An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Spain

Thursday, October 13 l 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College The Duty of Memory, the Right to Forget: Historical Memory Beyond the Stalemates Clemente Bernad will present the U.S. premier of his documentary film Morir de sueos/Dying for Dreams (2011, 24 mins.)

War, Dictatorship, and Memory:

Saturday, October 15 l 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Cornel Ban, Brown University Nazi Apostasy and the Market: The Intellectual Alchemy of Spanish Economic Liberalism Sara Brenneis, Amherst College Representations of Mauthausen at the Crossroads of Spanish Memory and a Round-Table Discussion with: Christian Gundermann, Mount Holyoke College Karen Remmler, Mount Holyoke College Neil Silberman, University of Massachusetts Ilan Stavans, Amherst College Jacqueline Urla, University of Massachusetts

Friday, October 14 l 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall, Mount Holyoke College
Txetxu Aguado, Dartmouth College Identitarian Violence and Memory in Post-Transition Spain Justin Crumbaugh, Mount Holyoke College Afterlife and Bare Life at the Valley of the Fallen Stephanie Golob, Baruch College, CU NY The Trials of Judge Garzn: Legal Remembering and Societal Forgetting in Spain Patricia Keller, Cornell University The Space that Remains: Bleda y Rosas Monumental Photography Aitzpea Leizaola, University of the Basque Country Bones, Buttons, and Photographs: Objects for Remembrance in the Exhumation of Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War Annabel Martn, Dartmouth College A Trip to the Underworld: Finding a Ladder, Exploring the Wreckage (the Case of Euskadi) Luis Martn-Cabrera, University of California, San Diego The Language of Memory: Obsolescence, Testimony, and Oral History

Major funding by:

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Spanish Consulate of Boston

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spains Ministry of Culture and United States Universities Five College Lecture Fund Mount Holyoke College Purington Fund

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University of Massachusetts Modern European Studies Program University of Massachusetts Graduate School Amherst College Lecture Fund

For the full program, information about the speakers,

directions to the events, and a complete list of sponsors, visit:

http://scholarworks.umass.edu/wdm