Debate Forum and La Nau organise a cycle of activities on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish war

  • Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society
  • May 9th, 2019
 
Cartell de la Guerra Civil.
Cartell de la Guerra Civil.

Cultural Centre La Nau will celebrate during the month of May the cycle '80 years of the end of the Spanish war' with a total of 9 activities. The events, included in the programme of the Debat Forum of the Office of the Vice-principal for Culture and Sport of the Universitat de València, will be a total of 8 conferences and a book presentation. The cycle has been organised in collaboration with the History and Democratic Memory Room of the Universitat de València and the Inter-University Chair in Democratic Memory of the Valencian Community. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.

Today, Thursday 9 May, Julio García presents his book 'Ciudadanos y ruralamos' at 7 p.m. in the Seminary Classrooms, and Andrés Piqueras, professor at the Universitat Jaume I and member of Ecologists in Action and the International Observatory of the Crisis will be in charge of presenting the event.

On Monday 13 May will be the turn of Edelmir Galdón, author of the book ‘La batalla por Valencia, una victoria defensiva’, with the conference ‘La derrota del Ejército Popular y la ocupación franquista de Valencia’.

Mariano Sánchez, journalist and author of the book La transición sangrienta, will be the speaker on 20 May under the title 'La Transición: entre el posibilismo y las cuentas pendientes' On Tuesday 21 May, Victoria Fernández, philologist and author of the book El exilio de los marinos republicanos, will direct the conference 'Mujeres y exilio'.

On Monday 27th May, Manuel Aznar, Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), will be in charge of the conference ‘El exilio republicano de 1939, 80 años después’. On 28th May it will be the turn of Fernanda Romeu, historian and author of the bookEl silencio roto. Mujeres contra el franquismo, with the conference 'Mujeres contra el franquismo', and on Wednesday 29th May, Fernando Hernández, historian at the Autonomous University of Madrid, will direct the conference 'Los últimos días de la República’.

The activities of the cycle will close on 30 May with the conference ‘Espiritualidad y compromiso frente al neoliberalismo’, a conference presented by Marisa Saavedra, of Christian Network, and by Abraham Canales, member of the Brotherhood of Catholic Action Workers (HOAC) and editor of the magazine ‘Noticias Obreras’.