Social Science Research Council

In November 1998, two dozen researchers convened at the Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana (CLAEH) in Montevideo, Uruguay, to assess the state of research on societal memory in the Southern Cone and to help shape the SSRC Program on Collective Memory.

Eight commissioned papers were debated, and revised versions are being prepared for publication in a multi-volume series that will begin to appear in 2002. Based on the discussions in Montevideo, it was decided to focus the field research of the first cohort of fellows on issues related to conflict over commemorative sites and dates of memory. In this context, the scope of sites refers both to those that are sanctioned and legitimized officially and those that are recognized informally by societal actors (symbols, statues, museums, archives, place names, cultural objects, etc.).

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