Madrid
It includes a series of conferences that will be held on a semi-face-to-face basis between April 14 and 16. Prominent historians and historians will participate in them, who will reflect on what the Republic represented for Spain.
The inauguration will take place at 6:00 p.m. on the 14th and will be led by the First Vice-President and Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Carmen Calvo, and the director of the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies, Yolanda Gómez.
After the inauguration, Paul Preston, Professor of Contemporary History at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, will speak on The Second Republic. Why he came and why he left, and Ángeles Egido, professor of Contemporary History at the UNED, whose speech will revolve around The Memory of the Second Republic. Fernando Martínez, Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, will moderate this day.
On April 15, Ángel Viñas, diplomat and professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid, will speak with the theme The enemies of the Republic and Ana Aguado, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia, who will focus his speech on The republic of the citizens. Between social reformism and equality (1931-1936). On this occasion, Yolanda Gómez will moderate.
Finally, on the 16th, José Álvarez Junco, Professor of History of Thought and Social and Political Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid will participate with the theme The Spanish Political Crisis in the 1930s and Mary Nash, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona, whose speech has the title Rojas, ciudadanas y antifascistas. Republicans in the Civil War. On this occasion, the moderator will be Fernando Martínez, who, in addition, will close this cycle.
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