International Conference: Urban Space, Memory and Citizenry

International Conference: Urban Space, Memory and Citizenry

Restoration, transmission and resignification of the democratic legacy

15 - 18 de Març de 2011

Barcelona

Organized by

Centre d’Estudis sobre les Èpoques Franquista i Democràtica (CEFID-UAB)

Memorial Democràtic (Generalitat de Catalunya)

With the cooperation of

Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cono Sur

Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)

PRESENTATION

The treatment, preservation and resignification of memorial spaces, the conflictual relationship between the citizenry and them, and their inclusion in or exclusion from the democratic heritage are all matters of great importance, laden with symbolic weight in the configuration of public memory, both national and international.

Interest in this topic relative to memorial spaces has been expressed in the growing demand for information, analytical criteria and concrete action, in a vast literature, and in a proliferation of exhibitions, cultural initiatives and various territorial actions.

With the aim of fostering the exchange of knowledge and approaches toward the treatment of these spaces, CEFID-UAB and the Democratic Memorial of the Generalitat de Catalunya have called an international conference with the title Urban space, memory, and citizenry: Restoration, transmission and resignification of the democratic legacy.

The conference will bring together the experience of research teams, institutions, groups and experts acting in this area, in both Europe and the Americas. It will thus gather the various intellectual reflections that contribute to the understanding and the use of this heritage. At the same time, it will take in account the use of new technologies in the determination of and dialogue with the spaces.

The conference is hence aimed at researchers working on the broad and complex field of memory, but also at heritage management professionals as well as at activists from the social networks which are interested in this field. To sum up, the conference’s aim is two-fold: deepening the scientific debate and promoting the transfer of that debate’s results to society.

Papers:

Proposals for papers related to the conference topics are invited for submission.

The papers can be presented at the conference in poster format, accompanying the written texts. The texts will be published in CD format. Deadlines for submission of proposals and final papers are as follows:

Proposals: September 30, 2010. The proposals should include the following information: full name of the submitter, field or profession, work or research center, telephone number, email address, title of the paper and a brief summary of its contents (maximum 500 words). Notification of acceptance of proposals received will be made by October 30, 2010.

Papers and posters: January 31, 2011. The text should be submitted in digital format as a Word file, and should not exceed 50,000 characters. The authors of the accepted proposals for papers will be duly informed of the guidelines for the poster format.

All submissions should be sent by email to the email address ce.efid@uab.cat

For further information, please contact the conference’s organizers at ce.efid@uab.cat