Exhibition

The little things. How objects kept a persecuted memory.

Inauguration: December 19, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.

UNED-Madrid, Escuela Pías (Calle Tribulete, 14)

A sample of some of the thousands of objects, documents, letters or photographs collected during more than ten years of research. Small things that may seem insignificant but that assume the exact way in which memory could materialize. A memory persecuted and silenced by Francoism, who had to look on the banks of society for a place to survive.

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Crime Scenes and Sites of Memory

Second International Conference on Perpetrators of Mass

12-15th November 2019

Centre Museístic La Beneficència, Valencia

Mass crimes, acts of genocide and political violence have a “metaphysical” dimension against the human being, as highlighted by such diverse authors as Elie Wiesel and Vladimir Jankélévitch. However, whatever their conceptual scope, they are concrete acts that take place in precise places, take place in a unique time and their material actors are, at the end of the day, ordinary people. Reconstructing the scenes that result from these acts means returning to the actions the immediacy and even the banality that they had at the time of their exercise. Now, once the facts have been reconstructed, these same scenarios acquire a new symbolic and cultural condition, they are resemantized in different social spheres: in the criminal processes that reconstruct them, in the memory of victims, executioners and witnesses, in the visual and written archives that describe them and, last but not least, in artistic, literary and cinematographic recreation.

Francisco Ferrándiz will give the conference: Scenarios of crime against humanity: Mass Graves, Forensic Rescue and Phantom Militarism in Spain

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