 Hello, good afternoon everybody! My name is Carlos Vicente, I'm the Director of the Ethnological Museum and Cultures of the World. First of all I would like to thank you for having accepted our invitation to participate in today's and tomorrow's debates. I would also like to thank the Eurom, which is represented by Jordi Guichet here, sitting next to me, because they've been working together with us for three and a half years. And I especially want to congratulate and thank Celeste Muñoz, who is here with us. To my left, Fernanda Sanucci, who I think is also present in the room from Communication and Riccardo, because they are the ones who have been working on the organization and the program, and thanks to all the members of the team of the museum who actively participate in other for us. Welcome in order for us to be here celebrating the third edition, the third international seminar. I think this meeting has been consolidated and every year we've been celebrating these seminars for the past three years and this is because we are dealing with very important and necessary aspects, which talk about our past and talk also about the role played by museums as such. And I think it's also important for all the members of society as a whole. In this third international seminar we are not as close to explicit subjects that we deal with political and legal aspects related to resolution and the debt that we all had post-colonial debt. And this time we wanted to talk about experiences which are happening all over the world, which can be good examples of how we can develop a specific task in a different way compared to previous ways or previous aspects. In this museum we've been working with this objective, and maybe slower than we wish, visitors and those who work inside the museum. But recently we've been able to actively participate in this project that will be explained later, the Traficants Research Project, and we've also been able to create some relationships and bonds from the Department of Collections with the Benin Digital Project and the Mac Museum of Hamburg. And of course what they are doing is an inventory of the different pieces coming from Benin that were exfoliated and scavenged from their origin places. And also another international collaboration return, cultural heritage, which comes from the Aboriginal Studies Museum. And as you know, and as you know, let me explain it to you, it seems that this collection has one of the most important collections in Europe, just by coincidence. Some years ago we organized an exhibition about this subject and they quickly contacted us and we are mainly giving them information about the Australian heritage outside of the country. From an internal perspective, in our museum we're very much involved in revisiting the different documents and the fund funds from Guinea, because we think that this is one of the funds that can be revisited from a critical perspective and non-eurocentric perspective. Also, at the same time, we are preparing a protocol together with the ICOM and the International Congress of Museums about the withdrawal of human remains from the permanent exhibition. There are some, not many, but there are some and therefore we want to withdraw those materials and we want to do it by following a public protocol, which will be explaining how this process is going to take place. All these initiatives that we are trying to develop and these seminars help us to continue and to keep learning and improving and therefore I think that it's very interesting that we can continue to organize seminars such as this one. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you very much. I look forward to listening to your comments and questions and now give the floor to Mr. Jordi Guichet. Thank you very much. Thank you, Carlos. I'm very happy to be here with all of you once again and together with the colleagues from the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona, together with Carlos Celeste, as commissioner and organizer, scientific organizer of the seminar, Ricardo and Fernanda, Silvia Palá and the interpreting team for their excellent task and their collaboration in many of the things that we do from the Eurom and I think this is a permanent and constant source of work. It's a bit uncomfortable to talk about colonizing, decolonizing the collections and colonial memory, public space, things that we've been dealing with here and also in other seminars and conferences. In this sense, 15 days ago, this new law of historic memory of the Spanish state with the secretary of the Spanish state decided and this is just one additional step. It's not a huge success, but at least part of the text and also in the international meetings within the framework of the Spanish presidency. We have a very interesting round table with participants coming from the international defense of the memory of slavery, exchanging collections among museums and all these memories which are uncomfortable for the public memories of our countries, not for researchers of course, people who are doing an excellent work. I would also like to thank Fundació Solidaritat, together with the Eurom, we collaborate with CEL and the Observatory of Daily Life that we've been working on these different subjects. Let me highlight that this is more or less part of our agenda and very sceptic. Those of you who know me, I'm becoming more and more sceptical as far as the legislation of the memorial. Now we can already say that we are always comparing in the media that in Spain the situation was compared to Cambodia etc., but we can say that in Spain with the memory laws and state laws, this is the country with more legal regulations and the country that most executes them and this is reason why and I'm saying that because we've been reflecting on this and it's true we have been reflecting from an expert point of view and also people who have been behind this legislation, promoting this legislation. There are many entities, some of them are present here, that have also introduced all the subjects related to colonial memory in the new law of democratic memory in the Spanish state. Not so many the Catalan one, that it's still being debated, it will be quite useless, magnificent text, but we all have magnificent text as part of our libraries, but this is not executed, there is no public policy, no budget to develop all these issues which are somehow uncomfortable and require will from a budgetary perspective in order to invest and develop all these policies. In any case, this is another step forward. I don't want to be very negative, but the truth is that we have many texts and many of those and the international situation following the different crisis happening in Europe and the southeast of Europe, Ukraine of course and now Palestine and the Gaza Strip, but also within our malaise we don't take a step forward and we are not bold enough to apply these resolutions that are just a legislative text, but we hope that there are further possibilities to develop. Without further ado, from a more local perspective I think that it's important to continue this collaboration between this European Observatory of Memory and the Foundation Solidaritat of the University of Barcelona together with the Municipality of Barcelona, Carlos and the people of the Ethnological Museum here. The task starts at least the reflections will start today. It's very important to have a comparative model of comparative memories and legislations in other states and this is more or less what the commissioner of the curator of these conferences will explain knowing before acting. This is a very typical issue and typical problem but many of us first try to learn from this history and policies of memory, all these processes of museography and let's think about how to do it. What can we do with whom and remains? What can we do and what other museums are doing when they apply these contemporary policies and they related to a forgotten past that has to be repaired? I don't know how this is going to be repaired. Besides the legislation which is quite symbolic the best way to repair the past is how do we show to contemporary society that thanks to many has many values although many of these values are in crisis. Well that's all I wanted to say congratulations and I hope these debates are very fruitful. I now give the floor to sell who will explain the content of both days. Well thank you very much, George D. I want to be a bit more optimistic and I hope that today's and tomorrow's seminars will offer us tools and reflection in order to evaluate all these problems and in fact this is what we have been doing in the most recent edition so this is the third one. So first of all I would like to thank the welcome by the Ethnological Museum, this seminar and previous museums which have allowed us to provide continuity to this seminar called Repairing the Past, the Foundation Solidarity of the European Observatory of Memories, Ricard, Fernanda and all the technical team of the Ethnological Museum which is also actively participating in all the roundtables. Let me tell you about the content of our sessions today and tomorrow. Today's session today is dedicated to the experiences through this heritage in conflict at the Ethnological Museum here through this project called Traficants that Alberto López Bargados who is the main researcher will explain, will frame the content of this project, the objectives and this is a project that will carry out a project of traceability of many collections of museums in Catalonia but working mainly from the Ethnological Museums and then some of the first results of this project which is the presentation of these intercultural dialogue workshops and out of this experience we will listen to Saray Martin, Yusramoneda, Yusef El Maimuni and Monserrat Angano, moderated by Leida Memba. Tomorrow's session let me tell you about a bit of changes, important changes that we had suffered due to causes and expected causes with very little room for maneuver so we had to gather the roundtable that was conceived to provide voice to representatives of different museums of Terburén, America de Madrid and Museum of Cologne and finally this session will be hybrid because some of the speakers have not been able to come and in Jackie Maneke cannot participate representing the Museum of Terburén and Bartowry will do it tomorrow online. Nadej Desnaub will not be able to join due to an unexpected problems and Clemena Meca also had a problem and he will be connecting online so the session will be hybrid and all the speakers that had to participate in the roundtable even if we had to introduce some changes they will be able to develop tomorrow's session that was conceived about the experiences from different institutions, what has happened with this institution, what has happened and the more international comparable perspective with the local context and to be able to complete today's session which is much more centered in the Ethnological Museum and this project called Traficants.