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THE FROG HIBERNATION
10 years of Memory Laws and Policies in Spain and Catalonia (2007-2017)
EUROM, University of Barcelona, November 14-20, 2017
T en years ago, in October 2007, Spain
and Catalonia passed their respective
“laws of remembrance”. The Spanish
Parliament laid down a “Law for recogni-
zing and extending rights, and establishing
measures in favor of those who suffered
persecution or violence during the Spanish
Civil War and the dictatorship”, while the
Parliament of Catalonia gave the green
light to the regional Democratic Memory
Law.
The legislation over the recent past
reopened concerns and hopes, and the
relationship between law and memory has
been complex and discussed in both cases.
The impetus of the approval decreased af-
ter a short time, giving way to a period of
dormancy or hibernation. A reasonable pe-
riod of time has passed since then, enough
to admit an initial assessment of the role
played by those laws in the development
of remembrance policies throughout the
State, from a historical perspective.
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Which are their real effects? What conse-
quences and reactions did they provoke?
What other initiatives have been develo-
ped since then? In addition to that, the
Catalan and Spanish cases are outlined in
a European context, where these issues
are no alien; it is a common problem for
many E.U. member states, as well as for
the European institutions themselves
when developing public policies of me-
mory and remembrance.
These topics will be developed during the
international congress “The frog hiberna-
tion: 10 years of laws and policies of me-
mory in Spain and Catalonia (2007-2017)”,
organized by the European Observatory of
Memories of the University of Barcelona.
The program will be developed around the
uses, abuses, processes, successes, omis-
sions and gaps of this period, and will have
two parallel sessions of communications.