The UAB commemorates International Working Women's Day with a wide variety of activities

The XX International Women’s Day Jornada Institucional, the main event, will take place on March 10th at 12:00 at the UAB’s Rectorate Building Auditorium and it will be livestreamed. The act will be presided by the UAB rector, Dr. Javier Lafuente Sancho, who will open the event then give way to the university’s equality policy presentation by Dr. Esther Zapater Duque, the UAB Secretary General.

One of the key moments will be the act of recognition of the UAB’s Library Service, with an address by the head of the service, Ms. Núria Casaldàliga Rojas Llombart, followed by a video homage and the award-giving ceremony in recognition of their commitment to defending women’s rights at the University. Some activities organised by the Library Service stand out--the expositions located in every library on the occasion of International Working Women’s Day, the installation of Menstrual Points and the talks and roundtables regarding gender-related topics in different libraries. Also outstanding, is the participation of four libraries in the Equality Commissions of our Faculties and Centres.

Then, Dr. Núria Ferran Ferrer, rector’s delegate for the direction of the UB’s Equality Unit and Professor at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, will hold the following conference: “The role of libraries and library and information sciences in the construction of a more equal, diverse and inclusive society.”

The event will be closed with a musical performance by the UAB’s Chamber Choir of emblematic works like Bread and Roses or Cant de lluita by Roba Estesa. To finish off, the attendees will be offered a glass of cava.

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The act will have Catalan Sign Language interpretation and captions.

You can download the poster for the act.

 

Organised activities in different faculties

Aside from the main act, different faculties of the UAB have organised activities to commemorate March 8th.

• Faculty of Medicine: The faculty drives the activity “Visibilising women in the field of Medicine“ with a series of lectures touching on different aspects of healthcare from a gender perspective. The activity will begin with the inauguration of the exposition “Voices of the desert, women and the Berber tradition” by Mar Serra, President of the AMRAD Association. Salvador Navarro, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, will then be in charge of the official welcome, followed by different conferences about gender perspective in physiotherapy, women and health in penal establishments and the importance of gender training in the medical field.
  
  Finally, between March 3rd and 7th, the Faculty of Medicine will install the Equality Tree, an interactive activity where the community will be encouraged to post messages and reflections about the meaning of March 8th. These messages will be digitised and shared to give them visibility.
• Faculty of Education: The Faculty of Education has organised a social media campaign with videos where different members of the education community talk about the importance of feminism and gender perspective in education. Until March 8th, these videos will be published daily in social media and the Faculty’s screens.
• Geography and Gender Research Group: Presents the screening of the documentary No apto para cobardes (Not Suited for Cowards) by Nuria Silván Miracle. This work compiles the testimonials of fifty women over fifty contemplating taboo topics like menopause, maturity, the fear of ageing or loneliness. The screening will take place March 3rd at 10:00 in the UAB Cinema (Plaça Cívica).
• UAB Library Service: Our different libraries host the exposition “The Honoris Causa Women Doctors of the UAB“ with the intention of acknowleging the value of the UAB’s 18 awarded women. The exposition can be visited between the months of February and March. Additionally, a virtual version of the exhibit was created with all of the contents that can be seen at the different expo installations.
• Science Faculties, Faculty of Biosciences, School of Engineering and Science and Technology Library: These centres have arranged different activities, among them:
  • Expo “The Honoris Causa Women in Science, Bioscience and Engineering Fields”:  In tandem with the Library Service, it is an exhibit about the women laureates of this distinction by the UAB, such as Lynn Margulis or Margarita Salas. It can be found in the Science and Technology Library from February 11th to March 31st.
  • “Guess Who?” game: An interactive proposal to put to test people’s knowledge of women scientists and inventors. It is displayed on the walls of the Faculties of Science and Biosciences and the School of Engineering from February 11th to March 8th.
  • Women’s self-defence workshop: facilitated by the Món-Físic club, this workshop will provide practical tools to deal with threatening situations. It will take place on March 5th at the Physical Activity Service.

 

• Physical Activity Service (SAF): The SAF has also taken initiative with a programme aiming to promote women’s physical activity in our campus with a wide variety of sports activities: 
  •  “Women, we move“ is a programme addressing women at the UAB and members of the SAF, and includes beginner sessions for sports like football, basketball, volleyball and climbing. It also includes practical workshops such as: hypopressives, self-defence, Latin dance... Click on this link for more information!
  • Biblio Mou-te: It is a collaboration with the Libraries and the Healthy and Sustainable Campus in an initiative to incorporate physical activity in libraries and help our student body study more efficiently.