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The first call for applications for the Pau Casals Chair research grants opens
The Pau Casals Foundation and the UOC will provide grants for research projects into the musician himself and his values. Applications must be submitted between 23 January and 10 March 2023 (11.59 p.m.). Each grant has a financial endowment of [...]
Joan Fuster-Sobrepere: “United Nations was a great hope for his generation, because the alternative was nuclear destruction”
Yolanda Viñales Verdes The Pau Casals Chair - Music and Defense of Peace and Human Rights, an initiative of the Pau Casals Foundation and the UOC, attached to the UOC's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was created in 2022. Joan [...]
When cultural heritage becomes cannon fodder
The war in Ukraine has once again highlighted the non-compliance with common agreements for the protection of cultural heritage and infrastructure. The 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict is the frame of [...]
The Pau Casals Chair, music and defence of peace and human rights, was born in 2022.
On January 25, an agreement was signed for the creation of the Pau Casals Chair, a joint project between the Pau Casals Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). The aim of this new chair is to promote contemporary [...]
