Agenda

In recent decades, there has been an ongoing and fertile debate surrounding the various disciplinary approaches and conceptual frameworks proposed within the vast landscape of Social History.
Space can be characterized as the site of processes, practices and spatializations that create identities based on social relations. Visual culture, for its part, is a material producer of imaginaries and narratives from a plurality that points to both the popular and the exclusionary. Meanwhile, gender, as a historical process, structures and produces meaning for the sexes and their differences. At the same time, trauma studies provide a means of understanding the effect of fear on human experience and its relationship with the interpretation of memory and resilience, both individual and collective. Finally, trauma approaches converge with the study of memory and human rights in the context of historical reparation and the various commissions that rule it.
The interdependence of these fields of study has shaped more inclusive perspectives for examining the past, both complexifying and renewing traditional approaches to historical research and interpretation, particularly in periods such as the Cold War. By studying space and visual culture in terms of their place in society from the perspective of women, men and sexual diversities vis-à-vis the sensibilities of trauma, memory and the past, we seek to identify commonalities and particularities to each local reality during this extended period, with special emphasis on social actors and their forms of agency.
Moreover, in order to deepen the relational character of these factors of study, in connection with the profound processes of transformation that have occurred in the societies of Latin America this conference invites an exploration of political, social and economic expressions of power vis-à-vis the practice of space and visual culture during the Cold 
War. The aim is to engage in a dialogue on ways of approaching the historical problem and understanding it from a transnational perspective. Transnationality is proposed here as a local expression rather than as a translatable experience of Eurocentric and/or north-imperialist origin.
The conference proposes to explore critical examinations of this historical period from a transdisciplinary perspective in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Uruguay.