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Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall

Lecture by Gina Herrmann on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall

Hundreds of thousands of Spanish women who fled Spain after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) spent the years of World War II in France.

Thousands of these women, whose political activism from the 1930s continued in the fight against the German occupation of France, joined units of the French Resistance. What kinds of work did Spanish and French women perform together to resist Fascism? What were the consequences of this work? How did they interact with their male comrades during a period of great social upheaval?

Gina Herrmann, associate professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon, is a specialist on the long anti-Fascist resistance of Spaniards. In her lecture she will discuss how Spanish exiles — especially communist and anarchist women — contributed to the French Resistance, and how they often suffered from the deadly consequences of their commitments.

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Spanish Department

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Lauren Gladu
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