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CURRENT · PUBLIC MEMORY
Project updates, publications, performances, tributes, gatherings, and other ways Serafina’s memory continues to circulate.
01 / Agenda
Gatherings, performances, and activities connected with Serafina Dávalos.
Announced · · America/Asuncion · Yegros 282 c/ Mariscal Estigarribia, Asunción
On Friday, 30 October, at 5:00 pm, a plaque will be unveiled at the former location of the Colegio Mercantil de Niñas, founded by Serafina Dávalos in 1904. Yegros 282, Asunción.
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Publications, discoveries, projects, and updates from this evolving public memory.
The international project Making Queer History offers a new perspective on Serafina Dávalos and her legacy.
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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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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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On 6 August 2026, the Senate officially documented the establishment of a working group to coordinate actions for the restoration and safeguarding of Casa Serafina under Law 7679/2026.
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Official IPS records document the termination in 2026 of the cooperation and usufruct agreement concerning Casa Serafina, followed by an updated termination document.
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In 2026, Serafina was commemorated with a portrait at the OAS, a Senate discussion on Lawyers’ Day and a bust unveiled at UNA’s Faculty of Law.
View detailsBetween 2025 and 2026, separate initiatives adopted Serafina's name at FDCS-UNA, FCTA-UNP, the Universidad Nacional de Itapúa and Universidad Columbia del Paraguay, the latter working with the CDE. Their programmes address gender, feminism, human rights and equality.
View detailsA performance was scheduled at UNA's Faculty of Law for 6 June 2025, and the Senate confirmed another as part of its “Mujeres políticas y humanismo” programme on 31 July 2026. Contemporary reports also place the touring production in Pedro Juan Caballero, Encarnación, Villarrica, Coronel Oviedo, Formosa, Resistencia and Corrientes.
View detailsSofía Raquel Fernández Casabianca's novel Las chicas del gym included a significant storyline about Serafina, later developed into a monologue for the stage. Arlequín Teatro premiered El retrato de Serafina on 5 December 2024, directed by José Luis Ardissone and performed by Techi Pereira. A later interview traces the creative process and research undertaken with Mary Monte and Rosemary Dávalos.
View detailsThe production reached an audience of judges and court staff in Corrientes on 8 March 2023. It opened the Anandu Unipersonales programme at Sala La Correa on 23 October 2023, then appeared at the Palace of Justice in Ciudad del Este on 11 September 2024.
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The 2022 tour of Serafina, ¿dónde estás? is documented in Formosa, Encarnación, Pedro Juan Caballero, Buenos Aires, Resistencia and Asunción. Confirmed dated appearances include Formosa on 17 September and the Manzana de la Rivera cultural centre on 26 November.
View detailsAn official annual report from Paraguay's Ministry of Justice records a performance about Serafina by Gustavo Ilutovich inside the Centro Penitenciario de Mujeres Serafina Dávalos in Coronel Oviedo.
View detailsThe Municipal Performing Arts Fund awarded Gs. 35,000,000 to Nora Robles Villalba for the project Serafina: Lumbrera de nuestro tiempo. That creative process led to Hora de la novela, a stage work drawing on Serafina's writings and life to examine violence against women that society has come to treat as normal.
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Public murals in Encarnación (2020), at the Colegio de Abogados del Paraguay (2021) and at Turista Róga in Asunción (2024) feature Serafina alongside other women from Paraguayan history.
View detailsSerafina's name appears on Asunción's Costanera Norte avenue and on streets in Los Laureles, Caacupé, Encarnación and Coronel Oviedo. In Asunción, the signed ordinance establishing the Costanera name is 257/19.
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Serafina's memory has also entered contemporary popular culture. Las Kuna / Sajonia created the Serafina American IPA in 2019, followed by Serafina 2.0 IPA in 2022. Aireana relaunched La Serafina as a Red Ale in 2024. These releases document modern remembrance, not historical facts about Serafina's life.
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Recent publications have brought Serafina's story to new audiences. Rocco Carbone published Serafina Dávalos. Feminista in 2019 and 2020. A comic, Serafina Dávalos: Precursora del Feminismo, and Javier Viveros's children's biography appeared in 2020; another children's volume followed in 2021. In 2025 Rosemary Dávalos published a new 124-page book. The archive also lists a work by Encarnación “Chony” Calderón, whose full bibliographic details are still being sought.
View detailsParaguay's judiciary held a commemorative tribute on 28 September 2017. On 31 July 2026, the Senate organised a public discussion entitled “Mujeres políticas y humanismo” in Serafina's honour as part of the observance of Lawyers' Day.
View detailsThe Colectivo Serafina Dávalos described itself as a feminist student group at UNA's Faculty of Law. Its members sought to study law through a gender perspective and examine the professional lives of historically significant women. A CDE tribute video documents the group's work with Ana Barreto and David Velázquez Seiferheld.
View detailsAt the judiciary's tribute to Serafina on 28 September 2017, Ricardo Flecha performed the song Serafina Dávalos, written and composed by Carlos Noguera.
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Aireana named its feminist cultural venue La Serafina as an explicit tribute to Serafina Dávalos and has documented the initiative since 2005. In 2021 the organisation published De toda la vida: Memorias de lesbianas en Paraguay, including the chapter “Pioneras en todo: Serafina y Honoria”. A field photograph from September 2026 records the venue's facade and sign in Asunción.
View detailsSerafina's name has been given to the women's prison in Coronel Oviedo, an auditorium at Asunción's Palace of Justice, the main hall of the Diplomatic and Consular Academy, a student centre at the Colegio Nacional de la Capital, and support centres for women and girls.
View detailsAsunción's municipal government established the Premio Municipal Serafina Dávalos under Ordinance 102/03 to encourage work towards gender equality. At FDCS-UNE, student editions of the Premio Serafina Dávalos were also documented in 2022 and 2023.
View detailsIn 1995, the CDE and DECIDAMOS produced a 25-minute audiovisual work entitled Alquimistas: Historia de las Mujeres en Paraguay. It is a separate publication from the 1993 book Alquimistas.
View detailsIn 1988, the Centro de Documentación y Estudios (CDE) founded the Biblioteca Serafina Dávalos as part of its first women's programme. The CDE describes it as Paraguay's first library devoted to women's and gender studies. Its holdings now include thousands of books, periodicals, documents and newspaper collections.
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