15.10.2024
18:30
Erfurt
Renato Cymbalista: Carving out Memory and Heritage in São Paulo, Brazil
The lecture will introduce issues related to memory and heritage in São Paulo, Brazil. The city and the country entered the 21st century under a quite traditional approach concerning heritage and memory. Essentially, theory, practice and tools were very much based upon the traditional instruments of inventory and listing that had been carved out in the 1930s when IPHAN, the national office for heritage, was created. But in the last two decades an amazing updating is taking place: heritage and memory nowadays are diverse, disseminated and multicenter fields. This development took place due to the contact of activists and bureaucrats with experiences in different cities and countries, a renewal of public policies and practices, and the overtaking of memory as a central subject by activistas and social movements. University is having a pivotal role in the renovation of the field, […]
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