First meeting of the EXTERNAL ACADEMIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE (CAAE) of the State Census Project on Victims of the Coup, War and Dictatorship (1936-1977)

On Tuesday, 7 October, the first meeting of the External Academic Advisory Committee (CAAE) of the CENOMI (Nombres, Noms, Nombres, Izenak) project will take place in Madrid. The committee is made up of specialists of recognised historiographical prestige in the fields of coup violence, war, exile and dictatorship. Its function is to provide methodological and critical conceptual support for the project's operational decisions.

The meeting will be opened by the Minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Mr Ángel Víctor Torres, the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Mr Fernando Martínez López, and the head of research, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto.

CENOMI: NOMBRES, NOMS, NOMBRES, IZENAK will include all those who were killed as a result of the violence perpetrated from the coup d'état of 1936 until the end of 1939 in this first phase. The main team carrying out this task is based at CISPAC, the Inter-University Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes, which is run by the three Galician universities (USC, UdC and UVigo). It is directed by Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Professor of Contemporary History at the USC, and Antonio Miguez Macho, Professor and Doctor of Contemporary History at the USC, and coordinated by Cochi López Sánchez, Doctor of Contemporary History.

The project is based on historical research methodology: critical analysis of sources and qualitative and quantitative assessment of information. Technically, it uses the ‘Dédalo’ platform, a computer system for managing and disseminating cultural heritage information with a proven track record of more than twenty years of experience. The CENOMI team works directly with this platform to record information derived from the search for fatalities in the period from July 1936 to December 1939. As a result of the investigation, defining the traceability of the sources, the guarantee of their verification and the method of validation of the names, we generate a nominal list of victims that also includes, where possible, multiple biographical details of the people identified: age; profession; place of birth, neighbourhood, death...; or type of violent event of which they were victims.

Meeting details:

Madrid, 7 October 2025

Palacio de la Condesa de Adanero. Calle de Sta Engracia, 7. 28010 Madrid

Time: 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

More information:

histagra@usc.es