MEFRO – European Memories of Borders

by marc | Sep 2, 2015

MEFRO – European Memories of Borders (Mémoires Européennes des Frontières)- works on the transfer and knowledge-sharing of memory issues in order to build a permanent network of interdisciplinary and transnational work to treat European borders as a place of...

14th of April tribute at Les Corts

by EUROM | Mar 20, 2015

Recognising the memory of the former women’s prison of Les Corts is a long and complicated process, led by different groups and associations and in which the collection of testimonies from directors and family members has been essential. This process has resulted in...

EPCC du Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes

by EUROM | Dec 9, 2014

At the last stage of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), while the troops of General Franco advanced towards Catalan land, more than 450,000 Spanish republicans were forced to flee and cross the border to France. Sometime before that, the government of Édouard Daladier...

Argelès-sur-Mer

by EUROM | Dec 9, 2014

At the last stage of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), General Franco’s coup army concluded the occupation of Catalonia on February 10th, 1939. Seeing the Francoist advance, over 450,000 Spanish republicans fled during the winter across the border into French...

Solidarity, Cinema and Memory. Film Cycle

by EUROM | Oct 17, 2014

The UB Solidarity Foundation launches a new edition of the Autumn of Solidarity at the University of Barcelona. This fall main theme will be the learning of Historical Memory in a moment in which the society can notice a trivialization of the use of concepts like...