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Estimados amigos:Here are some recent items of interest from the ALBA Blog<http://www.albavolunteer.org/category/blog>( www.albavolunteer.org/category/blog) at the Online Volunteer<http://www.albavolunteer.org/>( http://www.albavolunteer.org/): Special Feature Essay: Historical memory in Spain and Northern Ireland<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/special-feature-essay-historical-memory-in-spain-and-northern-ireland/> *July 8, 2010* Exclusive to the online *Volunteer:** *A reflection <http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/collective-memory-a-different-kind-of-dna-teruel-spainderry-ireland-la-ley-de-memoria-and-the-saville-report/>on historical memory a propos of Bloody Sunday (the Saville Enquiry Report was published<http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/bloody+sunday+inquiry+saville+report+published/3681332> last month) and the Spanish Civil War, by Trisha Ziff, curator of photography (*Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday<http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/hidden_truths/ht2.html> )* and filmmaker (*Chevolution<http://www.amazon.com/Chevolution-Antonio-Banderas/dp/B002TLRG78> )*, currently directing the documentary, *La Maleta Mexicana/The Mexican Suitcase.* Read the... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/special-feature-essay-historical-memory-in-spain-and-northern-ireland/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/special-feature-essay-historical-memory-in-spain-and-northern-ireland/ Family of Miguel Hernández requests annulment of sentence<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/family-of-miguel-hernandez-requests-annulment-of-sentence/> *July 13, 2010* As reported earlier<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/annullment-of-sentences-after-all/>, the Spain's 2007 Law of Historical Memory <http://leymemoria.mjusticia.es/> did not annul Francoist sentences, although it did, ambiguously, declare the tribunals that issued them to be “illegitimate.” As a result, it is now up to individual victim's families to request actual legal annulments. After Andulucía's request <http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/annullment-of-sentences-after-all/>for an annulment in the... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/family-of-miguel-hernandez-requests-annulment-of-sentence/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/family-of-miguel-hernandez-requests-annulment-of-sentence/ The scandal of Francoist impunity<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/debate-on-francoist-impunity/> *July 10, 2010* An hour-long radio debate <http://www.contratiempohistoria.com/programas/060_contratiempo%2007-06-10.mp3>on the impunity of Francoist repression and the possibilities of seeking of legal recourse, broadcast last month by *Contratiempo<http://www.contratiempohistoria.com/> .** *Featuring Emilio Silva, founding president of the Association for the Recuperation of Historical Memory, as well as three magistrates*:* Ramón Saéz Valcarcel, Ignacio Ubaldo González de la Vega, and José Miguel García... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/debate-on-francoist-impunity/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/debate-on-francoist-impunity/ Documentary on Canadians in SCW online<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/documentary-on-canadians-in-scw-online/> *July 10, 2010* *Los Canadienses: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War,* Albert Kish's hour-long documentary from 1975 <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215590/> on Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, is now viewable in six parts on YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaD0dgg-fE0&feature=watch_response_rev> . Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/documentary-on-canadians-in-scw-online/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/documentary-on-canadians-in-scw-online/ Documentary on Agustí Centelles<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/documentary-on-agusti-centelles/> *July 5, 2010* The Catalan news program 30 Minuts has made an hour-long documentary <http://www.tv3.cat/videos/3001010/Memoria-fotografica>on Agustí Centelles, the Spanish Civil War photographer whose archive was recently bought by the Spanish government, and whose portrait of a young black volunteer set off a global detective search<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/03/mystery-photo-%E2%80%A8gift-to-obama-puts-alba-in-the-spotlight/>. See the documentary here (in Catalan): Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/documentary-on-agusti-centelles/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/documentary-on-agusti-centelles/ Juan Negrín’s papers will be national archive<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/negrin/> *July 5, 2010* After years of hard work,Carmen Negrín, the granddaughter of Spanish Republican Prime Minister Juan Negrín, is gratified, she <http://www.publico.es/culturas/326046/juan/negrin/confesor/quiso/justo> tells <http://www.publico.es/culturas/326046/juan/negrin/confesor/quiso/justo>the Spanish newspaper *Público,* to see her grandfather's voluminous papers turned into a major national archive. Meanwhile, ALBA board member Gabriel Jackson has just published a major biography<http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/history/JacksonNegrin.htm> of Negrín (review forthcoming in... Read more » <http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/negrin/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/negrin/ Annullment of sentences after all?<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/annullment-of-sentences-after-all/> *July 5, 2010* What exactly is the legal status of the hundreds of thousands of sentences issued by Francoist tribunals during and after the Civil War? To the frustration of many associated with the movement calling for a "recovery of historical memory," Spain's "Historical Memory Law<http://leymemoria.mjusticia.es/>" of 2007 did *not** *include an a massive annulment of... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/annullment-of-sentences-after-all/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/annullment-of-sentences-after-all/ Dominican Republic commemorates arrival of Spanish refugees<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/dominican-republic-commemorates-arrival-of-spanish-refugees/> *July 2, 2010* Seventy years ago, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, the ruthless dictator of the Dominican Republic, welcomed the first group of Spanish Republican refugees, initiating one of the most contradictory and tragic episodes of the postwar Spanish diaspora--an event on whose commemoration in the DR *Público** * reports<http://www.publico.es/espana/325403/huidos/franco/supervivientes/trujillo> today. Trujillo's generosity toward the thousands of Spaniards fleeing Franco and... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/dominican-republic-commemorates-arrival-of-spanish-refugees/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/dominican-republic-commemorates-arrival-of-spanish-refugees/ Radford’s new SCW film in jeopardy<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/radfords-new-scw-film-in-jeopardy/> *June 29, 2010* *La mula,** *a new internationally-produced Spanish-language comedy set during the Spanish Civil War--co-written and directed by Michael Radford (*Il Postino*)--may never see the light of day, *Variety** *reports<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021140.html?categoryid=13&cs=1> : Three of Europe's highest-ranking film executives -- U.K.'s John Woodward, Spain's Ignasi Guardans and Ireland's Simon Perry -- are battling to save... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/radfords-new-scw-film-in-jeopardy/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/radfords-new-scw-film-in-jeopardy/ Map of mass graves in Andalusia reveals almost 600 burial sites<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/map-of-mass-graves-in-andalusia-reveals-almost-600-burial-sites/> *June 27, 2010* The official map of mass graves dating from the Civil War in Andalusia, released <http://www.elpais.com/articulo/andalucia/mapa/oficial/verifico/600/enterramientos/Andalucia/elpepiespand/20100622elpand_5/Tes>after a five years of research, offers an inventory of almost six hundred different unmarked burial sites. The mass grave at the San Rafael cemetery in Málaga is assumed to contain more than four thousand bodies, making it the... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/map-of-mass-graves-in-andalusia-reveals-almost-600-burial-sites/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/map-of-mass-graves-in-andalusia-reveals-almost-600-burial-sites/ Surreal Friends (cont.): Horna, Varo, Carrington<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/surreal-friends-horna-varo-carrington/> *June 22, 2010* More coverage, this time in the *Guardian<http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/18/surrealist-muses-who-roared-mexico> ,* on the exhibit of Spanish Civil War friends Kati Horna, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington (see earlier post<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/surreal-friends-in-the-wake-of-the-spanish-civil-war/>). Includes video. Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/surreal-friends-horna-varo-carrington/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/surreal-friends-horna-varo-carrington/ MAGNUM photo archives publicly accessible<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/magnum-photo-archives-publicly-accessible/> *June 22, 2010* Earlier this year Magnum, the photo agency founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and "Chim" Seymour, sold its photojournalism archive (more than 185,000 prints) to a private investment company owned by Michael Dell, which in turn has handed it over to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. The HRC... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/magnum-photo-archives-publicly-accessible/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/magnum-photo-archives-publicly-accessible/ Franco gave Hitler lists of Spanish Jews<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/franco-gave-hitler-lists-of-spanish-jews/> *June 22, 2010* Spain's dictator Francisco Franco, who won the Spanish Civil War in 1939 with significant help from Hitler Germany, repaid the favor two years later by handing the Nazi regime "a list of every Jew in his country in order to facilitate efforts to locate, deport and destroy them," today's *Ha'aretz* reports<http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/wwii-document-reveals-general-franco-handed-nazis-list-of-spanish-jews-1.297546>, based on... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/franco-gave-hitler-lists-of-spanish-jews/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/franco-gave-hitler-lists-of-spanish-jews/ Green light for Hemingway / Gellhorn film<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/green-light-for-hemingway-gellhorn-film/> *June 16, 2010* The Filmstage reports<http://thefilmstage.com/2010/06/16/owen-kidman-to-star-in-hbos-gandolfini-produced-hemingway-film/> that James Gandolfini, aka Tony Soprano, will be producing a film on Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn for HBO, starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, and directed by Philip Kaufman (*The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being*).: Gellhorn, considered one of the greatest war correspondents of all... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/green-light-for-hemingway-gellhorn-film/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/green-light-for-hemingway-gellhorn-film/ Prominent Spaniards read victims’ testimonies<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/prominent-spaniards-read-victims-testimonies/> *June 16, 2010* Just uploaded to YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf8oZKEejD8>: "Contra la impunidad" (Against Impunity), a nine-minute video put together by Pedro Almodóvar's production company, in which a number of well-known Spanish actors and intellectuals (including Pilar and Javier Bardem, Juan Diego, and Almodóvar himself) read first-person narratives of victims of Nationalist and Francoist repression. The video emphasizes that... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/prominent-spaniards-read-victims-testimonies/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/prominent-spaniards-read-victims-testimonies/ Capa and Kati Horna<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/capa-and-kati-horna/> *June 15, 2010* Joanna Moorhead, writing in *The Independent,** *reveals <http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-woman-who-captured-robert-capas-heart-1999038.html>that the two Hungarian photographers of the Spanish Civil War were in love: He was the legendary war photographer, a man who alternated dodging death on battlefields with a glamorous, star-studded life-style; she was a self-effacing, left-wing intellectual who preferred to stay out of the limelight, hidden... Read more » <http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/capa-and-kati-horna/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/capa-and-kati-horna/ Sao Paolo newspaper covers Cartier-Bresson find<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/sao-paolo-newspaper-covers-cartier-bresson-find/> *June 12, 2010* Silas Martí writes <http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/747951-mostra-e-filme-revelam-faceta-cineasta-do-fotografo-cartier-bresson.shtml>in the Folha de Sao Paolo on Juan Salas' discovery <http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/03/henri-cartier-bresson-footage-%e2%80%a8found-in-alba-archive/>of Henri Cartier-Bresson's long-lost Spanish Civil War documentary, *With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain** *(clip here<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/04/clip-of-cartier-bressons-with-the-lincoln-brigade/> ): Na época, o artista já tinha uma reputação como fotógrafo de toada surrealista. Mas, na volta ao cinema por... Read more »<http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/sao-paolo-newspaper-covers-cartier-bresson-find/> http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/sao-paolo-newspaper-covers-cartier-bresson-find/ -- Sebastiaan Faber Professor and Chair Dept of Hispanic Studies Oberlin College 50 N Professor St Oberlin, OH 44074-1091 tel.: (440) 775-8189 fax: (440) 775-6888 email: <[log in to unmask]> web: http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/sfaber