Rui Gomes Coelho, Ph.D., Brown University
- When: December 4, 2019 at Noon
- Where: Allen House, 2 Solomont Way, Lowell, MA, UMass Lowell South Campus
- Parking: in the Wilder Lot, at the corner of Wilder and Broadway streets.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
After the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), groups of anti-Francoist guerrillas took refuge in the hills of Galicia, Spain, and along the border with Trás-os-Montes, Portugal. When the Portuguese and Spanish dictatorships sent the military to hunt down the insurgents throughout the 1940s, the villagers of places such as Repil, Lugo and Cambedo, Chaves were persecuted, sent to jail, and stigmatized for several decades. The lecture examines the battles of Cambedo (1946) and Repil (1949), and contextualizes them in the larger process of rural resistance to state formation, and border enforcement in the north of Portugal and central Galicia.
Rui Gomes Coelho, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and the Ancient World at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. He is also Researcher at UNIARQ—Center for Archaeology—at the University of Lisbon.
A lecture presented by The Saab Center for Portuguese Studies and the UMass Lowell Department of History.
More Information
For more information, call the Saab Center by phone at: 978-934-5199 or email: Natalia_Melo@uml.edu.