Lleida will host the first edition of ‘ Memòria Connectada’, archives, memory and human rights in dialogue .
On Tuesday, April 29, the annual ‘Memòria connectada’ event will begin , promoted by AsF , ANC and the University of Lleida. Onea meeting to analyze the relationship between archives, memory, society and human rights.
Next April 29th at 5pm in the Auditorium of the Center for Cross-Border Cultures of the University of Lleida The first edition of ‘Connected Memory, Space for Reflection’ will be held. This activity, jointly promoted by Archivists Without Borders, the National Archive of Catalonia and the Archive and Document Management of the University of Lleida, is an initiative that seeks to create a space for reflection and debate on the interconnections between memory, archives, society and human rights
This year’s edition will be a space for reflection, a round table where three professionals from literature, law and archival science will participate.
- Maria Campillo, historian of Catalan Literature and retired professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
- Núria Camps, full professor of international law and vice-rector for Social Commitment, Equality and Cooperation at the University of Lleida
- Blanca Bazaco, head of the References and User Service at the Regional Archive of the Community of Madrid.
The event will be moderated by Sílvia Marimon, journalist and Culture editor of the newspaper Ara.
The participants will reflect and interact with the audience on the role of archives in the construction of a collective memory and in the preservation and defense of human rights. Maria Campillo will address the concept of Marianne Hirst’s postmemory to make visible the network that connects future generations with those who have suffered atrocities; a postmemory where generational relationships prevent traumatic events from falling into oblivion and becoming trivial. Núria Camps will review the normative corpus that allows the protection of memory to be connected with human rights. Finally, Blanca Bazaco will introduce us to the world of documentary expertise, a discipline that, applied from the archival perspective, allows us to rescue the probative values of documents in the defense of human rights.