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Mariana Pineda is a theatre play by the Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. It is based on the life of Mariana de Pineda Muñoz, a relevant feminist in the resistance to the absolutist government of Ferdinand VII (19th Century) in Spain. At the age of 26, Mariana Pineda was sentenced to death for defending “Freedom, Equality and Law”. She was offered freedom in exchange of betraying those fighting with her. After she refused, she was sentenced to death and executed.
The plays was written between 1923 and 1925, and was first performed in 1927.
Federico García Lorca (1898 –1936) was a Spanish poet and playwright. He was a relevant member of a group of artists and scientists who mode international key contributions: Dalí, Ramón y Cajal, Machado, Ortega y Gasset and Picasso. He was killed by Franco’s military force at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Jordi Vivancos i Farràs is Professor of Sociology of Music at the Higher School of Music of Catalonia (ESMUC) and Director of the International Music Contest Maria Canals. He is the Coordinator of the Clavé Project of the Palau de la Música Catalana, with 1800 children and 80 choirs. He studied sociology at the University of Barcelona and dedicated part of his work to breaking down stereotypes about classical music and cultural elitism.
Ane López de Aguileta is a researcher and Teaching Assistant in Sociology at the University of Barcelona. She has studied professional clarinet at Arriaga Conservatory (Bilbao) and Zaragoza Conservatory. She holds an MA from the University of Zaragoza with a thesis on the transformation of working-class adults’ lives through classical music gatherings.
Director: Ken Loach
Synopsis: Earnestly talky drama focusing on idealist Liverpudlian communist David Carr, who heads to Spain in 1937 to fight against Franco's fascists. What David learns is that the Republican forces, made up of independent militia, are bitterly divided, with much infighting and betrayal from the Stalinist forces within David's own party. He falls for socialist Blanca and learns how terrifying and haphazard war can be (with timeout for ideological discussions). Sympathetic characters and sweeping action help to compensate for the political polemics.
Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin, Ireland. As both an academic and an activist, her work is guided by the belief that the purpose of scholarship and research is not just to understand the world but to change it for the good of all humanity. To this end, she played a lead role in establishing the UCD Equality Studies Centre in 1990 and the UCD School of Social Justice in 2005. The aim was to create safe academic spaces that would develop emancipatory teaching and research practices. Outside of the university, she has worked over many years to challenge inequalities and promote social justice with community groups, non-governmental organisations and statutory bodies, both nationally and internationally.
Director: Chloé Zhao
Synopsis: Fern is a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Ruy Gomes Braga Neto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a sociologist of work and director of the sociology department at the University of São Paulo. In recent years, he has devoted himself to the study of the "precariat" of which he is one of the first to have proposed the concept. His work focuses on Brazil and broadens into comparative research including in particular Portugal and South Africa. In addition to participating in the promotion of a network of sociology of work which extends over the “global South”, he works on “public sociology”.
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Director: Spike Jonze
Synopsis: In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user’s every needs. To Theodore’s surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system, named Samantha. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
Albert Sabater, University of Girona, Spain. He has been a Marie Sklodowska-Curie predoctoral researcher from the European Commission, postdoctoral researcher from the Economic and Social Research Council through the Understanding Population Trends and Processes Affecting Society and the Population program (National Center for Research Methods, University of Manchester), Juan de la Cierva Fellow at the Center for Demographic Studies (Autonomous University of Barcelona), and researcher, lecturer and member of the Research Data Management advisory group of the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of Saint Andrews, and associate researcher at the Center for Housing Research and Center for Population Change of the same university.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Synopsis: A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.
Sandra Racionero, University of Barcelona, Spain. She holds a double PhD in Psychology and C&I from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a Fulbright fellow. Racionero was the only European to be awarded with the 2011 Academic Achievement Award from UW-Madison. She participated in the FP6 INCLUD-ED project and in the FP7 IMPACT-EV Project, among other competitive research, and she was the principal investigator of an RTD project funded by the Spanish Government on the transformative impact of actions of preventive socialization of gender violence on memory, emotions, and interactions. Her field of research is socioneuroscience applied to the overcoming of violence in human relationships, such as violent sexual-affective relationships and child sexual abuse...
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