Sebastiaan Faber in HISTAGRA's series of lectures Pasados Incómodos (Uncomfortable Pasts)

On Thursday 3 April at 19:00 h. at the Faculty of Geography and History of the USC, Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College (USA), will give the lecture Memoria democrática o antifascista? 20th century narratives in Spain, the United States and the Netherlands, in which he will talk about his most recent research.

Sebastiaan Faber is the author of several books, including Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939- 1975 (2002), Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline (2008), Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography (2018) and Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition (Vanderbilt, 2021; 2nd revised ed., 2023). He presides over the archives of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALBA), of whose journal he is co-editor.

In the paper he will present next Thursday, he reflects on the politics of memory in Spain, the Netherlands and the United States and the traumatic pasts of all three.

Data:

Date: 03/04/2025

Title: Democratic or anti-fascist memory? Accounts of the 20th century in Spain, the United States and the Netherlands

Speaker: Sebastiaan Faber

Time: 19 h

Place: Aula 12. Faculty of Geography and History

More Información:

https://histagra.usc.es/eshistagra@usc.es. Tel. 881971010, Ext. 100