As part of the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Terrorism, three speakers will be discussing the memory of terrorism in France and Spain, and more generally in Europe, at the Instituto Francés in Madrid on Monday 14 March at 7 p.m. Booking is compulsory at this link.
The debate, entitled Memory and terrorism: from the testimony of the victims to the construction of a collective memory of resilience, will be attended by Denis Peschanski, historian, director of research at the CNRS, co-author of the book 13 November. Testimonies, a story, specialising in the history of communism, researcher in memory studies and member since 2016 of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (Paris 1, EHESS, CNRS); Raúl López Romo, head of Education and Exhibitions at the Memorial Centre for Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria, PhD in Contemporary History from the University of the Basque Country, is a specialist in the analysis of collective action and terrorism. His thesis, published under the title Years in Chiaroscuro (UPV, 2011), dealt with social conflict in the Basque Country during the transition, and Elisabeth Pelsez, Inspector General of Justice and former interministerial delegate for aid to victims, co-responsible for the project to create the Museum-memorial of terrorism in Suresnes.
On 1 February 2021, the constitution of the Mission for the prefiguration of the Terrorism Memorial Museum was approved, following the guidelines of President Emmanuel Macron. The future Terrorism Memorial Museum will have several functions: it will be a place of homage to the victims and meditation, a museum of the history of society and a space for social, pedagogical, cultural and scientific transmission. It will be dedicated to all victims in France, as well as to French victims of terrorist attacks abroad, and will commemorate all acts of terrorism.
