Ona Bantjes-Ràfols
Candidate, M.A. History
| Degrees: | B.A. Hons. (Concordia University) |
| Email: | onabantjesrafols@carleton.ca |
Current Program (including year of entry): MA in History, Specialization in Digital Humanities (2020)
Supervisor:
Academic Interests:
Oral history, queer history, memory, space, digital mapping.
Select Publications and Current Projects:
Written publications:
“Memories of a second generation: exile, identity and the Spanish Civil War”. Oral History 49, no. 1 (2021): 93-103.
“Levelling the Playing Field: Humour in the Zoom University”. Co-written with the students of HIST 5210. Active History. December 16, 2020. http://activehistory.ca/2020/12/levelling-the-playing-field-humour-in-the-zoom-university/.
“What Neutrality Leaves Out and Analysis Gives Back: Newspapers in 1977 and Nosotrxs Somos (2018-2019) on Spain’s First Gay Rights March”. Historiae: the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of History, Volume 18 (2020): 189-225. https://www.shac.online/.
“Silence and Memory: Girlhood in the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath”. Historiae: the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of History, Volume 16 (2018): 105-132. https://www.shac.online/2018.
Exhibits:
Locating Queer Memories: A Digital Map of LGBTQ History in Barcelona, 1970-1980. https://arcg.is/0XmPzi.
Locating Queer Memories: A Map of LGBTQ History in Barcelona, 1970-1980, exhibited at the Department of History at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, January 10-31, 2020.
Select Conference Contributions:
“Mapa de memorias: creación de un mapa digital de la Barcelona queer de los 70”, abstract presented April 14, 2021 at Tercer Congreso Internacional Género y sexualidad en las culturas hispánicas: Memorias, espacios y disidencias, Universitat de Lleida, online conference.
“Intersections: Digital Humanities and Historical Research”, roundtable discussion March 12, 2021 at 27th Annual Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, Carleton University, online conference.
“Displaced Memories: Exile Through the Eyes of a Second Generation,” abstract presented March 30, 2019 at History in the Making Graduate Conference at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
“Historical Memory of the Spanish Civil War”, paper presented March 16, 2019 at HEART/SOULS Conference at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Women’s and Gender History (P. Kmiec), Fall 2020
Teaching Assistant, France since 1889 (S. Whitney), Winter 2021
Description of Research:
This Master’s project is a study of queer life and activism in Barcelona in the 1970s which centres space and memory. Oral history and mapping methods will be used to research this history and to interrogate what defines a space as queer on a personal level. The project will also add to memory work being done in Barcelona to build inter-generational lines of communication and learning, through both digital and in-person public outcomes.