The presence and participation of women in the constitutional legislation has been an important recovery work of the tasks of congresswomen and senators of 1978 that professor Julia Sevilla has carried out. She will present this work within the series of conferences ‘Mujeres y Literatura’ (‘Women and Literature’) today Wednesday, 1 February, at 19:00h in the Aula Magna of the Cultural Centre La Nau.
The Universitat de València, with the collaboration of the Equality Unit and the Valencian Language Academy, has planned this series with the aim of women’s contributions through history in some fields like literature, education, science, art or law, among other disciplines. This event coincides with the prolongation of the acts revolving around the figure of Sister Isabel de Villena as Writer of the year.
Julia Sevilla is graduate in Law by the Universitat de València where she has been professor of the Department of Constitutional Law, Political and Administrative Sciences since 1980. She has been lawyer in the Valencian Parliament, founder and president of the Progressive Women Foundation; and also founder and president of the Feminist Network of Constitutional Law.
With Las Constituyentes. Presencia y participación de las mujeres en la legislatura constitucional, Julia Sevilla will introduce us the best female members of Parliament, congresswomen and senators thrown into relief all people who took part in the establishment of the democracy in order to complete the memory of the transition. The research work of Julia Sevilla about female members of Parliament in the constituent legislation appears as a consequence of the compliance of one of the actions for the equality of women and men approved by the Council of Ministers.
The cycle ‘Dones I Literatura’ (‘Women and Literature’) takes place at Aula Magna of Cultural Centre La Nau and consists of eleven conferences that are given over the next twelve months. The entry is free and limited to the capacity of the hall.
La Nau’s Aula Magna will welcome in the next months the presence of women like Josepa Cortés (Universitat de València), Julia Benavent (University of Valencia), Isabel Morant (Universitat de València), Carmen Alfaro (Universitat de València), Ana Aguado (Universitat de València), Capitolina Díaz (Universitat de València), Emilia Serra (Universitat de València), Carmen Agulló (Universitat de València) and Verònica Cantó (AVL), who will close the series and will end up these cultural acts dedicated to Sister Isabel de Villena, Writer of the Year, organised by the Valencian Language Academy.
More information: http://www.uv.es/infoactiv/activitats/donesiliteratura2017.pdf
Last update: 1 de february de 2017 08:00.
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