The 8th of March in the campus
20/02/2020
Although it is difficult to define the specific event that started the commemoration of the 8th of March, one of the consensus is that the repression and the fight of the American textile workers at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th inspired the celebration of this day. Like every year, teaching staff, workers and students will prepare the Women's International Day with several activities that will be organized in the campus.
On the one hand, the Faculty of Law will organise a conference on male violence in social media "Cyberviolence against women: legal analysis and remaining challenges", which will take place on Wednesday, the 4th of March. The criminal lawyer and male cyberviolence expert Laia Serra will give a talk, and there will be as well a roundtable discussion on the legal approach of cyberviolence. On the other hand, the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting will organise the conference "Teaching how to translate and interpret with a gender perspective". It is the first conference organised in the faculty to reflect on the introduction of the gender perspective in teaching materials and practices. Next, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities will prepare a seminar on Tuesday, the 18th of February, along with the Bachelor's degree in Humanities, in which they will discuss the presence of women in the area of cultural management. The Faculty of Arts has also scheduled a conference and a workshop on Monday, the 9th of March, about art and cyberfeminism. It will be delivered by the researcher and author Remedios Zafra.
This year we will count on the presence of the recognised ecofeminist Yayo Herrero, on the 3rd of March in Sala Teatre, where she will give a talk entitled "Ecofeminism before the climate emergency". We will also count on the feminist journalist Cristina Fallarás, the creator of the hashtag #Cuéntalo. She will deliver a conference organised by the Observatory for Equality on the 18th of March, in the Sala Teatre.
In a more cultural level, the 4th of March there will be the play called "W.I.T.C.H.", by Les Fugitives, organised by the Gender and Education Group. The performance is set in the 60s and tells the real story of the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, an American feminist group.
You can consult here the scheduled activities linked to the Women's International Day. The information will be periodically updated.
Feminist Strike
On Sunday, the 8th of March there will be a 24-hour long feminist strike. The intention of this strike is to raise awareness of the inequalities in the reproductive and productive work between men and women, and the discriminatory situations they imply: pay gap, glass ceiling, sticky floor, mobbing, horizontal segregation and vertical segregation, etc. The aim is also to report patriarchal violence that lesbian and trans women suffer daily, and the repeated infringement of migrant women's rights.