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Media Coverage

More than 60 media outlets (newspaper, radio and TV) reported on the MSA2019 Madrid conference. Check out the media coverage below

Date Title Mass Media Topic
07/06/2019 Madrid, capital of memory Tercera Información Madrid will host the world’s largest conference on memory studies. More than 1300 specialists will talk about topics such as digital memory, climate memory and the memory of migrations.
09/06/2019 Madrid will host the world’s largest memorial conference. La Vanguardia More than 1,300 specialists from all over the world will gather in Madrid for the third Conference of the ‘Memory Studies Association’, which will deal with topics such as digital memory, climate memory and the memory of migrations.
09/06/2019 Madrid will host the largest conference in the world of memory ABC More than 1,300 specialists from all over the world will gather in Madrid for the third Conference of the ‘Memory Studies Association’, which will deal with topics such as digital memory, climate memory and the memory of migrations.
21/06/2019 More than 1,600 researchers and world experts in historical memory gather next week in Madrid europa press On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, more than 1,600 researchers, museum directors, journalists and writers gather in Madrid to discuss issues related to memory understood broadly.
22/06/2019 Madrid hosts this week the world’s largest conference on historical memory, with 1,500 experts from 45 countries
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  • The Conference coincides with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in Spain and the 25th anniversary of the genocide of the Tutsi people, in 1994.
23/06/2019 The Power of Protest El País An ambitious cartographic research in today’s Europe the footprints of the social movements that have culturally shaped our societies
24/06/2019 Cádiz will be represented at the International Memory Conference Andalucía Información Cádiz is represented by a panel of specialists at the Conference. The colloquium will be entitled ‘Recuperando las voces de la memoria popular de la represión franquista en Cádiz’.
24/06/2019 The world’s largest conference on memory kicks off in Madrid El Salto With 1,300 speakers, the event is the largest ever held on memory studies in the world.
24/06/2019 The rise of memory studies visits Madrid eldiario.es More than 1,300 specialists will discuss topics such as digital memory, climate memory and the memory of migrations.
24/06/2019 Madrid hosts this week the world’s largest conference on historical memory, with 1,500 experts from 45 countries europa press The conference, which will be the most important scientific meeting in the world on this subject, will offer a broad perspective for recovering elements of world historical memory.
24/06/2019 Madrid, world capital of historical memory: does only Spain want to forget? El Español The conference will address the theme of historical memory from an interdisciplinary point of view.
24/06/2019 Madrid hosts the largest conference on memory studies in the world La Vanguardia One of the central themes of the conference is the connection between different memory traditions from different parts of the world.
25/06/2019 The largest international conference on ‘memory’ kicks off in Madrid: “Comparing Spain and other countries builds us all”. eldiario.es Among the highlights of the conference is digital memory, the relationship between memory and climate change or non-Western conceptions of memory, among many others.
25/06/2019 Astrid Erll: “Memory means making sense of time.” La Marea Interview with Astrid Erll
25/06/2019 World Memory Conference warns of growing right-wing extremism La Vanguardia The Conference was inaugurated in Madrid with warnings about the growth of the extreme right and the fight against historical memory.
25/06/2019 Madrid, the Memory Capital of the World Público Memory as a study of the way in which as a society we relate in the present with our past and which has a projection into the future.
25/06/2019 3rd. Annual Memory Studies Association Conference CSIC More than 1,600 researchers, museum directors, journalists, writers and writers gather this week in Madrid to discuss issues related to memory.
26/06/2019 A thousand researchers meet in Madrid to tackle the study of memory, from historical to digital. CSIC Investigation of memory from multiple approaches.

Historical memory, digital memory; the relationship between memory and climate change; non-Western conceptions of memory.

26/06/2019 International Brigades Return to University City Trenches El Español Exhibition at Casa de Velázquez remembers the volunteers who fought for the Republic.
26/06/2019 Madrid, capital of memory El País More than 1,500 specialists meet at the world’s largest conference on the management of the traumatic past, from the Balkan war to Rwanda or the Republican exile.
26/06/2019 More than 200 experts in historical memory visit this Saturday the Valley of the Fallen: “Franco commands much from his tomb”. El Periódico More than 200 experts in historical memory will visit the Valley of the Fallen in a commission headed by researcher Francisco Ferrándiz and is part of the Conference organized by the Memory Studies Association.
26/06/2019 The “ungovernable memory” of the Republican exile
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  • The Memory Studies Association Conference commemorates the 80th anniversary of the diaspora that drove 480,000 left-wing activists and intellectuals away from Spain
26/06/2019 Memories of the future Climática (La Marea) Ecological decline leaves its mark on the human psyche, producing traumas from events that have not yet occurred.
26/06/2019 Aleida Assmann: “The policy of forgetting is not a solution”. El País Aleida Assmann affirms that silence is no guarantee of peace in post-dictatorial societies.
26/06/2019 More than 200 experts in historical memory will visit the Valley of the Fallen Madrid press More than 200 experts in historical memory will visit the Valley of the Fallen in a commission headed by researcher Francisco Ferrándiz and is part of the Conference organized by the Memory Studies Association.
26/06/2019 200 experts will visit the Valley of the Fallen: “Franco commands a lot from his grave.” El Plural More than 200 experts in historical memory will visit the Valley of the Fallen in a commission headed by researcher Francisco Ferrándiz and is part of the Conference organized by the Memory Studies Association.
26/06/2019 Madrid hosts the third edition of the Memory Studies Association Conference

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Ministry of Justice (news) More than 1,600 researchers, museum directors, journalists, writers and writers gather this week in Madrid to discuss issues related to memory.
27/06/2019 These are Spain’s outstanding accounts with historical memory (and the PP knows it) El Español A group of experts debate at the conference on the historical memory held in Madrid on the duties that Spain has with its past.
27/06/2019 Artists refuse to lose women’s memory El País A group of women has been working since 2014 to recover a feminist story and incorporate it into the official historical story.
28/06/2019 The voices of the Rwandan genocide, 25 years later El País The documentary The Faces We Lost (2017) and the book of testimonies of surviving women From Surviving to Living: Voice, Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing focus the closing of the conference of memory.
29/06/2019 The lessons we must learn from Latin America to build democratic memory La Marea Latin America has been decades ahead in terms of studies on memory and the impact of its dictatorships on the collective imaginary of its societies.
29/06/2019 “Foreign investigators don’t give credit to what’s in the Valley of the Fallen.” Público More than 200 experts in historical memory visit this Saturday the tomb of Franco as one of the activities of the Conference organized by the Memory Studies Association
29/06/2019 More than 200 experts in historical memory visit this Saturday the Valley of the Fallen: “Franco commands much from his tomb”. El Periódico More than 200 experts in historical memory will visit today Saturday the Valley of the Fallen in a commission headed by researcher Francisco Ferrándiz and is part of the Conference organized by the Memory Studies Association
30/06/2019 Aleida Assmann, historian: “In Germany no one in a party could make any reference to Hitler, it would be suicide”. eldiario.es Interview with Aleida Assmann
30/06/2019 Marianne Hirsch: “Revision of the past allows us a fairer future.” Público Marianne Hirsch proposes a collective revision of memory that considers individual and social aspects, their differences, mediations and meeting points.
01/07/2019 Francisco Ferrándiz: “Memory studies are basic in the construction of identities”. Noticias de Navarra Interview with Francisco Ferrándiz
02/07/2019 Visits to the Valley of the Fallen increased 53% in the first half of the year over the same period in 2018. Tribuna de Zamora More than 200 experts in historical memory will visit the Valley of the Fallen in a commission headed by researcher Francisco Ferrándiz and is part of the Conference organized by the Memory Studies Association.
03/07/2019 Paralysis of Franco’s exhumation slows down the rise of visitors to the Valley of the Fallen ABC More than 200 experts in historical memory visited this weekend the Valley of the Fallen in a commission, framed within the Conference organized by the Memory Studies Association.
06/07/2019 Madrid, the capital (which could have been) of Memory Público A predominantly academic conference, with the central objectives of promoting a better knowledge and involvement of the non-western epistemologies of the past. It also promotes cooperation between English and Spanish-speaking Memory specialists.
09/07/2019 “Memory is a matter of collective health.” ctxt Interview with Marianne Hirsch (post-memory term)
16/07/2019 “You can’t think of the democratic rupture in Portugal without thinking of the colonial war.” ctxt Interview with Miguel Cardina
22/07/2019 From Vietnamese refugee to Pulitzer Prize winner, the writer who embraced his traumatic past El País Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on the need to deal with memory and on the difficulties of immigrants in the US in Trump’s time.
Date Program Mass Media Topic
25/06/2019 “The Complutense hosts the largest conference on Memory Studies” RNE The Complutense University of Madrid is hosting the world’s largest conference on Memory Studies, with more than 1300 specialists debating topics such as digital memory, climate memory and the memory of migrations.
25/06/2019 Madrid hosts the world’s largest conference on Memory Studies COPE One of the main themes of this conference, which will have more than 1300 papers, is the connection between different memory traditions from different parts of the world.
25/06/2019 Hoy por Hoy SER Inauguration in Madrid of the largest conference on the memory of the world
26/06/2019 “Madrid hosts the world’s largest conference on historical memory.” Onda Cero Elisabeth Jelin and Lidia Mateo Leivas have been on the Julia en la onda program to talk about the Conference organized by the Memory Studies Association.
28/06/2019 “Historical memory, maybe it’s not good that we forget what we were.” RNE The macro Conference held at the Complutense University ends in Madrid, which has addressed one of the pillars of humanity, namely: memory, which has stolen wars and conflicts; climate; history; how it is taught; how it is not even thought.
28/06/2019 Historical memory in debate SER Catalonia The exhumation of Franco’s corpse brings the historical memory back into debate. Something about what has been discussed at the most important world conference on memory studies where more than 1,500 specialists from all over the world participate.
29/06/2019 “The memory mutils” SER Interview with Claudia Feld, Valentina Salvi and Marina Franco about Historical Memory in Argentina.
29/06/2019 “Environmental trauma and memory to prevent the damage of climate change” SER Interview with Stef Craps about the concept of ‘ecotrauma’, the ecological pain suffered by people due to anxiety about the apocalyptic scenario that is predicted because of climate change.
29/06/2019 The “environmental trauma” of climate change SER Talk with Stef Craps, about ‘climate trauma’, ‘pre-traumatic stress’, ‘climate anxiety’ or ‘climate nostalgia’ that explain the mental health consequences of the problems generated by climate change.
29/06/2019 What to do with street gangs? SER The Transgang project seeks to get young people to abandon violence by taking advantage of the best of their own bands, such as music.
30/06/2019 Federico Mayor Zaragoza: “Democracy is coexistence in diversity, leaving aside the disputes for flags”. Onda Cero Interview with Federico Mayor Zaragoza
02/07/2019 “The Memory of Cologne Dignity” RNE Anthropologist Loreto López explains the ins and outs of Colonia Dignidad, the sect that was closely linked to the Pinochet regime, during the Memory Studies Conference held a few days ago in Madrid.
04/07/2019 City Rights and Memory M21 A program dedicated to learning how to construct the historical memory of a war or a dictatorship by talking to references in the field of the dictatorships of the Southern Cone, which had the Franco regime as a model, in order to collect lessons that could be applied to the Spanish case.
11/07/2019 HISTORICAL MEMORY – VOLLMEYER – HRISTOVA – “CENTRAL ISSUE” RNE The program deals with historical memory, following the recent holding in Madrid of the third annual conference of the Memory Studies Association. We discussed this issue with Johanna Vollmeyer and Marije Hristova.
Date Program Mass Media Topic
26/06/2019 “The Complutense hosts the world’s largest conference of historical memory” Telemadrid Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, those disappeared during the Argentinean dictatorship, Apartheid in South Africa are three of the historical dramas that are being addressed by more than 1500 international experts in the largest world conference dedicated to Memory.
26/06/2019 “Experts defend the importance of keeping memory alive in the face of the rise of the extreme right.” La sexta More than 1,700 experts discuss the importance of maintaining memory, not only here, but in all countries that have experienced civil conflict.
01/07/2019 “Argentina, a reference in Memory: we talked to Alejandra Naftal” PúblicoTV In Argentina the processes of memory were worked from the consensus and in the explanation that it is necessary to visit the past to consolidate the present.
02/07/2019 En Jake eitb More than 1,500 researchers gather this week in Madrid to discuss issues related to memory.
12/07/2019 El mundo en 24 horas RTVE The importance of preserving memory