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.
In the Transnational Memory seminar of 5 November, the documentary Los caminos de la memoria (English subtitles) by José-Luis Peñafuerte (2009, 91 min.) will be screened. The screening will be followed by a talk by Francicso Ferrándiz, entitled ‘Mass Graves Unbound: Transcultural Processes in the Unmaking of Francoism in Spain Today’. This event is supported by the Utrecht University research focus area Cultures, Citizenship, and Human Rights. More information
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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.
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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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Body, Science, Memory and Politics in Contemporary Exhumations
CCHS-CSIC, salón de actos.
Madrid, 2015, July 2 and 3.
Chairperson: Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC)
Scientific Committee: Lee Douglas (NYU/CSIC), Francisco Etxeberria (UPV-EHU/ ARANZADI), Marije Hristova (U Maastricht), Zoé de Kerangat (CSIC/UAM), Julián López (UNED), M.Laura Martín-Chiappe (CSIC/UAM), Alfonso Villalta (UNED).
Keynote speech:
Jorge González (UCM La Habana) Rescuing the remains of Che Guevara (Spanish)
Session 1: Exhumed bodies and Human Rights
Stephanie Golob (CUNY-Baruch) The once and future citizen: Exhumed bodies within domestic, regional and international legal frameworks
Carlos Beristain (U Deusto) Bodies and truth commissions (Spanish)
Oran Finegan (ICRC) Principles and recommendations for humanitarian forensic actions: Experiences with the International Committee of the Red Cross (Spanish)
Alejandro Baer (U Minnesota) and Natan Sznaider (AC Tel-Aviv) Truth and testimony: From text to bones in Holocaust memory
Session 2: Exhumed bodies: Case studies
Paloma Aguilar (UNED) and Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC) Exhumations and the press during Spain’s transition to democracy: The case of ‘Interviú’ (Spanish)
Sarah Wagner (GWU) Innovation and intervention: The forensic work of identifying Srebrenica’s missing, twenty years on
Ángel del Río (UPO) Uncomfortable bodies in Andalusia (Spanish)
Queralt Solé (UB) Bodily politics in the Civil War Battlefields of Catalonia (Spanish)
Session 3: Techno-scientific bodies
Zoe Crossland (U Columbia) Testifying bodies
Paco Etxeberría, Lourdes Herrasti and Luis Ríos (Aranzadi) Exhumations and forensic labs (Spanish)
Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS) About the ‘necro-market’ and the globalisation of mass exhumations
Luis Fondebrider (EAAF) Trans-migrant bodies in Mexico (Spanish)
Session 4: Bodies as social processes
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (U Manchester) A diplomacy of corpses after WWII
Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC) From tears to pixels: Emotional transfer during Spanish exhumations (Spanish)
María García (UNED) From body to relic (Spanish)
Session 5: Bodies as cultural productions
Antonius C.G.M. Robben (U Utrecht) Sovereign bodies: The cultural production of disappearance and re-appearance in Argentina
Lee Douglas (NYU/CSIC) What remains: Reflections of documentary practice, the language of cinema and the narration of violence
Marije Hristova (U Maastricht) Literature: From ghost to body (Spanish)
Germán Labrador (Princeton U) and Ulrike Capdepón (U Columbia) From exhumed to evicted (Spanish)
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El próximo 1 de julio a las 17:00 horas se presentará en Escuelas Pías (C/Tribulete 14, Madrid) el Centro Internacional de Estudios de Memoria y Derechos Humanos.
El CIEMEDH es un centro de investigación de la UNED que nace con el objetivo de fomentar las investigaciones,
la formación docente, el trabajo técnico y la divulgación de los estudios internacionales sobre desapariciones forzadas, actos de violencia masiva y vulneración de los derechos humanos.
17:00 Presentación del CIEMEDH
Alejandro Tiana Ferrer (Rector de la UNED)
Julián López García (Director del CIEMEDH)
María García Alonso (Vicerrectora de la UNED)
18:30 “Las exhumaciones de la Guerra Civil en España”
Francisco Etxeberría (UPV-Aranzadi)
19:30 Mesa Redonda: “Desapariciones forzadas
y Derechos Humanos en el mundo contemporáneo”
Paco Lobatón (QSD Global)
Carlos Beristain (Universidad de Deusto)
Emilio Silva (ARMH)
Modera: Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC)
20:45 Acto de clausura
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Los días 19 y 20 de junio, tendremos nuestro VI Encuentro en Madrid, con el título Pasados que sirven al presente: el poder transformador de la memoria. Estamos muy contentxs de presentaros el programa, que promete un encuentro maravilloso!
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