Round Table “Women’s school memory under Franco”

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12:00 pm
Faculty of Law. UNED

Coordinated by: Kira Mahamud Angulo, Lecturer in the Department of History of Education at UNED

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Four women will take part in this round table sharing their school experiences in their schools for girls in the 60s and 70s of the last century.

Reyes Fernández Durán

She attended the Colegio del Sagrado Corazón de Rosales, in Madrid. In the summer her parents sent her to Switzerland and Ireland. She spent a year in London in a Teresian Residence learning English.
She holds a degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in Economic Sciences.
She has held high positions in the administration and in public companies.
She has written the work Velo blanco, velo negro. La educación de las niñas de la burguesía en España en colegios religiosos (1950-1963), in which she recounts her memories as a pupil at the Colegio Sagrado Corazón in Sevilla and Madrid.

María Teresa Lavado Sánchez

She attended the Francisco de Vitoria Public School in Salamanca.
She holds a degree in Geography and History (Contemporary History Section) from the University of Salamanca.
Her professional activity was developed in the world of Libraries, in the Universities of León and UNED, in the latter as Expert of Archives, Libraries and Museums, being deputy director of the Library and coordinator of its cultural activities.

Pilar Alcalá Cortijo

Born in Madrid in 1946, she attended primary school at the Eijo Garay School Group and continued her high school studies at the Beatriz Galindo Institute, both in the Buenavista (now Salamanca) district of Madrid.
She holds a degree in Classical Philology.
After completing her degree, she obtained a post as Assistant Teacher of Spanish at a Grammar School, also for women, in London, as part of an exchange programme between Spain and the United Kingdom. She then went on to do postgraduate studies at the University of Florence. On her return she worked as an assistant lecturer at the Complutense University until 1978, when she joined the State Body of Archivists and Librarians, where she held various posts: Director of the Public Library of Cáceres, Director of Libraries at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Director of Libraries at the University of Alcalá, where she was also Director of the ICE until her retirement in 2011. During the period 1996-2000 she obtained by competition the post of Director of the Library of the European University Institute of Florence, an international and European Postgraduate institution.

Julia Sequí Navarro

She was born in Madrid in 1944, where she attended public nursery and primary schools in the city centre. In the 1953-54 and 1954-55 academic years, she studied at the primary school of the Isabel La Católica Institute, where she went on to study Secondary Education, the Pre-University Course and the University Entrance Examination.
She obtained a degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Madrid, where she was Assistant Professor of Practical Classes in the chair of Biochemistry and Physiology. She undertook specialization and doctoral studies at the Immunology Department of the Clínica de la Concepción in Madrid, where she qualified as a Medical Specialist in Immunology, obtaining her Doctorate in Medicine in 1975.
She was an Assistant Doctor in the Laboratory of the Silicosis Hospital in Oviedo and in the Immunology Service of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. Subsequently, she was Head of the Immunology Section at the Carlos III Hospital, dependent on the Carlos III Health Institute. She has been Vice-President of the Spanish Society of Immunology and of the Society of Immunology of the Autonomous Community of Madrid.