Santiago de Compostela, 18,19 e 20 de xullo de 2016

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Organización do Congreso: Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Antonio Miguez Macho, Dolores Vilavedra Fernández (USC)
Secretario: Gustavo Hervella García
Contacto: histagra@usc.es; + 34 881812734
Comité científico: Paloma Aguilar (UNED), Ramón Villares (USC), Fernando Rosas (U. Nova de Lisboa), Álvaro Garrido (U. de Coímbra), Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (USC e U. Ludwig-Maximilian de Múnich), Paul Preston (London School of Economics), Josefina Cuesta (USAL), Carlos Closa (CSIC), Pedro Ruíz-Torres (U. de Valencia), Miguel Cabo (USC), Eduardo Rico (USC), Xesús Balboa (USC), Alejandro Alonso (CUNY), Mª Jesús Baz (USC), Alberto de Bernardi (UNIBO).

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The Congress

Faculty of Geography and History
Praza da Universidade, 1

Fundación Eugenio Granell
Praza do Toural, 8

Teatro Principal
Rúa Nova, 22

Eighty years ago, a military coup d’etat in Spain led to a civil war, just prior to the Second World War. It ended withrebel victory and the establishment of a dictatorship that lasted four decades. Forty years after the death of General Francoand the demise of the authoritarian regime that emerged from the war, this conferencestems from the clear need to lay the groundwork for re-conceptualising the memory and the history of the coup d’etat, the Civil War and the dictatorship. We hope to assess and analyse a newcodification ofevents that has been developing for some time, and confront it with inherited narratives that show signs of exhaustion but persist nonetheless.

In this gathering, historiography and literary studies – two spheres of knowledge concerned with Memory – will engage indialogue, creating a unique occasion for presenting and discussing diverseperspectives, interpretations and ethical dimensionsof what Spanish society today treats as an uncomfortable past. We will also address the need for a new narrative of this past and the materials available for constructing it. 

The idea is to identify the inherited narrative, which was based on Transition ideas of reconciliation but constructed on the reasoning of the combatants, the fragmented memories of victims and executioners, the propaganda of the winners and the bitterness of the losers. The dominant social narrative should be contrasted, deconstructed and confronted with other, subaltern memories in light of new research, persepctives and emphases fed by a fresh current of historic and memoriographic knowledge, along with fresh paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Eighty years after the coup d’etat, and 40 years into democracy, external perspectives and comparison can assist the process and we can address the ethical dimension of knowledge of the past.

DAY 1: MONDAY 18 JULY

Has the Civil War narrative run its course?
Faculty of Geography and History

9:00 Inauguration

9:30  Keynote Speaker: Ángel Loureiro (Princeton University): Memory of history, history of memory. About the Spain of s. XX. Presented by Lourenzo Fernández Prieto

10:30 Break

11:00 - 14:00 Round Table followed by open discussion:
Moderator: Antonio Miguez Macho

Presenters
Ángeles Egido León (UNED); Ulrich Winter (Philipps-Universität Marburg); Lourenzo Fernández Prieto (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

Discussants
Jesús Izquierdo Martín (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid); Xermán Labrador (Princeton University); Daniel Lanero Táboas (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela); Xavier Pla Barbero (Universitat de Girona)

16:30-18:30 Presentation of papers on new research perspectives I

Session 1: New perspectives for a new story
President Manuel Ortiz-Heras
Speaker: Xesús Balboa

Session 2: Speech and memory
President: Raquel Macciuci
Speaker: Elina Liikanen

Teatro Principal

19:00 Lecture. Carlos Castresana (Jurist): Memory, history and transitional justice
Presented by Ramón Villares Paz

DAY 2: TUESDAY 19 JULY

New knowledge for a freshnarrative
Faculty of Geography and History

9:30 Keynote Speaker: Antonio Cazorla (Trent University): The story and its format: the role of the Public History. Presented by Antonio Miguez

10:30 Break

11:00 - 14:00 Round Table followed by open discussion:
Moderator: Dolores Vilavedra Fernández

Presenters
Carlos Gil Andrés (I.E.S Inventor Cosme García of Logroño); Elina Liikanen (University of Helsinki); Antonio Miguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

Discussants
Ana Cabana Iglesia (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela); Emilio Grandio Seoane(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela); Aurora Artiaga Rego (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela); Óscar Rodríguez Barreira (Universidad de Almería)

Fundación Granell

17:00  Literarios, coffee and conversation with Manolo Rivas and Suso de Toro
Presented by: Dolores Vilavedra Fernández

Teatro Principal

19:00 Speaker: Elizabeth Jelin (CONICET, Argentina): Memories times. Memories, silences and omissions in comparative perspective. Presented by Francisco Caamaño

DAY 3:  WEDNESDAY 20 JULY

The ethical dimension in new narratives of the uncomfortable past
Faculty of Geography and History

9:30 Keynote Speaker: Reyes Mate (CSIC): Memory and narrative: the moral look back obligates a new story? Presented by Dolores Fernández Vilavedra

10:30 Break

11:00 - 14:00 Round Table followed by open discussion
Moderator: Lourenzo Fernández Prieto

Presenters:
Manuel Cruz (Universitat de Barcelona); Miguel Anxo Murado; Dolores Vilavedra (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

Discussants:
Mari Jose Olaziregi (Universidad del País Vasco/Instituto Vasco Etxepare); Xabier Etxeberría Mauleón (Universidad de Deusto); Julio Prada Rodríguez (Universidade de Vigo); Carlos Teijo García (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

16: 30-18: 30 Session Communications: New Perspectives Research II

Session 1: New perspectives for a new story
President: Julian Chaves
Speaker:  Miguel Cabo

Session 2: Speech and memory
President: António Gil
Speaker: Sergio Riesco

Teatro Principal

19:00 Lecture. Ben Kiernan (Yale University): A global history of genocide from antiquity to the present day. Presented by Álvaro Garcia

Closing