As every year, the Universitat de València celebrates International Women's Day with an extensive cultural and educational activities programme that will take place during the days leading up to 8th March, the commemoration day, and which will last for several weeks.

The institutional act scheduled to take place in the Cloister and the Main Hall of La Nau Cultural Centre on Monday 7th March will begin at 5 p.m. with the reading of the institutional manifesto by the principal of the Universitat de València, Mavi Mestre Escrivà. This will be followed by a conference-colloquium between Miguel Lorente Acosta, professor of Legal Medicine at the Universidad de Granada and former Government Delegate for Gender Violence, and Angela Escribano Martínez, Doctor in Law and consultant to the Government Delegation in the Valencian Community on Equality and Gender-based Violence. Lorente and Escribano will respond during the colloquium to the need and possibility of men in feminism. The event will be moderated by journalist Julia Ruiz and registration is required at the following link:

https://encuestas.uv.es/index.php/892674?lang=ca

As part of the institutional acts on the occasion of International Women's Day, as every year on 8th March, a five-minute silence has been called at the doors of the Office of the Principal, which this year will take place at 11 am.

Cultural programme to the gender perspective
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Universitat de València also responds to its commitment to the gender perspective through the University Culture Service programming, which will take place at the La Nau Cultural Centre and on the different campuses of the Universitat through various university cultural classrooms and programmes.

A large part of the programme will take place at the La Nau Cultural Centre. It will begin next Monday 7th March, at 12 p.m., with 'Cooks and journalists with a woman's name', an activity organised by the Gastronomy classroom in the Cloister, with the participation of prominent cooks and journalists, including María José Martínez, chef at the Lienzo restaurant; Begoña Rodrigo, chef at La Salita; Alejandra Herrador, from La Atalaya, and the gastronomic journalists Almudena Ortuño, Marina Vega and Paula Pons. The event, presented by the business strategy and gastronomic communication consultant, Maje Martínez Cortina, will address, among other issues, the present and future of women in the restaurant sector: challenges, professional recognition and transformations.

The next activity, which is part of the Women Creators Cycle of the Lluís Vives European School of Thought, will be the conference 'The construction of female identity in Iberian culture', by the Emeritus full university Professor of Archaeology at the Universitat de València, Carmen Aranegui. The event will take place on Wednesday 23rd March at 6 pm.

The Literature Society also hosts an activity of the Women Creators Cycle, on Thursday 24th March, a very special meeting between two writers. The colloquium 'Writing female guilt: stereotypes and deconstructions' will be led by Purificación Mascarell, author of the book 'Cartilla de redención', and Laura Martínez, author of 'Desde la trinchera'. The debate will take place in the Aula Magna (La Nau Cultural Centre), at 7 pm, and will be presented and moderated by Cristina García Pascual, head of the Literature Department at the Universitat de València.

Finally, regarding conferences and debates, the women’s voice in poetry world will close the programme with a gender perspective at La Nau. The author Marina Bianchi will visit the Aula Magna on Wednesday, 30th March, at 5 pm, with the lecture 'Spanish poetry in Italian Hispanism'. The event will be presented and moderated by the head of the University's Poetry Club, Xelo Candel.

The theatre programme in March began with a show especially aimed at university students, 'Spoiler Alert', performed by Lola Boreal on the 2nd and 3rd, directed by Aurora Diago. On the 9th and 10th, it will be the turn of 'Marina', by Teresa Balló and Alejandra Garrido, about social violence against women. Victoria Salvador directs 'The Unexpected', by Fabrice Melquiot, by Inesperadas Teatro on the 23rd and 24th. And the month's programme will close with one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies, 'As You Like It', on the 30th and 31st, starring Rosalinda, a woman banished from the court who disguises herself as a man to survive on the outside, performed by Teada and directed by Amanda Harris.

And in the musical section, the Music Club continues its collaboration with the Equality Unit of the Universitat de València in the organisation of a soprano and piano concert on 9th March, in the Chapel of La Nau, as part of the cultural activities programmed to celebrate International Women's Day. This concert will offer a programme made up solely of female composers.

As part of the “Cultura als campus” programme, the March programme also has the gender perspective as a common denominator. Between 8th March and 8th April, the Faculty of Physiotherapy of the Universitat will host the exhibition 'Women with a lot of history', which distinguishes 18 women who have been made invisible by the androcentric cultural tradition, a fact that has deprived society of the knowledge they have contributed.

The programme of the recently reopened Sala Palmireno of the Faculty of Geography and History also hosts two shows, both at 7 pm On 22nd March, “Hablando De Mujeres” (Talking About Women), a multilingual concert-talk show, will be presented with a set of dialogues and songs about objectification, idolatry, activism and women’s struggle, with musicians Miquel Gil, José Luis Albacete and Antonio J. Iglesias. In addition, on the 29th, the theatre company Komos will perform 'Lysistrata', a classical comedy in which Athenian women are empowered after enduring prolonged absences from home by men.

In March, the Nau Gran programme also proposed initiatives on gender equality on campus. At the beginning of the month, the Faculty of Psychology presented the book of short stories “Habitaciones propias”, a winning initiative of Activa Cultura Nau Gran, which pays tribute to the book by Virginia Woolf. In addition, on 7th March, at 6 pm, the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry will host the visit of Juan Antonio Rodríguez del Pino, who will talk about men’s commitment in the feminist struggle.

The centres, through the Equality Commissions, are the other protagonists of the March programme for equality. In this sense, the Equality Commissions of the Burjassot-Paterna Campus and the Equality Unit have organised the presentation of the book “ACOSO. El #MeToo en la Ciencia Española” with the presence of its author, science journalist Ángela Bernardo Álvarez.

The Faculty of Nursing and Podiatry is focusing its awareness activities on the debate around the care management in the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequences for people who are professionally involved. On Friday 4th March, the study by Marcela Jabbaz and Dolors Comas, “Care Matters” will be presented at 12.30 pm.

The activities programmed in the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication also start on Monday 7th March and are combined between classroom activities organised by the teaching staff of a subject and centre activities.

On Monday, 7th March, from 8:30 am in Classroom 407, the activity “Las poetas también tiene voz en las lenguas peninsulares” will take place, coordinated by Professor Amparo Ricós. From 9 a.m. onwards, the Conference”'When they tried to shut me up, I shouted. Relations between culture and gender from a feminist perspective”. At 10 am, the exhibition “8M: back to the streets”, with photographs by Eva Máñez, will be inaugurated in the corridor on the first floor.

In the afternoon, from 5 pm, in Classroom S-06, there will be a meeting with Lori Saint-Martin, a Quebecois writer, as part of the 4th edition of the Cycle of Authors in the classrooms. And finally, at 7:30 pm in the Cultural Space, the theatrical proposal: “Los bancos de Prado” by Luisa Carnés, by students of the Degree in Hispanic Studies.

The FFTiC programme continues on Tuesday 8th March at 9:30 am in the Dean's corridor with several workshops: “Woman without Eden: author's voices workshop” and “Intersections between art and literature: tote bags workshop”.

At 12 pm, also as part of the classroom activities, the documentary “Mujeres que no callan” by Nuria Garrido will be projected and in the afternoon, from 5 pm onwards, the lecture “Women in medieval Catalan literature”, by Maria Saiz.

The events continue until the end of the month with the colloquium on 28th March in the Cultural Space with the translator Catalina Ginard, based on the book “Falling is like flying” (2021), the novel by the Dutch author Manon Uphoff about sexual violence in the domestic sphere, and finally on 30th March with the conference, “Women's world in Russian literature: challenges and aspirations”.

From 10th March, the project “Women, defence and the sea: sailors, captains, corsairs and pirates in history. New stories with a gender perspective” will take place at the Faculty of Geography and History. Scenic and historical exhibitions, reading clubs and conferences make up an activities programme.

Along the same lines, the Faculty of Education is hosting the seminar and cycle of conferences: “Women, ecofeminism and musical heritage in the agricultural field” between 21st March and 5th April and between 21st and 25th March at the Science Park, the Workshop @FlipPhysics to make visible the work of those scientists women who have decided to choose a professional career in Nuclear and Particle Physics, where the female presence is scarce, finding themselves in a minority position, both in their jobs and attendance at scientific events, as well as finding themselves affected by the absence of female referents.

The Faculty of Physiotherapy is getting involved in work with a gender perspective and is scheduling a training session for its students on 29th March dedicated to the detection of gender-based violence through clinical practice.

The project “Menstrual Dignity” led by the professor of Medicine Marisa Guillen and students of the Master's Degree in Gender and Equality Policies such as Mila Font returns with a second edition that is located in the Faculty of Medicine, although it is open to the participation of all students. On 29th March, the seminar “Women's health in different social and cultural contexts: Approach to sexual and mental health” will be led by the doctor Carmen Valls and moderated by the journalist Irene Rodrigo. In April, the following workshops will be held: 5th April: “Menstrual cycle”, 6th April: “Sexual violence” and 7th April: “Sexual health and emotional wellbeing”.

On Tuesday, 17th May, the 6th Conference of Women Researchers at the Science Park will be coordinated by the members of the ICMOL Equality Commission.

The entire programme can be consulted at www.uv.es/igualtat in the constantly updated calendar of events.

https://www.uv.es/igualtat/webnova2014/calendari22.pdf