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On The 80th Anniversary of the End of the Spanish Civil War
May 24th 芒鈧 13:30 18:30 芒鈧 Glucksman Gallery River Room
24th May 2019
River Room, Lewis Glucksman Gallery
13:30-18:30
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Commemorating the end of the Spanish Civil War, this seminar attempts to map the impact of the conflict in present-day Iberian societies and cultures. Understanding the Civil War in its脗&苍产蝉辫;long dur脙漏e, as a cornerstone episode that marked contemporary sociopolitical configurations in obvious and not so obvious ways, this event gathers literary, visual, historical and personal perspectives as a way of expanding the discussion on the multiple and conflicting memories of the War.
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Seminar Schedule:
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13:30-14:00 脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫; Seminar Introduction by脗&苍产蝉辫;Rafael Jaime and Carlos Garrido
14:00-15:00脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫; A Place of Greater Safety: Irish Aid Worker Mary Elmes and the Child Refugees of the Spanish Civil War by脗&苍产蝉辫;Clodagh Finn脗&苍产蝉辫;(journalist)
15:00-15:30脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫; Cultural Responses to Barbarism in Galicia: The Case of Alexandre B脙鲁veda Post 1936 by脗&苍产蝉辫;Mart脙颅n Veiga脗&苍产蝉辫;(UCC SPLAS)
15:30-16:00脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫; Places and Spaces of the Republican Exodus of 1939 in Catalonia at the End of the Spanish Civil War by脗&苍产蝉辫;Rafael Jaime脗&苍产蝉辫;(UCC SPLAS)
16:00-16:30脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫; Coffee break
16:30-17:30脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫; Peadar O芒鈧劉Donnell: An Irishhman in Spain, 1936 by脗&苍产蝉辫;Donal 脙鈥溍&苍产蝉辫;Drisceoil脗&苍产蝉辫;(UCC, Department of History)
17:30-18:30脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫;脗&苍产蝉辫; Closing Remarks. The Spanish Civil War. Eighty years later by脗&苍产蝉辫;Eduard Puigvent脙鲁s(Autonomous 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Barcelone)
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Lecture Outline
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A Place of Greater Safety: Irish aid worker Mary Elmes and the child refugees of the Spanish Civil War by Clodagh Finn.
Corkwoman Mary Elmes and her fellow workers developed a pioneering approach to the delivery of aid during the Spanish Civil War. As well as setting up safe havens, they used new techniques such as play therapy to help the sick and traumatised children of war. Clodagh Finn will outline Mary Elmes芒鈧劉 work establishing and directing hospitals in Almer脙颅a, Murcia and Alicante between 1937 and 1939.
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Clodagh Finn脗&苍产蝉辫;is a journalist and author of A Time to Risk All, a biography of Mary Elmes (Gill Books). She has a degree in French and archaeology (UCD) and is particularly interested in unearthing the stories of forgotten or overlooked women.
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Cultural Responses to Barbarism in Galicia: The Case of Alexandre B脙鲁veda Post 1936脗&苍产蝉辫;by脗&苍产蝉辫;Mart脙颅n Veiga.脗&苍产蝉辫;
The quick triumph of the fascist forces at the beginning of the Civil War in Galicia was followed by a very severe repression against all forms of political dissidence in the region. This paper examines a selection of the many cultural responses to the execution on 17th August 1936 of Alexandre B脙鲁veda, a founding member脗&苍产蝉辫;of the Partido Galeguista in 1931 and one of the most notorious Galicianists.
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Mart脙颅n Veiga脗&苍产蝉辫;is a Lecturer in the department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at UCC. He is the director of the Irish Centre for Galician Studies, the co-editor of脗&苍产蝉辫;Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies脗&苍产蝉辫;and one of the convenors of the research cluster 'Translation and Creative Practice' in CASiLaC, UCC. His research publications are mainly in the areas of modern and contemporary poetry,脗&苍产蝉辫;travel writing in the Hispanic world, creative writing and literary translation.
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Places and spaces of the republican exodus of 1939 in Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil war byRafael Jaime.
脗&苍产蝉辫;The lecture aims to trace and present an emotional geography of the republican withdrawal, La Retirada, at the end of the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia during the months of January and February 1939. Its main purpose is to locate existing narratives, memoirs, journals and testimonies carefully in the landscape in which they took place, exposing their emotional bonds with the places and spaces of the withdrawal of the protagonists of the Republican exodus of 1939. In order to create a vision of La Retirada that is sensitive to its mobility and multiplicity, the primary methodology used has been that of interdisciplinary assemblage, juxtaposing images, documents and stories of past and present, in a process redolent of that which Marianne Hirsch calls "post-memory".
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Rafael Jaime脗&苍产蝉辫;is a Special Language Demonstrator at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, UCC Cork. He completed a PhD on La Retirada and the end of the Spanish Civil War in Catalunya.
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Peadar O芒鈧劉Donnell: An Irishhman in Spain, 1936 by脗&苍产蝉辫;Donal 脙鈥溍&苍产蝉辫;Drisceoil
The Irish writer and socialist-republican activist Peadar O芒鈧劉Donnell was living in Sitges, Catalonia when the Civil War began in 1936. This paper is centred on his little-known book,脗&苍产蝉辫;Salud!: An Irishman in Spain脗&苍产蝉辫;(1937), which offers fascinating perspectives on 脗&苍产蝉辫;the dynamics of revolutionary Spain, as well as on Irish politics and culture in the 1930s.
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Dr脗&苍产蝉辫;Donal脗&苍产蝉辫;脙鈥溍&苍产蝉辫;Drisceoil脗&苍产蝉辫;is a Senior Lecturer in History at UCC. His publications include the political biography脗&苍产蝉辫;Peadar O芒鈧劉Donnell脗&苍产蝉辫;(2001), published as part of Cork 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press芒鈧劉s 芒鈧淩adical Irish Lives芒鈧劉 series.
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The Spanish Civil War. Eighty years later脗&苍产蝉辫;by脗&苍产蝉辫;Eduard Puigvent脙鲁s
脗&苍产蝉辫;It is still common to hear or read in the media about the Spanish Civil War. Hundreds of books are published every year芒鈧漨emories, unknown aspects of the international politics, the history of trade unions or political parties, new approaches to the victims, bombardments. Furthermore, politicians often discuss over laws that try to do justice on the injustices of the past. There are associations exhorting to exhume the corpses of reprisals, particulars demanding economic compensation or organisations asking for expelled materials in 1939 to be returned, most of the times with the ideological struggle as background and the consequences of a dictatorship of forty years that was脗&苍产蝉辫;founded on the fascist victory in the war. This lecture attempts to give an overview of this situation.
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Eduard脗&苍产蝉辫;Puigvent脙鲁s L脙鲁pez脗&苍产蝉辫;(Rub脙颅, 1984). I completed my BA in History (2007), a Master in Comparative Political and Social History (2008) and my PhD (the biography of the Catalan communist Ramon Mercader, 2013) in脗&苍产蝉辫;the Autonomous 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Barcelona. I started working as a freelancer and external researcher for private and public organisations in 2007, with projects related with the Spanish Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia, biographies and guided tours. I have published twenty academical and dissemination articles, twelve books (among which stands out脗&苍产蝉辫;Ramon Mercader, l'home del piolet. Biografia de l'assass脙颅 de Trostki), and collaborated in eight collective publications.