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, […]
SUMMER COURSE UPV-EHU UDAKO IKASTAROA “Massive violence, mass graves and human rights. Perspectives from the forensic and social sciences” UPV-EHU Summer Courses, under the direction of Francisco Etxeberria: Mass violence, mass graves and human rights. Perspectives from the forensic and social sciences. This course aims to link the technical aspects of the forensic […]
The Remembrance and Human Rights Center ex ESMA hosts an exhibition in Buenos Aires about the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. This exhibition illustrates the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) contributing to research about human rights violations. From selected cases, the exhibition tries to show some methodological aspects and underline the social, political and historical […]
“…dead bodies are maps of power and identity.” (Foltyn 2008: 104) This site is about the many ways in which we increasingly interact with the material remains of the dead in contemporary society. I am interested in how dead bodies play a variety of roles in diverse social, cultural, economic and political processes. As death perhaps […]
The Scientific Association Justice: Memory, Narration and Culture (JUSMENACU) was born around a project: to elaborate a theory of justice that really takes into account and relates the temporal, spatial and narrative dimensions as well as cultural diversity.