In fulfilling one of the objectives of the Plan for Equality to make women at the University visible and recover historical memory, Professor Carmen Diaz Agulló presents research on the 'Origins, Evolution and Forms of Access and Integration of Women in the Normal School of Education of Valencia between 1867 and 1967 '. The summary, under the name of 'Normalist Women: Teachers of Teachers', is exhibited in today's official ceremony at the Saló d'Actes at the Office of the Principal at 12:00.
Among these women, the name of Carmen Garcia de Castro, to whom the event is dedicated, stands out. Professor of Education at the Normal School of Teachers, she was expelled and separated from service during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Her record, by order of the judge, was sanctioned at the University so as not to comply with the Military Board's orders of 13 October 1925 prohibiting academic freedom. After finishing the period of the dictatorship, she was amnestied on February 5, 1930. Later, she was arrested in 1939, after finishing the Civil War, tried for a war tribunal and imprisoned.
Then, once again, the University of Valencia celebrates the 8th of March, International Women's Day, and makes public its statement of commitment to equality between women and men as an inalienable part of universal human rights and therefore, constitutive of any democratic system.
Moreover, in the University has resolved to implement the I Plan for Equality and the evaluation notes that many goals have been accomplished and many actions taken, but there are still weaknesses that need to be worked on and strengthened, such as the role of women in research and enhancing their presence in the most advanced research groups. Similarly, education in equality as the backbone of the way to teach new generations of students of our faculties and schools and equal presence of women and men in the management and organization has to ensure that balance that needs to be reflected in all institutional activities.
Activities around equality
As you can read in InfoUniversitat (www.uv.es/infouni), the online newspaper of the University of Valencia, both in the Cinema Hall and in the Music Room special cycles are scheduled this month and so, in the Palace of Cerveró , you can see the series 'Abortion: a right question' and, in the Faculty of Philology, Traducció i Comunicació, the series 'Women and Politics'.On Wednesday 27 March is the turn of the concert of the Music Room, in the Chapel of the wisdom, it will be offered by Angela Edo, cello, Adriana Ruiz, bass, and Key Hikichi, piano.
The Chair of the Scientific Meeting Eresa-University of Valencia, which took place on March 7 from 16:30 to 19:30 in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, this time addressed breast cancer and was the intervention of Anna Lluch.
A new edition of Poems for Equality, the group Gat Negre, in the Faculty of Philosophy and of Education Sciences 12 March at 19 pm, and a panel discussion on the role of women in Equatorial Guinea, a proposal of the collective Equatoguinean students of Valencia, in the Graduate Hall of the Faculty of Geography and History, with Andrea Nadal, Bibiana Collado and Àlvar Carpi's music, are some of the activities that the student associations or groups are preparing.These proposals are part of the call for aid, by the Unitat d'Igualtat and Servei d'Informació i Dinamització, for associations to encourage student participation in activities of equality.
The Lambda Youth group calls some talks and also preparing a flashmob for the end of March when the group University Amarna will also performe a playful workshop on gender inequalities.Finally, in the Faculty of Geography and History, 14 March, Campus Jove organizes a roundtable on women's struggle for the realization of the right to vote.For more information about these activities, please consult the website of the Unity of Equality (www.uv.es / igualtat).
Furthermore, on 11, 12 and 13 March events will be held in the three campus coordinated by the Equality Commissions. On Monday, 11 March, at 15:30 and in the Graduate Hall of the Faculty of Ciències Matemàtiques, is hosting the roundtable 'Mathematics, profession', by Esmeralda Gómez López, a graduate in Mathematics from the University of Valencia and Master of Quantitative Finance, Mari Carmen Gómez Collado, PhD in mathematics from the University of Valencia and deputy director of the EHEA convergence in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Valencia, Enriqueta Vercher González, Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Valencia and professor of the Faculty of EIO Matemàtiques at an event moderated by Pilar Rueda Segado, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University Matemàtiques.
The thursday 12March the unitary act will be performed on the campus of Blasco Ibáñez.At 11:30 am Eulàlia Lledó Cunill willintervene , Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona and researcher on sexist and androcentric biases in language and literature, with regard to the presentation of his latest book, 'Change Language and press '.The event will be in the Graduate Hall of the Faculty of Philology, Traducció i Comunicació.
Last update: 8 de march de 2013 08:00.
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