Gernika(k) / Guernica(s) International Congress: Resemanticisations of a historical trauma

(Sunbilla, 1986) Euskal Filologian Lizentziatua eta Literatura Konparatua eta Literatura Ikasketetan doktorea (EHU, 2015). Irakasle Atxikia da EHUko Hezkuntza, Filosofia eta Antropologia Fakultatean. Elkarlanean aritu da Deustuko Unibertsitatearekin eta baita Mondragon Unibertsitatearekin ere. Materiarik gabeko ondare kulturalari eta baliabide sinbolikoei buruz aritu da ikertzen. Bertzeak bertze, Mikel Laboa Katedrarekin aritu da, Mikel Laboari buruzko bibliografia nagusia bildu, bere aritua gune duen monografia gauzatu eta, 2014an, doktorego aurreko beka jaso zuen. 1960-1990 bitarteko euskal kulturaren birmoldatzeari buruzko tesia defendatu zuen, 2015ean (“Euskal ondare kulturalaren moldatzea (1960-1990) egungo Euskal Kultur Sistemaren oinarri. Baliabide eta forma sinbolikoak”). Espresuki ardaztua da literaturan eta komunitateen ondare kultural metatuaren azterketan. Memoria Historikoa Literatra Iberiarretan (IT 1046-16) ikertalde kontsolidatuko partaidea da.

Mari Jose Olaziregi holds a PhD in Basque literature. She is a Full Professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain), and between 2007-2009 Assistant Professor at the Center for Basque Studies (University of Nevada, Reno), and Visiting Professor at universities like the University of Konstanz, the University of Chicago or the City University of New York. She holds a MA in Studies in Fiction at the University of East Anglia (UK). She specializes in contemporary Basque and Iberian literature, Comparative Literature, Basque Cultural and Gender Studies, and Memory Studies. She is the author of 11 books on Basque literature, 92 book-chapters, 18 edited books, and 81 articles in international journals. Mari Jose Olaziregi is a correspondent member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language, and between 2010-2016, the Director of the Language and Universities Area at Etxepare Basque Institute. Lastly, she is a member of different international research-groups or networks, such as, the Groups “Celt”, “Liter21” and “Lijmi” (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; 2006-), or the Research Network “Memory and Narration” (University of Aarhus). Since 2012, she coordinates the MHLI Research Group.

Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas is the ACLS Emerging Voices fellow at the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on the politics of memory in cultural production in (post)conflict scenarios amidst globalization. Some of her work has appeared in or is forthcoming with Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE), Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos (RIEV), and Interventions: The Internacional Journal of Postcolonial Studies. She is currently working on two monographs, respectively on memory and conflict in contemporary Basque and Irish literature and on the afterlives of Guernica.

Iker González-Allende is Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He specializes in the Spanish Civil War, exile and migration, Basque studies, gender and queer studies, and autobiographical writing. He has published seven books: the monographs Hombres en movimiento: Masculinidades españolas en los exilios y emigraciones, 1939-1999 (Purdue University Press, 2018) and Líneas de fuego: Género y nación en la narrativa española durante la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) (Biblioteca Nueva, 2011); a critical edition of the novel Euzkadi en llamas, by Ramón Belaustegigoitia (Txalaparta, 2020); the edited volumes El mundo está en todas partes: La creación literaria de Bernardo Atxaga (coedited with José Ángel Ascunce Arrieta, Anthropos, 2018) and El exilio vasco: Estudios en homenaje al profesor José Ángel Ascunce Arrieta (Universidad de Deusto, 2016); and the editions of Pilar de Zubiaurre’s works, titled Evocaciones: Artículos y diario (1909-1958) (Saturrarán, 2009) and Epistolario de Pilar de Zubiaurre (1906-1970) (Tamesis, 2014). He has also published more than 60 articles in books and academic journals.

Born in exile in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1967, Xabier Irujo is the director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, where he is professor of Genocide Studies. He was the first guest research scholar of the Manuel Irujo Chair at the University of Liverpool and has taught seminars on cultural genocide at Boise State University and at the University of California. He holds three master’s degrees in linguistics, history and philosophy and has two Ph.D.'s in history and philosophy. Irujo has lectured in nearly 100 American and European universities and academic or cultural institutions. He has published on issues related to Basque history and politics and has specialized in genocide studies with a focus on physical and cultural extermination. He is the member of the editorial board of six academic presses in Europe and the Americas. Irujo has authored more than 15 books and a number of articles and has received awards and honors at national and international level. His recent books include Gernika: Genealogy of a Lie (Sussex, 2019), The Bombing of Gernika (Center for Basque Studies Press, 2018), Gernika. 26 de abril de 1937 (Crítica, 2017) and Legal History of the Basque Language (HAEE, 2015).

Jorge Luis Marzo (Barcelona, 1964) is an art historian, PhD in Cultural Studies, exhibition curator, audiovisual producer, lecturer at BAU (Art and Design University Centre of Barcelona) and member of GREDITS (a research group focused on exploring the potential of art and design as tools for social transformation). His professional work has taken him, in addition to Spain, to Mexico, the United States, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy and Chile. He has developed numerous collaborative research projects, in exhibition, audiovisual or editorial formats, often in relation to the politics of the image. Among the latter, the following are worth mentioning: La curva. Patologías gráficas (ICUB, Cátedra 2021-2024); Biennal 2064 (Bòlit, Virreina, CCCC, 2022-2023); Actuar en la emergència (RAER, 2021-2024); Las videntes. Images in the Age of Prediction (Arcàdia, 2021); Fantasma'77. Iconoclastia española (Tecla Sala, CCCC, UK, Solleric, 2020-2021); Iconografía post-millennial (Morsa, 2019); After Post-Truth (Artnodes, 2019); La competencia de lo falso. Una historia del fake (Cátedra, 2018); Espectros (Virreina, 2017); Fake. No es verdad, no es mentira (IVAM, 2016); Interface Politics (BAU, 2016, 2018); Arte en España (1939-2015).

Maitane Ostolaza Esnal is Full Professor of History and Civilisation of Contemporary Spain at the University of Perpignan (France). She holds a PhD in History and Civilisation and defended her doctoral thesis at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) in 1999. She has worked at the University of Paris-Sorbonne for 17 years. At this university she launched the Basque Studies Programme in 2015, in collaboration with the Etxepare Institute. Her research focuses on the relationship between religion, education and modernisation, popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, the processes of nationalisation in Europe and, more recently, on issues related to heritage and landscape, approached from the perspective of cultural history. She has published several works, both in France and in Spain, on these subjects. Her latest publication on Basque landscape was published in London in 2023: Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936, London, Routledge, 2023.

Professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid. She has also taught at the University of Castilla La Mancha; and has been academic coordinator of the Master in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (UAM-UCM-MNCARS) between 2017 and 2023. Co-curated the exhibitions Un sitio para pensar. Schools and experimental art education practices in the Basque Country, 1957-1979 (Artium & Jorge Oteiza Museoa, 2022) and Encounters with the 1930s (MNCARS, 2012). Member of the team of the digital project Repensar Guernica of the MNCARS in its first phase and launch (2017). Author of several books and articles, including Informe Guernica. Sobre el lienzo de Picasso y su imagen (Asimétricas, 2019), or her collaboration on the catalogue of the Guernica exhibition (Musée national Picasso-Paris, 2018). She has also published the anthologies Picasso and His Critics I. Reception of Guernica, 1937-1947 and Picasso and His Critics II. Los años comunistas (La Central, 2012), not to mention Pintura de humo (Siruela, 2008). She has held a research grant-contract in the Department of Exhibitions of the Museo Reina Sofía (2012-2014) and is a member of the research programme of the Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation, 2021-2024

Dolores Vilavedra (Vigo, 1963). Professor of Galician Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She coordinates the area of Arts and Humanities at EDIUS. She belongs to the FILGA research group and participates in the project "Cultura impresa en lingua galega". A specialist in contemporary Galician narrative, she is a literary critic and translator. She has been director of the Anuario de estudos literarios galegos (2002-2007). She coordinated the preparation of the Diccionario da literatura galega. Other works include Historia da literatura galega (1999), Sobre narrativa galega contemporánea (2000), A narrativa galega na fin de século. Unha ollada crítica (2010), the edition of several epistolary collections of post-war writers or classic works of Galician literature. Together with the group Histagra, he organised the International Conference 1936. Un novo relato? 80 anos entre historia e memoria and co-edited the volume 1936. Un nuevo relato. After coordinating the Language and Literature Section of the Consello da Cultura Galega, since 2015 she has been a member of the Plenary of this institution; she has been Secretary of the Executive Committee (2019-2022). She is a member of the Galician edition of RED-EDIT.

Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, historian, 2001-2011 Director of the Institute for GermanJewish history in Hamburg; since 2011 Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, since 2012 Co- Director of the Selma-Stern-Center for Jewish Studies, both in in Berlin, and since 2020 Director of the Berlin branch of the Center for Research on Social Cohesion. Fields of research: Jewish, German and Spanish History, Gender History, Military History and History of Violence. Recent publications: German Jewish Gender History (forthcoming with Berghahn 2024, translation from the German book of 2014); Football and Discrimination. Antisemitism and beyond, London 2021 (ed. with P. Brunssen); Four Years After: Antisemitism and Racism in Trump’s America (ed. with N. and M. Zadoff, H. Paul), Munich 2020; Gender and the Politics of Anti-Semitism, in: American Historical Review 123 (2018), 1210-1222 orr., La Guerra como Aventura. La Legión Cóndor en la Guerra Civil Española 1936–1939, Madrid (Alianza) 2014.