1907
Earns her doctorate in law and publishes Humanismo.
AN OPEN EXPLORATION · PARAGUAY
Serafina
Dávalos.
Imagining equality. Opening possibilities.
An invitation to discover Serafina Dávalos: her life, her ideas, and the questions that still bring us together.
Discover Serafina
EducationFor girls and boys
CitizenshipPolitical rights and suffrage
AutonomyEconomic independence
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Who was Serafina Dávalos?
In 1907, she earned a doctorate in law and published Humanismo. Her career brought together teaching, legal practice and the defence of women’s rights.
Equality as a system
Education, citizenship, economic autonomy, and civil rights form a single agenda.
An open history
The House, Honoria, archives, and public memory continue to yield discoveries and questions.
SERAFINA IN 60 SECONDS
- 1907Law + Humanismo
- 1910Women’s Congress
- 1910s–30sTeaching, law, and feminist networks
- 1957Serafina dies
- TodayBooks, theatre, streets, universities, and heritage
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News
Making Queer History publishes an article on Serafina Dávalos
The international project Making Queer History offers a new perspective on Serafina Dávalos and her legacy.
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UNI and Kuña Róga formalize the Serafina Dávalos Open Chair
On 30 September 2026, the Faculty of Humanities at the National University of Itapúa and Kuña Róga signed an agreement supporting the Serafina Dávalos Open Chair.
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Commemorative day announced for Casa Serafina on 27 September 2026
The Cabildo and Paraguay’s Senate announced a commemorative event for 27 September 2026, linked to efforts to safeguard Casa Serafina and the planned start of emergency work.
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Publications
Text by Serafina
El feminismo
A lecture anticipating many of the ideas she would later develop.
View publicationThesis
Humanismo
Her central work on education, citizenship, autonomy, and women’s emancipation.
View publicationContemporary edition
De El feminismo a Humanismo
A compilation with a prologue by Rosemary Dávalos bringing together two essential texts.
View publicationONE HISTORY · TWO DEPTHS
The public story rests on a visible archive.
The museum experience and the research apparatus share the same evidence base. These figures describe the current canonical corpus, not a claim of exhaustiveness.
05 / THE HOUSE
A place to keep asking questions.
To understand history is also to examine its spaces. The House exhibition distinguishes documented evidence, reconstruction and hypotheses.
DOCUMENTED PLAN · SPATIAL CONTROLdocumentary basis
IPS technical plan · 2013–2014A real basis for reconstructing the house.
The plan comes from the IPS technical file of 2013–2014. It postdates Serafina and includes later adaptations, so it is not presented as the original 1914 plan. It provides a documented geometric control for historical reconstruction.
Source: SRC-10204 / INTERWOVEN LIVES
And those who stood alongside.
Honoria, family, colleagues, and contemporaries: relationships to document without erasing the silences in the archive.
07 / SERAFINA TODAY
A memory still being written.
Books, theatre, film, music, and education. A place to bring together contemporary readings of Serafina, crediting their individual makers and contributions.
Explore the legacy09 / OPEN RESEARCH
What we do not yet know.
Findings, publications, and gatherings will appear here once they have been reviewed for publication.
10 / MEMORY IS A SHARED ENDEAVOUR
Perhaps a part of this story is with you.
A photograph, a letter, a memory, a question. Every contribution can open a new line of inquiry.
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