Keynote Sessions

Keynote by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize 2016
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Keynote by Aleida Assmann, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2018
[ENGLISH with simultaneous translation]

Roundtable Connecting Memory Traditions Around the World
With: Astrid Erll (chair), Susannah Radstone, Darlene St.Clair, Jie-Hyun Lim, Ciraj Rassool, Genner Llanes Ortiz
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Film screening of The Faces We Lost with a Q&A with Piotr Cieplak (Sarah Maltby)[ENGLISH with simultaneous translation]

Parallel keynote panels

Roundtable How to Publish in Memory Studies
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Roundtable Memory Politics in 21st-Century Spain in the 80th Anniversary of the End of the Civil War (1936-1939)
[SPANISH with simultaneous translation]

Roundtable Memory and Museums
[BILINGUAL with simultaneous translation]

Roundtable 25 years since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
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Roundtable Institutional Memory Politics
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Special Sessions

Roundtable Art Textures in Spanish Memory Politics
[SPANISH with simultaneous translation]

Conversation with Elizabeth Jelin (with Lidia Mateo Leivas)
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Conversation with Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former General Director of UNESCO (with Carlos Giménez)
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Conversation between Marianne Hirsch & Mirta Kupferminc
[ENGLISH with simultaneous translation]

Book Panel SAGE Memory Studies and MSA Book Award

Roundtable 80th anniversary of Spanish Exile
[SPANISH with simultaneous translation]

Prosthetic Memory Revisited: A Conversation with Alison Landsberg
[ENGLISH with simultaneous translation]

Lunch treats

Theatre by Micomicón Company (26 June 2019, 2-3 pm – during lunch)
Performance by Joanna Craveiro (27 June 2019, 2-3 pm – during lunch)
Archaeological walk with Alfredo González-Ruibal (The Civil War at the University)

Arts program

Film festival parallel to the program, performances and more.
Please see a preview of the MSA Film Festival here.

Other activities

29 June 2019, 10am-2pm:
Excursion to the Valley of the Fallen (self-pay)

During the Conference you will have the chance to visit or participate in:

• Visit the Spanish Civil War trenches around the UCM campus under guidance of Alfredo González-Ruibal
• Guided tour through the Campus Complutense University (not linked to memory)
• Up Before Daybreak”. The International Brigades: from Spain to the French Resistance (Casa de Velázquez)