The State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau joins the European Observatory on Memories

by EUROM | May 18, 2017

Similar partnerships were established this year with the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Bucharest and the Berlin Wall Foundation; With these new agreements, the network driven by the University of Barcelona’s Solidarity Foundation gathers 44...

Future educators receive a course on genocides and mass atrocities at the University of Barcelona

by EUROM | May 9, 2017

About 40 students and young researchers on education will attend the course “Genocides and mass atrocities. Teaching and pedagocical tools on history and memories “organized by the European Observatory on Memories of the UB Solidarity Foundation, the Shoah...

The memory of state violence is discussed within an international seminar in Barcelona

by EUROM | Feb 19, 2017

Experts from Argentina, Chile and Spain will analyze the discourse of perpetrators and the construction of the memory of state violence during a seminar organized by the Institute of Present Pasts of the City Council of Barcelona in collaboration with the European...

“Past & Power” presents the main debates on remembrance and memory conflicts in today’s Europe

by EUROM | Dec 12, 2016

Published by Edicions UB, “Past & Power. Public Policies on Memories. Debates, from Global to Local” will be presented by  Jordi Guixé Coromines (ed.) on December 13, at 20h at the bookstore La Central del Raval (Barcelona); The bilingual publication...

The conference “Victory over Fascism: Barcelona 1936” inaugurates a series of commemorative acts on the 80th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War

by EUROM | Jul 20, 2016

Held at the University of Barcelona, the coloque was attended by over 100 people In the keynote speech, Georges Mink recalled his father memories, a Polish Jew established in France who went to Barcelona on July 1936 to take part in the Popular Olympics and decided to...