II Robert Capa Conference to Aitona

Next November 4th and 5th, Aitona will celebrate the second edition of the Robert Capa Conference.

Some days of training and didactic dissemination on, in any case, will also include the photo-journalistic part of Robert Capa a Aitona.

The Republican Offensive

The Franco troops arrived in Baix Segre at the end of March 1938 and established the front along the entire length of the river with a cap on the Seròs bridge, on the left bank of the Segre.

Robert Capa

The fact that Robert Capa documented the first day of the battle will serve to continue explaining the state of the civil war in Spain in an impactful way.

PROGRAM

Day 4

10.30 Conference: “Evolution of war journalism in history since the 1930s”

Around Paloma Aznar. Writer, filmmaker and journalist. Correspondent to the Iraq War in 2003 and 7 times in Palestinian territories. (Plens hall of the Aitona town hall)

12.30 Taula Rodona: ”The images, the news and the history”

Moderated by Anna Sàez, director of the newspaper Segre, and with the participation of Joan-Ramon González, Quintí Casals and Josep Ignasi Rodriguez with historians and Anna Surinyach and Paloma Aznar with photo-journalists and Laura Alcalde with president of the board of the College of Journalists in the Lleida district. (Plens room of the Aitona town hall)

Day 5

10.30 to 13.00 Historical Recreation

Led by the Historical Recreation Group “Ejército del Ebro” and “Historical Recreation and Heritage Together”

10:30 Guided tour of the Robert Capa route

A càrrec de l'historian Joan-Ramon González. Price €5 per person. Registrations on mateix day

12.00 Trench songs

In charge of Ramon Redorta

Punt de trobada: La Serrabrisa