The "Congreso Internacional Memorias Disidentes" is framed in the study of memory in the field of Spanish literature with a gender and LGTBIQ+ perspective, in order to broaden the view on the past from silenced memories.

From 29 to 31 October - Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication

From the Department of Spanish Philology of the University of Valencia we have been developing in recent years scientific activities on the study of memory in the field of Spanish literature. In the first two decades of the 21st century, both critical production and artistic creation have turned their gaze on the traumatic past with the desire to know and understand the most conflictive history of our country. Culture, and with it literature, has joined in this time, with an incessant production, a debate on the past that has generated discussions in interconnected fields such as law, politics, historiography or social movements.

The Democratic Memory Law, enacted in October 2022, urges to continue exploring the traumatic past from a human rights perspective. And in particular, it encourages to know and recognize the memories that have been silenced or overshadowed by representations of greater magnitude, specifically, the memory of women and the LGTBIQ+ collective.

The repression suffered by this part of the population was answered through the generation of resistance and struggle networks, through strategies of subversion and survival, which attacked the ideological foundations of the dictatorship (against the normative model of masculinity or femininity, against the predominant family model, against a formal or sentimental education that narrowed the margins of sex-affective expression) and that during the Transition and the recovered democracy served to widen the channels of the longed-for freedom.

For this reason, the "International Congress Dissident Memories. Gender and sexuality in the face of Franco's regime" seeks to bring together specialists in the field of the literature of memory in order to broaden its field of study from a "dissident" perspective. Thus, we welcome research that addresses the binomial repression-struggle, from a gender perspective, or in the field of sexuality, and to increase knowledge about works, authors and authors, conflicts, characters or events that show that dissident memory, and in turn help to expand, diversify and complexify our view of the past.