The University of La Laguna (ULL) commemorates International Women's Day tomorrow.

The University of La Laguna will hold various events tomorrow, Wednesday, March 12, to commemorate the International Women's Day, The commemoration took place last Saturday. The Guajara Campus will be the main venue for most of the day's activities, which will celebrate women's struggle for participation in society and their full development as individuals, on equal footing with men.

The artist and professor in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program M. Lohrum will direct a performance, At 11:00 a.m. in the Guajara Campus plaza, this artistic practice will use the body, through its movement and expressiveness, to carry out a creative process based on spontaneity, meditation, and interaction with the space. Furthermore, students will also be able to participate as a way to foster collaboration and question individual authorship, as the artist points out.

Following the completion of the work, at 12:00 noon, Carmen Marina Barreto, director of the Gender Equality Unit at this academic center, will read the manifesto of the Network of Equality Units of Spanish Universities. This reading will take place in front of the César Manrique General Lecture Hall and will be attended by the university rector, Francisco J. García, along with members of the governing team and anyone else who wishes to join in this event.

Next, at 12:30, the Lecture Hall of the Chemistry Section will host a round table This event aims to be a forum for reflection on the role of women in the workplace and their impact on society. Speakers from various sectors will participate in this colloquium, which will include Elena Pastor, Vice Dean of the Chemistry Degree Program at the Faculty of Sciences, as the representative of the University of La Laguna.

In the afternoon, at 6:30 p.m., it will be projected in the Graduation Hall of the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism the documentary “Patriarchy, the harmful organism”, which reflects on the structures of patriarchy and its impact on society. After the broadcast, attendees will be able to enjoy a talk and reflections from the Professor of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments at the University of La Laguna and expert in Intervention in Gender Violence, Pilar Matud, and Ana Hernández, who is part of the Mercedes Machado Feminist Association.