Day 1: 29th March Morning Panels- 9.15-11.15am.

Hijos del exilio: Creative Memory Practice of the Second-Generation in Iberia and Latin America (I) Chair: Cara Levey 1. Sonia Boué (University of ) Performative approaches to Second-Generation Exile’ Artistic intervention

2. Katie Brown (University of Exeter) ‘What's in a place name? Place, memory and identity in ‘Cacería de conejos’ by Freddy Gonçalves’ This paper explores the intersections between language, place, identity and memory in ‘Cacería de conejos’, a short story by the Portuguese-Venezuelan writer Freddy Gonçalves, which juxtaposes a grandfather’s exile from Portugal to Venezuela and a grandson’s visit to Venezuela after migrating to Spain. My starting point is the assertion that ‘Place is space invested with meaning in the context of power’ (Cresswell, 2015: 19). Place is inherently political in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a country whose very name has changed to reflect the ideology of the government. This paper considers the weight of memories carried by specific places, and asks what happens to memories, and to the identities shaped by them, when these names are changed for political reasons.

3. Helena Buffery (University College Cork) ‘The Trope of Transgenerational Transmission in the theatre of Victoria Szpunberg, Helena Tornero and Sergio Blanco’ The transgenerational transmission of trauma has become an increasingly prevalent trope in contemporary Hispanic theatre, in dealing with themes of political violence, conflict and exile, above all in relation to contexts where there are competing or disputed cultural trauma narratives and/or where reparational justice has not been forthcoming. In this paper, I wish to look at the way in which transgenerational transmission has been explored by the children and grandchildren of exile, focusing in particular on the cases of three renowned contemporary dramatists whose work traverses diverse linguistic and cultural contexts: Victoria Szpunberg, whose acclaimed trilogy, La fragilidad de la memoria, explores the incorporated memories of the children of Argentine political refugees in Europe; Helena Tornero, who is perhaps best known for her recent work with contemporary refugee communities in southern Europe, but who has also engaged with the legacy of the Spanish Civil War and Spanish Republican exile as experienced by the children and grandchildren of both the victims and the perpetrators; and Sergio Blanco, whose Franco-Uruguayan autofictions are haunted by the spectre of transgenerational transmission.

4. Blanca Gómez García (University College London) ‘Isabel de Madariaga, hija del exilio: the creation of memory through academia and the BBC in Great Britain’ In 1939, the Spanish intellectual was forced into exile after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled to Britain, which heavily conditioned the life and intellectual activity of his youngest daughter, Isabel de Madariaga (1919–2014). Through Said’s reflections on the exiled intellectual, this presentation explores the unconventional means Isabel used to work towards the creation of memory of the Republican exiles as an hija del exilio and an intellectual. First, the freedom brought about by her generational and geographical displacement and her position between (at least) two cultures allowed her to produce valuable academic work on the history of Europe and attempt to explain its present. Second, her position also favoured her work at the BBC during the Second World War with other numerous Republican exiles who believed the Allies’ victory would free Spain. At the end of her life, Madariaga donated her whole library to the BNE, a factor which is considered in the analysis as a material and intellectual contribution to the memory of exiles, which has also inspired popular culture.