Seminar of the Regiocat research project (PID2021-125227NB-I00)
From 10:00 to 13:30 hours. Friday, January 31, March 14 and May 30, 2025, respectively
Classroom U1.1, Building U, Can Jaumandreu, 52 Perú St., 08035 Barcelona – UOC
As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the study of his regime continues to grow, adding complexity to the available interpretations. Having consolidated our knowledge of the immediate post-war period and of central aspects such as repression, the construction of the Nuevo Estado, ideological disputes, the autarchic economy and influential international politics, more and better research is being done on the so-called ‘second Francoism’. Far from the simplifications that reduced it to a simple bridge between the post-war period and the Transition or the constraints due to the scarcity of sources and the interested ‘a posteriori’ reconstructions of its protagonists, the range of interpretations has been broadened, new interpretative angles have been added and issues that were previously neglected or stereotyped have been addressed. The last three seminars of the Regiocat 2 project focus precisely on three key and illuminating axes for understanding the period and, by extension, our present: Catholicism, elites and gender.
Catholicism – From 10:00 to 13:30. Friday, January 31, 2025. Classroom U1.1, UOC, Barcelona
Elite and ecclesiastical power in transition. The Spanish church hierarchy, c. 1962-1983 by Joseba Louzao Villar (Cardenal Cisneros University Center – University of Alcalá)
The Church of the late Franco regime through the diocesan microscope. The case of Zaragoza by María José Esteban Zuriaga (University Center for Defense of Zaragoza)
Elites – From 10:00 to 13:30. Friday, March 14, 2025. Classroom U1.1, UOC, Barcelona
Worlds Apart. The Formation of an Economic Elite in Barcelona between 1714-1919 by José Miguel Sanjuán Marroquín (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Barcelona’s insertion in transnational financial circuits. An essay of interpretation based on the Rivara case (1958-1960) by Enrique Faes (UNED)
Gender – From 10:00 to 13:30. Friday, May 30, 2025. Classroom U1.1, UOC, Barcelona
Falangist regeneration and the ramifications of virility: thinking about the fascist nation by Zira Box (University of Valencia)
Technique, authority and gender in contemporary Spain by Darina Martykánová (Autonomous University of Madrid)