Entries by F.

Franco’s repression on the railway

Franco’s repression on the railway November 28, 2019 Madrid Railway Museum   This Railway Historical Memory Day has the purpose of deepening the historical knowledge of what Franco’s repression on the railway meant. That is why it has brought together a group of accredited researchers with a double purpose. On the one hand, acrisolar the […]

Archeology of the point of view

Conference by:  Ricard Martínez (Visual artist, photographer and researcher)    Monday, November 25, 2019 18.00 – 20.00 hours Aula 303 Facultat de Geografia i Història (Universitat de Barcelona) C/ Montalegre, 6 Metro Universitat – Catalunya – Liceu Free entry How to get? For more information: Facebook of Rastres i Rostres Guardar

Necropolitics

In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to […]

Crime Scenes and Sites of Memory. Second International Conference on Perpetrators of Mass

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 […]

Francisco Ferrándiz. Carne Cruda. 30/10/2019

Interview with Francisco Ferrándiz on the radio program Carne Cruda. Programme on forgetting with the social anthropologist Francisco Ferrándiz, who has actively participated in many of the exhumations since 2000. For him, the opening of graves constitutes a mechanism for confronting the traumatic past of undeniable transcendence. Link to the program   

What is the Valley of the Fallen? 24/10/2019

What is the Valley of the Fallen? InfoK programme, a children’s channel on Televisión de Cataluña (TV3), prepared with the help of Queralt Solé, Professor of History at the University of Barcelona. Link to the program