The 2024 academic conference of the EU-funded project WIRE, “War, Resistance, Gender and Violence”, will focus on new interpretations of Resistance through women’s experiences. The presentations will analyse the current state of transnational studies on war, resistance, gender and violence, with the aim of demonstrating the diversity of women’s resistance activities and the violence they suffered for their activities.
Our four invited guest speakers are experts on women’s resistance from different European countries: Mercedes Yusta (Spain), Tasoula Vervenioti (Greece), Roberta Mira (Italy) and Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Poland).
The conference will be open to the academic and non-academic public and will count on the participation of the participants/students of the Memory Route from Spain, Greece, Italy and Poland.
The aims of the conference are:
- To analyse the importance of women’s resistance during the Second World War as a way of building critical consciousness in the present and in relation to the narratives inherited from the past.
- To create an alternative narrative of resistance based on women’s experiences.
- To build a transnational community of future educators, researchers and opinion makers.
The conference will take place on 30 and 31 October 2024 at the History Museum of Catalonia, located in the city of Barcelona, Spain. Alongside the academic programme, there will be a cultural programme in which we will work closely with local memory activists and memory institutions.