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Cultura als Campus

Inspiring Women in Science

Film on Campus

“Dorothea and the Myotragus”

(Marta Hierro, Nuria Abad, 2020)

Discussion with:

Marta Hierro and Nuria Abad. Directors of the documentary

Mar Ferrer Suay. Vice Dean of Quality and Innovation, UV

Arianna Renau Pruñonosa. Department of Botany and Geology, UV

Ana Rosa Gómez Cano. Transmitting Science

In 1909, a young English woman set sail for Mallorca following the trail of mysterious bones. For two years, she climbed, scaled, and explored every cavity in the rocks of Mallorca, Ibiza, and Menorca, recounting her experience in her diaries. The first of them disappeared, but the rest have survived and recount the experience in detail. The documentary recreates the diaries written in the Balearic Islands by Dorothea Bate, one of the most important paleontologists of all time, a woman who fought against the gender stereotypes of her time, and the discoverer of mysterious extinct animal species in the Mediterranean, including the mythical Myotragus balearicus.

Free admission, limited capacity

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