On 3 June 2024, the UPF conferred an honorary doctorate on the physicist and ecofeminist philosopher Vandana Shiva in recognition of her academic and activist contribution to ecofeminism and pacifism. Núria Almiron, co-director of the UPF-CAE, was in charge of giving the gloss. 

Dr. Almiron acknowledged Dr. Shiva's long career as a ‘tireless defender’ of the planet and her pioneering work in this field. She ironised Shiva's nickname, ‘the worst nightmare of big corporations’, and vindicated Shiva's position that science ‘should serve the common good, not greed’. Dr. Almiron also recalled that Dr. Shiva was one of the first scientists to denounce the irrationality and cruelty of intensive animal agriculture.

You can watch and listen to all the speeches here.

You can read Dr Almiron's Laudatio here.