Memory of Women’s migration in France

A Conversation

Carolina Espinoza, Anthropologist , author of documentary La voz bordada 

and 

David Divita, author of the book Untold Stories: Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life

Friday May 10th, 6PM

In this session of Cuarto Propio in Wikipedia (since 2015, this project has been discussing and collectively thinking about feminism), we open a space for Women’s memory in France. Since David Divita is visiting the MIRCo center, we can depart from national, familiar and individual memories, which he gathered though an ethnography on Spanish migrants who lived in France for decades. The romanticized memory of the peoples who fled is re-thought and evoked by the Civil War in the stories arising from the Centro de Mayores Españoles, in Paris. These stories will be discussed by those gathered by Carolina Espinoza, documentarist and anthropologist, who has worked in the memory of the exile in women’s centres in French cities, like Grenoble.

If you wish to attend (either in person or remotely), please refer to cuartopropiowikipedia@gmail.com

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David Divita is a Professor of Romance Languages at Pomona College (Los Ángeles, USA). An specialist on linguistic anthropology, he is focused on modern-day Spain and France. From ethnographic methods, he has studied the politics of history and memory; the linguistic and semiotic dimensions of aging; and the experience of belonging, displacement and multilingualism among migrant communities. Early this year he published Untold stories: Legacies of authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life (University of Toronto Press). Currently, he is focusing his research on the current debates on the Democratic Memory Law on Spain, specially in the efforts to “resignify” the Cuelgamuros Valley.

Carolina Espinosa is a journalist, graduated in Universidad de Concepción, and a Doctor in Social Anthropology in UNED. In Chile, she worked as a editor for the Televisión Nacional de Chile and in Radio Cooperativa, and in Spain she was also a editor for Televisión Educativa Iberoamericana and in the Centro de Medios Audiovisuales (UNED). She presides the cultural association Meninas Cartoneras, and produced a number of documentaries: “La alegría de los otros” (2009); “El tren popular de la cultura” (2015) and “La operación más noble” (2020), on how the republican exile got to Chile on the Winnipeg. She is now working on a project on Chilean exiled women around the globe.