Women’s Week 2016 at the Barcelona Knowledge Hub of the Academia Europaea
PROGRAMME
“Women and Migrations. Challenges and opportunities”
With the support of the “Academia Europaea 2016 Hubert Curien Fund” and the collaboration of the CERCA Institute, the UNU-GCM, and the RAMC
March 3, Thursday
18.00-19.00 h.
Location: IEC, Prat de la Riba Room
Distinguished Lecture:
“Women and cultural transmission. The essential role of translation”
By Mary Ann Newman, Farragut Fund, New York
19.00-20.00 h
Location: IEC, Prat de la Riba Room
Greater than Life. In remembrance of Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)
By Ricard Guerrero, MAE, UB and UMASS-Amherst
“Lin in Espain. How she stood our Spanish-Catalan accent.” (Documentaries selected by Rubén Duro)
And by John Feldman, Filmmaker, Hummingbird Films, New York
“Symbiotic Earth”
20.00-21.00 h.
Location: Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia (RAMC)
Concert: Music from Syria and Kurdistan, a nation without a State
By the Gani Mirzo Band. Neila BenBey (singer), Francesc Puig (clarinet), Juan Jose Barreda (flamenco guitar), and Gani Mirzo (ud, buzuk, composer)
March 4, Friday
17.00-19.00 h
Location: IEC, Prat de la Riba Room
InterSection Workshop: “Women, migrations and war”
Convenor: Mitsi Ito
– Mitsi Ito, New York, Barcelona
“How a New Yorker fell in love with Barcelona”
– Maryam Ghafouri, Teheran, Madrid
“Opportunities of Muslim women in the Western World”
– Pere Castaño, Sabadell
“Walking with immigrants”
– Carmen Chica, Barcelona
“Poetry in war, poetry on war”
– Closing lecture: Salvador Giner, MAE, University of Barcelona
“Is war a male affair?”
19.00-19.30 h
Location: IEC, Prat de la Riba Room
Commemoration of the International Year of Global Understanding
By Silvia Pellicer, YAE, University of Zaragoza
Women on the Move: The Transnational Era and the power of Art
19.30-20.30 h
Location: IEC, Cloister, 1st floor
Art exhibit
Curator: Anna Wasmer
– Digital art: Photomontage by Teresa Gironès: “The Book of Beasts. Palmira 2015.” Reflections of the dangers of power and the horrors of war.
Introduced by Núria López Ribalta, critic of art
– Paintings by Trini Sotos: “Women/Dones/Mujeres.” Reflections and aesthetics of female emotions
Introduced by Eusebi Vila Delclòs, artist painter
20.30-21.00 h
Reception. IEC Cloister, ground floor.
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RELATED DOCUMENTS
Women’s Day Lectures 2006-2015
The IEC and the International Women’s Day, 2006-2013, by Carme Puche
Ramon Casas (1866-1932), portrait of a time, by Carmen Chica
Abstracts and CVs of participants in the 2016 Women’s Week (in preparation)
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