CULTURAL MEMORIES AND DISPUTES OVER THE PAST. SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTIONS AROUND VIOLENCE FROM RECENT HISTORY AND GENDER STUDIES IN THE AMERICAS
Memory constitutes a territory in constant dispute. This symposium examines how various individual and collective actors—particularly from non-hegemonic, official or subaltern perspectives—engage in struggles over the meanings of the past in the face of the multiple forms of violence that have marked Latin America. Through this axis, it analyzes the critical visions of conflicting pasts and presents that emerge from a diversity of material, visual and textual supports, which reconstruct local histories, memorial disputes and intersectional demands.
Throughout the panel, the papers engage in dialogue on the experiences of creation, production and circulation of cultural memories in countries of the region. The works are situated in a transdisciplinary manner, drawing on the conceptual approaches of recent history, memory studies, and gender perspectives in the region.
The central purpose is to examine the symbolic resistances and the aesthetic, editorial and community practices activated by these memories to represent the past in scenarios of conflict, censorship and state or gender-based repression. Thus, the symposium offers a comprehensive view of how the materiality of culture becomes a vehicle for counter-memory, reparation, and demands for justice on the continent.
