Francesc Torres Francesc Torres, one of Spain’s most internationally renowned conceptual artists, was in residence at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center during the Spring 2006 semester. He taught a graduate course in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Museum Studies titled The Art of Memory and the Representation of History, which focused on contemporary art and historical memory, with an emphasis on installation art and the memory of the Spanish Civil War. He also gave the 2006 ALBA/Bill Susman Lecture on the topic The Retrieval of Memory in Contemporary Spain. This lecture took place on May 16, 2006 at the Instituto Cervantes.
Andrés Soria Olmedo Andrés Soria Olmedo (Universidad de Granada, Spain) held the King Juan Carlos Chair in the Fall of 2006. This distinguished scholar from Spain participated in the symposium The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain and in panels in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and at the Instituto Cervantes. Professor Soria Olmedo holds the Federico García Lorca Chair at the University of Granada, Spain and is a world renowned expert in study of the work of Federico García Lorca and the ‘Generación del 27’. He is the author of numerous books, articles and prologues and has been a visiting professor to UCLA.
ACADEMIC . KING JUAN CARLOS CHAIR
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