José C. Paz, Argentina. “Science Matters: the Challenge of Communicating Reliable Knowledge in Contexts of Uncertainty and Infodemic,” is a contest organized by the Interuniversity Network for the Popularization of Science and Technology (REDIPU) with the aim of promoting “the creation of original public communication pieces that show and value the generation of knowledge in the University in the context of pandemic and post-pandemic.”
The video presented by Noelia Villarroel and Celeste Castiglione took second place and gathers interview fragments with referential women in the Argentine Basque Diaspora like Arantxa Anitua, President of FEVA, or researcher Magdalena Mignaburu, author of books on the organized Basque community in Argentina, who also talked about her experience working with the Toki Eder Basque Club in Jose C. Paz.
[Second place winner in the “Science Matters” contest]
Noelia Villarroel and Celeste Castiglione are teachers and researchers (UNPAZ-CONICET) with a long career in work regarding migrants. The video is part of a larger project, entitled “Narrations of the Basque Diaspora. Intergenerational Representations of Mothers and Daughters on Public Equality Policies Developed in the Basque Country,” (2019-2020). This research uses some ten extensive interviews as analysis material with women form the Diaspora, which is expected to be published this year.