Documentaries, Victims, and Reparation: Investigative Journalism as a Tool for Recovering Historical Memory with Montse Armengou

Documentaries, Victims, and Reparation: Investigative Journalism as a Tool for Recovering Historical Memory with Montse Armengou
Friday, September 27th
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: ICC 462

Montse Armengou’s work has brought to light unknown aspects of the repression that took place in Spain under the dictatorship of General Franco (1936-1975). In the absence of the Spanish state’s policies to recognize the extent of the crimes of the dictator, her documentaries have been a tool to compensate victims. For over a decade her work has gone beyond the limits of the audiovisual and has become a means of healing for victims.

Her work reveals some of the hidden offenses of the Franco regime: theft of children, the existence of thousands of disappeared in mass graves, deportations to Nazi concentration camps, defeated soldiers of the Spanish Civil War buried alongside Franco in his Valley of the Fallen Memorial mausoleum, and thousands of deaths resulting from not implementing the polio vaccine on time.

For more information, please contact spanport@georgetown.edu.

Sponsored by the Georgetown University Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Institut Ramon LLull.