HISTAGRA organises a new lecture in the Uncomfortable Pasts Cycle: Xavier Juncosa

On Thursday 15 December at 12 noon, a new lecture in HISTAGRA's Uncomfortable Pasts series will take place.

In the series of conferences Uncomfortable Pasts, specialists in history, cultural studies, sociology and thought take part to analyse the past and memory, as well as their present treatment.

This Thursday we are visited by Xavier Juncosa, who will give us the talk: Reports of French counter-espionage in Barcelona and Madrid (1943-1945) in the military archives of Vincennes.

Data:

Date: 15/12/2022

Title: Reports on French counter-espionage in Barcelona and Madrid (1943-1945) in the military archives of Vincennes.

Speaker: Xavier Juncosa

Time: 12 noon              

Place: Faculty of History. Room 14

About the speaker:

Xavier Juncosa (1956) is a Catalan filmmaker, historian, essayist, novelist and translator. He was the director, creator and scriptwriter of more than a hundred documentaries, among them those dedicated to the life and work of Manuel Sacristán: "Integral Sacristán" (2007). Author of novels and essays such as Él missatger del fred. La desaparició d'Hernan Gurguí, deserter of the Blue Division (2012), in recent years he has been studying the French military archives related to espionage and Spanish exile during the Civil War.

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The archives:

The Centre historique des archives is one of the three centres of the Service historique de la Défense. It collects the archives produced by the Ministry of the Armed Forces, except for those of the French Navy units, those of the General Directorate of Armaments and those relating to military and civilian Defence personnel. It contains more than 120 linear kilometres of documents produced and received since the 17th century by the central administrations of the ministries in charge of military affairs and by the staffs, services and units of the three armies and the national gendarmerie.