Events & Announcements

Workshop "Archives and dictatorships: present time and perspectives"
1 October 2007
Buenos Aires, 


Memoria Abierta organized in Buenos Aires the workshop "Archivos y Dictaduras: Actualidad y Perspectivas" (Archives and dictatorships: present time and perspectives), where we dealt with the need of protecting and giving extensive access to the Human Rights documentary patrimony and exchanged experiences about the management and accessibility of Human Rights violations documents. Antonio González Quintana, Spanish philosopher and archivist,  Roberto Pittaluga, historian and founder member of CeDInCI and Mariana Nazar, historian and archivist from the Argentinean National General Archive, lead the opening panel followed by a cocktail offered by the Chancellor on the Chancellors House.

Argentinean Human Rights Documentary Patrimony is now part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program. This workshop was a space to reflect not only in how to preserve Human Rights archives, but also in determining their accessibility according to rational and well-funded criteria.

Several archives and non-governmental public organizations from Buenos Aires, Chubut, Santa Fe, Chaco, Mendoza, Jujuy, Tucumán, Chile and Paraguay attended.

The information about the workshop is available in Spanish from this link.


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                    Memoria Abierta