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THE RESIDENCIA TODAY

On June 12, 1986, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) gave back to the Residencia de Estudiantes its name in a solemn but simple ceremony, which was attended by numerous former residents. Alberto Jiménez Fraud’s dream that he had pursued in exile was fulfilled 22 years after his death.

Since then, the Residencia, guided by the spirit that inspired it in the past, works in two areas:

• To recover and spread its intellectual tradition, which it shared with the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios, the Institución Libre de Enseñanza and their centers, and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, a tradition that belongs to the great cultural period prior to the Civil War.
• And to promote the dialogue between science and art, as well as the critical reflection on education and contemporary culture, an international meeting place dedicated to the debate related to creativity and innovation.

Currently, the Residencia has assembled in its Documentation Center a valuable collection of archival material on the Spanish culture of the Silver Age and organizes many public activities (exhibitions, concerts, poetry readings, book presentations, conferences, and congresses). It publishes the results of its various projects as catalogs and books, and on its website: (www.edaddeplata.org). In addition, it hosts each year about 4,000 researchers and artists from all over the world, along with with the group of young talented Spanish and Latin American recipients of its scholarship program.

In 2007, the Residencia was designated as a European Heritage Site.