Date/Time: Thursday 24 October 2024, 5.30pm

Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

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Chaired by Dr Catherine Gilbert, School of Modern Languages

The Valley of Cuelgamuros (formerly known as Valley of the Fallen, or Valle de los Caídos) is the most conspicuous and unresolved Francoist monument in Spain. The site incorporates the exhumations of Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the fascist party Falange and is central to ongoing debates about the Spanish Civil War and historical memory in the 21st century.

Biography

Francisco Ferrándiz is Senior Researcher at CSIC, Spain. He has a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology from UC Berkeley (1996). His research focuses on the anthropology of the body, violence and social memory. Since 2002, he has conducted research on the politics of memory in contemporary Spain. He is Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project The Politics of Memory Exhumations in Contemporary Spain, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. From 2020 to 2023 he was a Senior Advisor in the State Secretariat for Democratic Memory, integrated in the Ministry of the Presidency in Spain’s central government.