The University of Barcelona commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women with a session on equality and institutional commitment
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Equality
(25/11/2024)
On Monday 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the University of Barcelona held a conference dedicated to the fight against gender violence and gender inequalities in the academic and social fields. It took place in the Historic Building’s Aula Ramón y Cajal. The session, organized by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Equality, Inclusion and Gender, included a roundtable, the award ceremony for the Clara Campoamor Awards, and the reading of the Manifesto by the Women and Science Committee (Inter-university Council of Catalonia), under the title “El silenci és complicitat” (Silence is complicity).
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Equality
25/11/2024
On Monday 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the University of Barcelona held a conference dedicated to the fight against gender violence and gender inequalities in the academic and social fields. It took place in the Historic Building’s Aula Ramón y Cajal. The session, organized by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Equality, Inclusion and Gender, included a roundtable, the award ceremony for the Clara Campoamor Awards, and the reading of the Manifesto by the Women and Science Committee (Inter-university Council of Catalonia), under the title “El silenci és complicitat” (Silence is complicity).
Joan Guàrdia, rector of the UB, opened the session by giving a warm welcome and talking about the institution’s commitment, and added that “everything that is said, thought and lived here today must be disseminated and explained outside of here, to society”. Núria Ferran, director of the UB’s Equality Unit, chaired the roundtable “Violències masclistes: reptes i respostes des de l’àmbit jurídic, psicològic i social” (Gender violence: challenges and responses from a legal, psychological and social field), and began the session by presenting the action lines of the new institutional protocol against gender violence. This document strengthens the preventive measures and victim accompaniment processes, and it promotes a safe and discrimination-free university environment. She also highlighted the work carried out by the Unit, and acknowledged that "perhaps, there are times when the actions we carry out are perceived as insufficient”.
The roundtable included the participation of three distinguished professionals: Júlia Humet, lawyer specializing on criminal law, family relations and gender violence (from Nèmesi Advocades i Assessores); Alba Alfageme, psychologist expert on sexual abuse and victimization processes, and professor at the University of Girona, and Carme Guil, judge at the Provincial Court of Barcelona (Section 3). The three experts debated on the challenges and the solutions to tackle this problem from different fields, and have given a cross-sectional view on the issue.
Humet stated that “protocols are living documents, which must be constantly renewed; they must not only be reactive regarding aggressions, but preventive and restorative”. On the other hand, Alfageme pointed out that "we are currently experiencing a process of making a silenced reality more visible" and stated, literally, that “we are stirring up a real hornet’s nest, and this sometimes creates resistance”. “We must work to break the mental framework with which the majority has been educated. Doing nothing is becoming an accomplice in the situation”, concluded the psychologist. Then, Guil acknowledged the “failure of the punitive approach to solve this issue, given that the levels of violence and harassment against women have not decreased in recent years". She said that “focusing on the punitive aspect of the aggressor does not work” and advocated “exploring ways of restorative justice for both victims and aggressors”.
The ceremony for the Clara Campoamor Awards took place afterwards. This year it reaches its sixth edition, and it honours the bachelor’s degree final projects (TFG) with gender perspective submitted during the 2023-2024 academic year.
The roundtable included the participation of three distinguished professionals: Júlia Humet, lawyer specializing on criminal law, family relations and gender violence (from Nèmesi Advocades i Assessores); Alba Alfageme, psychologist expert on sexual abuse and victimization processes, and professor at the University of Girona, and Carme Guil, judge at the Provincial Court of Barcelona (Section 3). The three experts debated on the challenges and the solutions to tackle this problem from different fields, and have given a cross-sectional view on the issue.
Humet stated that “protocols are living documents, which must be constantly renewed; they must not only be reactive regarding aggressions, but preventive and restorative”. On the other hand, Alfageme pointed out that "we are currently experiencing a process of making a silenced reality more visible" and stated, literally, that “we are stirring up a real hornet’s nest, and this sometimes creates resistance”. “We must work to break the mental framework with which the majority has been educated. Doing nothing is becoming an accomplice in the situation”, concluded the psychologist. Then, Guil acknowledged the “failure of the punitive approach to solve this issue, given that the levels of violence and harassment against women have not decreased in recent years". She said that “focusing on the punitive aspect of the aggressor does not work” and advocated “exploring ways of restorative justice for both victims and aggressors”.
The ceremony for the Clara Campoamor Awards took place afterwards. This year it reaches its sixth edition, and it honours the bachelor’s degree final projects (TFG) with gender perspective submitted during the 2023-2024 academic year.
The session includes the ceremony for the Clara Campoamor Awards and the presentation of the new protocol against gender violence.
Awards
The first prize (800 euros) was given to Natalí Bollívar Guzmán, student of Archaeology, for “La relación de las mujeres con la botánica durante la prehistoria. Una aproximación desde la arqueología y la etnografía de género” (Women’s relationship with botany in prehistoric times. An approach from archaeology and gender ethnography), supervised by Professor Santiago Riera Mora.
There were secondary prizes (200 euros each) as well:
- Andrea López Giménez, student of Spanish, for “Antología prologal de autoras del siglo xvii: autoridad, autorrepresentación y autopromoción” (Prologue anthology of 17th century women authors: authority, self-representation and self-promotion), supervised by Professor Mar Cortés Timoner.
- Lucía Jiménez Ramos, student of Psychology, for “Proposta d’intervenció amb un grup de suport per a dones amb trastorn per ús de substàncies del centre de dia en el Projecte Home” (Intervention proposal with a support group for women with substance use disorder at the day centre in Projecte Home), supervised by Professor Ana Adan Puig.
Moreover, honorable mentions were given to:
- Amy Julia Vergel Loe, student of Psychology, for “Health and socio-sanitary social inclusion in women survivors of IPV: a comparison between recovery phases”, supervised by lecturer Neus Roca Cortés.
- Ariadna Cruz Félix Menjíbar, student of Literary Studies, for “De La Prisionera a La Cautiva: el celoso y el deseo en Marcel Proust y Chantal Akerman” (From The Prisoner to The Captive: jealousy and desire in Marcel Proust and Chantal Akerman), supervised by lecturer Víctor Escudero Prieto.
- Irene Muñoz Cusidó, student of Social and Cultural Anthropology, for “Y se fue a por tabaco: sobre violencia económica y responsabilidad unilateral materna en la crianza” (He went out for cigarettes and never came back: on economic violence and unilateral maternal responsibility in parenting), supervised by lecturer Alice Van Den Bogaert.
- Joana Espuny de la Calle, student of Physics Física, for “Ethnography of physics laboratories”, supervised by Professor Sònia Estradé Albiol and lecturer Míriam Comet Donoso.
The ceremony closed with the awardees’ reading of the Women and Science Committee’s 25N institutional manifesto, which is titled “El silenci és complicitat” (Silence is complicity).
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