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On the 26th and 27th of November, Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, in conjunction with the Ecole Superieure de Communication et Journalisme of Morocco, organized a conference with journalism universities from several countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East, in Casablanca.

What is God doing on Facebook? The online search for religiosity, the social media as new areas for religion to pray in are some of the topics included in the book Catholic Online Communities, a volume that reviews the biblical aspects of digital culture in the use of youth believers’ forums and the behavior of Catholics when they are surfing the Internet.

The vice president of FC Barcelona, Carles Vilarubí was the patron of the third graduating class of Blanquerna’s Master in Protocol, Institutional Relations and Strategic Event Management.

The rabbi and personal friend of Pope Francis, Abraham Skorka, visited our School last week to deliver a lecture on interreligious dialogue and the encounters with Jorge Mario Bergoglio on which he based his book On Heaven and Earth.

Blanquerna FCRI’s first meeting of Alumni in the Classroom took place this month in our School.

Last week the founder of «To Be There», a project that organizes tours around the West Bank, Baha Hilo, visited the fourth year International Seminar of the Degree in Journalism, taught by Dr. Pablo Capilla.

Blanquerna’s professor and philosopher Dr. Francesc Torralba, received on November 14 the 17th Mancomunitat de la Ribera Alta Essay Award for his essay The No-communication Empire.

Students of the specialization diploma in Scriptwriting and Direction of Comedy Programmes for Radio and TV, offered jointly by Minoria Absoluta and Blanquerna FCRI, had a special session with actors Ivan Labanda and Queco Novell, stars of the satirical programme Polònia.

On our YouTube channel, we’ve uploaded the video of the participation of Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations in the Sitges International Film Festival, where, for the first time, a group of students from Communication degrees, collaborated in the management of Sitges TV Channel.

Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations has signed an agreement with the Faculty of Political Science at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali-Guido Carli (LUISS) in Rome and the École de Gouvernance et d'Economie of Rabat.

From 24th November to 15th December, the Generalitat de Catalunya has organized the Showcase of Spiritual Cinema of Catalonia, which this time will be held in addition to Barcelona, in Girona, Lleida and Tarragona as well.

Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations at the Ramon Llull University is offering two doctoral scholarships for a period of 3 or 4 years, depending on the type. The object of the call is to promote high-quality doctoral theses in one of the following areas of research:

Blanquerna FCRI, within the framework Aristos Campus Mundus, hosted in the Auditorium the International Inter-university conference on social economy and cooperativism: University, Entrepreneurship and Cooperative Economy, organized jointly with program “aracoop” of the Catalan Ministry for Business and Labour.

On Sunday, November 1st, at 22:30h, BTV will air the three first episodes of the online programme «Otro cuento más», created by Communication Degree students, Nàdia Elgab, Laura Aran, Víctor Flores and Marc Andreu, with the help of professor Eva Santana.

This initiative serves as a strategical space for dialogue, circulation of ideas and channeling of creativity between professionals and audiovisual students in order to consolidate this sector in Catalonia.

The journalist Toni Soler, founder of the production company Minoria Absoluta, has inaugurated the second edition of the postgraduate degree being offered jointly by Minoria Absoluta and Blanquerna FCRI. Humour as a vital experience, as a social tool, as collective work - these were the guidelines for launching the classes, full of journalists and communicators with one sole objective: provoking laughter.

Along with the RAC1 radio programme team, La Segona Hora, more than 400 alumni came to the encounter to remember class stories and to chat with their former teachers, now professional colleagues.

The music festival Primavera Sound, the Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor and the Obrador Internacional de dramaturgia Sala Beckett are the new partners that the Master in Production and Cultural Communication Blanquerna has incorporated in this new edition.

Global communication, education in a technological world, the partnership between Nike and FCBarcelona and gastro-diplomacy will be some of the topics addressed in the three-day conference, held this week in Barcelona and sponsored by Emerson College of Boston and Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations.

For the first time, a group of students in the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, Degree in Journalism and Corporate Communication of Blanquerna FCRI will participate, side by side with the organization of the International Film Festival of Catalonia in Sitges in management of Sitges TV Channel.