Roundtable on Memory and Participation

by sergi | Oct 21, 2015

An introduction to citizen participatory processes in the building of collective memory. Presentation of the projects for the future monument of the former Les Corts Women’s Prison and the Model Prison memorial project, promoted by EUROM and the Polis Research...

Las Ventas: the history of a women’s prison (1933-1969)

by sergi | Oct 20, 2015

Curated by Fernando Hernández Holgado, this exhibition aims to reconstruct the history of the women’s prison of Las ventas (1933-1969), in Madrid. Created as a flagship project of the republican penal reforms, with Victoria Kent named the first woman director of...

Memorial Movement, a performative action

by EUROM | Jul 20, 2015

‘Memorial Movement’ is the result of an intervention curated by Stella Flatten to explore the topic of action in the public space a temporary memorial sculpture. It was performed at three memorial places of Barcelona, questioning the need of permanent monumental...

Srebrenica, memory of a genocide

by EUROM | Jun 20, 2015

Through the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), the UB Solidarity Foundation (FSUB) organises a number of activities around the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide devoted to the memory and remembrance of the facts that took place in 1995 in that town in...

Memory, art, tourism and heritage

by EUROM | May 20, 2015

Memory is a cultural commonplace for the most innovative researches in the field of Arts and Humanities, with an important academic and professional projection. The different ways to deal with it make of memory an interdisciplinary topic of interest not only for for...