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          Symposium to investigate Spanish Civil War, Franco’s mass graves

          
            
              
                
                Published: October 18, 2005
              

              
                Author: Shannon  Roddel
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

A symposium titledFrancos Mass Graves: An Interdisciplinary, International Investigationwill be held Oct. 28 and 29 (Friday and Saturday) in theHesburghCenterauditorium at the University of Notre Dame.The event is free and open to the public.

Gen. Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator from 1939 to 1975, overthrew the former Republican government through a rebellion that started the Spanish Civil War.Following the brutal three-year war, Franco’s regime initiated acleansingof Spanish society of anything related to the former government, and, as a result, mass graves are known to be scattered throughout the country.

The symposium will gather some of the leading scholars in the fields of anthropology, forensic medicine, history, transitional justice, literary criticism, cultural analysis, TV journalism and documentary filmmaking to discuss issues related to Francos legacy, the implications for modern democratic systems and the church, the cultural and political repercussions of dictatorships, the moral significance of forgetting, and the recovery of repressed memories.

The symposium will consist of four sessions, each with a moderator, presenters and discussion, and conclude with a roundtable.The topics are as follows:


p.  Session I Friday, 10 a.m. to noon,History



Session II Friday, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m,Journalism, documentary analysis, human rights and transitional justice

Session III Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon,Literature

Session IV Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.,Anthropology and forensic medicine

Roundtable Saturday, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

A detailed schedule is available at http://www.nd.edu/~romlang/news/francos_mass_graves2.htm .

The symposium is sponsored by Notre Dames Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Henkels Lecture Series/ISLA, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Ph. D. Program in Literature, Department of History, Office of Research,GraduateSchool, Provosts Office, Spanish Embassy and Program for Cultural Cooperation betweenSpains Ministry of Culture andUnited StatesUniversities.

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