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Prof. Julian Casanova is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza. He is the author of
Anarquismo y Revolución en la Sociedad Rural Aragonesa, 1936-1938 (Siglo XXI, Madrid, 1985; Crítica, Barcelona, 2006), La Historia Social y
los Historiadores (Crítica, Barcelona, 1991), De la Calle al Frente: El Anarcosindicalismo en España, 1931-1939 (Crítica, Barcelona,
1997), La Iglesia de Franco (Temas de Hoy, Madrid, 2001), Anarquismo y Violencia Política en la España del Siglo XX (Institución
Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza, 2007) Professor Casanova has been a visiting professor at universities in the UK, the USA, and South America. He is a
member of the Editorial Committe of the journal Historia Social and a member of the Advisary Board of The International Journal of Iberian
Studies (Bradford, England). He is a regular contributor to the newspaper El País.
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Prof. Helen Graham is Professor of Modern Spanish History at Royal Holloway University of London. She is the author
of The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2005), The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939 (CUP 2002) and co-edited (with
Jo Labanyi) Spanish Cultural Studies - An Introduction: The Struggle for Modernity (OUP, 1996). Professor Graham's research interests include
inter-war Europe (1918-39), comparative civil wars, the social construction of state power in 1940s Spain, women under Francoism, and comparative
gender history. She has published widely on the Spanish left in the 1930s, and particularly on the relationship between the state, revolution and political
power in Republican Spain. She is currently researching penal regimes in 1940s Spain which will explore how state power was made and consolidated
'bottom-up'. Another (biographical) project focuses on sexuality, radical subjectivity and the transition from old to new lefts.
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Dr. Angela Jackson'sdoctoral thesis was published in 2002 as British Women and the Spanish Civil War by
Routledge, London. Her interest in the history of a cave used as a hospital during the war led to the publication of Beyond the Battlefield: Testimony,
Memory and Remembrance in the Spanish Civil War by Warren & Pell Publishing, Pontypool in 2005. Based on all this research, her first novel,
Warm Earth was published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie in 2007. She now lives in the Priorat, Catalonia, where she continues to be involved in the
subject of memory and remembrance of the war through her work in the association ‘No Jubilem la Memòria’ (See www.nojubilemlamemoria.tk). Her latest
history book, At the Margins of Mayhem: Prologue and Epilogue to the Last Great Battle of the Spanish Civil War , also published by Warren & Pell,
is the result of this ongoing research. This conference will also feature the launch of this book. For more information, click here
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Prof. Paul Preston is Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies at the European Institute, LSE. His many publications
include The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution, Revenge (Harper Collins, 2006), Juan Carlos: A People's King (Harper Collins, 2004),
Francisco Franco (Ediciones B, 2003) and Doves of War: Four Women of Spain (Harper Collins, 2002). Professor Preston was awarded the
2005 Premi Internacional Ramon Llull, awarded jointly by the Institut de Estudis Catalans and the Institut Ramon Llull. The prize is the most prestigious
international prize for academic achievement given in Catalonia. He has won the Premi Trias Fargas and has also just been awarded Spain’s highest
honour, the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica. On 20 June 2006, at a ceremony presided over by the King of Spain, Professor Paul Preston was
inaugurated into the of the Academia Europea de Yuste, where he was given the Marcel Proust Chair.
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