I International Summer Seminar "Memòria i Testimoniatge al segle XXI" (Memory and testimony in XXI century)

I International Summer Seminar "Memory and testimony in XXI century"

La Jonquera, July 3 - 5, at the Museu Memorial de l’Exili (MUME).

 

In this first encounter organized by the Centre for Memory and Testimony Studies of the Wilfrid Laurier University, which counts with the co-organisation of the Museu Memorial de l'Exili and the Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes, the central topis will be "The border of the memory. The memory at the border".

The seminar has been partially financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada.

At the same time, the organisation of the seminar also counts with the collaboration of Memorial Democràtic de la Generalitat and the support of the Institut de Recerca Històrica, University of Girona (UdG), the Chair Walter Benjamin (UdG), the Centre de recherches historiques sur les sociétés méditerranéennes (CRHISM), University of Perpinyà Via Domitia, the Group Memoria y Sociedad, University of Barcelona, the Town Council of Argelers de la Marenda, the Town Council of Sant Cebrià, the Diputació de Girona, Nau Côclea and Gîtes de France. 

To take part, you need to register: Aquesta adreça de correu-e està protegida dels robots de spam.Necessites Javascript habilitat per veure-la.. Registration fee: 25 euros (15 euros for students and unemployed).

As to accommodation, please check the web of La Jonquera (www.lajonquera.cat) and Gîtes de France (www.gites-de-france-66.com)

 

PROGRAMME 

Thursday, July 3 

9.30 Welcome and presentation of the Seminar

Sònia Martínez, Mayor of La Jonquera and President of the MUME Consortium

Jordi Font, director of the MUME

Marta Marín-Dómine, director, Center for Memory and Testimony Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Jordi Palou-Loverdos, director of the Democratic Memorial, Government of Catalonia

10.00-11.15 Inland borders: workers, migrants and natives in contemporary Rome

Speaker: Alessandro Portelli, University of Rome, La Sapienza

Presented by: Marta Marín-Dómine

Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Round table: Memory places: genesis, structures and conflicts of memories

Jordi Font: The MUME at the border. Museum of history and place of memory

Agnès Sajaloli, director of the Ribesaltes Field Memorial: The Mémorial du camp de Rivesaltes project

Bernard Rieu, Councilor for Heritage and Catalanity, City Council of Argelès-sur-Mer: The Memorial of the Field of Algiers

Eric Forcada, director of the Collections of Sant Cebrià, City Council of Sant Cebrià: Remains of exile in Sant Cebrià

Moderated by Serge Barba, Vice President of DAME (Descen-dants et Amis de la Maternité d'Elne)

Lunch

14.45-16.00 Thinking about the border, thinking about the landscape

Speaker: Joan Nogué, University of Girona, director of the Landscape Observatory

Presented by: Jordi Font

Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Round table: Borders and memory in art, photography and cinema

Eric Forcada, art historian, University of Perpignan: Art in the fields of northern Catalonia

Àngel Quintana, University of Girona: The distance from the camera to the horror. Show or not show. That is the question

Marta Marín-Dómine, Wilfrid Laurier University: Photographs of Spanish Republicans in Mauthausen: A Case Study

James Opp, Center for Public History, Carleton University: Photo margins and memory sites

Moderated by: Jordi Font

18.15-19.30 Art workshop

The artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo will present his most important works related to the memorial representation of political events

Presented by: Clara Garí, director of Nau Côclea, Camallera, Catalonia

19.30-20.00 Hearing

Sound pieces by José Manuel Berenguer, sound artist and conductor of the Chaos Orchestra: "Islands" (7 min) and "On nothing" (13 min)

Friday, July 4

8.30-13.00 Guided tour of the Ribesaltes camp and the MUME. Travel by bus for those enrolled in the seminar

Lunch

14.45-16.00 The border between good and evil. Ethics, history and memory

Speaker: Georges Bensoussan, historian, Memorial of the Shoah, Paris

Presented by: Marta Marín-Dómine

Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Round table: The border between history and fiction, storytelling and affection

Hugo de Marinis, Wilfrid Laurier University: The frontier between memorial reconstruction and the legal system in Argentina.

Oscar Jané, Autonomous University of Barcelona and director of the magazine Mirmanda: Resilience and frontier: adaptation, assimilation and improvement

Abdherraman Beggar, Professor of Literature, Wilfrid Laurier University: The Border and Cross-Cultural Memory

Enric Berenguer, psychoanalyst, Escola del Camp Freudià, Barcelona: The unconscious as a frontier. Implications in memory construction

Moderator: Marta Marín-Dómine

18.15-19.30 Art workshop

Rene Meshake, artist and poet. It will invigorate the workshop using tools for oral storytelling from Canadian Aboriginal communities

Presented by: Kim Anderson

Dinner

21.00 Cinema-Forum. Who killed Walter Benjamin ... (Spain / Netherlands / Germany, 2005, 73 min), by David Mauas. www.whokilledwalterbenjamin.com. With the presence of the director

Presented by: Marta Marín-Dómine

 

Saturday, July 5

10.00-11.30 Round table: The border between visibility and invisibility

Kim Anderson, Canadian Indian Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University: Oral Narration and Canadian Aboriginal Memory Colman Hogan, Ryerson University, Literature and Cultural Studies: The Zombie Era: A Mnemesis of Forgetfulness

José Antonio Donaire, University of Girona: The potential of border spaces in the field of cultural tourism

Gabriela Reneé Rodríguez, Member of the Observatory of the Criminal System and Human Rights, University of Barcelona: The ethics of survivors vs. the law of denial: frontiers between humanity and law

Montserrat Iniesta, anthropologist, museologist and member of the "Memory and Society" research group, University of Barcelona: A brief tour of the border through history: 5 images

Moderated by: Rubèn Doll-Petit, Ribesaltes Field Memorial

Coffee break

11.45- 13.00 Case presentation: Maps and memory paths

Hannah Jung, Research Assistant, Center for Memory and Testimony Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University: Digital memory map of the Kitchener-Waterloo region, Ontario, Canada

Jordi Guixé, University of Perpignan - CRHISM (MEFROP project): Memory in the digital age: debates, conflicts and examples

Géraldine Caprani, Chargée de Mission Coopération, Pays Pyrenees Mediterran: To value the memory of the republican exile

Moderated by: Colman Hogan

13.00 Final conclusions by Marta Marín-Dómine and Agnès Sajaloli: towards the preparation of the Second International Summer Seminar 2015, which will take place at the Ribesaltes Field Memorial.

13.30 Appetizer - farewell

• Simultaneous translation in Catalan, Spanish, French and English

At the same time, the organization of the seminar also has the collaboration of the Democratic Memorial of the Generalitat and the support of the Historical Research Institute of the University of Girona, of the Walter Benjamin Chair of the University of Girona, of the Center of recherches historiques sur les sociétés MEDiterranéennes (CRHISM) of the University of Perpignan Via Domitia, of the Memory and Society Group of the University of Barcelona, ​​of the City Council of Argelers de la Marenda, of the City Council of Sant Cebrià, of the Diputación de Girona, Nau Côclea and Gîtes de France.

To participate, you need to register at Aquesta adreça de correu-e està protegida dels robots de spam.Necessites Javascript habilitat per veure-la.. The registration fee is 25 euros (15 euros for students and unemployed).

Regarding the accommodation, you can consult the websites of the City Council of the Jonquera (www.lajonquera.cat) and Gîtes de France (www.gites-de-france-66.com)