March 8, International Women's Day
El Winners will be announced in March Is celebrated the International Women's Day and the Higher School of Informatics will participate in the program of activities that the University of Castilla-La Mancha has prepared for this special day. In particular, the ESI will host the conference entitled "Women in History: Equality and Citizenship", delivered by Araceli Martinez Esteban, social worker and researcher in the history of women at the UAH. The conference will be held on March 15, at 13:XNUMX p.m. in the Alan Turing Assembly Hall of the Fermín Caballero building (Escuela Superior de Informática) and is organized by the Unit Against Violence against Women of the Sub-delegation of the Government of Ciudad Real.
THE CONFERENCE
WOMEN IN HISTORY. EQUALITY AND CITIZENSHIP
Equality between women and men is one of the most esteemed values of advanced democracies. However, to this day there are still a large number of barriers that prevent equality from being fully effective, including the invisibility of women's history as part of the universal history of humanity.
In order to overcome this situation, in addition to the analyzes and measures of the present, having knowledge of the past is essential when it comes to correctly interpreting the keys of the present and, with this, formulating viable proposals for social transformation that do not obviate the memory of the women.
In this sense, it is proposed to hold the conference «Women in History. Equality and citizenship", consisting of an explanatory journey through the process of acquiring citizenship rights, which covers the period between the origins of feminism and its links with rationalism and the Enlightenment until the approval of the Spanish Constitution of 1931 .
The general objective is to promote equality between the sexes through knowledge of women's history, favoring a reflection on the historical, symbolic and material position of women that contributes to the change in attitude necessary for social transformation. More specifically, we consider:
- Know the history of women, overcoming the invisibility of their past and exposing it as part of general history, through the historiographical review of the evolution of suffragism in Spain
- Expand a female genealogy that allows a better understanding of past and present socio-political events, as well as their contributions to feminist thought
- Empower women through the discovery of female referents presented as historical subjects far from both victimhood and exceptionality.
THE RAPPORTEUR
ARACELI MARTINEZ ESTEBAN
Originally from Cifuentes (Guadalajara), Araceli Martínez Esteban is a doctoral candidate in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies −line of Gender, History and Cultural Production− at the University of Alcalá. In addition, she is a graduate and diploma in Social Work, with an official master's degree in Social Intervention in Advanced Knowledge Societies and a postgraduate degree as an Expert in Equal Opportunities for Women. She has also completed an official master's degree in Management and Entrepreneurship of Cultural Projects.
Her professional career has been linked to the fields of equality between women and men, minors in situations of helplessness, international cooperation and food sovereignty. She has also worked in the sphere of cultural management, having curated several exhibitions and carried out collaborations with companies specialized in the recovery of artistic and cultural heritage.
In November 2019, she received the IV Francisca de Pedraza Prize against gender violence, promoted by the Association of Progressive Women of Alcalá and awarded jointly with the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares City Council and the Alcalá de Henares College of Lawyers.
