Historical Memory in gender key: La llum d’Elna

Staring with the proyection of the film La llum d’Elna of Silvia Quer, we will connect the emblematic Maternitat d’Elna with the Maternitat de Les Corts through the Street dedicated to Elisabeth Eidenbez. The claim that Alexia Medici makes of this Street on the Exterior | Interior, connect with the actions to recover the memory of women through toponymy that are taking place in different cities.

This will be followed by a discussion on the links between the two maternity hospitals and on the role that the Les Corts complex had in the neighborhood during the Civil War (and over time). We will have Silvia Quer, director of the fil, Asummplta Montellà, autor of the book La maternitat d’Elna, on which the fil is bades, and Eva Gimeno, co-author of La casa de Maternitat i Expòsits: les Corts.

Silvia Quer (Barcelona, 1962) film and televisión director, has directed highly successful productions such as Poble Nou (1994), Febrer (2004) and La dona del segle (2018). In 2018 it was awarded the Gaudí for best fil for televisión with The light of Elna  (2017).

Assumpta Montellà (Mataró, 1958) is a historian and writer, autor of the books El setè camió. El tresor perdut de la Republica (2007), El silenci dels talers (2012) and his first book, La Maternitat d’Elna (2005).

Eva Gimeno (Barcelona) historian, studied art history at Universitat de Barcelona (1984-1989). Co-author together with Raül Aguilar, Montserrat Carbonell and Josep Montiel of the book La casa de Maternitat i Expòsits: les Corts.