kinds-such as univer itie , independent academic centers and activist organization . An evolving program A November 1998 meeting [ ee p. 22] at Centro Latinoamericano de Economia Humana (CLAEH) in Montevideo, Uruguay, brought together an international group of approximately 20 re earcher to di cu the tate of cholar hip on collective memory in the Southern Cone and to help in the de ign of the training component of the program. Several participant will remain as ociated with the project a contributing faculty in training eminar and/or a academic advi or to the project and to program fellow . While the program will continue to evolve, training expected to focu on enabling fellow to: a) trace proce e of intergenerational and intercohort tran mi ion of memorie and of truggle about the meaning of individual and collective trauma ; b) reveal di tinct "layer" of memorie (Jelin and Kaufman, 1999). Dictator hip typically attempt to erase previou identitie and to fo ter oblivion, but recognizing the e era ure doe not imply going back to the pa t. In thi en e, identitie inevitably reflect the violence and oblivion that ha been inflicted on diver e layer of memorie ; c) analyze the ubjective dimen ion of memory: victimization, re entment and blame on the part of tho e who con ider them elve and are defined by other as' victim" (an identity that mu t it elf be decon tructed); guilt and complicity, at time hame and repentance, on the part of the "guilty." Here it i e ential to analyze how the trajectorie of both of the e group are haped by official policie, uch a tho e of pardon and reconciliation, which have typically been applied in the Southern Cone; and d) explore linkage between the public and private phere . Analy i of truggle over public commemoration require en itivity to the meaning that different political and ocial actor give to the experience of repre ion. The e ta k will be a umed by program fellow ,
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1999
working under the upervi ion of an international team of faculty led by M Jelin. Nineteen junior re earcher -15 from the Southern Cone and 4 from the United State -took part in an initial training work hop held in La Lucila del Mar, Argentina, during the fir t two week of March 1999. Sub equently they will carry out empirical ca e tudie de igned to illuminate orne of the i ue outlined above. A econd training work hop, cheduled for the fir t two week of December 1999, will provide an occa ion to critique draft paper and for further methodological training. The fellow are: Argentina Ana Laura Pereyra, Facultad de Ciencias Sociale , Univeridad de Bueno Aire Silvia Ine Jen en, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca Laura Cecilia Mombello, Facultad de Ciencia de la Educacion, Universidad Nacional del Comahue Federico Guillermo Lorenz, Facultad de Filo offa y Letra , Univer idad de Bueno Aire Claudia Viviana Feld, Universidad de Bueno Aire y la Univer idad del Centro de la Provincia de Bueno Aire
Brazil Simone Dubeux Berardo Carneiro da Cunha, In tituto de Filo offa e Ciencias Sociale , Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Ludmila da Silva Catela, In tituto de Filo offa e Ciencia Sociai , Univer idade Federal de Rio de Janeiro Samarone Lima de Oliveira, Univer idade de Sao Paulo Valdenia Brito Monteiro, Universidade Cat6lica de Pernambuco
Chile Claudia Rojas Mira, Con ejo Nacional de Poblaci6n Azun Candina Polomer, Centro de E tudio del De arrollo Marco Antonio En ignia Zapata, Divi i6n de Organizacione Sociale, Mini terio Secretarfa General de Gobierno Ximena Tocornal Montt, In tituto de la Mujer, Centro de E tudio Municipale Cordillera, In tituto Latinoamericano de Salud Mental y Derecho Humano
Paraguay Myrian Angelica Gonzalez Vera, Centro de Documentaci6n y E tudio
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