On Wednesday, August 30 at 16:XNUMX p.m. in the SUM of the Lecture Room of the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, the conference "Disappearance and death: Memory between hate speech and denialism" will be held by Dora Barrancos
This activity is organized jointly by the Human Rights Area of the UNR and the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations and takes place within the framework of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, date that is commemorated annually every August 30 since 2011 by resolution of the United Nations Organization (UN).
Prior to the Conference of the renowned sociologist, historian, educator and feminist researcher Dora Barrancos and within the framework of the commemoration of this day, the Secretary of the Human Rights Area, Paula Contino, will present the Documentary Search Protocol for the Historical Reparation of members of the UNR University Community, victims of the illegal repressive actions of the Argentine State between 1968 and 1983, prepared and worked jointly with the Academic Council of Human Rights of the UNR.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the history of Latin America and the Caribbean was marked by state violence, repression, censorship, and the violation of Human Rights at the hands of the different military dictatorships in the region. Kidnappings, torture, murders and the forced disappearance of people were the recurring practices during the last civic-military-ecclesiastical-economic dictatorship that began in Argentina in 1976 and ended in 1983, years that brutally and forever marked the history of our country. During these years, forced disappearance was a planned and systematic practice that implied the deprivation of liberty against the will of individuals by government agents, organized groups, or individuals acting on behalf of the de facto government, and the denial of communication the whereabouts of illegally detained persons.
Since the democratic recovery and while the Human Rights Organizations continued the search for detained-disappeared persons demanding Memory, Truth and Justice, denialist and hate speech circulated in the public space. To this day, this phenomenon continues and materializes with the different manifestations of denial, relativization and justification of crimes against humanity committed during the last dictatorship. The deliberate misrepresentation of the acts of state terrorism and crimes against humanity committed seeks to maintain impunity for the perpetrators, trivialize what happened and pursues the objective of eliminating the Memory as a guarantee of non-repetition to project "legitimacy" in the present. .
The Human Rights Area of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario will carry out this instance of reflection and debate together with Dr. Dora Barrancos in order to commemorate this day. The forced disappearances of people left a deep intergenerational mark of pain, absences and searches in our society and in the institutions that comprise it, including public universities. Likewise, the Area assumes the responsibility of continuing and deepening the reparation process for those who suffered in their bodies the violations of Human Rights carried out during the state terror in our community and the family members, colleagues and friends of the victims of forced disappearance.