Conference

Antigypsyism, an opaque racism: the Nazi genocide in Francoist Spain

In charge of

María Sierra. Full University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Seville

Presented by:

Toni Morant Ariño Professor of Contemporary History, Universitat de València

María Sierra is a Full University Professor of Contemporary History in the University of Seville. She has dedicated a great part of her research to the study of the cultural fundaments of the politic behaviour, using the concept of political culture and exploring the approaches of gender and the history of our emotions together. During her last ten years she has focused her work in the history of the gipsy people, racist stereotypes and racialization processes, both in Spain and in Europe. She has been PI in seven projects of R+D of the National Plan of Investigation and Research Leader of the European consortium BESTROM-HERA (https://bestrom.desracialhist.es/)

The intervention combines personal stories with the general vision of the major historical processes that have marked the persecution of gipsy people, up to the Roma genocide under Nazism. The lack of public knowledge about this subject is linked with a specifically antigypsy racism, constant in modern and contemporary European history. From this point on, the importance of a memory founded in historic research and its connection with the antiracist awareness nowadays will be addressed, to conclude with a reflection on the peculiarity of the Spanish situation within this framework.

Free entry, limited capacity.

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