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‘Uncomfortable Pasts’ Series: Lecture: ‘Women Alone: Violence against women under the Franco regime’

New series of HISTAGRA ‘Uncomfortable Pasts’ lectures 2026–2027 On 27 October at 6.00 pm, a new session of HISTAGRA’s ‘Uncomfortable Pasts’ lecture series will take place in the Staff Room of the Faculty of Geography and History. On this occasion, we will be hosting a round-table discussion entitled: ‘Women Alone: Violence against women under Franco, memory and history from a comparative perspective’. This round-table, coordinated by HISTAGRA member Antonio Miguez Macho, will feature the following historians and specialists in women’s studies: Natalia Jorge Pereira (PhD in History and independent researcher), Montse Fajardo (independent researcher and specialist in women’s studies), Uxia Otero (PhD in History, researcher at the USC and specialist in gender studies) and Emma...

  • HISTAGRA project cited as an example of good practice by the Women’s Institute

    HISTAGRA project cited as an example of good practice by the Women’s Institute The Women’s Institute selected the GESUSA project, led by Ana Cabana Iglesia, a researcher at HISTAGRA, as an example of good practice and therefore decided to publish its final report and various associated document...

  • Defence of David Fontan Bestilleiro’s thesis

    Defence of David Fontán Bestilleiro’s thesis Next Thursday, 1 October, at 11.00 am, the public defence of the doctoral thesis by HISTAGRA researcher David Fontán Bestilleiro will take place. It will be held in the University’s Paraninfo.The thesis, entitled ‘Comunais, conflicts and sustainabili...

  • Victims of Franco’s regime discovered at Serantes cemetery

    Victims of Franco’s regime discovered at Serantes cemeteryThe excavation to recover the bodies of those subjected to reprisals has revealed vertical burials and signs of ‘extreme’ violence.The excavation undertaken at the Serantes cemetery in an attempt to locate the bodies of victims of Franco’s re...

  • HISTAGRA is organising the Agrobiodiversity Summer School 2026 at CISPAC

    Agrobiodiversity Summer School, a training programme on the sustainability of food systemsCISPAC is spearheading this initiative on agrobiodiversity, involving staff from the Histagra research groupA new edition of the Agrobiodiversity Summer School is now underway in Santiago de Compostela. This in...

  • Work at the mass grave from the Francoist violence in Serantes (Ferrol)

    Work at the mass grave from the Francoist violence in Serantes (Ferrol) Between Monday 31 August and Friday 11 September, an archaeological survey is taking place in Serantes (Ferrol), coordinated by the Histagra research group at the USC-CISPAC, with the aim of determining the location and con...