The Spanish Civil War:

History, Memory, Representation.

An International Interdisciplinary Conference

Organised by the
Welsh Centre for International Affairs

Temple of Peace,

Cardiff

Draft Programme

Friday 8^th February

4.00-5.00: Registration

5.00-7.00: Film Showing: To Die in Madrid [Committee Room]

7.00-9.00: Wine reception, launch of At the Margins of Mayhem by Dr. Angela Jackson and featuring music by Cor Cochion Caerdydd (Cardiff Reds Choir) and their repertoire of songs of the Spanish Civil War. [Main Hall]

Saturday 9^th February

8.30-9.30: Registration and Tea/Coffee

9.30-11.15: Welcome by Mr. Stephen Thomas, Director, Welsh Centre for International Affairs followed by Plenary I: “Franco, the Catholic Church and the Martyrs” by Professor Julian Casanova (University of Zaragoza) (Chair: Professor Chris Weedon) [Main Hall]

11.15-12.55: Parallel Sessions I

History, Memory, Myth-making (Chair Phil Cope) [Main Hall]

·         Gerald Brenan, Searching For A Way Out Of The Spanish Labyrinth. (Carlos Pranger)

·         Troubled Memories And Unrealised Plans: Madrid’s Cuartel De La Montaña During The Civil War And The Franco Regime (1936-1972) (Olivia Muñoz-Rojas-Oscarsson, London School of Economics)

·         Madrid, Memory and Myths of the Spanish Civil War (Mariama Ifode, Cambridge University, )

·         ‘Dust to Dust: Symbolism of Earth in the Memorialisation of the Spanish Civil War’ (Anindya Raychaudhuri, Cardiff University)

Spanish Civil War on the Screen I (Chair Alan Warren) [Committee Room]

·         ‘Goya, Medem, Apocalypse Now: the mise-en-scène of Civil War’ (Joanna Evans, University College London)

·         ‘The Spanish Civil War in Anglo-American Cinema’ (Phillip Drummond, NYU in London)

·         ‘The Spanish Civil War in East German Cinema: Five Cartridges/Fünf Patronenhülsen’ (Beyer, GDR, 1960) (David Archibald, University of Glasgow)

Spanish Civil War in Verse (Chair tbc) [Meeting Room]

·         ‘Dangers and Insights – “Spain 1937” and the Aesthetic Experience’ (Edward Quipp, University of Edinburgh)

·         ‘The Spanish Civil War in Modern Greek poetry’ (Anna Rosenberg, King’s College London)

·         ‘Una fantasma recorre Europa…. Nosotros le llamamos camarada.’ Rafael Alberti’s Civil War Verse’ (Jennifer Wood, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

·         ‘Heroes’ Portrait In Romancero General De La Guerra De España As Transmition Of Memory’ (Pilar Molina, National University of Ireland, Cork)

12.55-1.50: Lunch

1.50-3.10: Plenary II: “At the Margins of Mayhem: Soldiers and Civilians” by Dr. Angela Jackson (Chair tbc) [Main Hall]

3.10-3.30: Tea/Coffee

3.30-5.10: Parallel Sessions II

History of the International Brigades (Chair Reiner Tosstorf) [Main Hall]

·         ‘The role of George Nathan in the Spanish Civil War’ (Melody Buckley)

·         ‘Hans Hutter. A Swiss volunteer in the Spanish Civil War’ (Christian Koller, Bangor University and Luis Manuel Calvo Salgado, University of Zurich)

·         ‘Against Fascism - Jews who served in The Spanish Civil War; a story of non-Jews in denial.’ (Martin Sugarman, AJEX Jewish Military Museum)

Spanish Civil War on the Screen II (Chair Anindya Raychaudhuri) [Meeting Room]

·         ‘Spanish Civil War in the cinema of Guillermo del Toro’ (Natalia Nuñez, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York)

·         ‘“Extranjeros de sí mismos” and the politics of film editing’ (Raquel Medina, Aston University)

·         ‘“It Just So Happens We’re Not Jews:” Postmemory and the Appropriation of Trauma in C.M. Hardt’s Death in El Valle/La muerte en El Valle’ (Kathleen Korcheck, Central College, Iowa)

Spanish Civil War Memorials (Chair tbc) [Committee Room]

·         ‘The Architecture Of Propaganda’ (Phil Cope)

·         ‘(Per)Forming Historical Memories; from monuments to magazines’ (Clare Wydell, University of Sheffield)

·         ‘History and Legend’: The Case of Two UK Memorials to the British Dead of the International Brigade.’ (Jonathan Black, Kingston University)

·         ‘Guernica From The Ashes Of The History To The Recovery Of The Historical Memory Of The Spanish Civil War’ (Iratxe Momoitio Astorkia, Guernica Peace Museum)

5.10-5.25: Tea/Coffee

5:25-7:05: Parallel Sessions III

Different Spains (Chair tbc) [Main Hall]

·         ‘International Brigaders From Commonwealth And America During The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades Hospital At Mataró (1938)’ (Josep Xaubet, I.E.S., Catalonia)

·         ‘The Tragic Exodus’ (Enrique Giron and Andreas Arenas, IES "Vicente Espinel" in Málaga.)

·         ‘The Catholic Church in Catalonia. From Cataclysm in the Civil War to a Halting Reconstruction’ (Andrew Dowling, Cardiff University)

Wales and the Spanish Civil War (Chair Mary Greening) [Committee Room]

• ‘Memories of Cardiff and the Spanish Civil War’ (Ana Goncalves, Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril)
• ‘"Nobody will bloody remember us!" Alun Menai Williams return to Catalunya and his recollections of the Spanish Civil War seventy years on’ (Alan Warren)
• ‘Forgotten Names, Remembered Faces – The Bookshop Manager’ (John D. Mehta)

Spanish Civil War in the Novel I (Chair Phil Cope) [Meeting Room]

·         ‘“It’s the Art of Always Falling on Your Feet!” Exile, Communism and the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in the Writing of Jorge Semprún’ (Stephen Hopkins, University of Leicester)

·         ‘Nuestra Guerra: The Spanish Civil War in the works of Jorge Semprun’ (Csilla Kiss, Dániel Berzsenyi College, Hungary)

·         ‘Influencing Influential History: The Individual and the Recent Past in The Back Room’ (Susanne Stephens, Grinnell College, Iowa)

·         ‘Communicating History: Bataillean Intertext in Martín Gaite’s El cuarto de atrás’ (Whitney Knopf, Grinnell College, Iowa)

8.00-11.00: Conference Dinner

Sunday 10^th February

8.30-9.00: Registration

9. 00-10.30: Plenary III: “'We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War” by Professor Paul Preston (LSE) (Chair: Andrew Dowling) [Main Hall]

10.30-10.45: Tea/Coffee

10.45-12.25: Parallel sessions IV

Britain and the Spanish Civil War (Chair Reiner Tosstorf) [Main Hall]

·         ‘“The worst possible impression”: Málaga’s British Community and their Representations of the Spanish Civil War’ (Gareth Stockey, Swansea University)

·         ‘"You can't help liking them!" - The Basque Children Refugees in Great Britain’ (Natalia Benjamin)

·         ‘Cold War Politics in Britain and the Memory of the Spanish Civil War’ (Paul Corthorn, Queen’s University Belfast)

·         ‘Grieving in a New Way for New Losses’: British Elegies on The Spanish Civil War (Patricia Rae, Queen’s University, Canada)

Spanish Civil War in the Novel II (Chair tbc) [Meeting Room]

·         ‘Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Recent Novels by Dulce Chacón and Ángeles Caso.’ (Sarah Leggott, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand)

·         ‘Antonio Muñoz Molina: Spanish Desmemoria and the problems of fiction’ (Marianne Womack, Royal Holloway University of London)

• ‘The Haunting of the Spanish Civil War: The Use of Autobiography in Tu rostro mañana by Javier Marías’ (Fiona Schouten, Radboud University Nijmegen)

Women and the Spanish Civil War (Chair Anindya Raychaudhuri) [Committee Room]

• A Chronicle of Fidelity: the memoirs of Nan Green (Marianne Sevachko, University of Glasgow)

·         American Women and the Spanish Civil War: The Gendered Origins of American Foreign Aid (Eric Smith, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy)

·         ‘Maquis Without Weapons: Women in Silencio roto (2001) and El laberinto del fauno (2006)’ (Mercedes Camino, University of Lancaster)

12.25-1.15: Lunch

1.15-3.00: Plenary IV: “The memory of murder: mass killing, incarceration and the making of Francoism” by Professor Helen Graham (Royal Holloway) (Chair Anindya Raychaudhuri) [Main Hall]

3.00-3.20: Tea/Coffee

3.20-5.00: Parallel sessions V

Different Lefts (Chair tbc) [Main Hall]

·         ‘The pacifists in Spain: another forgotten history of the Civil War’ (Charles Smith, Swansea Metropolitan University)

·         ‘Case closed: The assassination of Andreu Nin, the persecution of the POUM and the background’ (Reiner Tosstorf, Cardiff University)

·         Anarchism (Sharif Gemie, University of Glamorgan)

Francoist Discourses (Chair Stephen Thomas) [Meeting Room]

·         ‘Inspired Neglect? Three Fascist Artists of the Spanish Civil War’ (Rob Stradling)

·         ‘The Catholic, the patriot, the good modernist: the appropriation of Manuel de Falla in National Spain’ (Eva Moreda. Royal Holloway University of London)

·         Francoist Censorship And Narrative About The Spanish Civil War (Fernando Larraz, Universität Tübingen, Germany)

·         A War With No Ending: Dionisio Ridruejo and the Cold War Intellectual Climates (Tatyana Gajic, Emory University, Atlanta)

Journalistic Responses (Chair Andrew Dowling) [Committee Room]

(This session will have papers in Spanish)

• ‘The reception of the Spanish cause in British Working class newspapers’ (Mario Faraone, University of Trieste)
• ‘Renegotiating Non-Intervention:The Spanish Civil War in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Journalism’ (Martin Hurcombe, University of Bristol)
• ‘La guerra civil española y las politicas de la afectividad en el Nuevo milenio: el caso de “la guerra de esquelas”.’ (Helena Lopez, University of Bath)

4.50-5.15 Tea/Coffee