The UCOPress has published “Vidas improvisadas”

UCOPress Editorial Universidad de Córdoba has just published Vidas improvisadas. Historias de menores infractores (Improvised Lives: Stories of Juvenile Offenders) by anthropologist Ignacio Alcalde, a professor at the University of Córdoba. The work, which straddles the line between fiction and ethnography, collects the life stories of former juvenile offenders and presents them through a narrator who engages with them, questioning and challenging some of the classic tenets of social theory. With a highly distinctive narrative style, the book invites readers to get to know these young people firsthand: how they ended up in a detention center, what transformations they underwent—if…

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13 de May de 2026

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New UCOPress title: “Asociacionismo de los PUM en MAYOR_IA”

The State Confederation of Associations of University Programs for Older Adults (Confederación Estatal de Asociaciones de los Programas Universitarios de Mayores - CAUMAS) and UCOPress Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, have released Asociacionismo de los PUM en MAYOR_IA, a volume that brings together the most relevant contributions from the 23rd International Congress on Associations in Senior University Training Programs, held at the Rectorate of the University of Córdoba in September 2025. Under the subtitle Asociaciones, Universidades e Inteligencia Artificial, the book focuses on a topic of growing interest: how artificial intelligence is transforming both educational processes and the daily lives of…

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11 de May de 2026

UCOPress presentation: A new book revisits the more socially engaged and committed side of Julio Romero de Torres

Official authorities during the book presentation in the Mudéjar Hall of the Rectorate

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UCOPress presentation: A new book revisits the more socially engaged and committed side of Julio Romero de Torres

[Written by the Communications Office] The book, published by UCOPress and Fudepa, offers a fresh perspective on the Cordoba-born painter as a socially conscious artist and examines his relationship with the working class and his connection to the intellectual movements of the time. Yesterday, the Mudéjar Hall at the University of Córdoba’s Rectorate hosted the presentation of the book “Julio Romero de Torres. Distinguished Worker, Eminent Laborer of Art,” a work published by UCOPress Editorial Universidad de Córdoba and the Foundation for the Development of the Peoples of Andalusia (FUDEPA) that highlights the Cordovan painter’s most social, critical, and socially…

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8 de May de 2026

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UCOPress has published “El Canal del Gran Priorato de San Juan, obra de Juan de Villanueva”

UCOPress, in collaboration with Alcázar de San Juan Town Council, has published the book El Canal del Gran Priorato de San Juan, obra de Juan de Villanueva. The book offers a historical account that introduces the reader to the construction process of the most significant Enlightenment-era hydraulic infrastructure built in La Mancha, promoted by the Infante of Spain, Don Gabriel de Borbón, and developed from the design and under the direction of one of the most prominent architects in Spanish history, Juan de Villanueva. Since its construction over two centuries ago, the Canal of the Grand Priory of San Juan…

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6 de May de 2026

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UCOCultura/UCOPress News «Los pasos del pecado»

UCOCultura and UCOPress have just published the catalog Los pasos del pecado by artist and judge Mercedes Daza. The work documents the exhibition presented at the UCOCultura Center at the University of Córdoba, where the artist presents a series of paintings centered on the concept of “sin” from a contemporary perspective, stripped of its traditional moral connotations. Through a visual language of her own, defined by its chromatic intensity, its compelling force, and a marked conceptual character, the series transforms the body—and, in particular, the female legs—into a central narrative element, capable of bursting onto the scene where guilt once…

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5 de May de 2026