The Spanish Civil War in the movies: 80 years of stories

by EUROM | Feb 13, 2019

This film cycle commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War throughout cinematographic stories. It takes cinema as an ideal place to face memory: its condition of tale turns it into a powerful mythological machine, and its visual primacy makes it ideal...

Historical memories, uncomfortable memories

by EUROM | Feb 11, 2019

The EUROM is one of the partners of the permanent seminar of the Studies’ Group on Institutions and Political Cultures, led by the  Institute of History Jaume Vicens i Vives of the University Pompeu Fabra; The seminar is organized in seven annual sessions aimed...

The Making and Re-Making of Europe: 1919-2019

by EUROM | Feb 10, 2019

This year’s European Remembrance Symposium is dedicated to the issue of how we deal with, narrate and remember decisive changes in the 20th-century history of Europe, such as the years 1919, 1945, 1989. In an attempt to promote interdisciplinary and...

Romania’s entangled traumatic pasts

by EUROM | Feb 10, 2019

The two-day programme will deal with the memories of the Holocaust and the communist past in Romania; It will consist of a series of speeches and guided visits to some of the most emblematic places of commemoration and memorialization in Bucharest and Jilava; The...

International Women’s Day

by EUROM | Jan 30, 2019

International Women’s Day has been settled on the path of important fights for women (and human) rights at the beginning of the 20th century. It currently marks a global call to action to ending all kind of gender discrimination March 8 was officially recognized by...