Legacy of the Andalusian women poets

Within the framework of the Emilio García Gómez Chair that is annually organized by the Embassy of Spain in Jordan, the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies and the Instituto Cervantes in Amman, Spanish researcher and professor Dr. Ana López Navajas will give a lecture on women poets from Al-Andalus whose creations constitute one of the most important literary legacies of a society for which knowledge and art were core aspects.

This talk will allow us to get closer to that interesting poetic universe that constitutes a brilliant encounter between the Hispanic and Arabic cultures that we have to recover.

Ana López Navajas is a doctor from the University of Valencia, researcher, and professor. She currently coordinates the European project Women’s Legacy: Our Cultural Heritage for Equity, leaded by the Conselleria de Educació, Cultura i Esports - Generalitat valenciana. Her work The presence of women in the Compulsory Secondary Education contents highlighted the exclusion of women in the transmission of cultural and scientific knowledge and the implications of this absence in the educational system and the transmission of inequalities.

In recent years, her research work has focused on the restitution of the feminine cultural and scientific tradition within the academic content, both in literature, music, arts and humanities, and in science and technology.

Her work has been recognized with several awards such as the Avanzadoras Award in 2017, granted by Intermon-Oxfam with the 20minutes newspaper and the recognition she received as one of the Top one hundred women leaders in 2018.