Lídia Puigvert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lídia Puigvert

sociologist

Date of Birth: 29-May-1970

Place of Birth: Bogotá, Colombia

Profession: sociologist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lídia Puigvert is professor of sociology and gender at the University of Barcelona.
Feminist author internationally known by her theoretical contribution on dialogic feminism and the overcoming of gender violence.
She has published with authors such as Judith Butler and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim in their work Women and Social Transformation.
Due to her relevant contributions in the gender area she has been appointed as consultant in this dimension in several occasions for European research projects of the Framework Programme of Research of the European Union like in the current case of the IMPACT-EV, INCLUD-ED and WORKALÓ, she has led as principal investigator several projects and currently she is coordinating Life paths that move away or move closer to human trafficking with the purpose of sexual exploitation.
In 2008 she was member of the Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women at the European Women's Lobby Observatory.
And as a lecturer, she has been invited to lecture conferences and seminars in different universities around the world, among others, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and Harvard University.