# Celebrating March 8
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## Celebrating March 8
*[Versione italiana](https://www.unipd.it/8marzodiffuso)*
The **series of meetings** proposed by the University in celebration of **International Women's Day (March 8)**is an opportunity to reflect on and discuss gender equality and the global movement to end the violence and violated rights of women, welcoming a range of voices of all ages from the public and student communities.
*A message from Gaya Spolverato, Delegate for Equal Opportunities Policies*
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**[PROGRAMME 2026](https://www.unipd.it/8marzodiffuso)***(Italian version)*
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## **PAST INITIATIVES**
### Initiatives 2025
- **February 24**, 5:00 PM: webinar **[La strada per la parità di genere: politiche e azioni all'Università di Padova](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/ateneo/strada-parita-genere-politiche-azioni)**- sponsored by the University of Padua
- **March 2-14**: meetings **[L'8 marzo nella Scuola di Psicologia Unipd](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/societa/l8-marzo-scuola-psicologia-unipd)** - School of Psychology
- **March 3, 5, 7**: interactive installation [**Toys?**](https://www.unipd.it/news/toys) - Departments of Developmental and Socialization Psychology, Information Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, in collaboration with the Departments of General Psychology, Industrial Engineering, and Geosciences
- **March 5**, 2:30 PM: Lecture "**[La tutela penale della lavoratrice donna](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/societa/tutela-penale-lavoratrice-donna)**" - Department of Public, International, and Community Law\
- March 5, 5:30 PM: Conference "**[Leggere le filosofe](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/cultura/leggere-filosofe)**" - Philosophy Library
- **March 6**, 5:00 PM: concert **[L'autodifesa delle donne. Pratiche, diritto, immaginari nella storia](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/societa/lautodifesa-donne)** - Department of Historical, Geographical, and Antiquity Sciences
- **March 7**, 6:30 PM: concert **[In the silence betwee](https://www.unipd.it/news/silence-between)n**- University of Padua
- **March 7**, 4:30 PM: readings **[Nuotando controcorrente: poesie per la giornata della donna](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/cultura/nuotando-controcorrente-poesie-giornata-donna)** - Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies
- **March 7**, 12:30 PM: meeting **[Diversità e inclusione: le aziende stanno diventando luoghi migliori?](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/societa/diversita-inclusione-aziende-stanno-diventando)** - Department of Economic and Business Sciences
- **March 7, 11, and 13**: video interviews [**Dialoghi di genere. Diamo voce all'8 marzo**](https://www.unipd.it/news/dialoghi-genere-diamo-voce-8-marzo-gender-dialogues-giving-voice-march-8) (Gender Dialogues. Giving Voice to March 8) - Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- **March 8**: **free admission for women to the [Botanical Garden](https://ortobotanico1545.it/en/) and the [Museum of Nature and Humankind](https://visitmnu.it/en/)**
- **March 8 - May 27**: series **[8 marzo diffuso. Donne nella cultura](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/cultura/donne-cultura-2025)** - Department of Cultural Heritage
- **March 8 - April 2**: Bibliographic Exhibition **[Non solo principesse: stereotipi di genere e letteratura per l'infanzia e l'adolescenza](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/21033)** - Beato Pellegrino Library
- **March 8**, 2:30 PM: symposium and talk [**Mimosa. Non è la festa della donna**](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/societa/mimosa-non-festa-donna)- sponsored by the University of Padua
- **March 10**, 4.30 AM: Alumni Awards. Elvira Poli Award "[**Parità di genere nell’ingegneria: ieri, oggi, domani**](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/ateneo/parita-genere-nellingegneria-ieri-oggi-domani)" - Alumni Association and the School of Engineering of the University of Padua
- **March 14**, 9:00 PM: theatrical reading [**Con il vento nei capelli**](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/20902) - Centro Elena Cornaro
- **March 20**, 2:30 PM: Meeting [**Gli strumenti del diritto contro la violenza di genere: una strategia multidisciplinare**](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/societa/strumenti-diritto-contro-violenza-genere) - Department of Private Law and Legal Critique
- **March 21**, 2:30 PM: Theatrical performance [**Appassionatamente: Almenopausa**](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/mondo-salute/appassionatamente-almenopausa) - Department of General Psychology and University Center for Clinical Psychological Services
### Initiatives 2024
> February 27: *[**Global Women's Breakfast 2024**: **Catalyzing Diversity in Science**](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/global-womens-breakfast-2024-catalyzing-diversity)*, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences and Department of Chemical Sciences
> February 28: A **[****Una al giorno*****(*****A woman each day)**](https://www.unipd.it/news/woman-each-day)**short film projection, Department of Statistical Sciences, in collaboration with the Alumni Association and the Cug
> March 1-14: Lectures on gender equality and equal opportunity [***International Women's day events at the School of Psycology***](https://www.unipd.it/news/international-women-s-day-events-school-psychology), School of Psychology
> March 6: open lesson [***La donna nel mondo del lavoro: profili penali***](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/donna-mondo-lavoro-profili-penali), Department of Public, International and European Union Law
> March 6 - May 9: **[Incroci di genere](https://www.unipd.it/incroci-genere)**, a series of meetings dedicated to "**Donne e uomini nella trappola della violenza**" - Centro di Ateneo Elena Cornaro per i saperi, le culture e le politiche di genere
> March 7: meeting and dramatized reading [***Under adult supervision***](https://www.unipd.it/news/under-adult-supervision) Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies
> March 8: **[*Tiepolo, Agata, Caterina e le altre negli anniversari dei Tiepolo. Santità femminili nelle cappelle radiali della basilica del Santo*](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/tiepolo-agata-caterina-altre-anniversari-tiepolo)**, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient world - dissgea and Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music
> March 8: [***Beyond Silence***](https://www.unipd.it/news/beyond-silence), the My Venice Orchestra concert
> March 8: open class **[*La costruzione storica del femminile e del maschile in Occidente*](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/costruzione-storica-femminile-maschile-occidente)**, in the contest of the General Course "Genere, saperi, giustizia sociale"
> March 8: workshop [***Intercultural Competence, Diversity & Inclusion***](https://www.economia.unipd.it/en/workshop-%E2%80%9Cintercultural-competence-diversity-inclusion%E2%80%9D-8-march-2024) and[**survey on equity, inclusion and sustainability for dSEA graduates**](https://www.economia.unipd.it/en/march-8-2024-survey-equity-inclusion-and-sustainability-dsea-graduates)- Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno"
> March 8: May 9: series of events [***Donne nella cultura***](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/donne-cultura) Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music
> March 9: monologue by Alina Kostyukova**[*S**he is*](https://www.unipd.it/news/she)**, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies
> March 12: [***Riconoscere la violenza di genere***](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/18533), meeting with Padua anti-violence center, Department of Information Engineering
March 14: guided visit ***Visit @ Beato - Speciale Festa della Donna "[Donne tra arte, servizio e spiritualità](https://www.unipd.it/news/women-between-art-service-and-spirituality)**"*, Beato Pellegrino Library
> March 15: [***La convenzione di Istanbul e il dovere generale di prevenire la violenza domestica e di genere***](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/convenzione-istanbul-dovere-generale-prevenire), Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies
> March 25 marzo: open lesson [***La promozione della parità di genere nella disciplina in materia di contratti pubblici***](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/promozione-parita-genere-disciplina-materia),Department of Public, International and European Union Law
> March 25 - May 15: ***Cambiamo i copioni per non ripetere la stessa storia***[DISSGeA workshops on gender-based violence and discrimination](https://www.unipd.it/sites/unipd.it/files/programma%20laboratori%20dissgea.pdf) kick off with spectacle *[Brucio d'amore](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/18426)*
> April 16: meeting with the scinfic journalist **Angela Saini** [**Anche la scienza soffre di stereotipi**](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/18645)
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Series**
> available on all free audio platforms (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, Google Podcasts) the podcast ***[She, green](https://choramedia.com/podcast/she-green/)***is a six-episode story, which gives voice to the persistent and courageous struggles, sometimes in the face of isolation and hostility, of long-sighted women who refuse to sacrifice the common good to the demands of unequal and unjust development
**>**on March 8, the news series***"[DeGenere: Acting Without Forgetting](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/taxonomy/term/12533)"***produced in collaboration with the Department of Developmental and Socialization Psychology, which chronicles gender-based violence from different psychological perspectives through the latest and most current scientific data and research, will be released
### Initiatives 2023
> March 3: **[*Donne leader. Traiettorie per una leadership consapevole*](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/donne-leader) -** University of Padua
> March 6: **[*(R)ESISTENZE. Uno sguardo geografico su "Donne di Terre Estreme" di Caterina Borgato*](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/16309) -** Museum of Geography of the University of Padua
> March 7: ***[A conversation with Bita Malaku](https://www.unipd.it/news/conversation-bita-malakuti)[t](https://www.unipd.it/news/conversation-bita-malakuti)**[**i**](https://www.unipd.it/news/conversation-bita-malakuti)*- Aula B1, Ca' Borin complex
> March 7 - 16: [***Lezioni aperte sul tema della parità di genere e delle pari opportunità***](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/16310) - School of Psychology
> March 8: **[*Siria. Voci di donne, echi di guerra*](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/16270)** - Department of Linguistic and Literary studies
> March 8: Fisppa Seminar [***Philoxenos. Conversazioni in ricordo di Bruna Giacomini***](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/16326), with the intervention of *Psicoanalisi e questioni di genere. Accordi e disaccordi*
> March 8: *Thematic tour****[Tracce Femminili a Palazzo del Bo](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/tracce-femminili-palazzo-bo-1)***
> March 8: ***[At the Botanical Garden free acces for women\](https://www.ortobotanicopd.it/en/tickets-and-subscriptions)***
*>*March 8*: [**Palazzo del Bo: free access and free guided tours for women**](https://www.unipd.it/visite-bo-sala-giganti)*
***>***March 8:**8**per tutte***:*take a photo of you in front of the "Stories of Women" campaign posters (see below), post it on Instagram with the tag @unipadovasustainable or send it. The most original and creative photos will be share as posts on the IG Unipadovasustainable profile
> March 8:***È l'8 marzo. Fotografiamoci!*** Taking a group photo with all the women of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, with a dedication to young women who want to pursue a career in STEM
> March 8: ***L******'8 marzo al Dipartimento di Matematica***: female students and staff of the department meet to take a photo together as a testimony to the presence of women in mathematics and computer science disciplines
> March 9: ***[#saperidigenere](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/node/16320) -***Department of Information Engineering
> March 30: ***[Vive! Eroine che si ribellano al loro tragico destino](https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/event/vive-eroine-che-si-ribellano-loro-tragico-destino)***- Centro di ateneo Elena Cornaro
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- [Flayer - March 8 Campaign
Download](https://www.unipd.it/en/sites/en.unipd.it/files/Campagna8marzo2023_0_0.pdf "Flayer - March 8 Campaign")