Sites of Memory and Tourism: Current Issues and Challenges

by carles | Feb 8, 2023

Closely tied to the different traumatic memories of each national, historical or political reality, sites of memory encapsulate the memory of events such as war conflicts, dictatorial and totalitarian experiences, genocides and crimes against humanity, or other...

Sarajevo, my love

by carles | Feb 8, 2023

The Catalan edition of “Sarajevo, mon amour”, by Jovan Divjak and Florence La Bruyère, has been published on October 2022 by Editions Bellaterra and the European Observatory on Memories; The publication is the result of the collaboration between with the...

Song to a lady in the shadow | Filmoteca

by carles | Feb 8, 2023

The Spanish “Day of Remembrance and tribute to all the victims of Francoism” has been formally collected by the Law of Democratic Memory,  which came into force on October 20, 2022 (Ley 20/2022, de 19 de octubre, de Memoria Democrática). On this day in...

Repairing the past 2022

by carles | Feb 8, 2023

Over recent decades, demands for reparation and historical justice have gained momentum across the Americas, Africa, and parts of Europe. However, these calls have had limited resonance in Spain, even after the 2019 European Parliament resolution urging member states...

Mortu Nega

by carles | Feb 8, 2023

Mortu Nega (Flora Gómez, 1987) inaugurates our film cycle Women and Decolonization organized in collaboration with Film-Història; The first cineforum session in the framework of the PhD programme “Society and Culture” of the University of Barcelona will be...