Isabel Morant Deusa (Almoines, 1947) is an emeritus full university professor at the Universitat de València. She is historian, feminist and writer. She first studied teacher training and then history in the Universitat de València, where she received a doctorate in Geography and History. She has been professor of the Department of Modern History, and was vice-principal of University Extension between 1984 and 1990. In this period, she organised the first cycle of feminist studies and the Universitat d’Estiu de Gandia. Since 1990, she is the director of ‘Colecció Feminismes’ (Feminisms Collection). She is author of the books ‘Amor, matrimonio y familia: la construcción histórica de la familia moderna’ (1998) and ‘Discursos de la vida buena: matrimonio, mujer y sexualidad en la literatura humanista’ (2002), among others.

Morant was member pf the Valencian Committee for Culture between 2004 and 2011 and in 2007 she was awarded with the first prize of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) for the encouragement of equality in knowledge.

Carmen Alborch Bataller (Castelló de Rugat, 1947) has been full university professor of Mercantile Law in the Universitat de València and was the first Dean of the Faculty of Law. She was Ministry of Culture during the last government of Felipe González. She is author of legal books and others about the role of women.

She studied Law at the Universitat de València. She finished her studies in 1970 and the doctorate in 1973. She was General Director of Culture of the Valencian Government and Director of the IVAM. In 1993, Felipe González appointed her Ministry of Culture. Then, in the general election of 1996, she was elected member of the Parliament from Valencia. She was also elected for this position in the elections of 2000 and 2004. In the 2007 municipal elections, she was the candidate of PSV-PSOE for the mayor’s office of Valencia. In the Spanish general election of 2007, she was elected senator from Valencia’s province.

Antonia Mir Chust (Catarroja, 1928) is graduate in Fine Arts by the Faculty Sant Carles of València. She has an extensive and widely recognised pictorial work. During the last years, her relationship with the Universitat de València has been fixed through several ways: On the one hand, with the donation of pictorial work. As well as with annual financial donations for the implementing of cultural activities aimed to the cultural insertion thorough the programme ‘Nau Social i Emergents’. Finally, with the signature of the contract for the implementation of joint activities between the Antonia Mir Foundation, the Catarroja Town Hall and the Universitat de València.

PDI Promotion

The vice-principal Maria Vicenta Mestre has presented the announcement of selection for teaching places (tenured university professors and full university professors) and the resolution for the promotion of the teaching staff. 78 vacancies for the promotion to Chairs and 70 to tenured university teaching staff have been approved for the following academic year. Among these 70 vacancies, two of them are due to structural needs, 50 for tenure-track 2 doctors and 18 for the stabilisation of temporary tenure-track 2 doctors. It has also been approved a resolution to stabilise the researching doctor staff that has finished the Ramón y Cajal Programme.

Emeritus and honorary professors

On the other hand, the Governing Council has approved the hiring or extension of the emeritus teaching staff and the appointment of honorary teaching staff. They will be emeritus: Eugenio Burriel, Adela Cortina, Matilde Fernández, Manuel Jiménez, Pascual Lahuerta, Brigitte Lépinette, Francisco Martínez Soriano, Ana Miranda, Isabel Morant, Enrique Orts, Sergio Sevilla and Francisco Tomás Vert. The honorary professors will be Rafel Acerete, Lluís Aguiló, Carmen Bernal, Remedio González, Enrique Llorens, Rafael Peris, Miguel Roig, Emilia Salvador, Julia Sevilla, Fernando Tena and Juan Antonio Tomás Carpi.

The Governing Council has approved the curriculum’s proposal of the Degree in Data Science and the calendar of management procedures of the UV.

Philosophy and Mathematics

Finally, it has been approved the adhesion of Universitat de València to the Manifesto on Philosophy teaching  as well as the declaration about present and future of Mathematics in Spain. The documents have been presented by the respective deans: Jesús Alcolea and Joan Monterde.

These documents can be consulted clicking here: Philosophy and Mathematics.

Institutional condolences

The Principal Esteban Morcillo has conveyed his institutional condolences on the occasion of the recent death of the full university professor of the Department of Analytic Chemistry, Guillermo Ramis and the service assistant of the Faculty of Chemistry, Carlos López.