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Beyond the ‘ Red Terror ‘ : violence in the republican zone during the Civil War (1936 – 1939) in historical perspective

 

Conference (in Spanish) by:

José Luis Ledesma  (Complutense University of Madrid)

 

 Thursday, March 17, 2016
12:00 – 14:00 horas
 Sala María Moliner (1F8)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal

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Call for Papers “The Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse: Remembering the Past, Re-Constructing the Future in Periods of Crisis”

Conference, Lund 21-22 September 2016

The Centre for European Studies at Lund University and the International Research Network “Baltic Borderlands: Shifting Boundaries of Mind and Culture in the Borderlands of the Baltic Sea Region”, a collaborative programme between the universities of Lund, Tartu, and Greifswald, invites proposals for conference papers, which discuss how the management of crisis is affected by previous experiences and memories and how crisis, disaster or collapse affect cultural memory and political agency.

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The Ethics of Never Again: Competing Memories in Eastern Europe

Conference (in English) by:

Natan Sznaider (Academic College of Tel Aviv, Israel)

 Thursday, February 18, 2016  

12:00 – 14:00 hours

María Moliner Room (1F8)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal
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Francisco Ferrándiz. politico.eu. 29/01/2016. “Spain glares into bloody past”

A court case in Argentina opened mass grave sites, forced fresh look at Civil War.

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Approaches to the study of violence in El Salvador

Conference (in Spanish) by:

Ellen Moodie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Georgina Hernandez Rivas (Coordinadora Regional de la Plataforma Seguridad Juvenil en Centroamérica)

Ainhoa Montoya (University of London)

Thursday, February 4, 2016
12:00 – 14:00 hours

María Moliner Room(1F8)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal

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Art & Science Vs. Conflict in the Global Present. Oxford Brookes University (UK) 11.02.2016

An event bringing together artists and scientists to examine the impact of war on society through artistic representation and scientific evidence.

Oxford Brookes University
11th February 2016

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Mass grave dug up in search for victims of Franco’s fascist regime

Spain confronts its troubled past after campaigners turn to Argentinian courts for investigation into crimes against humanity.

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Call For Papers: Mnemonics 2016: The Other Side of Memory: Forgetting, Denial, Repression

The fifth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school will take place from June 2-4, 2016 on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will be hosted by the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (HGMS). The theme of the 2016 event will be “The Other Side of Memory: Forgetting, Denial, Repression.” Our keynote speakers will be Berber Bevernage (Ghent), Jodi A. Byrd (Illinois), and Françoise Vergès (Paris). Submissions are open to all graduate students interested in memory studies.

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Call For Papers: Spain’s Civil War 80 Years Later: The Wound That Will Not Heal?

IAMCR 2016 pre-conference

The Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) invites submissions for this IAMCR 2016 pre-conference, which will mark the eightieth anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. During this two-day conference, we will examine the intersections between memory, truth, justice, ideology, the state and conceptions of the future, considering the role of the media, notions of collective identity and the place of new generations in relation to the continuing struggle over public memory in Spain.

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‘Velvet Transitions’: A Bottom-up View of the Democratization Processes in Spain & Greece from the 1970s to the Present

Conference (in Spanish) by Kostis Kornetis (UC3M Konex Marie Curie Fellow – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Thursday, November 10, 2015
12:00 – 14:00 hours

María Moliner Room(1F8)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal

Free entry

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