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• PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION of the Spanish Civil War Photographs of Agustí Centelles (The French Suitcase)1-30 November/ Allen Library, North Lobby/ 9AM-6PM / FREE Admission

This exhibit features 40 photographs taken during the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936) and Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and subsequently at the French concentration camp in Bram, by the celebrated Catalan photo journalist Agustí Centelles. When Centelles returned to Spain during World War II to escape persecution by the Gestapo on account of his work for the French Resistance, he left his photographic archive in a suitcase in the attic of a friend's house in Carcassonne. During the Franco Dictatorship he was not allowed to practice photojournalism and devoted himself to advertising. In 1976, after Franco's death, Centelles went to Carcassonne to retrieve the suitcase, where his negatives had remained intact.

• LECTURE by Gina Herrmann: “Spanish Women Resisters in France and Spain”4 November/ Smith Hall 102/ 3:30-5PM/ FREE

Gina Herrmann is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. She is also Vice Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive. She is the tutor of books on communist culture in Spain and an oral historian working on the histories of Spanish communist women in the Spanish Civil War, WW2 and the French resistance.

• TEACHERS’ WORSHOP by Gina Herrmann & Anthony L. Geist: “Art & Literature of the Spanish Civil War”5 November/ Smith Hall 115/ 9AM-1PM/ FREE

Anthony L. Geist is Professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Washington. He is a founding member of ALBA (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives) and serves on its Executive Committee. He has published widely on art and literature of the Spanish Civil War, including Passing the Torch: The ALB and its Legacy of the Hope and They Still Draw Pictures: Children’s Art in Wartime from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo.The aim of this workshop is to offer a selection of literary texts and works of art of the Spanish Civil War and the strategies to use them in class.

• LECTURE by Adam Hochschild: “Spain, The First Battle of World War II” 9 November/ Kane Hall 110 / 7-9PM / FREE

Adam Hochschild graduated from Harvard in 1963 with a BA in History and Literature. He is the author of eight books; the latest, "Spain in Our Hearts: Americans and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939," appeared in 2016.A longtime lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Hochschild has also been a Fulbright Lecturer in India, Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Writer-in-Residence at the Department of History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

• FILM SERIES12-19-26 October & 2 November/ Smith Hall 205/ 7-9PM/ FREE/ Spanish with English subtitles

Pan´s Labyrinth (2006), Guillermo del Toro.The Mexican suitcase (2011), Trisha Ziff.Soldiers of Salamis (2003), David Trueva.Dreams & Nightmares (1974), Abe Osheroff.

MEMORY OF FIRE: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 80 YEARS AFTER A Linked Lecture, Exhibit and Film Series 

 This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War (1936‐1939) that saw the first armed confrontation between the forces of fascism and democracy. Backed by Hitler and Mussolini, General Francisco Franco led a rebellion against the democratically elected government of the Second Spanish Republic. Throughout the country the Spanish people armed themselves and fought off the coup, which turned into a bloody civil war that cost half a million dead and which many now understand as the dress‐rehearsal for World War II. Some 40,000 volunteers came from over 50 countries to offer their lives in the fight against fascism. Among them were some 2800 young Americans, a third of whom lie buried in Spanish soil. 11 students from the University of Washington joined that historic struggle.  Film Series (all screenings in Smith 205, 7‐9 PM)    October 12: Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) 1944, immediately after the Spanish Civil War, Ofelia and her mother, Carmen, who is in an advanced state of pregnancy, move to a small town where her husband, a cruel captain of Franco´s army, has been assigned. His mission is to exterminate the last members of the Republican resistance that remain hidden in the mountains of the area. One night, Ofelia discovers the ruins of a labyrinth, and there meets a faun, a strange creature that makes a surprising revelation: Ofelia is actually a princess and the last of her line. To return to her magical kingdom, she will face three tests.    October 19: Trisha Ziff, The Mexican Suitcase (2011) This is the story of three lost boxes of negatives known as “the Mexican Suitcase” that were recovered in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos at the start of WWII, contained many of the Spanish Civil War negatives by the legendary photographer Robert Capa and fellow photographers Gerda Taro and David "Chim" Seymour.    October 26: David Trueba, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis) (2003) A novelist experiencing writer’s block tracks a true story that occurred in the last days of the Civil War: the writer and Falangist, Rafael Sánchez Mazas, was shot with fifty other prisoners, but managed to escape and hide in a forest. Apparently, a soldier combing the area found him, but let him escape. The author reconstructs the pieces of this puzzle full of contradictions and enigmatic characters. With her research, though not aware of it, she not only seeks the truth of that story, but finds herself.    November 2: Abe Osheroff, Dreams and Nightmares (1974) Long‐time Seattle resident Abe Osheroff fought in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the Lincoln Brigade from 1936‐1937. In the 1970s, he returned to Spain, where he decided to film "Dreams and Nightmares." The documentary explores his own personal experiences, war and its aftermath, and the U.S. involvement in the Franco regime. Until his death in 2008, Abe was a prominent social justice activist. In 1975 “Dreams and Nightmares” won the top award at a 

documentary film festival in Leipzig, then in East Germany.  (Students from Geist’s seminar will prepare a flyer, and will introduce and lead Q&A for each film.)  November 1‐30: Exhibit of SCW photographs by Agustí Centelles. Allen Library North Lobby.  The Spanish Civil War Photographs of Agustí Centelles (The French Suitcase) This exhibit features 40 photographs taken during the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936) and Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and subsequently at the French concentration camp in Bram, by the celebrated Catalan photo journalist Agustí Centelles. When Centelles returned to Spain during World War II to escape persecution by the Gestapo on account of his work for the French Resistance, he left his photographic archive in a suitcase in the attic of a friend's house in Carcassonne. During the Franco Dictatorship he was not allowed to practice photojournalism and devoted himself to advertising. In 1976, after Franco's death, Centelles went to Carcassonne to retrieve the suitcase, where his negatives had remained intact – a story reminiscent of the recently-discovered "Mexican Suitcase" of negatives by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and Chim exhibited at ICP in 2010-2011. The exhibit includes the dramatic photographs Centelles took in Barcelona shortly after the military uprising of 18 July 1936, his photo-reportage during the war, and his extraordinary photographs taken in Bram concentration camp where he was interned on crossing into France   (Students from Geist’s seminar will offer periodic docent tours of the exhibit in English and Spanish.)  November 4: Lecture by Gina Herrmann, “Spanish Women Resisters in France and Spain” (Smith 102), 3:30‐5 PM Gina Herrmann is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. She is also Vice Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. She is the author of books on communist culture in Spain and an oral historian working on the histories of Spanish communist women in the Spanish Civil War, WW2 and the French resistance.  November 5: ALBA Teachers’ Workshop, conducted by Geist and Gina Herrmann. Smith 115,  9 AM‐1 PM. The aim of this workshop is to offer a selection of literary texts and works of art (Alberti, Hernández, Miró, Picasso, etc.) of the Spanish Civil War and the strategies to use them in the Spanish class.  November 9: Lecture by Adam Hochschild, “Spain, The First Battle of World War II.” Kane Hall 110, 7‐9 PM From 1936 to 1939, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines around the world. Volunteers from over 50 countries rushed to help Spain's democratically elected government fight an uprising by right-wing army officers backed by Hitler and Mussolini. Some 2800 of the volunteers were Americans, the only time so many of our countrymen-and women-have taken part in another nation's civil war. Adam Hochschild, author of 'Spain in Our Hearts,' gives an illustrated talk about some of the Americans caught up in this conflict.  

All events free and open to the public  Linked to Spanish 596 (Fall 2016), Poetry and Politics: Art and Literature of the Spanish Civil War    

Sponsored by: UW León Center, Department of History, School of Drama, Simpson Center for the Humanities; Aula Cervantes; Center for Spanish Studies; Honorary Consulate of Spain