11:30 a. m. Coffee break
12:00 p. m. Panel 1. Priorities and new challenges of the EU memory policies
• Zuzana Dorazilová, Deputy Head of Unit, Non-Discrimination: Anti-Rascism and Roma Coordination, DG Justice, European Commission
• Srd Kisevic, Deputy Head of Unit, Citizens and EU Values, EACEA
• Uladzislau Belavusau, Senior Researcher in European Law at the T. M. C. Asser Institute( The Hague) – University of Amsterdam.
Moderated by Oriol López Badell, Historian, international relations officer at the EUROM.
1:00 p. m. Lunch
3:30 p. m. Keynote. Bridges and fault lines: reflections on Europe’ s unity and divisions
• Géraldine Schwarz, author, journalist, and filmmaker. Her latest book, D’ où nous venons …( Flammarion, 2024), explores Europe’ s shared history and won the Jacques Delors Institute’ s“ Better Understanding Europe” award
Moderated by Sílvia Marimon Molas, culture journalist specializing in history
5:00 p. m. Panel 2. Memory against democracy: hate speech and contested heritage
• Tania Lobato, Journalist and PhD in Politics and International Relations at Keele University. Adjunct professor at Webster University. Author of Los niños de Bosnia( 2013)
• Steven Forti, Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Author of Extrema derecha 2.0( 2021)
• Queralt Castillo Cerezuela, Freelance journalist based in Athens, covering Greece and the Balkans on ethnic conflicts, migration, climate change and social movements.
Moderated by Kostis Kornetis, Professor of Contemporary History at Madrid Autonomous University and academic advisor to“ Spain in Freedom: 50 Years”.
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