Seminar | VI Education and History with Memory Conference

The VI Education and History with Memory Conference kicks off on Monday, November 23 with a program focused on contemporary history, living memory, and historical recovery through various lectures, panel discussions, and screenings. The sessions will take place from 17:30 to 20:30 on November 23, 24, and 26.

📅 Conference Program

• Monday, November 23

  • 17:30 h. Opening ceremony by Ana Montserrat López Moro, Councilor for Culture, Museums, and Creative Industries.
  • 18:00 h. Lecture When morality was law. The Women’s Protection Board in Francoist Spain, given by historian Carmen Guillén and introduced by Verónica Rodríguez.
  • 19:00 h. Panel discussion Living memory of the Women’s Protection Board, featuring survivors Loly Benito and Consuelo García del Cid (also a writer), along with Carmen Guillén, moderated by Goretti Avello.

• Tuesday, November 24

  • 17:30 h. Panel discussion The recovery of historical memory through the performing arts, featuring theater professionals Luis Alija and María San Miguel, moderated by Mar Friera.
  • 19:00 h. Lecture Art and memory. Lorca in Asturias, by curator and publisher Boni Ortiz.
  • 19:30 h. Presentation Unpublished - “Telling what was”. Reconstructing the daily life of families repressed during early Francoism in the Asturian mining basins through female oral memory, by Olaya Rodríguez Ribeiro, introduced by Rubén Vega.

• Thursday, November 26

  • Screening of the documentary Rotspanier. Spanish slaves of Nazism. The session includes an introduction by Luis Pascual, the presence of director Rafael Guerrero Moreno, and the presentation of an educational proposal by the Grupo Eleuterio Quintanilla.

🎟️ Tickets and Registration

Access is free and open to the general public until full capacity is reached for all interested individuals, with no prior registration required.

Only teachers who wish to participate must complete prior registration with a deadline of November 18, 2026.