Abstract

Over the past decades, memory has come to be formed in a privileged ground of analysis and academic debate. Important works have focused the  dynamics established between history and memory and the latter is shown as having been formed in a significant area of dispute and  fruitful field of investigation. This roundtable will discuss the theme of memory and the issues associated with it - its political uses, how it has acquired materiality and meaning in the contemporary world, its potential as a historical source - from two works recently translated into Portuguese: Enzo Traverso, O passado, modos de usar (2012, unipop) [Passé, mode d'emploi : Histoire, mémoire, politique, 2005, La Fabrique, Paris] and Alessandro Portelli, A morte de Luigi Trastulli e outros ensaios. Ética, Memória e Acontecimento na História Oral (2013, unipop) [The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (State University of New York Press, 1991)].

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Interveners:  Rui Bebiano; António Sousa Ribeiro, João Paulo Avelãs Nunes (FLUC/CEIS20). Moderator:  José Neves (FCSH/IHC)


Organization: Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group (NHUMEP), 25th April Centre of Documentation (CD25A) and Unipop

Coordenationo: Miguel Cardina e Rui Bebiano