The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, will give today the inaugural presentation of the XIII Conference of Studies on Francoism and Transition that, under the title Political Violence and Management of the Traumatic Past, are held in the Salon of Degrees of the Faculty of Humanities of Albacete of the University of Castilla-La Mancha..
Faculty of Humanities of the University of Albacete, Albacete
Fernando Martínez’s speech is entitled Politics of Memory in Spain. From Francoism to the Democratic Memory Bill. In this conference, Fernando Martínez will review the memory policies that have been applied in Spain, from those applied by Franco, in which the victims of the victors were repaired economically and morally while those of the defeated were criminalized, to the Historical Memory Law of 2007 promoted by the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero or the preliminary draft of the Democratic Memory Law approved by the Council of Ministers last September.
These days are intended as a forum for updating and debate on current historiographical trends and the renewal of studies and research on Franco’s political violence and the management of collective memory on the most traumatic aspects of Spain’s recent past.