European good practices: How to rewrite the past, present and future in a parity key?
Presenter: A representative of the Fundación Telefónica and Diego Mas Trelles, Festival.
Date and time: Thursday, Oct.31st. 5.30 p.m.
Venue: Auditorio del Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Calle de Fuencarral, 3
Tickets: Free admission with prior registration through the website.
www.espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com
Type of activity: Round table
Participants:
1. Thomas Kloiber - Culture Section of the Austrian Foreign Ministry.
2. Stefania Pitscheider - Director of the Women's Museum in Hittisau, Austria.
3. Sabine Fellner – Art historian and exhibition curator, Austria.
4. Cristina Hernández - Director of the Women's Institute of the Government of Spain.
Facilitaro: Carlota Álvarez Basso, Festival co-director.
The objective of this round table is to present the ambitious support for women program "Calliope. Join the Dots", an initiative of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Women's Museum of Hittisau (Austria) "Frauenmuseum Hittisau". This project is based on an earlier historical programme: "CALLIOPE Austria. Women in Society, Culture and The Sciences" through which the history of Austria over the last 200 years was rewritten through the biographies of outstanding women.
The current project "Calliope. Join the Dots", is conceived as a work in progress and focuses on the website calliope.at, where some inspiring women of today's Austrian society are portrayed. Austrian embassies and cultural forums have the priority task of carrying out projects with these (and other) women and establishing networks with women from other countries. The personalities of Calliope. Join the Dots are distributed in five categories: society and culture, gender and equality, digitization and science, climate and sustainability, migration and inclusion.
Info extra:
- Activity in German with simultaneous translation, sign language interpretation and streaming.
- Activity organized in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum.
Thomas Kloiber, born in 1972 Graz/Austria, studied catholic theology at the University of Vienna and at the Facultad de Teología del Norte de España Burgos. Before he joined the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs in 2008, he worked as high school teacher for religion and as educational trainer for students of catholic theology. He worked from 2003 to 2006 as General Secretary of the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe. As employee of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs he served at the Austrian Embassies in Washington D.C. and in Moscow as well as at the Cultural Forums in Tehran and Bucharest. Since 2022, he has headed the unit exhibitions and new media at the Directorate General International Cultural Relations at the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria. As of 2023, he is deputy director of the Department for Cultural and Scientific Events Abroad. He has been in charge of implementing the Foreign Ministry’s women’s promotion and network programme "Calliope. Join the Dots" since 2022.
STEFANIA PITSCHEIDER
Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra holds the position of Director of the Women's Museum in Hittisau since 2009. She has worked at the Museum of Art History in Vienna, at the Kunsthalle Wien, at the She dhalle in St. Pölten, as well as at the Cooperations Cultural Center in Wiltz (Luxembourg). As an art historian, exhibition curator and cultural manager, her interest focuses on political-social and feminist issues. She is a member of the WochenKlausur group of artists, from where she has carried out multiple projects halfway between art and social policy for the contemporary art festival Steirischen Herbst, the Shedhalle in Zürich and the Venice Biennale. She is a member of the board of directors of ICOM Austria and IAWN (International Association of Women's Museums), as well as a correspondent for EMYA (the European Museum of the Year Award). She hails from South Tyrol and her mother tongue is Rhaeto-Romance Ladin.
The Women's Museum in Hittisau, Austria, is the country's first and only women's museum. It is also the only one in the world located in a rural environment. Since 2000, the museum has hosted historical-cultural exhibitions on topics of relevance to women. The projects are participatory in nature and focus on working with women living in the region: 25 women between the ages of 17 and 75, with academic backgrounds of all kinds and from various countries, who participate intensively in the museum's activity. In 2017, the museum was awarded the Austrian Museum Prize, and in 2021, it received a special mention from the European Museum of the Year Award.
Sabine FELLNER
Freelance curator, author, art historian and - beyond that - a tireless promoter of unjustly forgotten Austrian women artists. Sabine Fellner has curated extraordinary events worldwide that deal with women as well as with socio-politically topical issues, such as motherhood, ageing in our society, childhood or the current ecological crisis. She curated with "City of Women. Women Artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 "and "Appearance of Women. Künstlerinnen in Linz 1851-1950" (Women Artists in Linz 1851-1950), focusing on one hundred years of creative work by emancipated women who actively helped to shape the art scene. Making the work of these women visible corrects and expands the local art historiography.
Cristina Hernández Martín (1979, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca) has been appointed Director of the Women's Institute by Royal Decree 751/2024, of 23 July (BOE 24/07/2024). She holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Salamanca and a Master of Arts (Refugee Studies Program) from the University of East London.
A specialist in public policies on equality and gender violence, she has worked as a
advisor to NGOs, public entities and political organizations and has been an Associate professor at the University of Salamanca, where she has taught Sociology of Gender Relations and Sociology of Social Movements.
She has been responsible for Training of the 016-telephone service for information and advice for gender violence victims. She has also worked as an advisor on equality for the Socialist Parliamentary Group and the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE. She was spokesperson and councilor for the City Council of Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca) and a scholarship holder from the Women's Institute.
Until her current appointment, she worked as an advisor in the cabinet of the Minister of the Presidency Justice and Relations with the Parliament.
