Lecture:  Violence in the Basque Country in the time of democracy. Reflections on the thread of ETA: Terror and Terrorism (Madrid, 2021) 

The research groups of the Department of History of the USC, HISTAGRA and HISPONA organize the presentation of the latest book by the researcher from the University of the Basque Country, Fernando Molina Aparicio.

The event, which will be held at the Faculty of History (Classroom 11) on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, will be presented by professors Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas and Antonio Miguez Macho. 

Date: 05/03/2022 

Title: Violence in the Basque Country in the time of democracy. Reflections on the thread of ETA: Terror and Terrorism (Madrid, 2021) 

Speaker: Fernando Molina 

Time: 12 noon 

Place: Faculty of History. Classroom 11

About the book: 

ETA forms part of the collective memory of Spanish men and women who have cohabited in their various generations in the last seventy years. Scientific research on this organization, its practice of violence and terror, its sociological background and its influence on Spanish politics is enormous and this book shows that it is still under construction. For decades, this terrorist organization was seen as virtually unbeatable, in a course of changing terrorist and counter-terrorist strategies and in a context in which its violence had an extraordinary effect on political coexistence in Spain and, especially, in the Basque Country. However, ETA was defeated by the police and currently the public debate is focused on defining its historical course, the reasons for its defeat and the nature of its collective memory. 

About the Author:

Fernando Molina Aparicio is a Permanent Doctor Researcher in the Department of Contemporary History of the University of the Basque Country- Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea. He is the author, among other books, The Land of Spanish Martyrdom (Madrid, 2005), Mario Onaindia. Homeland Biography (Madrid, 2012) and co-editor (along with Rafael Leonisio and Diego Muro) of ETA's Terrorist Campaign. From Violence to Politics (London, 2017), ETA: Terror and Terrorism (Madrid, 2021). He has published numerous articles in national and foreign magazines such as Ayer, Historia y Política, Historia Social, Social History, European History Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nations and Nationalism, National Identities, etc. He is the Principal Investigator of the Nationalization, State and Political Violence (NAEVIO) project of MINECO and a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the EHU. He was responsible for the Master of Contemporary History and in the 2018-19 academic year he was general coordinator of the Interuniversity Master of Contemporary History, which integrates the master's degrees of the universities of Santiago de Compostela, Zaragoza, Cantabria, Valencia, Autónoma de Madrid, Autónoma de Barcelona, Complutense and UPV/EHU.