Cinema and Memory

by sergi | Oct 25, 2015

Sessions organized in collaboration with Filmoteca de Catalunya November 17 – Sala Laya 18:30 – Cinema and memory. Lecture by Paloma Aguilar, Professor at UNED, and Nancy Berthier*, Director of the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Mondes...

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.  

Students who wanted to see the sea. Francoist repression against education freedom

by sergi | Oct 21, 2015

Debate and projection of the documentary “El Retratista” (The portrait maker) The film tells the story of the young teacher Antoni Benaiges, who was assigned to a rural school in Buñuelos de Brueba (Burgos) in the year 1934-35. During that year he applied...

Memory bus, from Les Corts to Camp de la Bota

by sergi | Oct 21, 2015

Presentation of the new signspotting of the former prison of Les Corts. A guided tour follows the path of the 11 convicted women executed at Camp de La Bota between 1939 and 1940