EUROSUD International Master students present at the Graduate Fellow Conference in European Studies

EUROSUD Intenational Master students Fernando Remache Vinueza and Yelyzaveta Monastyrova, who are at their year two pathway at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome were invited to deliver individual presentations at the "Europe Today: Challenges & Opportunities", organised by The European Studies Council at Yale University on April 16-17 2021. Papers will be published at the official website.

Fernando discussed: "The Official Narrative of National Identity and the Emergence of Silenced Narratives: The Case of Lithuania"

Yelyzaveta discussed: "Euroscepticism and COVID- 19: Examining the Spanish Political Landscape in the Face of the Pandemic"

• Official website: https://europeanstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/people/european-studies-graduate-fellows/2020-21-conference.
• Full programme: Yalepro

Congratulations to Fernando and Yelyzaveta for their excellent presentations!

by Carol Cairney

EUROSUD Film Night

EUROSUD hold a regular film night for students and staff focusing on movies about Southern Europe or filmed in Southern Europe. The  group are asked to come up with suggestions for viewing. After the viewing there is a discussion about the film. This is a great regular social event for the all!

The recent screening watched was Letters from War (Portuguese: Cartas da Guerra) which is based around a collection of letters written by a young soldier, doctor and an aspirant writer, to his wife while he was serving in Angola between 1971 and 1973, during the Portuguese Colonial War. Following the movie, we talked about the War itself and then also what patterns arise in the movie that we can identify in other conflicts as well.

The first screening was Soldiers of Salamina (David Trueba, 2003)

https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/film/soldiers-of-salamina.5846

The movie is inspired by a best-seller novel under the same name written by Javier Cercas. In it “The narrator is fascinated by the way memory congeals into history: the insidious process by which personal narratives become part of a past that can no longer be verified, and is therefore taken to be the truth, even though it is only one possible version of what actually happened. As Cercas points out, the events of the Spanish civil war, which took place only a generation earlier, are becoming as distant and fixed as the story of the soldiers who fought the Persian fleet at Salamis more than 2,000 years earlier.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jun/21/fiction

Here you can find an interview with the author of the novel, Javier Cercas:

https://theconversation.com/coming-to-terms-with-the-past-the-puzzling-politics-of-memory-6841

Those of you interested in academic analyses about the novel can find several references under Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=soldiers+of+salamina&btnG=

https://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=soldiers+of+salamis&btnG=

by Carol Cairney

Meet Giulia Bottoloni - EUROSUD Int Master Student - Internship

#𝗺𝘆𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗨𝗗𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 @ Fundación Cruz Blanca

Hello Giulia here! I'm a student of the EUROSUD Masters programme. I chose EUROSUD because I wanted to broaden my knowledge of the Euro-Mediterranean region and its contemporary challenges. This Master also allowed me to explore the topics I am most interested in, namely migration and gender equality from an intercultural perspective. My pathway allowed me to study at the University of Glasgow, the University of Athens and Aix-Marseille. This challenging and enriching programme helped me build an international and multidisciplinary background that led me to the internship I am doing now.

I am doing an internship at Fundación Cruz Blanca, a Spanish NGO specialized in human rights protection and integration of populations at risk of being marginalized. Since February, I have been supporting the implementation of an EU project aimed at improving the detection and identification of minors and young adult victims of human trafficking, together with other 3 partner organizations in Italy, France and Belgium. I would like to continue to work in this environment and I am glad to have chosen this academic pathway that allowed me to explore it.

by Carol Cairney

International Master student Fernando Alejandro Remache Vinueza selected to speak at a Conference

Our International Master student, Fernando Alejandro Remache Vinueza, from Spain, has been selected to speak at the 13th Annual History Graduate conference: Constructing History Through the Prism of Perspective, Identity, and Memory (virtual) at the University of Northern Illinois (USA) to be held on 9 April 2021.

Fernando will discuss, “The Official Narrative of National Identity and the Emergence of Silenced Narratives: The Case of Lithuania”.

Here is the full programme: HGSA Conference 2021 Program -corrected_compressed

Good luck with your talk Fernando!

by Carol Cairney