Museums and Cultural Landscapes: building up a Cultural Heritage

by sergi | Jun 5, 2016

Full report on the conference available here. Every three years, ICOM’s General Conference gathers the international museum community around a theme chosen by museum professionals. This year’s conference in Milan will include the Annual Conference of the...

Abril 14th: Tribute to Maria Salvo

by sergi | Mar 21, 2016

The  promoting group of the future monument of the former women’s prison of Les Corts (Barcelona) pays homage to ex-prisoner Maria Salvo Iborra during the commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. The activity will...

Topographies of Memory: Exchanging Knowledge and Best Practices

by sergi | Jan 5, 2016

In specific historical contexts,  memories that are embedded in and activated by certain sites undergo social amnesia and dereliction; certain other sites may be subjected to deliberate destruction. Recent approaches to cultural heritage preservation and memory...

Women and Memory: Today’s challenges for Roma women influenced by historical development

by sergi | Oct 30, 2015

Conference presentations and discussion on the role of women in the process of recovering historical and democratic memory, with a special focus on Roma women. With the participation of the Commission Gender and Memory (Comissió Gènere i Memòria) and the platform for...

Street Chroniclers: Passerby stories of dictatorship

by sergi | Sep 21, 2015

A series of four performances and an interactive audiovisual production including spontaneous interviews and invited guests to approach some of the episodes related to the the years of francoism in Barcelona. Organized in collaboration with Eduxarxa, the activity was...