Opening of Jane Addams room in the faculties of Philosophy and Geography and History

From left to right, Ricardo Piqueras, Maite Vilalta and Josep Montserrat.
From left to right, Ricardo Piqueras, Maite Vilalta and Josep Montserrat.
Institutional
(28/01/2020)

Today the opening of the room Jane Addams in the faculties of Philosophy and Geography and History took place within the campaign launched by the UB to name rooms of the faculties of the University after illustrious women. In this case, the two centers in Raval opted for the name of the Nobel Peace Prize and influential figure in several studies taught in these faculties.

From left to right, Ricardo Piqueras, Maite Vilalta and Josep Montserrat.
From left to right, Ricardo Piqueras, Maite Vilalta and Josep Montserrat.
Institutional
28/01/2020

Today the opening of the room Jane Addams in the faculties of Philosophy and Geography and History took place within the campaign launched by the UB to name rooms of the faculties of the University after illustrious women. In this case, the two centers in Raval opted for the name of the Nobel Peace Prize and influential figure in several studies taught in these faculties.

The opening event was presided by the vice-rector for Equality and Social Action of the UB, Maite Vilalta, and counted on the participation of the deans of Philosophy, Josep Montserrat, and Geography and History, Ricardo Piqueras. Lecturers Núria Font and Núria Sara Miras presented the figure of Jane Addams.

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a social reformer and activist committed to pacifism and feminism. She conducted an important intellectual and social task linked to the University of Chicago, a center that did not give her the doctorate degree because at the time, such diploma was not given to women. She founded Hull House, a community house where Addams lived with other people, mainly women, during more than forty years. Hull House, which hosted the intellectual and political nature of the time, can be considered a precedent of the current civic centers, but this one had a permanent group of residents.

Addams defended the lateral progress and thought industrialism and militarism should be replaced by new ways of politics which included participation of women, emigrants and other minority groups. She was worried about the children, so she joined the playground movement -which involved not only a re-definition of the means and educational purposes in accordance to the progressive education but also an urban design to create meeting and playground spaces for the children.

The new room Jane Addams in the faculties of Philosophy and Geography and History is a large room with capacity for a hundred and forty people, to give seminars, conferences and other meetings.

After the opening event, attendants could follow in the room Jane Addams the conference by Charlene Haddock (Purdue University, United States) to inaugurate the Women in Pragmatism International Conference, which takes place today and tomorrow at the UB