Teaching about genocides (Barcelona)

Teaching about genocides (Barcelona)

The seminar is addressed to high school teachers who want to go into depth in some of the most significant historical issues regarding mass genocide and violence, such as the Holocaust or the Civil War and on how to transmit them to their students; In its second...
Transmissions of memory

Transmissions of memory

The socialization of memory configures unique cultural dynamics that can help promote a critical society towards contemporary political challenges. This activity will address this issue from a glocal point of view, with references to specific spaces and processes of...
Yesterday’s Handcuffs, Today’s Bracelets

Yesterday’s Handcuffs, Today’s Bracelets

The research priority area of the University of Aarhus Uses of the Past hosts a seminar on November 8 to revisit closed prisons, former refugee camps and other spaces of past repression; It will count with the participation of speakers from European Observatory on...
History and memory of the International Brigades

History and memory of the International Brigades

An East-West look 80th anniversary of the farewell of the International Brigades (1938-2018) While fascisms gained ground in the 1930s, dragging Europe to the total conflagration, thousands of people realized the danger that supposed not to face and stop their feet....
Ways of remembrance and reparation in hypermodernity

Ways of remembrance and reparation in hypermodernity

Memory, postmemory and critical history Walter Benjamin Lecture 2018 Organized by the Memorial Museum of Exile (MUME) and the Walter Benjamin Chair of the University of Girona, this year’s international seminar proposes a wide discussion on memorialist...
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