Historical memories, uncomfortable memories

Historical memories, uncomfortable memories

The EUROM is one of the partners of the permanent seminar of the Studies’ Group on Institutions and Political Cultures, led by the  Institute of History Jaume Vicens i Vives of the University Pompeu Fabra; The seminar is organized in seven annual sessions aimed...
Romania’s entangled traumatic pasts

Romania’s entangled traumatic pasts

The two-day programme will deal with the memories of the Holocaust and the communist past in Romania; It will consist of a series of speeches and guided visits to some of the most emblematic places of commemoration and memorialization in Bucharest and Jilava; The...
The Holocaust as a Starting Point (Lisbon)

The Holocaust as a Starting Point (Lisbon)

The third teacher training seminar organized in the framework of our partnership with the Mémorial de la Shoah will be held in Lisbon on April 25 and 26, 2019; It is addressed to high school teachers interested in sharing pedagogical experiences within a comparative...
Denials, sacralizations and banalization of the Holocaust

Denials, sacralizations and banalization of the Holocaust

Denial is a rhetorical device endowed with an internal logic, a repertoire of recurring motifs, and an arsenal of argumentative techniques designed to sow doubt about the reality of Nazi extermination. But a rhetorical device does not act in a vacuum. It would not...
Places of violence: memory and amnesia

Places of violence: memory and amnesia

The violence of the coup of 1936 and its connection with the European fascisms Cover picture: Cárcel de Coruña In 1936, while fscism was gaining ground in Europe, a coup d’etat underwent in Spain. Its history can be explained today in a variety of different...
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