The 2023 MSA First Book Award to “De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia”

Daniel Palacios González, has won the prestigious international First Book Award 2023 awarded by the Memory Studies Association (MSA) with his book De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia, based on his doctoral thesis.The thesis was co-directed by Francisco Ferrándiz (ILLA-CCHS-CSIC) in 2022.

“We are pleased to announce that this year’s award goes to Daniel Palacios González, the author of “De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia”. In his monograph, Daniel Palacios González traces the histories and meanings of mass graves of the Spanish War and Dictatorship. The reviewers praised the book for its comprehensiveness, theoretical depth, and empirical richness. They also emphasized the author’s critical approach to the ‘forensic turn’ and his precise differentiation of national and local mnemonic policies”

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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.

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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.

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Francisco Ferrándiz. Las mañanas de RNE. 24/09/2019

Interview to Francisco Ferrándiz in the program Las mañanas de RNE with Íñigo Alfonso.

The Supreme Court pronounces on the exhumation of Franco’s remains. A long process of political decisions, corrections, appeals in the courts ends … and we will see who gives the right justice: the government or the Franco family.

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Marije Hristova and Johanna Vollmeyer. RNE, Gente Despierta. 11/07/2019

Interview with Marije Hristova and Johanna Vollmeyer in the program Gente Despierta of RNE.

The programme deals with historical memory, following the celebration in Madrid of the third annual conference of the Memory Studies Association.

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Francisco Ferrándiz. SER, Punto de fuga. 29/06/2019

Interview with Francisco Ferrándiz in the program Punto de fuga in Cadena SER.

On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, the Memory Congress reflects on the relationship between memory and the fingerprint or climate change. In this sense, there are experts who already refer to nostalgia for lost landscapes or other consequences of changes in the environment as ‘climatic trauma’.

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Marije Hristova. RNE, por tres razones. 28/06/2019

Interview with Marije Hristova in the program Por tres razones of RNE.

The macro Congress held at the Complutense University ends in Madrid, which has addressed one of the pillars of humanity, namely: memory, which has stolen wars and conflicts; climate; history; how it is taught; how it is not even thought.

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Marije Hristova and Francisco Ferrándiz. La Sexta. 26/06/2019

Interview with Marije Hristova and Francisco Ferrándiz in la Sexta about the Third Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association (MSA).

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Francisco Ferrándiz. RNE, Todo Noticias. 25/06/2019

Interview with Francisco Ferrándiz in the program Todo Noticias of RNE.

The Complutense University of Madrid is hosting the world’s largest conference on Memory Studies, with more than 1300 specialists debating topics such as digital memory, climate memory and the memory of migrations.

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Francisco Ferrándiz. RTVE, Informe Semanal. 08/06/2019

Interview with Francisco Ferrándiz in the program Informe Semanal: “Deber de memoria”.

In the last 19 years almost 500 graves have been opened, but it is estimated that there are still another 2,000. A Informe Semanal team has been at the unearthing of Genara Fernandez Garcia, a Republican teacher shot and buried in an unnamed tomb of Leon in 1941. The work has been carried out by the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, and have coincided with the decision of the Supreme Court to postpone the transfer of the remains of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen until the family’s appeal is resolved.

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