The central event of the Women’s Day will be head by the Universitat de València’s principal, Esteban Morcillo, and it will be organised on Monday 9th March at the Assembly Hall of the Office of the Principal at 12h. It is an institutional event which this year due to the Women’s Day it will pay tribute to the first female professor of Universitat de València and it will have the intervention of Isabel Morant, Modern History full university professor.
At the event, the first edition of “Olga Quiñones” awards will be given to the best final master’s degree projects which deal with gender equality regarding to the first principal of the Equality Unit and Sociology professor at Universitat de València who died last year in June.
The Music Room will also have a special programme this month for equality and, next Wednesday 11th March, at the Capella de la Sapiència, “A cau d’orella” Chorus will offer a concert.
The “March for Equality” programme deals with several expositions but “Diverses” outstands, which will start next Tuesday 10 March at Cultural Centre La Nau. Eleven photojournalist women of Valencia will give shape to a photographic project of the life of eleven women who break their schemes and who are an example of overcoming and courage. Sixty-six images with extraordinary stories under the gaze of Raquel Abulaila, Consuelo Chambó, Emma Ferrer, Marga Ferrer, Eva Máñez, Irene Marsilla, Pruebe Morillas, Eva Ripoll, Amparo Simó, Almudena Torres and Mónica Torres.
Specific training on prevention of gender violence will be taught by Coto Talens, who is psychologist and an expert in gender, some conferences about the role of women in journalism, workshops and free courses for students are, among others, some of the activities of this “March for Equality”.
A week before
The programming started on Tuesday 3rd March at 18h, with the “Osama” (Siddiq Barmak, 2003) movie in the “Camouflaged genre” cycle, with four movies whose main characters are women who, at some point of their lives, have had to adopt a role and even a masculine appearance to have access to social positions. The film was presented by Awatef El Ketiti, professor at Universitat de València, and directed at the Assembly Hall of Rector Peset Residence Hall.
Next Thursday 5th March, due to the International Women's Day celebration, the Faculty of Physics and its Equality Commission, Institute for Corpuscular Physics (UVEG-CSIC) and the Real Sociedad Española de Física (RSEF) propose two activities which will take place at the “Eduardo Boscá" Library of Sciences of the Campus of Burjassot-Paterna: the inauguration of a Research Exhibition in Nuclear Physics at the Library lobby which recalls twelve researchers who have very significantly contributed to the Nuclear Physics from the beginning; and later, the “Women Sciences, Women in Sciences, Sciences with Women” act, with the participation of Capitolina Díaz, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Universitat de València and president of the Research and Technologist Women Association (AMIT), and Kate Shaw, researcher of the Geneva CERN and the ICTP in Italy.
On Thursday at 18h, it will start with the “En el umbral de la vida” (Nära livet, Ingmar Bergman, 1958) movie at the Palau de Cerveró. This is the second one of the cycles which the Cinema Club has programmed specially from the gender perspective for March, “La maternidad, a debate” (“Motherhood on debate”).
The programmed acts for the first week of March will end on Friday with “Sasi rosa” documental, at Aula Magna of Cultural Centre La Nau at 19h, and there will later be a discussion about women discrimination in India. On the other hand, the last workshop will be presented at La Nau dels Estudiants “From 50 Shades of Grey to Twilight: Do we need more passion in our lives?”. It is a workshop which deals, from a gender perspective, the analysis of several cultural products (bestseller) of the past years and tries to see the key of its success as for it has strongly connected with million of women around the world.
From Tuesday 3rd March and to the last week of April, more than 50 activities among seminars, workshops, conferences, book presentations, expositions, and panel discussions are prepared and organised both by the Equality Unit, the students delegation, and the centres and students associations which have participated in several announcements for help created for this reason.
The complete programme of the continuously updated activities can be found in: http://www.uv.es/igualtat
Last update: 9 de march de 2015 13:00.
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