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WEDNESDAY 17th OCTOBER

18.00 - 21.00

Inaugural Session. Palace of the Governement of Catalonia

Head table. Opening by:

The Most Honourable José Montilla, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya

The Honourable Joan Saura, Regional Minister of the Interior, Institutional Relations and Participation

Keynote adress::

Josep Fontana (professor emeritus at University Pompeu Fabra)

Isabel Allende Bussi (Director of Fundación Salvador Allende)

20.00 - 21.00
Cocktail

THURSDAY 18th OCTOBER

09.00 - 09.30

Accreditation

Subject of the day

States and the Memory

Moderator: Jordi Conde

Speeches

09.30 - 11.30

Aula Magna

Ricard Vinyes (coordinator of the Drafting Commission of the Democratic Memorial project)

Memory as a public policy

Elisabeth Lira (Centre of Ethics of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)

The Processes of Memorial Construction

11.30 - 12.00
Project exchange period

Coffee break

12.00 - 14.00

Aula Magna

Table 1: Legality, Legitimacy, Responsability and Reparation

Moderator: Jordi Conde

  • Josep Vendrell (Secretary of Institutional Relations and Participation of the Regional Minister of the Interior, Institutional Relations and Participation) : "The Democratic Memorial Law"
  • Carlos Jiménez Villarejo (jurist): "Francoism illegitimacy versus republican legality: the bases of Spanish fascism"
  • Valdi Van Reenen-Le Roux (Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, South Africa): "The creation of an inclusive society – Let’s listen to forgotten voices"
  • Horacio Verbitsky (Centre for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina): "The fight by the Argentinean people against impunity"
  • Patrizia Dogliani(University of Bologna, Italy): "Legality, legitimacy and responsibility. The Italian case"

14.00 - 16.00

Lunch

16.00 - 18.00

Aula Magna

Table 2: Memorial Institutions: Models and Experiences

Moderator: Antoni Traveria

  • Jean-Claude Duclos (Museum of the Resistance and Deportation of Isère, France): "History, memory, museums and memorials in France and, in particular, in Grenoble"
  • Christel Trouvé (Topography of Terror, Germany): "The evolution of the politics of memory in Germany"
  • Marc Masurovsky (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA): "The Washington Holocaust Museum"
  • Elena Zhemkova (Memorial, Russia) (pending confirmation)
  • Judith Saïd (National Memory Archives, Argentina): "State politics in memory, truth and justice in Argentina: memory places"
18.00 - 18.15
Break

18.15 - 20.00

Synthesis Areas

  1. Post-war scenarios
    Coordinator: Teresa Férriz
  2. Post-totalitarian scenarios
    Coordinator: Bashkim Shehu
  3. Open wounds
    Coordinator: Francisco Ferrándiz
20.30

Memory and creation

Ausencias. Exhibition by Gustavo Germano.

Casa Amèrica de Catalunya. Guided visit by the artist.

FRIDAY 19th OCTOBER

Subject of the day

 

Vestiges, interpretation and transmission of the memory

Moderator: Dolors Genovès

09.30 - 11.30

Speeches

Aula Magna

Montserrat Iniesta (Anthropologist and museum expert of the writer Commission of the Democratic Memorial Project)

Places of memory, places of recollection. Transmission and continuity of democratic memory

Jordi Borja (Urban Technology Consulting - UOC)

Public space and democratic memory

11.30 - 12.00
Project exchange period

Coffee break

12.00 - 14.00

Aula Magna

Table 3: Experience, knowledge and memory: limits and reconcilement

Moderator: Dolors Genovès

  • Alberto Reig Tapia (Universitat Rovira i Virgili): "Historical memory or reparation? From consensus to confrontation"
  • Susana Narotzky (Universitat de Barcelona): "A future for the past: reflections about the recovery of historical memory"
  • Isabel Piper (Universidad de Chile): "Politics of recollection and construction of the subject-victim"
  • Ana Cacopardo (Provincial Commission for Memory, Argentina):  "Past and present in memory policies"
  • Julian Bonder (architect at Wodiczko&Bonder, professor at Roger Williams University, USA): "Memory works, works about memory: reflections and practices"
14.00 - 16.00
Lunch
16.00 - 18.00

Aula Magna

Table 4: Supports for memory transmission

Moderator: Manuel Campo Vidal

  • Ramon Alberch (Bureau of Archives, Generalitat de Catalunya): "Archives, memory and human rights"
  • Ciraj Rassool (The District Six Museum, South Africa): "District Six and the South African memorial complex: the creation of participatory memory in Cape Town"
  • Jacques Fredj (Shoah Memorial, France): "The Shoah Memorial: understanding the past to shed light on the future"
  • Gloria Elgueta (Londres 38, Chile): "London 38: a memory under construction"
  • Miguel Montecinos (Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace, Chile): "Villa Grimaldi: a place of memory that rocks Chilean society"
18.00 - 18.15
Break
18.15 - 20.00

Synthesis Areas

  1. Registration
    Coordinator: Laura Solanilla
  2. Presentation
    Coordinator: Ignasi Cristià
  3. Narration
    Coordinator: Jordi Gràcia
22.00

Memory and creation

Theatre: Las Trece Rosas [The Three Roses] -Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison - teatre La Sala

SATURDAY 20th OCTOBER

9.30 - 11.30

Aula Magna

Table 5: Public policies on memory in the Spanish State

Moderator: Josep Maria Muñoz

Representative of the autonomic governments

 

  • Catalonia - Maria Jesús Bono Lahoz (Director General for Democratic Memory)
  • Basque Country - Isabel López Aulestia (Directora de Participació ciutadana del departament d’habitatge i serveis socials)
  • Andalusia - Fernando Soto Martín (Human Rights Commissioner)
  • Aragon - Jaime Vicente Redón (Director General for Cultural Heritage)
  • Galicia - Lourenzo Fernández Prieto ("Os nomes, as voces e os lugares" project)
11.30 - 11.45

Project exchange period

Coffee break

11.45 - 12.30

Aula Magna

The Democratic Memorial of Catalunya. Round table with representatives from the Advisory Committee

Moderator: Montserrat Armengou

 

  • Borja de Riquer Permanyer (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 
    Joan B. Culla Clarà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 
    Antoni Segura Mas (Universitat de Barcelona)
12.30 - 14.30

Aula Magna

Table 6: Memory spaces here and now

Moderator: Ignasi Aragay

  • Jordi Guixé (historian, Director of Memory Projects and Spaces, Directorate General for Democratic Memory): "The Democratic Memorial and Memory Spaces: A network of memorial heritage in Catalonia"
  • Josep M. Solé i Sabaté (professor of history at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Technical Areas Coordinator for COMEBE): "The COMEBE museum project"
  • Conxita Mir (professor at Universitat de Lleida, coordinator of the Memory in the Lands of Lleida Pilot Plan): "Territory and memory in a frontline, rearguard and border zone. The lands of Lleida (1936-1945)"
  • Joaquim Aloy (historian and director of online projects in Manresa): "Internet: an excellent tool for disseminating information about memory. The Manresa experience."
  • Denis Peschansky (Scientific Director of the CNRS and director of the Rivesaltes Memorial science project): "Rivesaltes: a memorial for history"
14.30 - 16.30
Lunch
16.30 - 18.00

Aula Magna

Memorial entities of Catalonia

Moderador: Joan Boada ((Secretary General of the Department of the Interior, Institutional Relations and Participation) 

  • Catalan Association of Former Political Prisoners
  • Association for the Memory of Those Who Fell for Freedom in Catalonia
  • Friends of the Victims of Mathausen and Other Camps and of All Nazi Victims in Spain
  • Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory in Catalonia
  • Coordinating Platform for Historical and Democratic Memory in Catalonia 
18.00

Aula Magna

 

Close of the Colloquium

  • The Honourable Joan Saura (Regional Minister of the Interior, Institutional Relations and Participation)
  • Marcia Scantlebury (journalist and curator of the Museo de la Memoria of the government of Chile)
  • Xavier Pons (Secretario General del área de Organización, Economia, Comunicación y Relaciones Institucionales de la UB)

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