is done well.
You are taking away with you a lot of knowledge, about history, philosophy, literature, history of art. ... enjoy the books that you did not have time to take in now, read slowly, now you can be discerning and choose from the reading list you wrote down one day in your notes. Take the time to do so. You know, we humanists need to read so we do not fall at the first hurdle due to the superficiality and frivolity of society around us.
I also want to say a few words to the parents, those who one day allowed their children to study a degree in Humanities. This is highly meritorious in a society like ours, in which only whatever provides immediate results, or whatever helps make money seems to be important. Therefore, thank you for swimming against the tide and choosing UIC Barcelona.
I also want to thank the master’s degree students and their families for the trust they placed in our institution. This Master’s degree means quality, it is a safe and consolidated bet thanks to Dr Marta Crispí at the forefront of this project and her tireless work. I also want to expressly thank a person today who is leaving us to walk along a new path that I am sure will be highly successful, but who has worked very hard for the Faculty of Humanities for a long time. I am talking about Naghieli Amarista, and I would like to thank her for her enthusiasm, her ideas, her creativity and good humour, for her hard work and dedication over the past few years.
I’d also like to thank the secretaries, Patrícia Font and Elena Garcia, who do a job that may go more unnoticed, but is very necessary so that the faculty can move forward day after day.
Also, I would like to underline the role of the Centre Board. The office manager Ingrid Soriano and the Vice-Dean, Dr Albert Moya, I’d like to thank them both for their help and their support. It's been 5 years since we decided to start this adventure and it's all so much easier when you work alongside honest, loyal, hardworking people, with a good sense of humour and a positive and helpful attitude.
Dear students, you will now become UIC Barcelona Alumni members, you will receive our news and every year we would like to see you again at the meeting we organise for Humanities Alumni members. We would love to hear from you, to find out how you are doing and about the new projects you have started.
All that remains it to give you my most sincere congratulations, congratulations to you all!
