imatge presentació ALD0047
On Thursday 13 February, at 7 p.m., the book Desinformación y poder. Alquimias de la persuasión, in Barcelona. The book is co-published by four universities in the Aldea Global collection: the UAB, the Universitat Jaume I, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Universitat de València.
caràtula premis literaris 2025
The deadline for submitting manuscripts for the 2025 Literary Awards, organised by the Cerdanyola del Vallès Town Council and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), ended on 7 February. The following is the composition of the jury for the current edition of the awards.
ALD0047
​​​​​​​Desinformación y poder. Alquimias de la persuasión is the latest title in the ‘Aldea Global’ collection, which is co-published by the university publishers: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Jaume I, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de València. The book is the work of Raúl Rodríguez Ferrándiz, Professor of Semiotics of Mass Communication at the University of Alicante, who specialises in post-truth politics, disinformation, conspiracy theories and ‘fake news’.
Investigació
Until 3 February, researchers who are authors of publications included in the Intercambio Científico (IC) system of digital books for the use of the university community can include the statistics of consultation of this project as an indication of relevance and impact to the current call for research sexenios of 2024.
Foto-participants-lliurament-premis-literaris-2024
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The City Council of Cerdanyola del Vallès and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona announced yesterday the winners of the 2024 literary awards. Carla Clúa Alcón (Reus) with the work Pausa, sucre, Sevilla, presented under the pseudonym “América”, is the winner of the XV short story prize for young people “Caterina Albert”, endowed with 500 euros. Josep Antoni Aguilar Àvila (València), with the work Ballar amb els espectres, presented under the pseudonym “Sparverius”; and Josep Domènech Ponsatí (Sant Feliu de Guíxols), with the work Eixint de fer, presented under the pseudonym “Armand Polito”, are the ex-aequo winners of the XXIX poetry prize “Miquel Martí i Pol”, endowed with 1,000 euros. Miquel Ribas Figueras (Cabrils) with the work Ilha do Farol, presented under the pseudonym “Nuno Bolotas”, was the winner of the XXX novel prize “Valldaura-Memorial Pere Calders”, endowed with 3,000 euros. In this edition, a total of 192 works have opted for the prizes, of which 25 have participated in the short story, 85 in the poetry and 82 in the novel prize. These figures are the highest since 2002, when the organizers decided to merge their respective contests and start their call for entries jointly. The winning works will be published by the UAB Publications Service and will be presented in November in Cerdanyola del Vallès.

During the ceremony, Carmen Alcolea, member of the jury of the Short Narrative Prize, was in charge of reading the minutes of the meeting of the jury of this same award, where she said that the winning story Pausa, sucre, Sevilla stands out for its “careful style, evocative lexicon, own idiolect and interior monologue”.

For his part, Joan Carles Marset, director of the Publications Service of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and secretary of the jury of the Poetry Prize, explained that this is the first time that a prize has been awarded ex-aequo to two participants. The editor argued that the jury unanimously agreed on the high quality of both works. Specifically, on Ballar amb els espectres, the jury highlights the narrative dimension that gives the poems, with a very intelligent use of different mythological legacies. Likewise, with respect to Eixint de fer, the jury highlighted aspects such as its lexical richness and use of stylistic resources, or its sharp, intellectual and sensual sense of humor.

Finally, Marset read the deliberation of the Novel Prize, where the jury has defended that Ilha do Farol is worthy of the prize for being well written, having a rich language, a prolix style and using the pretext of the apocalypse or the end of the world with a contained and quite original approach. Likewise, the members of the jury agreed that the work shows a taste for narrative, branching out into collateral stories, and that it also makes a notable use of humor or sarcasm, which serves to include elements of social criticism.

The awards ceremony was also attended by representatives of the two institutions organizing the awards, including Javier Lafuente Sancho, Rector of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Rosa María Sebastián, Vice Rector of Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship at the UAB; Margarita Freixas y Alás, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UAB; Carlos Cordón, Mayor of the City Council of Cerdanyola del Vallès; and David González Chanca, Councilor of Culture, Communication and EMD of Bellaterra of the City Council of Cerdanyola del Vallès.

The actor Carles Cruces presented the event, which was enlivened by the performances of the UAB Chamber Choir and the poetic recital Marçal sentida, by Sofia Oliva (alumni and predoctoral student of the UAB) and Laia Solé (student of the UB), who paid tribute to the work of Àngel Guimerà and Maria-Mercè Marçal, respectively. In addition, the awards ceremony was broadcast live on the YouTube channel of the UAB, where the video of the event will also be published soon.

coberta del llibre i imatge alumnes a classe de física
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Víctor López-Simó and Digna Couso, lecturers in Science Didactics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), have just published the book, Didàctica de la física per a l’educació secundària obligatòria, as part of the "Materials" collection of the University's Publications Service.

It is often thought that physics is not of direct use in everyday life, is difficult and is neither interesting nor accessible to a large part of the pupils in the 12 to 16 year-old educational stage. Some of the main questions that many teachers, education and science popularisation professionals ask themselves are, for example: what are the key ideas in physics that students need to learn during their compulsory secondary education; why is it important to learn these ideas; what makes it so difficult for students to construct them in a meaningful way; or what strategies and teaching resources can help in this task.

Didáctica de la física para la educación secundaria obligatoria is a manual that aims to guide the teaching and learning processes of this discipline, emphasising the understanding of concepts, leaving aside the memorisation of equations and procedures, and starting from the students' previous knowledge. The authors of the book focus on everyday phenomena and dialogue, and apply them to each of the four main branches of classical physics: mechanics, electromagnetism, electromagnetism, physics and physics of the universe. In this volume, López-Simó and Couso share their visions, resources and experiences, acquired throughout their professional careers.

Víctor López-Simó holds a degree in Physics (2009) and a PhD in Science Education (2014). He has worked as a physics and chemistry teacher at ESO and Bachillerato, and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Didactics of Mathematics and Experimental Sciences at the UAB, where he teaches Science Didactics to trainee teachers in primary and secondary education. Her research has focused on the conceptual understanding of physics and chemistry, as well as on the use of digital tools for science teaching, such as sensors and simulations.

Digna Couso holds a degree in Physics (1999) and a PhD in Science Education (2009). She has been the director of CRECIM (Centro de Investigación para la Educación Científica y Matemática) and is currently the principal investigator of the research group ACELEC (Aprendizaje Científico Escolar: Lenguajes, Herramientas y Contextos). She has participated and led multiple research projects on teaching and learning of science and STEM, addressing issues such as the positioning of young people towards science, the design of learning situations that promote scientific practices of enquiry and modelling or critical thinking in the science classroom.

The volume will be presented next Friday 5 April at 5pm at the Faculty of Education Sciences of the UAB (Aula 51), in a seminar with the participation of Marta Bertran, dean of the Faculty, and the authors of the book. Didáctica de la física per a l'educació secundària obligatoria has been published by the Publications Service of the UAB in paper format for a fee and in free and open access electronic format.

Setmana del Llibre en Català 2024
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The 42nd Catalan Book Week will take place from 20 to 29 September and, this year, it will be held, exceptionally, on Passeig Lluís Companys in Barcelona. A central, wide and easily accessible location, ideal for enjoying books and open-air activities.

Once again this year, the Publications Service of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona will be present through the Vives University Network (XVU). New publications such as Les arrels del capvepreTot un món en catalàDidàctica de la física per a l’educació secundària obligatòria, o Càlcul en variable complexa, will be presented at module number 80, together with other publications from university publishers affiliated with the XVU.

The presentation of the winning works of the Joan Lluís Vives awards for university publishing 2024 is scheduled for Tuesday 23 September. The event will take place at 11:15 am, on stage 1.

Portada del llibre
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The book L’ètica en la recerca a la UAB. Els primers trenta anys has been edited by José Luis Molina, professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and director of the Research Ethics Committee (CERec), and anthropologist Sílvia Villagrasa Krasnobayeva.

The volume collects the experiences and personal stories of the protagonists who have been part of CERec from its beginnings until now: research staff, animal welfare advisory staff, and technical and administrative staff. Some forty people who have been responsible for the ethical evaluation of some 6,000 research projects and training and awareness courses and, in general, for advising UAB research staff.

“Their testimony allows us to understand the social, legislative and technological changes in research ethics at the university and in the Catalan, state and international system, and offers a comprehensive and critical view of the progress and challenges in this area,” says José Luis Molina.

The content of the book is divided into three large blocks, inspired by the changes experienced by CERec itself in response to the general situation. The first block, animal research, was dominant in its first stage. Following that, the evaluation of bioethics projects (“human” research), the subject of the second block, took centre stage. Finally, the third block describes the incorporation of the social sciences and humanities.

A final part of the volume is devoted to reflecting on the challenges that will have to be addressed in the near future, such as the effects of artificial intelligence, big data or genomic editing, among others. Another topic focused on is the evolution of the current model for reviewing research projects in the face of increasing competitiveness and diversity of projects to be evaluated.

Source: Sala de premsa UAB.

portada llibre El hechizo del tren
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Johari Gautier Carmona, journalist and author of the book El hechizo del tren, will give a lecture on February 21, at 7 p.m., in the Audiovisual Room of the Monastery Museum of Sant Cugat del Vallès (Pl. de l'Om, 1).

The talk, entitled "The protagonists of the first railway line in the Peninsula", will be based on his novel, which tells the story of the railroad from its beginnings in Latin America to its arrival in the Iberian Peninsula, through the experiences lived by its main promoters.

The conference is part of the Cycle of Conferences on the World of Trains, organized by the Associació d'Amics del Ferrocarril de Sant Cugat del Vallès and can also be followed live on the YouTube channel of the Federació Catalana d'Amics del Ferrocarril: youtube@canalFCAF6925.

Cartell de la conferència de Johari Gautier a Sant Cugat del Vallès, el 21 de febrer de 2024
Autor i portada del llibre El metall i els turons
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Eduard Roure Blàvia, professor and writer from Lleida, will present his novel El metall i els turons, next Thursday, April 18, at 7 pm, at the bookstore La Fatal (Vallcalent street, 65, 25006 Lérida).

The event will include a reading of several fragments of the book and will be attended by Ester Graell, philologist and teacher; Mariona Roure, photographer and art historian; and the author.

The work is a modern fable, disguised as a thriller or western, and has been the winner of the XXIX Novel Prize "Valldaura-Memorial Pere Calders" of 2023, organized by the UAB and the City Council of Cerdanyola del Vallès. El metall i els turons, as Roure himself points out, is "a modern tale that revolves around the old story of the confrontation with power, in this case, provoked by the awareness for the conservation of the environment".

Eduard Roure Blàvia was born in Lérida in 1973 and teaches Catalan language and literature at the Manuel de Montsuar Secondary School in the same city. His works include: Les altes balconades (Pagès, 1999), Les Talúries prize for narrative; the short novel Lligall trobat a la Cabana (Proa, 2008), finalist for the Pere Calders prize; the novel L'última badia (Pagès, 2012), creation aid prize for the best novel project of the Narrativa Lleida Awards; and the novel La nit de les oques (Viena, 2016), Ciutat de Badalona prize for narrative. Currently, she collaborates as an article writer in the supplement Lectura del diari Segre.

Gabriel Izard
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Cecot Comerç ha publicat a la seva pàgina web una entrevista a Gabriel Izard amb motiu de l'aparició del seu darrer llibre, Innovación y liderazgo. El nacimiento del código de barras, editat pel Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

A l'entrevista, l'autor reflexiona sobre innovació i lideratge col·laboratiu i lliga la història del naixement del codi de barres amb l’actualitat, la importància de l'alt impacte de la tecnologia a les empreses i com és possible posar a la pràctica el concepte win-win (tots hi guanyen).

Gabriel Izard va néixer a Sabadell el 1956, és economista i ha estat professor de Màrqueting, Gestió de la Distribució, International Business i Business in Action a la UAB durant més de trenta anys. Ha estat quinze anys membre de l’Associació Espanyola de Codificació Comercial (Aecoc), on va participar en la creació del codi de barres. Actualment és delegat comercial a Espanya de l’empresa Axicon Auto ID, que desenvolupa i produeix equips de verificació de codis de barres arreu del món. A través de la seva experiència professional, l’autor relaciona el naixement del codi de barres i la seva incidència en la digitalització, la innovació i el lideratge empresarial.

Cecot Comerç està integrada per empresaris i empresàries dels diferents gremis i associacions empresarials que conformen la patronal catalana Cecot i representa directament 4.000 empreses del sector del comerç i prop de 120.000 treballadors. Aquesta entitat és una de les fundadores de la Unió d’Entitats de Retail de Catalunya · RETAILcat.

Autors i portada del llibre
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On April 17, Ràdio UNAL, belonging to the National University of Colombia (Bogotà), interviewed Julio Mario Hoyos and Juan Carlos Moreno, Biologist and Philosopher, respectively, and authors of the book Las claves de la investigación Científica, recently published by the Publications Service of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

The interview was included in the program Panorama de la Ciència, produced by the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, and can be listened to in full at the following link: https://radio.unal.edu.co/detalle/claves-para-entender-la-investigacion-cientifica

caràtula premis literaris 2025
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The deadline for submitting manuscripts for the 2025 Literary Awards, organised by the Cerdanyola del Vallès Town Council and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), ended on 7 February.

The following is the composition of the jury for the current edition of the awards.


JURY OF THE XXXI PREMI DE NOVEL-LA ‘VALLDAURA-MEMORIAL PERE CALDERS’ OF 2025

Núria Balagué Mola (Barcelona, 1958) has a degree in Hispanic Philology and Italian Philology and a PhD in Documentation from the University of Barcelona. She has been assistant director of the Library Service of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Barcelona.

Joan Mañas López (Gualba, 1970) holds a degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and is the owner of the second-hand bookshop El Pergamí Vell. He has participated as a juror in several novel awards and is the author of the novel Arqueologia de l'amor, awarded the Just Casero de Girona Prize in 2006.

Arià Paco Abenoza (Igualada, 1993) holds a degree and master's degree in philosophy from the University of Barcelona. Since 2025, he also holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Arizona, where he has been an assistant professor for five years. He has published three novels: Mentir a les mosques (2020), Covarda, vella, tan salvatge (2022) and Teoria del joc (2025, Anagrama Novel Prize). He collaborates with various cultural media and podcasts.

Miquel Ribas (Barcelona, 1972). He has a degree in Cultural Anthropology and a master's degree in Audiovisual Scriptwriting. Professor of Social Sciences with extensive teaching experience, he has devoted his free time to writing various works of fiction for children, young people and adults. His two latest works are the historical novel Rei de Sicília, príncep de Sardenya and Ilha do Farol.

David Vidal Castell is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication and Culture at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), journalist and literary critic (ARA newspaper). Director and founder of the Master's Degree in Literary Journalism, Communication and Humanities at the UAB. Doctor in Communication (Alteritat i presència, 2002), the Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC) awarded him the prize for research in media and culture in 2005 for his essay El malson de Chandos and has received the Lleida Narrative Award (La fulla a punt de caure, 2007) and the Gaudí Award for the script of the film Petitet (2019).


JURY OF THE XXX PREMI DE POESIA ‘MIQUEL MARTÍ I POL’ OF 2025

Josep Gerona Fumàs (Sabadell, 1956) holds a degree in History and is a secondary school teacher in Sabadell. He currently combines his dedication to painting with writing in Catalan and Spanish. He is founder and member since 2001 of the group of poets from Sabadell Papers de Versàlia, a collective that works in different initiatives to promote and disseminate poetic creation. Their publications include: Mnemòsine amnèsica (2006), Quan deixaré de creure (2000), Àlbum de noses (2001), Trompar l'ull (2004), Hospital General (2007) i La vida original (2007).

Josep Domènech Ponsatí (Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 1966) is a poet and translator. As a poet he has published Cap a un dic sec (2004), Desdiments (2006), Apropiacions degudes & cia (2007), El Càcol (2015), Preqüela (2018), El coeficient de flotabilitat (2023) and Rotija (2024). In 2024 he was the joint winner of the XXIX Premi de Poesia ‘Miquel Martí i Pol’, organised by the UAB and the Ajuntament de Cerdanyola del Vallès, with his work Eixint de fer. As a translator from Portuguese he has published works by Clarice Lispector, Graciliano Ramos, Lima Barreto, Armando Freitas Filho and Hilda Hilst, among others. He has twice won the ‘Giovanni Pontiero’ Translation Prize, and once the ‘Jordi Domènech’ Poetry Translation Prize.

Josep Antoni Aguilar Àvila (Xàtiva, País Valencià, 1979) is a lecturer in Catalan language and literature at the Universitat Catòlica de València ‘Sant Vicent Màrtir’. His research focuses on medieval Catalan chronicles: he has published a large number of articles and studies on Ramon Muntaner, Bernat Desclot and other historiographical texts from the 13th-14th centuries. His annotated edition of the Chronicle of Muntaner was awarded the ‘Ramon Aramon i Serra’ Prize of the LXXX Cartell de Premis Sant Jordi of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (2011) and the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize of the Universitat de València (2012), and has been published in the ‘Biblioteca Filològica’ collection of the IEC (2015). On the literary side, he is the author of three collections of poems: Els rims de guerra d'Ezzelino da Romano (València: Denes, 2022), Quatre mots (Premi ‘Josep Grau i Colell’ 2023) and Ballar amb els espectres (XXIX Premi de Poesia ‘Miquel Martí i Pol’ 2024).

Juan Carlos Otero (Sabadell, 1968) is a secondary school language and literature teacher. He won the Jocs Florals de Cerdanyola del Vallès in 1991, 1992 and 1993. In subsequent years, he participated as a member of the jury for the same prize. His poetry publications include L'hàbil escomesa (Reus, 1991, runner-up for the Gabriel Ferrater Prize), La cort de les mudances (Algemessí, 1993), Dilapidàvem les hores felices (Terrassa, 1995, Calassanç Prize) and El buen veneno (Rubí, 2024). His forays into narrative are Terrores nocturnos y otras fábulas para jóvenes (Cerdanyola, 2005) and Quadern de la selva (Cerdanyola, 2008).


JURAT DEL XVII PREMI DE NARRATIVA BREU ‘CATERINA ALBERT’ DE 2025

Carmen Alcolea has a degree in Hispanic Philology (1996), a postgraduate degree in Foreign Language Teaching (1997) and a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2013) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. For two decades, she has been teaching Secondary Education and Baccalaureate. She is the author of a novel.

Carla Clúa Alcón (Tarragona, 1996) is a journalist with a master's degree in International Relations - European Studies. She has worked in various Catalan written and audiovisual media, although she currently lives in Genoa (Italy), where she works in the environmental communication sector. He has received several literary prizes, among which the following stand out: Premis Literaris de Constantí (2024), Premi Bolleré (2023), Premi Alt Urgell de Joves Autors - Homilies d'Organyà (2023) i Relats de Dones de Tarragona (2023, 2022 i 2021). In 2024 he won the XV Premi de Narrativa Breu per a Joves ‘Caterina Albert’, organised by the UAB and the Ajuntament de Cerdanyola del Vallès, with the work Pausa, sucre, Sevilla.

Martí Gironell i Gamero (Besalú, 1971), a Catalan journalist and novelist, holds a degree in Journalism from Pompeu Fabra University and in English Philology from the University of Barcelona. He has worked at Ràdio Besalú, Ràdio Olot, Catalunya Ràdio and TV3. He collaborates in the media such as El Punt Avui, La República and L'Illa dels Llibres. His books include El pont dels jueus (2007), which has been translated into several languages; La venjança del bandoler, which won the Nèstor Luján Historical Novel Prize in 2008, and La força d'un destí, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize in 2018.

Xusa Serra has a degree in Anthropology, a postgraduate degree in Thanatology and a master's degree in Nursing and Health Research. She is a nurse at the Unit of Support for Illness, Grief and End of Life at the General Hospital of Catalonia and is also a therapist at the Grief Group of the Association of Women for Equality of Cerdanyola del Vallès. She teaches the workshop ‘Ara sí que sé a les escoles’ and is the author of the book I, també em moriré?

Anna Pallejà Franquet (Tarragona, 2006). She has never stopped reading all kinds of books. What began as a secret diary has gradually become her great passion: writing. Nowadays, he combines literature, studies, music and family. Her work Tres missatges per oblidar-te, won the XIII Premio de Narrativa Breu per a Joves ‘Caterina Albert’, awarded by the Ajuntament de Cerdanyola del Vallès and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in 2022.

Caràtula web de la revista Anuario Lope de Vega
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La publicació de referència sobre l'obra de Lope de Vega i la literatura del Segle d'Or espanyol que edita el grup de recerca Prolope del Departament de Filologia Espanyola commemora el número 30 amb dos monogràfics i una introducció especial sobre la història de la revista.

El primer monogràfic, titulat “Prácticas editoriales y sociabilidad literaria en torno a Lope de Vega” i coordinat per Ignacio García Aguilar, professor de la Universitat de Còrdova, pretén reflexionar sobre les tensions i els vincles, més o menys clientelars i d'institucionalització literària, que van influir en l'activitat creadora del Fénix de los Ingenios. El segon està coordinat per Elena Di Pinto, professora de la Universitat Complutense de Madrid. Amb el títol de “La alquimia en un mundo inventado: mixturas literarias en tiempos de Lope”, posa de manifest l'habitual i fructífera barreja d'arts a l'època de l'escriptor, que suposava una multitud de variacions, hibridacions i jocs de contrastos. El número 30 es completa amb dos articles més sobre un paper d'actor inèdit i sobre la modernització ortogràfica de textos del Segle d'Or automatitzada gràcies a la intel·ligència artificial.

L'Anuario Lope de Vega va ser fundat l’any 1995 pel que va ser professor de la UAB Alberto Blecua (1941-2020), fou dirigit per ell mateix i Guillermo Serés, i, successivament, pels professors Victoria Pineda, Enrico Di Pastena i Guillermo Gómez Sánchez-Ferrer. Sempre ha estat vinculat al Grup de recerca Prolope i a la UAB, tot i que ha rebut suports externs, com el de l'Editorial Milenio, que el va publicar en paper fins a l’any 2011. Des d'aquella data, la publicació s'ha difós en línia mitjançant la plataforma Revistes Digitals UAB (ReDi) del Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat.

En aquest recorregut de trenta anys i trenta números, l'Anuario Lope de Vega ha aconseguit assolir un prestigi en el seu àmbit de coneixement, tant a nivell nacional com internacional, amb l'obtenció ininterrompuda dels segells de qualitat i les avaluacions positives de les institucions més exigents. Tot això ha estat possible gràcies a la col·laboració d'autors, ressenyistes, avaluadors, correctors i lectors, que, en una tasca conjunta que suma més de 700 textos publicats, ha contribuït de manera decisiva a mantenir els treballs sobre Lope de Vega i el teatre del Segle d'Or en un nivell de recerca excel·lent i convertir-los en un lloc de referència per als estudis de lletres. La seva història demostra que ha sabut adaptar-se a les noves tecnologies i donar cabuda als estudiosos més joves, que han treballat amb els més autoritzats lopistes, cosa que li ha permès mantenir la vigència de la publicació i garantir un futur prometedor.

Font: UAB (31 de gener de 2024). L'Anuario Lope de Vega celebra el 30è aniversari amb una edició especial. Sala de premsa. https://www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-premsa/detall-noticia/l-em-anuario-lope-de-vega-/em-celebra-el-30e-aniversari-amb-una-edicio-especial-1345829508832.html?detid=1345907400666