Toledo, October 11, 2023.- The Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Delegation of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha has organized for the third consecutive year a cycle of training and awareness conferences, financed from the Funds of the State Pact against Gender Violence.
The cycle of conferences under the title: ‘A Cultural Approach to Violence against Women’, began this afternoon at the Library of Castilla-La Mancha with the intervention of the historian and writer Montserrat Jiménez Sureda, professor of Modern History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, specialist in studying the female universe and the role that women have played in history.
The conference: ‘Brujas y Marujas’ was presented by Aránzazu Lafuente, director of the Historical Archive of the Nobility, belonging to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
Monserrat Jiménez explained the emergence of witches and their evolution up to the present time and what caused so much fear of the societies in which they lived and how they defended themselves from it. The historian analyzed the change in perception of the figures of witches over time and the transfer of their influence in the artistic and literary panorama of each era, in addition to citing historical phenomena such as witch hunts in Europe during the Middle and Modern Ages, in short, the history of abuse and persecution suffered by women.
Montserrat Jiménez Sureda
Born in Girona, Montserrat Jiménez Sureda is a tenured professor of Modern History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Since 2013 he teaches the subject ‘History and Gender in the Modern Era’ at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the aforementioned university.
He has also taught at Venice International University. She is the author of the book entitled “Historia de la Mujer”, the first synthesis manual published in Spain on the history of women in the West.
A specialist in studying the female universe and the role that women have played in history, among his most recent books we can mention: ‘Las brujas: del feminicidio histórico al icono social’, ‘Les dones i les professions sanitàries al llarg de la història’ y ‘Amb el cor al paper. Història i teoria de les cartes d'amor’, all edited by the UAB Publications Service.
Next conference
The second conference of this cycle is scheduled for next October 26 at the Library of Castilla-La Mancha, at 7:00 p.m., under the title: ‘Equality: debt of gratitude contracted with Clara Campoamor’, by Isaías Lafuente, journalist Cadena SER.
The journalist will analyze the figure of the famous Clara Campoamor, as a writer, jurist, politician and suffragette, who worked tirelessly for equality and the defense of the rights of all women.