More than thirty hours of lectures and conferences promoted by the Directorate General are available to the public at large
The Directorate General of Democratic Memory of the Government of the Balearic Islands has expanded the website dedicated to democratic memory with the addition of a new specific section that hosts up to 22 thematic conferences.
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The Balearic Islands expands the web space
This is a repository of more than thirty hours that hosts the different conferences and seminars on democratic memory promoted over the last year by the Directorate General, in collaboration with the Commission of Graves and Disappeared of the Civil War and Francoism, and the Commission of Memory and Democratic Recognition of the Government of the Balearic Islands.
Specialists in democratic memory from different disciplines, including research, journalism, history, psychology, human rights and anthropology, as well as direct family members who have contributed their own experiences, have taken part in the conferences, which now also include sign language interpretation.
The aim of the Directorate General is that this repository, which will be expanded with future talks and conferences, will not only serve as a tool for the educational and university environment but will also be available to all citizens.
The aim of the Directorate General is for this repository in the Balearic Islands to be available to all citizens.
The lectures that are now available on this web link are the following:
- “Counter-monument”, by the artist Eugenio Merino.
- “Strategies of resignification in places of memory: the Valley of the Fallen and beyond”, by the historian Francisco Ferrándiz.
From Anjel Lekuona to the Hradiscko 6: the story of some ashes”, by the family member Anton Gandarias Lekuona.
Victimisation in the Francoist zone”, by the historian Julián Casanova.
- “The struggle of daughters and granddaughters for memory: the case of Chon Mendieta”, by the family member Chon Vargas Mendieta.
- “Unearthing gender repression: analysis of violence against women during the civil war and Franco’s dictatorship in Spain”, by Doctor Laura Muñoz Encinar.
- “Unearthing silences: A multidisciplinary project for the opening of the graves of Franco’s repression and the civil war in the Balearic Islands”, by Cesc Busquets, Núria Armentano and Jordi Ramos.
- “The hidden transmission: an inheritance without a will”, by the psychologist and psychoanalyst Anna Miñarro.
La exhumación de fosas de la Guerra Civil en las Pitiusas”, by the physical anthropologist Almudena García-Rubio.
- “The Mallorcans in the Olympiad that wasn’t”, by the researcher Pau Tomàs.
Can historical memory be rescued through public archives in Spain?”, by the audiovisual documentalist Lisa Berger.
- “Expelled for being “undesirable for the New Spain”, by researchers Joan Pérez and Pere Bueno.
- “Exhumations in the Porreres cemetery (2019-2021)”, by archaeologist Jaume Servera.
- “Democratic memory and education in the Balearic Islands”, by historian Elisabeth Ripoll.
- “El caso del crimen de la carretera de Málaga a Almería” (The case of the crime on the road from Málaga to Almería), by historian Fernando Alcalde.
- “Forced labour in the Balearic Islands (1936-1942)”, by the historian Maria Eugènia Jaume.
- “The Valencian transition: from a country to an autonomous community”, by the historian José Miguel Santacreu.
The Spanish state and international human rights law”, by the magistrate Catalina Moragues.
The workers’ movement in the Balearic Islands: from the Republic to Francoism”, by historian David Ginard.
- “The Valley of the Fallen”, by the historian Queralt Solé.
- “The end of Franco’s regime and the advent of democracy in Menorca”, by Joan Pons, Josep Maria Quintana and Francesc Tutzó.
Women, journalism and democratic memory”, by journalists Ana Pardo de Vera, Natalia Junquera, Elena Ballestero, Maria LLull, Marisa Goño and Maitane Moreno.