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

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Universidad del Barrio “40 years without Franco, the struggle against forgetting”

On Monday, November 23rd, at 7 pm, Zoé de Kerangat will participate in the session of Universidad del Barrio entitled “40 years without Franco, the struggle against forgetting”. She will speak about exhumations in Spain in the 70s and 80s. The other participants will be Rafael Escudero (Philosophy Professor at Universidad Carlos III), who will speak about the amnesty as a foundational law of the transition; René Pacheco (archaeologist), who will explain how exhumations are carried out; and Emilio Silva (grandson of a desaparecido), who will speak about forgetting as order and memory as disorder.

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More information: Público and Teatro del Barrio

Franco 40/40: Francoism under quarantine

Franco 40/40: a multidisciplinary proposal by the European Observatory on Memories to review the 40 years gone by since Franco’s death.

12 November: Ricard Vinyes, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona, and Francisco Ferrándiz, expert of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), participate in “Fosses, panteons i mausoleus. De les cunetes al Valle de los Caídos” (Graves, vaults and mausoleums. From ditches to the Valley of the Fallen), a discussion moderated by the writer Ignasi Riera.

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Confined memory: extension and transformation of political prison in late Francoism

 

Conference (in Spanish) by Mario Martínez Zauner (CCHS-CSIC)

Thursday, November 19, 2015

12:00 – 14:00 hours

“Ramón Carande” Room (2F8)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal

Free entry

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Women’s Courts: A Feminist Approach to Justice

 

Conference by Stanislava Zajovic (“Žene u crnom” – Women in Black from Belgrade)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

11:30 – 14:00 hours

 

“Ramón Caranda” Room (2F8)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal

Free entry

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ALBA Human Rights Film Festival

On Wednesday, October 28, Lee Douglas and Jorge Moreno Andrés’ documentary film What Remains will be screened at the Impugning Impunity: ALBA Human Rights Film Festival at the Cervantes Institute in New York.

Margaret Mead Film Festival

On Sunday, October 25, Lee Douglas and Jorge Moreno Andrés’ documentary film What Remains will be showcased in the 39th Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

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In search of transcultural memory in Europe (ISTME)

University of Dubrovnik (Croatia), 17 th – 19 th September 2015.

This Action aims to go beyond the nationally oriented memory studies that tend to reify the bond between culture, nation and memory. Instead we investigate the transcultural dynamics of memory in Europe today. Studying how memories of the troubled twentieth century are transmitted and received across Europe, the Action explores the tension between attempts to create a common European memory, or a unitary memory ethics, on the one hand and numerous memory conflicts stemming from Europe’s fragmentation into countless memory communities on the other.

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