Commemorative conferences for the month of women: Crossroads of the Bicentennial

As part of the commemorative activities for International Women's Day, PETROPERU presents every Thursday in March the cycle of conferences "Crossroads of the Bicentennial: Women in the first 100 years of the Republic: contributions and experiences."

This cycle has the objective of highlighting the participation of women in the consolidation of republican life, during the first 100 years of the independence of our country; in addition to disseminating a set of key issues for a broad debate on the bicentennial agenda.

The cycle will be conducted by Marcel Velásquez, literary critic and current general director of Libraries and Publications of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; and all lectures can be viewed for free via facebook live from the PETROPERU Cultural Center.

Schedule:

Thursday, March 11, at 6:00 p.m., conference Resistances and Existence: Enslaved Women in the 19th Century, by researcher Sharún Gonzales.

Thursday, March 18, at 6:00 p.m. conference Mercedes Cabello and Clorinda Matto: literature and politics for socio-national reform, by researcher Ainaí Morales.

Thursday, March 25, at 6:00 p.m. María Jesús Alvarado conference in the framework of women who fought for women's rights from the late nineteenth to 1930, by researcher Rosanna Merino Silicani.

In this way and in accordance with its cultural policy, PETROPERU reaffirms its commitment to maintain spaces for dialogue, debate and understanding of the various scenarios that the country is going through, in this year in which we celebrate a new centenary of our independence.