Temporary Congress

Sites of Memory and Tourism: Turistic uses of Memory (2nd Seminar)

2024-10-09 - 2024-10-10

Presentation

2nd International Seminar on Sites of Memory and Tourism, which will address the touristic uses of memory.

Date: 9 and 10 October 2024.
Place: Gernika-Lumo, Bizkaia (Basque Country) Spain.

2nd International Seminar on Sites of Memory and Tourism, which will address the touristic uses of memory.
Date: 9 and 10 October 2024.
Place: Gernika-Lumo, Bizkaia (Basque Country) Spain.

Organised by: Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika y Observatorio de las memorias Europeas EUROM-UB
Partners: Ayuntamiento de Gernika-Lumo, Juntas Generales de Bizkaia, Gernikaldea Pastoral Barrutia

The practice of tourism in places of memory emerges as a dynamic that enhances the impact of the sites themselves. A greater number of visitors, and a greater diversity in their typology, increases the site’s own complexities and makes it difficult, in turn, for management to consider questions that escape its singular symbolic nature. How are these places presented? What mechanisms of mediation and interpretation are necessary? Who should be addressed? In what language? With what objectives?

Programme

9th october (Wednesday)

Optional guided tours and visits. It is necessary to book here.
09.30-10.30 Guided tour to the Gernika Peace Museum.
10.45-11.30 Visit to the Asembly House and the Tree of Gernika.

12.00-12.30 Opening of the seminar.
Presented by Begoña Arrieta Sagarna. Tourist Office Gernika

Jose María Gorroño Etxebarrieta. Mayor of Gernika- Lumo
Leire Saez Ríos. General Director of Tourism Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
Ana Otaduy. President of Juntas Generales de Bizkaia
Iratxe Momoitio. Gernika Peace Museum
Jordi Guixé. EUROM- Fundaciò UB

12.30-14.15 The research about memory tourism
Presented by: David Gonzalez. EUROM

Saida Palou, Lecturer in Social Anthropology. University of Girona

“Tourism, war and dicatatoship: historical notes”

Laia Encinar-Prat, Lecturer, researcher and project coordinator at the CETT Barcelona School of Tourism, Hospitality and Gastronomy.

“The impact on the present of places linked to memory tourism: the case of the MUME and the Ukrainian refugee community”

Gema Martínez Gayo. PhD in Social Problems Analysis from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), collaborating researcher at Alba Sud.

“Challenges, responsibilities and opportunities of memory tourism”

14.15-15.15 Break for lunch

15.00 -16.30 Memoritour Gernika (Spanish with English translation) Optional. It is necessary to book here.

16.30-18.00 Ethics and memory tourism
Presented by: Angela Bermudez. Senior Researcher at the Centre for Applied Ethics of the University of Deusto

Aranzazu Echaniz. Professor of Ethic. Deusto University

“Ethical keys in the training of tourism professionals”

Oscar Navajas Corral. Associate Professor, University of Alcalá de Henares.

“Tourism in places of traumatic memory. Strategies for moving from the motivation of morbidity to a pedagogy of values”

18.00-18.15 Transfer to the Assembly House of Gernika.

18.15-19.30 Keynote speaker. Assembly House of Gernika.
Presented by: Jordi Guixé Coromines. Director of EUROM

Anne Hertzog. Assistant Professor in Geography, CY Cergy-Paris Université, France

“The touristic dimension of places of memory: a social and political construction between mistrust and legitimisation. Elements of reflection based on French cases”

10th october (Thursday)

9.15-10.00 Round table: Projection and integration of places of memory into the tourist offer.
Presented by Iratxe Momoitio Astorkia. Director of Gernika Peace Museum

Zoraida Hijosa Valdizán. General Director of Director General for Victims’ Services and Promotion of Democratic Memory.
Jordi Guixé Coromines. Director of EUROM

10.00-11.30 Memory and Territory: Deployment and value of memory tourism in Catalonia
Presented by: Leire Irazabal Basabe. Director of Euskal Herria Museum, Gernika.

Raül Valls Lucea. President of the Amical Antics Guerrillers de Catalunya

“Routes of the Maquis in Catalonia: walking the trails of a forgotten history”

Josep Font. Memorial Democratic. Responsible of the Network of Spaces of Memory, Catalonia.

“The relevance of the Spaces of Memory in Catalonia: opportunities and challenges”

Maria José Andrés. Fundación Belchite

“Pueblo Viejo de Belchite: Memories that open new horizons”

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.30 Practical examples of memorial/heritage sites and their relation to tourism I
Presented by Iratxe Momoitio. Director of Gernika Peace Museum

Stephen Lodewyck. Director In Flanders Fields Museum (Belgium)

“The In Flanders Fields Museum: a key player in commemorative tourism to World War I sites in Belgium”

Ajnura Akbas. War Childhood museum. Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

“Narratives Beyond Borders: Museums as Catalysts for Global Dialogue”

Mona Badamchizadeh, Designer and workshop facilitator in the Education Department, and curator in the Temporary Exhibitions Department of the Peace Museum in Tehran, Iran.

“Shapping memory: The Role of Narrative at Tehran Peace Museum”

13.30-15.00 Break for lunch

15.00-16.30 Practical examples of memorial/heritage sites and their relation to tourism II
Presented by Josu Santamaria Otaola Lecturer at the UPNA Navarra. Researcher at the Documentary Fund of Historical Memory in Navarre.