Entries by Miriam Saqqa

Where are the Africans? Erasure, elision and that task of self-writing

Lecture by: J. Siguru Wahutu (Assistant professor at New York University’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and a Faculty at the Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society at Harvard University) Wednesday, 25 September 2024 11.00 hours Sala María Moliner (1F8) Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC C/Albasanz, 26-28 Metro: Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal […]

Call for papers: European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 484th session

  Call for Papers: Archaeologies and Heritagizations of Historic and Contemporary Violence In the aftermath of violence, the identification, excavation, and analysis of sites at which such acts were carried out can be key to ensuring justice and a sense of closure for the families of those who perished. Once located, the process of excavation […]

Exhibition: “The democratic skylight. Policies of life and death in the Spanish State (1868 – 1976)”

Exposición: “The democratic skylight. Policies of life and death in the Spanish State (1868 – 1976)” The exhibition critically reviews the relationships between death, politics and democratic memory regarding contemporary Spanish history, from a horizon of human rights and cultures of peace. The tour raises a mature debate of the collective past on political violence, […]

The 2023 MSA First Book Award to “De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia”

Daniel Palacios González, has won the prestigious international First Book Award 2023 awarded by the Memory Studies Association (MSA) with his book De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia, based on his doctoral thesis.The thesis was co-directed by Francisco Ferrándiz (ILLA-CCHS-CSIC) in 2022. “We are pleased to […]

HERNÁNDEZ CASTILLO, Aída y ROBLEDO SILVESTRE, Carolina (2020). Nadie Detiene el Amor. Historias de Vida de Familiares de Personas Desaparecidas en el Norte de Sinaloa

Nadie Detiene el Amor. Historias de Vida de Familiares de Personas Desaparecidas en el Norte de Sinaloa In this book, Aída Hernández and Carolina Robledo, researchers at CIESAS, give context to the extreme, everyday violence in northern Sinaloa and share the experiences and struggles of relatives of disappeared people. The life stories they tell us […]