The María Zambrano Center for Transatlantic Studies UMA – ATECH concluded the II Transatlantic Tribune, carried out together with the Doctoral Program in Education and Social Communication. Divided into two days, the 20th and 27th October, this II Tribune has focused on Communication and Education in Spain and Latin America.

Yesterday session, celebrated in the Salón de Grados in the Faculty of Education, counted with the presence of Nieves Blanco García ─the Doctorate Program in Education and Social Communication Coordinator─ and Juan Antonio García Galindo ─head of María Zambrano Center for Transatlantic Studies. Then, Carlos Pérez Ariza ─professor in the University of Málaga─ offered the lecture El esfuerzo por la libertad entre ambas orillas. Una aproximación a la epopeya americana por la independencia. Pérez Ariza revised the path of Bernardo de Gálvez and Francisco de Miranda, as examples of historical and political links between both sides of the Atlantic. These illustrious figures, symbol of the Spanish imprint in American History, were useful for Pérez Ariza to defend the necessity of supporting the American study in Spain, and vice versa. This way, he took the opportunity to highlight the value of the organisms dedicated to analyze the international relations through the Atlantic.

Finally, Inmaculada Postigo Gómez and Ana Jorge Alonso ─professors in the University of Málaga─ submitted the documentary Warmi. Algunos apuntes sobre la Paz y sus mujeres, by Alejandro Alvarado and Concha Barquero. As a result of the cooperation Project they carry out in Bolivia for many years, the documentary reviews the constant Bolivian women fight for equality that, in addition, are trying not to lose their own cultural features of the ethnic community they belong to. Javier Barquín Ruíz ─professor in the University of Málaga─ chaired the debate focused on the empowerment of Latin women and emphasized the relations among the teaching staff and the researchers from UMA and Bolivia to carry out projects like this.

The María Zambrano Center closes the second edition of its Transatlantic Tribune and remains as a multidisciplinary space of spreading opinions and ideas about International Relations at both sides of the Atlantic.