Franco 40/40: a multidisciplinary program reviews the 40 years gone by since Francisco Franco’s death

by EUROM | Nov 6, 2015

  November 6, 2015 – The University of Barcelona presented yesterday the project Franco 40/40: el franquisme en quarantena (Franco 40/40: Francoism under quarantine), a programme of activities that revise Franco’s forty-year dictatorship on the...

The memories of dictatorship’s repression take the streets in Barcelona

by EUROM | Oct 1, 2015

The European Observatory on Memories, together with Eduxarxa, promoted a series of performances and interviews on symbolic places of Barcelona to approach some of the episodes related to the the years of francoism in the city.  

An international seminar in Guernica analyses different processes of reconstruction of heritage after wars

by EUROM | Sep 29, 2015

Promoted by the European Observatory on Memories of the University of Barcelona Solidarity Foundation and the Foundation of the Peace Museum of Guernica, the colloquium “Fall and rise: heritage reconstruction after war” will highlight the processes of...

7th Mauthausen Dialogue Forum discusses the liberation

by EUROM | Sep 18, 2015

 The Mauthausen Memorial and the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) of the University of Barcelona Solidarity Foundation organize an international conference in the mark of the 70th anniversary of the liberation.  A survivor of the camp, Mr. Aba Lewit, will open...

The UB presents a project to identify Spanish Civil War victims by means of forensic genetics

by EUROM | Sep 15, 2015

The University of Barcelona has set up the project L’ADN de la memòria: Banc d’ADN de la UB de víctimes de la Guerra Civil espanyola (The DNA of memory: the UB DNA Bank of Spanish Civil War victims). The initiative emerges from the five-year experience of the...