Seminar and Events Programme for Michaelmas Term 2011 2-25 September 2011 Hay Festival Segovia Sponsored by the Cañada Blanch Centre 24 September Paul Preston en conversación con Luis María Ansón Time: 17.00 h. Place: Iglesia de S. Juan de los Caballeros 25 September Paul Preston en conversación con Elena Moya Time: 17.00 Place: Iglesia de S. Juan de los Caballeros Friday 23 September 2011 Asociación CIGCE (Centro de Investigación Histórica de la Guerra Civil) Simposio 75º Aniversario del Inicio de la Guerra Civil Española 2011 Personajes para entender una guerra: Francisco Franco by Paul Preston Place: La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia Friday 23 September - Thursday 6 October 2011 7 th London Spanish Film Festival Ciné Lumière, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT www.londonspanishfilmfestival.com Sponsored by the Cañada Blanch Centre Thursday 10 Novembre 2011 Josu Ugarte (President of Mondragon International) MONDRAGON, Humanity at Work Place: LSE, New Academic Building, Wolfson Theatre, Lincoln s Inn Field Sponsored by the Basque Country Government
Seminar and Events Programme for Lent Term 2012 Thursday 16 February 2012 Catalan Observatory - LSE Launch of the books: Ashes and Granite. Destruction and Reconstruction in the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath by Olivia Muñoz-Rojas (University of Westminster) Reconstructing Spain. Cultural Heritage and Memory after Civil War by Dacia Viejo Rose (University of Cambridge) Published by Sussex Academic Press/Cañada Blanch Centre, 2011 Time: 18.00 Place: LSE, Cowdray House, 1 st floor, Cañada Blanch Room COW1.11, Portugal Street Saturday 3 March 2012 Annual Len Crome Memorial Lecture - International Brigade Memorial Trust Peter N. Carroll (author and editor) The Spanish Civil War in the 21 st Century: From Guernica to Human Rights Time: 14.30-16.00 h. Place: Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Rd., London SE1 6HZ Monday 5 March 2012 Book presentation: Place: Spanish Embassy, Luis Vives Hall, 24, Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QA Wednesday 7 March 2012 The Independent Bath Literature Festival 2012 Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust. Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain Time: 18.15-19.15 h. Place: St Michael's Without, Broad Street, Bath BA1 5LJ
Thursday 15 March 2012 Marta del Moral (Universidad Complutense/Cañada Blanch Centre) Protestas transgresoras, acciones revolucionarias: acción colectiva femenina en Madrid (1909-1931) Time: 18.00 h. Place: LSE, Cowdray House, Portugal Street, 1 st floor, Cañada Blanch Room COW1.11 Saturday 17 March 2012 Glasgow s Book Festival 2012 Chair: Willy Maley Time: 17 h. Place: Mitchell Library, 6 Granville Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Wednesday 21 March 2012 Book presentation: Time: 19.00 h. Place: Waterstone s Hampstead, 68-69 Hampstead High St., London NW3 1QP Thursday 22 March 2012 Rafael Aznar (Chairman, Port Authority of Valencia - Spain) Port Governance. The New Strategic Priorities. The Case of the Port of Valencia Time: 18.00 h. Place: LSE, Cowdray House, Portugal Street, 1 st floor, Cañada Blanch Room COW1.11 Friday 30 March 2012 Oxford Literary Festival Homage to Catalonia Speakers: Helen Graham, Paul Preston and Francisco Romero Salvadó Chair: Jean Seaton (Director of the Orwell Prize) Time: 14 h. Place: Christ Church, Festival Room 1
Seminar and Events Programme for Summer Term 2012 Saturday 28 April 2012 University of Manchester, Guernica 75: Memories of the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War Speakers: Helen Graham (Royal Holloway), Richard Baxell (International Brigades) and Paul Preston Time: 10 h. Place: People s History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER Wednesday 9 May 2012 University of Nottingham, New Perspectives on the Spanish Second Republic Public lecture: The Spanish Holocaust. Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston Time: 17.30 h. Place: University of Nottingham, Clive Grainger A48 Friday 11 May 2012 Sin Fin Cinema: Going Back to Reality. Portraying Pablo Picasso on the canvas in motion Documentary: The Spanish Earth Dir.: Joris Ivens. Cast: Manuel Azaña, José Díaz y Dolores Ibárruri. USA, 1937, 52 min. Preceded by the short film: Guernica Dir.: Alexis Peña, Adrián Sevillano, Miguel Ángel Fernández y Pablo Piñeiro. Spain, 2009, 1.47 min. Panel discussion: Peter Anderson (University of Bath) and Paul Preston Place: Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN Thursday 31 May 2012 José Manuel Romero (abogado constitucionalista) Crisis, instituciones y autonomías Time: 18 h. Place: LSE, Portugal Street, Cowdray House, 1 st floor, Cañada Blanch Room COW1.11 Monday 4 June 2012 Hay Festival Wales The LSE Lecture: The Spanish Holocaust. Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston Time: 17.30 h. Place: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage
Thursday 7 June 2012 II Conference Historical Memory: Memorias históricas? Speakers: Peter Anderson (Universidad de Bath), Francisco Espinosa (Universidad de Sevilla), Joan Villarroya (Universidad de Barcelona), Javier Cervera (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid), José Luis Ledesma (Universidad de Zaragoza), Emilio Silva (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica), Martin Jönsson (Periodista, Suecia), Layla Renshaw (Kingston University), Jordi Guixé (Centre d'estudis sobre les Èpoques Franquista i Democràtica, Barcelona) and Paul Preston Time: 11.00-19.30 h. Place: LSE, Portugal Street, Cowdray House, 1 st floor, Cañada Blanch Room COW1.11 Con la colaboración del Catalan Observatory