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• 25 nov 2017

  Madrid

  Summer School - History

  The presence of the absent: History, memory, post-memory

  Europe-Latin America, 20th-21st centuries

  If History as a discipline evokes the past from the present, the activity of memory is the product of the eruption of the past in the present. The absent is made present according to this phenomenological difference, although this distinctive mark is not what has sparked the reaction of historiography. This workshop aims to delve into the links and differences between history and memory in order to approach new issues that allow us to reflect on historians’ activity in democratic societies where the past has ceased to be a monopoly of professional representation.

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