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...

Observing Memories in its complexity and multiplicity

by EUROM | Feb 20, 2015

EUROM director Jordi Guixé presented the lecture Observing Memories in its complexity and multiplicity: Why European Observatory on Memories? last March, 24th at the University of Ljubljana. The speech was an approach to history and memory policies and memory...

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...

The Novelized Memory

by EUROM | Nov 19, 2014

The European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) participated in The Novelized Memory seminar which took place in Aarhus (Denmark) in November 2014. Thirty five experts in cultural memory studies participated in the workshop and decided to engage an interdisciplinary...

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...