The Soviet Child, the War and the Holocaust

by sergi | Nov 20, 2015

Today, the voices of survivors and witnesses from the war in the East are those of people who lived through it as children. At a time when researchers and memorial institutions are gathering testimonies of these last witnesses of the genocide and the war, Yahad – In...

Fighting for History and Memory in Portugal

by sergi | Oct 21, 2015

Professor Luís Farinha (Universidade do Porto) will deliver a keynote speech about the memory of dictatorship in Portugal.  He is the current director of Museo do Aljube, inaugurated in April 2015. This new museum occupies the former prison of the Aljube in Lisbon,...

Graves, Panthea and Mausolea. From the ditches to Valle de los Caidos

by sergi | Oct 21, 2015

A dialogue between Ricard Vinyes, Full Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona, and Francisco Ferrándiz, Spanish Centre of Scientific Research. Presented and moderated by Ignasi Riera.  

CCOO: 50 years of history in Catalonia (1964-2014)

by sergi | Oct 20, 2015

November 20, 2015 marks 40 years since the death of Francisco Franco. The dictator disappeared, and democracy won the streets. Four decades later we commemorate it and celebrate at the same time the closing of the events on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the...

Form-Architecture-Memory

by sergi | Oct 1, 2015

The annual conference of the International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes (IC MEMO) will gather international speakers from Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, Israel, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, Spain,...