On November 5 and 6, the II Congress of Democratic Memory of Castile-La Mancha will be held at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Castile-La Mancha (UCLM) on the Ciudad Real Campus, an activity organized by the Regional Study Plan on Democratic Memory of Castile-La Manchaagreement signed by the Community Council of Castile-La Mancha and the regional University; and the research project “History and memory: Castilla-La Mancha, 1868-1983”, funded under the Feder de Castilla-La Mancha 2021-2027 program.
The Congress will have as its main theme the study of the civil war in the territory of the current autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, with the aim of discussing studies from the front and the rear to offer a complex and updated vision of the most recent research. Recent developments from the regional university and regional government working group on democratic memory. The presentations will take place on the 5th and 6th in the afternoon, indicates the UCLM in a press release.
The meeting will be opened on November 5 by the president of the Congress organizing committee, Professor of History at UCLM Francisco Alía Mirandawith a presentation on Castilla-La Mancha in the general strategy of the war. This first day, the historian Luis Antonio Ruiz Casero will present the conclusions of his work The War on the Stabilized Fronts of Toledo and Guadalajara, and Professor Alba Nueda will connect the front and the rear through his study on the economy and daily life, to analyze hunger. as a weapon of war and a common goal which was simply to survive.
On the second day, Congress will focus its attention on rear space. That day, the Professor of History at UCLM Ángel Luis López Villaverde will address the issue of the cultural war between Catholics and secularists, and historian Juan Carlos Buitrago Oliver will reflect on the violence and death in the rearguards.
For her part, the professor of art history at the Faculty of Human Sciences of Albacete, Silvia García Alcázar, will present her study “Artistic heritage in danger: a story of destruction and protection in the midst of conflict”; and Ainhoa Campos, a researcher at the University of Oxford, will explore political and social life during the revolutionary process.
The morning of the 6th will be devoted to the presentation of papers, eleven in total, which focus on various themes proposed by researchers from the region and from outside. The conference is primarily aimed at undergraduate and master’s students, researchers and pre-university teaching staff. For students and teachers, registration can be formalized until November 4 via the Cursos Web platform. Any interested public can also attend without having to register, simply by subscribing to the e-mail: Loreto.Munoz@uclm.es
