Coinciding with the celebration, in 2025, of the centenary of the building del Círculo de Bellas ArtesWe propose a series of thematic conversations featuring Spanish creators and researchers from different fields.

The goal is to consider the restoration of links, often unknown and even broken, between different generations of women in order to build, through dialogue, a genuine culture of democratic equality, which undoubtedly teaches how to inhabit the common space with an attitude of respect and freedom for all the people who inhabit it.

To that end, each session will pay tribute to a Spanish teacher who has developed her career and teaching career from the late 19th to the second half of the 20th century. All of them have made the classroom a world and the world a classroom; that is what unites them.

The aim, then, is to foster genealogical thinking that shares veiled, unknown works and biographies, or those approached from angles that continue to prevent the possibility of thinking about the world and the things of the world in another way: to think and to think about ourselves rationally and poetically in a clear allusion to María Zambrano. 

Programme

Each session will begin with a tribute to a "teacher," which will set the theme and approach. Following this opening, a discussion will take place with two invited speakers and a third person acting as moderator. 

Tuesday, October 14 – María Zambrano Room
Creative Women Teachers in the Labyrinth: Between Creation and Reflection. Dedicated to Emilia Pardo Bazán
Participants: Cristina Oñoro, Marina Casado
Moderator: Ana Rossetti 

Tuesday, November 25 – Valle Inclán Room
Creative teachers: the inner world as freedom. Dedicated to Josephine Aldecoa
Participants: Aurora Luque, Estefanía Cabello
Moderator: Julia Barella 

Tuesday, December 9 – María Zambrano Room
Creative teachers: the symbolic legacy. Dedicated to Ernestina de Champourcín
Participants: Ana Sofía Pérez Bustamante, Amelina Correa
Moderator: Noemí Sambugal 

Tuesday, January 20 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna Room
Creative teachers in the non-place. Dedicated to Mercè Rodoreda
Participating: Carme Riera, Julia Barella
Moderator: Lourdes Ventura 

Thursday, February 12 – Valle-Inclán Room
Creative teachers: other principles of authority. Dedicated to Maria de Pablos
Participants: Marisa Manchado, Pilar Serrano Betored
Moderator: Marta López Vilar 

Thursday, March 5 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna Room
Creative teachers: those placed in positions of power, those displaced. Dedicated to Maria Zambrano
Participating: Mercedes Gómez Blesa, Marifé Santiago
Moderator: Fanny Rubio 

Closing of the last session of the cycle: Musical performance by María José Cordero with her work "Great Miniatures for Piano". 

Image: Photo by Wilhelm Gunkel in Unsplash