Virginia Woolf pictured in 1927
What extraordinary works carried out by women have been buried for decades? Which philosophers, writers, scientists or artists, couples of famous men, have disappeared behind their reputation? For the third consecutive year, the cycle of conferences Neither they muses nor they geniuses , coordinated by the Classic and Modern association, will delve into the gaps that these iconic couples hide.
CONFERENCES
-Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. 19:30, Monday, January 16, 2017 . The art historian and writer Frances Spalding will address the relationship between one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf, and her friend Roger Fry, a painter and art critic. Buy the ticket here.
**- Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze and Antoine Lavoisier. ** 7:30 p.m., Monday, January 23, 2017 . "Marie-Anne and Antoine Lavoisier they were, in addition to a married couple, a great scientific work team . Their achievements, related to combustion or oxygen, among other aspects, make them fathers of modern chemistry. However, that "title" is held only by Antoine. Marie-Anne, like other scientists before and after in time who developed her work in collaboration with her husbands and brothers, did not see his work recognized ", is explained in the description of this talk. Ana López Navajas, a researcher at the University of Valencia, will be in charge of reflecting on the consequences of this conception for women and science. Buy your ticket here.
** - Mary Moffat and David Livingstone. "Mrs. Livingstone, I guess", 7:30 p.m., Monday, January 30.** Cristina Morató, journalist and writer, will remember the figure of Mary Moffat, a traveler who "coped with great courage against diseases, wild beasts and long absences of her husband. She passed away, after a life of sacrifice, in present-day Zambia. She was forty-one years old and always felt like a white African." Buy the ticket here.
- María Teresa León and Rafael Alberti: Why “the tail of the comet”? , 7:30 p.m., Monday, February 6 , by Laura Freixas (CyM) . “Now I am the tail of the comet. He goes before her ”, León wrote in her memoirs after the death of her husband, who always felt like a “woman of” herself and her society despite being a writer as well. " It is worth asking if this distribution of roles is the result of certain conditioning factors, material and symbolic , prior to the biographies of each of them and how they shaped them". Buy your ticket here.
- Lucia Moholy and Laszlo Moholy Nagy. "She taught me to think", 7:30 p.m., Monday, February 13 , by María José Magaña Clemente, head of visual arts at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid. Discover the photographer Lucía Moholy who developed her career in parallel to her husband, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, within the bubbling avant-garde of the Bauhaus. Her husband said of her, "The beacon of her intelligence illuminated my own emotional chaos. She taught me how to think." Buy the ticket here.
- _ Aline Kominsky and Robert Crumb. Two feathers, a heart… or a sideshow monster? ,_ 7:30 p.m., Monday, February 27 , by Josune Muñoz, Basque philologist and researcher. Four-handed comic. "We will talk about underground comics, the unknown feminist comic and the different autobiographical materials of the couple, a review of more than four decades of comics". Buy the ticket here.