Fernando Martínez wanted to point out, after the signing of the protocol, “we take a very important step to constitute the Chair of Democratic Memory of the University of Granada, a center that has already been working intensively in the recovery of memory and in the promotion of public policies, as well as the great work done with the exhumations of the Víznar ravine and the Cuelgamuros Valley”.

The signing of the protocol coincides with the celebration, at the same University of Granada, of the conference “Francoism: social control and daily resistances”, coordinated by Miguel Ángel del Arco and Teresa Ortega. The days are framed in the cycle "From dictatorship to democracy", within the programming of the celebration of the events "Spain in freedom. 50 years.”

The conference seeks to bring to society some of the most outstanding research carried out on Franco’s regime, especially in relation to social control and resistance to dictatorship.

Since the 1990s, historiography has advanced considerably in the study of the tactics of the "New State" to control the population and, also, in the political attitudes of the population, either to show their adhesion, conformity, consent, resistance or opposition.

Throughout the two days, the conference aims to present these investigations to the public with the aim of deepening the complexity of Franco’s regime and the society that lived under the dictatorship during its forty years of existence.