DEALING WITH A TROUBLED PAST IN SPAIN (1930s–2010s): REMEMBRANCE OR OBLIVION

DEALING WITH A TROUBLED PAST IN SPAIN (1930s–2010s): REMEMBRANCE OR OBLIVION

A recap of the previous lecture: what can be learned from Germany’s approach to historical trauma?
 What makes up Spain’s national trauma?
What is the "Pact of Forgetting" and did it help unite Spanish society after Franco’s death?
 How and why did Spanish society move away from forgetting its past traumas?
 What efforts are being made in Spain today to deal with its troubled past — and what lessons might this offer to Russian society?
 How is Spain’s collective trauma reflected and processed in cinema?