Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa for her career and work in favor of peace, justice and the defense of human rights, especially the right to Identity.
La Universidad Nacional de Rosario awarded the highest title to Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit during an event chaired by the Rector Franco Bartolacci, the deans of the Faculty of Medical Sciences Jorge Molinas, of Psychology Soledad Cottone and in which Estela de Carlotto, members of Abuelas de Plaza participated virtually de Mayo and family of the honoree.
“When institutions decide to recognize someone, what they want to be, the principles and values on which they are sustained, is revealed. In Rosa there is a testimony of life, struggle and commitment that mobilizes our university community and challenges us. This recognition is a caress from the Public University that unanimously endorsed this intention and that is manifested in this institutional but also political academic act”, said Rector Franco Bartolacci.
On behalf of the entire UNR community, Bartolacci thanked him from the bottom of his heart "for that enormous courage, because in the relentless darkness, a horror that seemed eternal to us, always in its fight, could be light." He also thanked him “for his integrity and above all his example, which has made his struggle and that of all Grandmothers more exemplary than anyone else. For those who have violated all possible norms, for those who promoted death, they never demanded revenge but truth.
The Rector highlighted that due to her life testimony, “she is a worthy daughter of our house. She has carried the banner of the principles and values of our University high throughout her life. On behalf of our entire community, thank you. Excited and proud, I formally welcome you to the faculty of the UNR”.
The dean of the Faculty of Psychology Soledad Cottone maintained that "memory and oblivion are not neutral fields, quite the contrary, they are battlefields where collective identity is modeled" and added: "We come from a hegemonic culture that appropriates the symbolic violence of the past and that composes from there demands towards the present in which many facts have been silenced and others are mitigated”. In this sense, she considered that awarding this title "is a recognition against so much silence, erasure of history, an act that is born as a symbol, inscribes memory and changes our present."
Cottone highlighted the unique aspect of Rosa also being a midwife. “Like a stitch in our history, she has given birth to thousands of our comrades whom we encounter in this search for identity.” She also thanked her, both as a generation and for being part of H.I.J.O.S.: “For us, in this tragedy, the possibility of having our grandmothers is a defining moment, a point of vindication. Today, it is an honor to have you as an Honorary Doctor of the…”