As in past years, the Universitat de València has celebrated, International Women's Day with a full programme of cultural and awareness-raising activities and events that will begin on the days leading up to 8 March and will contintue through the rest of the month.

As part of the institutional events on Friday, 8 March, has taken place of the Office of the Principal building, and at 12:00 the Principal of the UV, Mavi Mestre, will read a manifesto.

This year, the main event has analysed the appearance and formation of misogynistic discourse in a combination of virtual spaces known as the manosphere. The panel discussion titled “Streamers and youtubers: women dismantling sexism”  at the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication. The discussion  with Elisa García-Mingo and Silvia Díaz Fernández, authors of the study ‘Youth in the manosphere. Influence of digital misogyny on young men’s perceptions of sexual violence’. The event will also feature Miare, Mery Soldier and Jen Herranz, streamers and content creators who will share their experiences and discuss how women’s content creation contributes to progress in equality.

The Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society has planned a series of events for International Women’s Day on March 8. Starting on March 12, the La Nau Cultural Centre will host the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist Manuela Ballester.

A day later, the La Nau Cultural Centre will host the exhibition ‘Ecologist Archive. Memory and visual culture of environmentalism in Valencia since the 70s’ at 18:00. There will be a panel discussion with women figures in the history of the Valencian environmental movement, with the aim of giving an alternative narrative to the one that has been dominated by male voices.

The University-society program brings the exhibition “Astronomers” to Aras de los Olmos, showcasing women who have dedicated their lives to the study of astronomy. The cultural society and clubs of the Universitat de València have also organised activities that promote equality. The History and Democratic Memory Society has scheduled a panel discussion at La Nau on March 6 at 18:30 that will address marriage and sexuality in the Franco regime with Mónica García Fernández, professor and researcher of the Ramón y Cajal program of the Autonomous University of Madrid. On March 22, the Comic Society will present the biography of the artist Georgia O’Keeffe through the eyes of María Herreros.

The Matilde Salvador Hall opens its curtains with performances featuring women as protagonists as part of the UV Performing Arts Club programme. On Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7, the company EntreTantos Danza will offer a contemporary and neoclassical dance performance about one of the most important figures in our history: the Trastámara family, in particular Queen Isabella I of Castile, Isabella the Catholic. On March 13 and 14, Cavo Canem will perform the play Katherine Macbeth with a subsequent colloquium.

The Music Club, in collaboration with the Equality Unit, has programmed two concerts for the month of March. On March 5, at the Rector Peset Hall of Residence, the Gubaidúlina Quintet and the Turquoise Quartet will perform works by the composers S. Gubaidúlina and E. Mayer, and the “A cau d’orella” Women’s Choir will perform at the Sapiencia Chapel of La Nau on Wednesday, March 6.

On Tuesday, March 5, the Violet Space will set up volunteer information tables on the Tarongers Campus in the morning, from 9:30 to 12:00, with games and awareness-raising activities such as trivia and a feminist word search. These volunteering events will also take place on Wednesday 6 at the Blasco Ibáñez campus and on Thursday 7 at the Burjassot campus.

Several events will also take place at the various centres of the Universitat de València in celebration of International Women’s Day.

On the Tarongers Campus, the Faculty of Social Sciences will hold a conference and panel discussion titled ‘Women in activism: rebels with a cause’ on Monday, March 4. During the event, the illustrators Silvia Ferrer and María Herreros will give an overview of women in activism, from the Guerrilla Girls to the new generations of comics authors in the Valencian Community, which turn their comic strips into a powerful language tool that can awaken sleeping minds. There will also be a panel discussion titled ‘Sorority and women entrepreneurship: creation of new enterprises with social impact’, on March 6 at 12:30. This activity is especially oriented towards the students of the three undergraduate programmes of the Faculty and will focus on job placement for women in difficult situations. The mutual accompaniment during professional, personal and collective pathways will be addressed, which will show how entrepreneurial women can empower themselves through their own process.

In relation to 8 March, International day of the woman, the Commission of Equality of the Facultat of Law organises a day to analyse the discrimination of the women in the judicial career.

The professors María José Añón, Luis Jimena,Elena Martínez García and Ruth Mestre will speak about this subject.

Later, the professor Paz Lloria; and the professor, Alberto Alonso, will speak about  bullying, equality and social harmony,in relation to the approvel  the new Code of Convivencia and Best practices of the Universitat.

On March 7, the Equality Commission of the Faculty of Economics will also commemorate International Women’s Day with two award ceremonies that will be held at 12:00 in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty: the 11th Award for Equality JJ Ponce “A picture for equality” and the 6th Publications on Gender Contest. During this event, the award-winners will give a brief speech. At 12:10, a panel discussion with the title “The gender gap in athletics” will take place in the same Assembly Hall. The event will come to a close with a photograph to celebrate Women’s Day, which will be taken in the hall of the Faculty.

At the Blasco Ibáñez Campus, the activities will start on March 1 at the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication and will finish on March 21. Fifteen different activities are planned. The first one is the presentation of Flamarades sortiran, an anthology of feminist Catalan poetry, which will be given in Classroom 405 at 10:00. Beginning on Monday, 4 March, the centre will hold a feminist self‑defence workshop, the creation of a collective mural and the presentation of a new guide of the Universitat de València, Igualdad en el Lenguaje (Equality in Language) by the Lingualitarias group. The new manual on effective use of egalitarian and inclusive language will be presented in the Assembly Hall at 13:00. The programme also includes workshops, debates and colloquia throughout the month of March.

The Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Geography and History will host the 1st Interfaculty Conference on the Blasco Ibáñez Campus. This event is dedicated to research from a gender perspective and its aim is to present the different research projects and research groups of the campus to exchange methodologies and results and to potentially generate future interdisciplinary collaborations. The conference will be held on March 26 at the Faculty of Geography and History and the deadline for submitting proposals is Monday, March 11.

The Equality Committee of the Faculty of Physiotherapy has scheduled a workshop on Sex and Gender on March 1, from 13:00 to 15:00, taught by Universitat de València professor María Dolores Gil Llario and Universitat Jaume I professor Rafael Ballester Arnal.

Monday, March 4 also marks the start of a week of activities at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences with video forums, conferences on women and prisons, dance performances and the play ¡Viva la vulva que nos parió! With the performance of a clown to break taboos on female sexuality on March 7 at 16:30.

Different forms of response to wars. Women working for peace is the proposal of the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy for Tuesday, 5 March at 10:30. The event will be attended by members of Women in Black and the Israeli peace activist Naama Farjoun.

The UVGandia will celebrate March for Equality with a performance by the ‘A cau d’orella’ Women’s Choir on 7 March at 19:00 in the auditorium of the Casa de la Cultura Marqués de González de Quirós.

For the first time, the University Science Park will take part in the institutional programme for International Women’s Day with an event on Friday, 8 March at 10:45 in the Marie Curie Hall, which will include a conference on “The gender pay gap we don’t see. A challenge for gender equality policies” led by Professor Marcela Jabbaz Churuba.

The updated calendar of all the planned activities can be accessed though this link: https://go.uv.es/4OtONkd