The HISTAGRA lecture series returns for the 2025-2026 academic year

In September, a new programme of HISTAGRA seminars began for the 2025-2026 academic year. Once again, we are presenting two programmes: Uncomfortable Past and Research Seminars

The UNCOMFORTABLE PAST: WAR, MEMORY AND HISTORY series will be held entirely at the Faculty of Geography and History between September 2025 and April 2026, with the participation of specialists in history, cultural studies and philosophy to analyse the past and memory, as well as their treatment in the present.

The HISTAGRA Research Seminars will be held between the Faculty of Geography and History, the CISPAC and, this year, the Faculty of Humanities of Lugo between November 2025 and May 2026. The HISTAGRA Seminars are a meeting point for collective debate between students, researchers, specialists and, in general, anyone interested in the Group's lines of research and the work of the researchers, who are invited to present ongoing projects and new research results.

The programme is as follows:

HISTAGRA Seminars:

Speaker: Judit Gil Farrero 

4 November 2025 

An environmental history of conflicts over the construction of reservoirs in Spain and Italy (20th-21st centuries). Presentation of the Marie Curie DAMSECIS project 

3:00 p.m. Faculty of Geography and History 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group Contemporary History Master's Classroom

Speakers: Maigra and María Esther (Mulleres Bravas) 

March 2026 

Impacts on people and the environment of different extractive projects (mines, macro-renewables, large companies, etc.) in Honduras and Galicia 

Time to be determined 

CISPAC Seminar 103 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group, Amigas da terra and CISPAC

Speakers: Rosa Mª Pardo Sanz, Carlos de Francisco Martiñán, David Soto 

Moderator: Daniel Lanero 

23 April 2026 

Round table 12 noon 

CISPAC Seminar 103 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group and CISPAC

Speaker: Nasly Tatiana García Briñez

May 2026

Presentation of her research

Faculty of Humanities Lugo

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group

Uncomfortable Past Cycle

Speaker: Dionisio Pereira González 

17 September 2025

Franco's repression in Al Hoceima and the Central Rif during the Spanish Civil War 

7:00 p.m. Classroom 13 

Faculty of Geography and History 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group

Speakers: Magda Oranich (lawyer), Ismael Saz (historian), Jesús Rodríguez (journalist), Lourenzo Fernández Prieto (historian) and Flor Baena (Relative of a murder victim) 

Moderator: Carmina Gustrán (Commissioner for the Commemoration of 50 Years of Freedom in Spain) 

27 September 2025 

The last executions of the Franco dictatorship: 50 years. Facts. Testimonies. Memory 

5:00 p.m. USC Auditorium 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group and España en Libertad

Speaker: Jalane Schmidt 

17 November 2025

 ‘Historical memory, public space, and civil war: a perspective from the United States’ 

4:00 p.m. Classroom 14 

Faculty of Geography and History 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group

Speaker: Miguel Ángel del Arco 

9 February 2026 

Presentation The Spanish famine 

7:00 p.m. 

Ateneo de Santiago Abanica Classroom (R/ Nova) 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group and Ateneo de Santiago

Speakers: To be confirmed 

March 2026 

Round table: Anti-Francoism, the protagonists II 

7 p.m. Faculty of Geography and History 

Main Lecture Hall 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group 

Activity included in the 3rd year History degree course: Contemporary History of Spain. 20th century

Speakers: To be confirmed 

March 2026 

Round table: Anti-Francoism, the protagonists II 

7 p.m. Faculty of Geography and History 

Main Lecture Hall 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group 

Activity included in the 3rd year History degree course: Contemporary History of Spain. 20th century

Speaker: Rosa Mª Pardo Sanz 

22 April 2026 

From politics to technical cooperation: the influence of the FAO on Spanish agricultural development (1950-1975) 

7 p.m. Faculty of Geography and History 

Classroom 14 

Organised by: HISTAGRA Group