Área de publicaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades

Towards a Philosophy of the Present

Constanza San Pedro — 2025-10-24

Anniversaries are often an occasion to reinterpret the lives and journeys of those who have left their mark on us, and Michel Foucault is a thinker whose reflections and intellectual practices in Argentina and around the world continue to influence our own. For this reason, and 40 years after his death, we are interested in promoting a dialogue about how Foucault influenced our practice as creators of and within philosophy. He touched us in terms of how he influenced our thinking, our production, our keys to reading the world; and he touched us through the historical moment, through teachers who brought us closer to his work and the possibilities of inquiring into his thinking.
This publication constitutes a possible dialogue, perhaps not always manifest, between people who were trained in the sometimes permeable margins of academic philosophy. It is the beginning of a timeless conversation that, in the act of making these discussions public, brings together readings on the power of Foucault's thought. In these troubled times, we call for the creation of this book as a document of our era, an attempt at intergenerational dialogue. In these pages, we invite you to be moved by situated, critical, seasoned thinking. By reflections that open doors, build disciplinary bridges, and escape certain normative frameworks that circumscribe ascetic philosophical practice.

Proceedings of the Third International Conference: Linguistic Rights as Human Rights

Sofía De Mauro — 2025-10-20

This book aims to bring the discussions held at the Third International Conference: Linguistic Rights as Human Rights in Latin America to both the general and specialized public. We know that language studies have played a central role in the processes of minorization with their control policies and through the establishment of purist ideas about language and languages in common sense. Aware of this, this publication brings together many of those exchanges whose common thread is a critical view of our own work in the social sciences and humanities, as well as the notions and conceptualizations that come into play in our disciplines.

Readings of Kafka, a century later

Gustavo Giovannini — 2025-10-03

In his Diaries, Kafka refers to the “impossible abundance” of his own work as a way of pointing out the infinite bifurcations it offers. Chaotic and fleeting lines intertwine in the map of an unclassifiable author who today reaffirms his significance more than ever. Whether from Canetti's experiential approach, through the contributions of Hannah Arendt—who, through a “Kafkaesque poetic reason,” finds the hint of creative spontaneity at its highest expression—to the Deleuzian reading where literature becomes a power conceived in its own language to make it implode, Kafka's texts elude the interpretive power of the moment and move toward a realm free of intentions.

Book of Abstracts | VII National Congress of Zooarchaeology Argentina

Andrés D. Izeta — 2025-09-29

Since 2008, national Zooarchaeology conferences have established themselves as a forum for discussion, networking, and dissemination of scientific work dedicated to zooarchaeological analysis in Argentina and other Latin American countries. Previous venues were: Malargüe (2008), Olavarría (2011), Tilcara (2013), Ushuaia (2016), Catamarca (2019), and La Plata (2022). This time, the venue will be the Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba (CONICET-UNC), the Museum of Anthropology, and the Department of Anthropology of the FFyH of the UNC.

The topics include theoretical, methodological, and technical aspects applied in both qualitative and quantitative archaeofaunal studies. This covers taphonomy and the processes of zooarchaeological record formation, the intensification of animal resource exploitation, species extinction, and domestication. It also explores the complementarity in the use of different environments or taxa, morphometric studies, determination of age profiles, and bone pathologies. In addition, topics such as diet (isotopes), recent and ancient DNA, and changes in human-animal relationships, among many others, are addressed.

Missing persons from Tumbaya

Ludmila da Silva Catela — 2025-09-22

Tumbaya is a small village in the Quebrada de Humahuaca with 526 inhabitants. Between August and December 1976, life in Tumbaya was disrupted by a series of repressive operations, kidnappings, and disappearances perpetrated by military and police forces. This publication is based on anthropological research and includes excerpts from interviews in which family members recount the detention and disappearance of their loved ones. It also incorporates testimonies from the Trial for Crimes Against Humanity/Tumbaya Case, as well as photographs and other documents belonging to the private archives of the families of these disappeared persons. Collective memories are constructed to sustain bonds, affections, and communities, but also to break the silences imposed by state violence, such as that experienced in Argentina since the 1970s.

Youth sexual cultures: subjective reconfigurations between schools and digital environments

María Esteve — 2025-09-19

This book brings together some of the papers presented in 2024 at the symposium “Youth Sexual Cultures: Expectations, Interpellations, and New Mandates,” which was held as part of the 12th Interdisciplinary Meeting of Social and Human Sciences. Democratizing the Present: Epistemic Challenges, Political Interpellations. The meeting served to reflect on the tensions between democratizing dynamics, struggles for the expansion of rights, and disputes over recognition, in the face of authoritarian movements and neoconservative threats. It brought together diverse disciplinary perspectives, multiple territorial anchors, and varied research trajectories and intervention experiences to exchange views and critical discussions about the historical ruptures and continuities that shape the current scenario.

Reflections and methodological practices in Argentine geography

Luciana Buffalo — 2025-09-15

This collective book arises from the need for systematized materials on methodological challenges and debates in Argentine geography. It brings together contributions from teachers and researchers at public universities with experience in teaching geographical research methodology. The publication seeks to highlight the wealth of approaches, practices, and reflections present in our geographies, recovering experiences from a critical perspective. The chapters address epistemological dilemmas, methodological strategies, the use of geographic technologies, and pedagogical challenges in research training. It aims to contribute to the debate on the production of geographic knowledge, with an emphasis on the articulation between theory, method, and territory. The book is offered as a conceptual and didactic tool for those who research, teach, and learn in the field of geography and social sciences.

MALVINAS

Yanina Floridia — 2025-09-09

The book compiles the testimonies of five interviews conducted at the UNC Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities with protagonists of the war, in the context of a new anniversary of the start of the conflict, in an event called: ‘Malvinas bajo bandera’ (Malvinas under the flag), on 4 April 2024. The individuals who kindly accepted the invitation to be interviewed publicly by Yanina Floridia recount their memories of the war, their backgrounds, and the marks left on them by the conflict. They elaborate on their connection to the Armed Forces at the time of the conflict, their experiences and stories during the war, their perception of the mark it left on them, the post-war period, and the reasons that led them to join the groups they now belong to. The volume is completed with an introduction, a section on the perspective of the new generations, and a brief historical contextualisation.

1st Conference on Indigenous Geographies in Argentina Approaches, perspectives, and activism

Inés Rosso — 2025-09-02

This compilation brings together extended abstracts of the presentations, posters, and panels shared at the First Conference on Indigenous Geographies in Argentina: “Approaches, Perspectives, and Activism,” held in Córdoba on August 15 and 16, 2024. This event arose from the recognition that there is a growing political and territorial mobilization of indigenous, aboriginal, and native groups, peoples, and communities in Latin America or Abya Yala, who are fighting for greater autonomy and identity construction in contexts of invisibility, as well as demanding ancestral territorial rights in both urban and rural areas. Although some disciplines within the social sciences have been accompanying these processes, in Argentina they have not been central concerns for geography, although there is a growing body of research being developed in an isolated but sustained manner.

Philosophy of Science by Young Researchers

Agustín Mauro — 2025-09-01

The fifth volume of the publication “Philosophy of Science by Young Researchers” brings together articles presented at the 5th Conference of Young Researchers in Philosophy of Science, held in Córdoba in October 2023. The works and comments in the volume contribute to the objective of the JJIFC: to promote local philosophical production, among and for young researchers, on discussions situated in the vast field of philosophy of science. In this sense, both the Conference and the volume aim to strengthen our own construction of knowledge by broadening the horizons of the issues we have been investigating. In this volume, you will find works on general philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mathematics, and articles that are part of the dossier “Alfred North Whitehead and contemporary science.”

Those from the upside-down world. Unavoidable letters for everyone from prison

Nora Abelleira — 2025-08-29

In their unique interplay with space and time, in a context marked by confinement and irreversibility, letters reveal themselves as a powerful medium for rediscovering and giving voice to the entire web of relationships and words that weave together the world, where the intimate and the social, the secret and the public, passions and reason, testimony and fiction intersect. Where the threshold between the outside and the inside also intersects, not a boundary, but the edge that separates the two sides, heads and tails, front and back of the same thing. Those in the upside-down world inhabit the reverse of the right-side-up world and send letters to it.

Some schools have cities and others do not.

Ana Rapi — 2025-08-29

Every school has different stories, and ours has many that help us put down roots. We want to share them with you. Since 2022, we have been creating narratives about our daily life at school using different artistic and playful devices. In 2024, we worked with photographic records and decided to share, through this book, how we live each day and give you a little glimpse into our world, so you can imagine this space that is our territory and our landscape. When it comes to storytelling, we want to share two stories from our daily lives with you. These two stories are told as follows: What image would you use to show the school to someone who doesn't know it? (left side) and What is a whole day at school like? (right side). We tell these short stories through analog photographs. Analog? Yes, we also wondered what that was. So, we learned that they are photos that come inside a roll, that we have to choose carefully what we want to photograph because there are only a few, and then wait a long time to see them. Sometimes they don't turn out as we had imagined, we were told that it was because of the light, although that gives them a special touch.

The construction of Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology in his confrontation with Husserl

Daniele Petrella (pról) — 2025-08-20

This collection of texts offers an initial introduction to Martin Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology, studied in its gestation and formation based on an analysis of the very first academic courses taught by the young German professor at the University of Freiburg. The construction of a hermeneutic phenomenology takes shape as a conceptual laboratory in transformation, in which Heidegger, when establishing his philosophical proposal, confronts the greatest thinkers of his time, in particular Edmund Husserl, his teacher and father of contemporary phenomenology.

Arts and culture in Córdoba during the 1980s

Alejandra Soledad González — 2025-08-10

The book is aimed at readers interested in the cultural history of the recent past (HICUPARE). It focuses on the 1980s, a decade in which traces of the dictatorship coexisted with democratization initiatives. The six chapters offer insights into cases located in Córdoba, from which the study group on HICUPARE seeks to develop two objectives: a) to characterize certain practices deployed within the worlds of visual arts, music, and theater, which developed, on the one hand, significant local configurations and, on the other hand, networks with different territories in Argentina and abroad; b) to investigate processes of cultural objectification and subjectification, based on the reconstruction of the trajectories of certain artists and managers whose positions mixed categories of age, gender, social class, region, and aesthetic preferences.

Neoliberalism and social cohesion

Eduardo Rinesi (pról.) — 2025-07-31

This book aims to provide insights that help us understand some aspects of the rapid changes we are currently experiencing, in an unusual way and at an unprecedented speed. The collection of texts, with their varied perspectives and themes, seeks to reflect on different aspects of neoliberalism and its impact on the common good, based on an understanding of it as the growing advance of processes of fragmentation, division, and hierarchical social stratification, which tend toward the expansion and deepening of increasingly individualized subjectivities.

Nightlife

Gustavo Blázquez (ed.) — 2025-07-31

Although defining the city, nightlife was of little interest when it came to developing a social science that had it as its object. Much of urban sociology and anthropology focuses on social processes that occur in daylight, and when they focus on nighttime activities, such as music and dancing, “the night” appears as the backdrop for the practices being analyzed. This book delves into this area of vacancy when it takes night as a central phenomenon of human experience as its starting point. Throughout the text, a definition of night as a time without sunlight, linked to the rotation of the planet, is set aside in favor of a definition that emphasizes the spatial and relational dimension of people, things, and consumption.

August ritual

Cecilia Pacella — 2025-07-31

This poetry anthology is the result of the literary competition “Agosto Ritual, poemas a la Pacha” (August Ritual, poems to the Pacha) held in 2024 by the publishing house La Sofía Cartonera and the Environment, Societies, and Territories Program of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the National University of Córdoba. It brings together 36 poems dedicated to the Earth and its natural world, written by emerging authors who live in different parts of our country and neighboring countries. These works, written in various languages (Spanish, Quechua, Portuguese) and woven together through a diversity of poetic styles, form a polyphonic poetry anthology that allows us to explore multiple sensitive territories from particular emotional landscapes.

Books and their value in scientific evaluation

Alejandro Dujovne — 2025-07-03

In a world where metrics dominate scientific evaluation, this volume defends the value of books in the social sciences and humanities. It analyzes the challenges of evaluating them within the scientific system and proposes ways to revalue them as an essential tool in the production of knowledge. The authors address problems such as the lack of clear criteria, inbreeding in university presses, and the persistent tension between the publication of books and articles in indexed journals. With examples from Argentina and other countries, they offer a critical view along with concrete proposals for improving the scientific evaluation system.
This book is an invitation to rethink how knowledge is valued and to defend a scientific system that recognizes the diversity of forms of intellectual production. It is a key tool for researchers, publishers, and academic managers committed to science and culture.

This work is a co-publication of Eduvim (Villa María), the Publishing House of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC (Córdoba), Editorial Universitaria Siglo XXI, and the Publishing House of the Catholic University of Córdoba.

ESI and teacher training

Guadalupe Molina — 2025-06-30

This publication presents the findings of an ad hoc research team entitled “Implementation of ESI and mainstreaming of gender perspectives in teacher training in the humanities and social sciences,” which operated from mid-2022 to early 2024 with a national scope. The project was composed of individuals from five national universities (University of Buenos Aires, National University of Córdoba, National University of La Plata, National University of Cuyo, and National University of Rosario) who worked on issues related to ESI and teacher training through various research, teaching, and outreach projects. They set out to produce relevant knowledge about the implementation of ESI and the mainstreaming of gender perspectives in teacher training at national universities and teacher training institutes in the areas of humanities and social sciences.

The book of midterms. Experiences and stories about the practice and teaching of research in Urban Anthropology

María Victoria Díaz Marengo — 2025-06-27

The book of midterms brings together a series of ethnographic writing exercises produced in the field of urban anthropology in the context of undergraduate university education.

The interest of this publication systematically refers to the question of how to settle the schooled ways of relating to social knowledge in order to think about forms of systematic and methodical production, recognizing the centrality of those who practice ethnography on the path of reflexivity, but without rigidity. The principle that threads through the concerns expressed here is to enhance experiences in academic training and to introduce and accompany undergraduate students in the craft of research.

Filo in dictatorship

Laura Arese — 2025-06-25

The Argentine philosophical field was not indifferent to the last military dictatorship. Like so many other areas of culture, it was subject to censorship, persecution, disappearances, and exile, while at the same time becoming a space for the expression of certain voices that, with a spirit of refoundation, hoped to give philosophical depth to the military government's political project. The School of Philosophy at the National University of Córdoba is a case study that allows us to investigate how both processes transformed the way philosophy was produced and taught, particularly in the academic sphere. This volume offers an approach to this question, providing readers with a set of documents—most of them previously unpublished—relating to the institutional life of the School of Philosophy at the UNC during the period 1976-1980.

The pearl necklace. On the concept of style in contemporary literature

Francisco Salaris — 2025-06-16

The concept of style is part of formal and informal conversations about literature, but it is difficult to define it with theoretical precision. The articles in this book address the term, with its ambiguities and contradictions, understanding that it is a key component of literary modernity, fundamental to understanding the processes of autonomization of art—and also the processes that put this autonomy under tension.

Epistemology and History of Astronomy Volume II

Maximiliano Bozzoli — 2025-06-13

This publication brings together a selection of papers presented at the Second Conference on Epistemology and History of Astronomy (JEHA-II), which was held in a hybrid format (in-person and virtual) on November 23 and 24, 2023, in the auditorium of the Astronomical Observatory of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. The articles included in this volume contribute to the creation and consolidation of specific areas of interdisciplinary work, crossing interests in both astronomy as a scientific discipline and history and epistemological reflection, among other related areas such as museology, cultural astronomy, and education.

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Right to research: the importance of the humanities and social sciences

Cecilia Jiménez (comp) — 2025-06-02

This volume brings together a series of research projects resulting from various PROA (Targeted and Limited Research Projects) funded by the Research Center of the María Saleme de Burnichon Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (CIFFyH). PROA projects aim to promote research on specific topics considered of interest to the CIFFyH community and are aimed at graduates of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities.

First conference on queer theories. Memories, wanderings, and conceptual viscera.

Ianina Moretti — 2025-05-30

This volume brings together papers presented at the First Conference on Tortilla Theories, held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba in May 2024. The conference arose from the desire and urgency to trace tortilleras contributions that nourish theories and break into academia, understood as a place of production of meaning and circulation of knowledge in dialogue with our activism. These proceedings reflect the diversity and exploration that took place at the conference.

Written from the bodies

Agustín Liarte Tiloca — 2025-05-27

This book is a collection of moments, people, and words within the framework of two university outreach projects. The first project was developed in 2021 and was called Mujeres Activando: experiences of literary workshops as spaces for problematizing fat-hating discourses and practices. The second project, presented in 2022 as a direct continuation of the first, was called Building (Post)Pandemic Networks: Literary Workshops for Problematizing Gender Violence and Fat-Hating. In their work, both projects sought to create spaces for meeting and collective work, where poetry became a powerful tool for putting into words what was happening around us and—perhaps—remained in the realm of the silenced.

Planned poverty

Laura Bonafé — 2025-05-20

‘Planned Misery: The Dictatorship's Economic Plan, a Past to Question the Present’ by Laura Bonafé, Marina Giraudo, and María Victoria Tejeda is the result of the convergence of several outreach experiences of the FFyH. Firstly, because it develops some of the content addressed in the Permanent Exhibition PLANNED MISERY, located in the Space for Memory and Promotion of Human Rights ‘La Perla’, which was produced during 2016 and 2017. It was organised jointly with the Faculty's School of History, the FCS Centre for Advanced Studies and the Provincial Commission and Archive of Memory, with national government funding through the University Programme for Argentine and Latin American History (PUHAL) by the then National Secretariat for University Policies.
Furthermore, in the context of the cycle "MEMORIES FOR THE FUTURE. A space for political education for students and workers" held throughout 2022, 2023 and 2024, based on the commitment of the Trade Union Forum of the Córdoba Human Rights Working Group - with a particular role played by the Córdoba Graphic Workers' Union - the
National Library's Juan Filloy headquarters in Córdoba; the Student Centre and various institutional spaces of the Faculty. Within this framework, at the request of the Working Group, the permanent exhibition at La Perla was transformed into the present publication, which was funded by the Secretariat.

Before ancestors and futures

Diana Lenton (pról) — 2025-03-25

The Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the National University of Córdoba, through its Human Rights Program, created the International Prize for Humanities, Social Sciences, and Human Rights. The Human Rights Program promoted this award in recognition of the contributions that the humanities and social sciences can make to the field of research and intervention for the conquest and defense of rights, restoring the centrality of human rights to the public agenda through the critical potential of human rights and the need for their constant updating in order to contribute to reflection from the present. This book brings together works from the second edition of the award, which were awarded to the authors included in this publication.

7th Gender and Society Conference

Ivana Puche — 2025-03-25

This compilation of papers presented at the 7th Gender and Society Congress: Weaving Feminist Imagination; Politics, Eroticism, and Poetry in Our America proposes a situated dialogue to reflect on the intensification and visibility of the structural inequalities we experience in our territories, along with public policies that sustain indebtedness, multiple forms of exploitation, extractivism, and terricide. Along with these processes, we see the prevalence and radicalization of neoliberal, conservative, and fascist thoughts and practices in the daily lives of different sectors of society, which reinforce and reify heteronormative, classist, racist, speciesist, individualist, and ableist matrices. These practices develop forms of injustice and violence that affect access to our rights and the unfolding of livable lives. They also block, weaken, and dismantle the possibility of collective constructions on the common and the public from transformative horizons, which feminisms and transfeminisms have been contributing since the restoration of democracy in Argentina.

Teaching practices in mathematics

María Fernanda Delprato — 2024-12-20

This book brings together various works by researchers and thesis students involved in the project “Studying educational practices and teaching materials in mathematics” (SECyT-UNC). These works reflect the collective voices and concerns of a research group that has been investigating the teaching and learning of mathematics in regular classrooms since 2007. In the most recent projects, the issue that links these approaches and voices is the study of learning aids for teaching or learning specific mathematical objects in unique conditions, and the learning processes that involve using mathematics in different institutions, processes recognized by the anthropological theory of didactics (TAD). In addressing this issue, various dimensions for investigation are defined, which are covered in the e-book: teacher training, teaching materials, and uses of mathematics in non-school settings.

Film, Politics and Human Rights

Mariana Tello Weiss (pr´ól) — 2024-12-19

The book explores the paths that emerge from a body of film production in Córdoba on human rights in general and the last Argentine military dictatorship in particular, as well as other processes of political violence in Latin America. The films Palabras (Mohaded), Treinta y dos (Mohaded), La sensibilidad (Scelso), La sombra azul (Schmucler), Cuentas del alma (Bomheker), Sibila (Arredondo), and Fotos de Familia (Izquierdo) are living pieces of a debate that covers a wide range of topics addressed here: witnesses, survivors' testimonies, “gray areas,” questioning and vindicating the armed struggle, tensions between ethics and politics, the problem of responsibility, intergenerational differences in the reconstruction of history, the role of women and social class in the reconstruction of memory, among others. Captured in interviews and essays, readers will also find in this book the words of the directors of these films.

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Film, Politics, and Human Rights

Mariana Tello Weiss (pr´´ol) — 2024-12-19

The book brings together a collection of works that reflect on cinematographic pieces with the common goal of turning them into instruments of philosophical, political, and historical reflection. In keeping with the previous volumes, the third and final volume of this series is organized around several issues related to the filmic-political representation of certain lives that inhabit or are produced and reproduced on the margins: denied existences, which are excluded or not counted—in neither of the two most common senses of the human act of counting.

Cinema, Politics, and Human Rights

Laura Arese — 2024-12-19

The book brings together a series of reflections on politics and human rights, whose subject matter and form come primarily from cinema. In dialogue with a set of 11 films, the works gathered here focus on certain European political experiences that allow us to trace a possible path through the history of human rights: the Revolution that devours its children, the pedagogy of pre-war Germany, the decline of Weimar, the Shoah, the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, the testimony of witnesses on the ruins of the camps, the spectacle of horror, and the erased traces of immigrants in the new scheme of global biopolitics.

Imagination and materialism

Paula La Rocca — 2024-12-19

The e-book, edited by Paula La Rocca and Ana Neuburger, brings together a collection of texts that explore the forms of imagination in the face of crisis, the intersections between fiction and theory, the languages of criticism, and their concern with addressing the materiality of what exists.

Past presents

Marta Philp — 2024-12-18

This collective work is based on the work of a research team based in the History Department of the CIFFyH since 2009, based on projects evaluated and subsidized by the SECyT of the UNC. Over the years, the questions have revolved around the links between history, politics, and memory; the uses of the past and the processes of political legitimization. These questions were discussed in different settings: at research team meetings, in undergraduate and graduate classes, in university outreach activities, and at various local, regional, national, and international academic events.

Where it fails

María Victoria Dahbar — 2024-12-18

This book is the result of in-depth conversations carried out by a handful of participants in a feminist theory research team at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba, called: Emotions, temporalities, images: towards a critique of neoliberal sensibility. The series of texts that make up this book are structured around two main entries. The first explores the affective register and the task of archiving as forms of agency in the face of the violence inscribed in the norms that regulate us. In the second, the affective archive is linked to sexuality and postulation, to the pointing out of other small worlds that already exist within this one. This world is also the world to come, because the book is permeated by a critically misaligned gaze. There are already elements within these temporal coordinates that subvert them. In all cases, the places where the gaze falls can be considered low theory. The gaze rests on minor literature, on anime, on films, on urban processes, on the staging of that woman, on what is written on bathroom doors, or on what is theorized by those authors who are not taken too seriously by high theory.

Update the loop

Rodrigo Baudagna — 2024-12-16

This publication arises as an impulse to write, an anticipation, a gesture around a reality that affects us and whose effects we still do not know. For this reason, like the previous publication (La vía de lo inútil, published in 2021 as part of the CIFFyH Collections), it forms part of an ongoing research project that will continue to engage us in the coming years.

Argentine studies of French and Francophone literature

Natalia L. Ferreri — 2024-12-04

Cartographies of Subjectivity comprises a body of research that explores different aspects, functions, and modalities of the presence of the subjective in the works that comprise it. It brings together French-language texts by authors from the 20th and 21st centuries, from a wide variety of backgrounds—Canada, France, Belgium, Argentina, Ivory Coast, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Morocco, and French Indochina. However, beyond this remarkable heterogeneity, the theme of subjectivity prevails: the emergence of the subjective does not appear here as an egotistical gesture, but rather in its inescapable intersubjective aspect.

Intentionality and modality in the thought of John Duns Scotus

Gloria Silvana Elías — 2024-11-27

This book is the result of collective work carried out by the Latin American Center for Scotist and Late Medieval Studies (CLEET), which brings together medieval philosophers from different countries and universities in Latin America. It focuses on the analysis of distinctions 35 and 36 of John Duns Scotus' Ordinatio I, in which the Scottish philosopher develops the different aspects involved in a radically contingent view of the universe. Both distinctions address a problematic framework traversed by questions of intentionality and modality, as well as the principled nature of divine intellect, the status of intelligible being, and the principle of possible being. Scotus' work in this particular section of his work (as in so many others) constitutes a kind of fractal that, the more closely it is examined, the more edges it reveals. The authors of this book address the main problems proposed here from different points of view and without concealing their interpretative differences.

Landscape. A possible cartography of language and literature teaching

Luciana Irene Sastre — 2024-11-19

This publication is based on archiving as theory and gesture: the metaphor of landscape hosts a collective endeavor, that of three research and study teams from public universities in the interior of the country (National University of Córdoba, National University of Villa María, and Autonomous University of Entre Ríos -Concepción del Uruguay Campus-) that contributes to mapping teaching methods by considering new possibilities for reading literature in secondary schools.

Disciplinary literacy and teacher training

Laura Abratte — 2024-10-01

This book is published in a context marked by the need to emphasize the importance and urgency of deepening inquiry processes in the field of education and enhancing the production of pedagogical knowledge as a political act.

Classical and contemporary neopyrrhonism. Neopyrrhonism is a philosophical doctrine that denies the possibility of certain knowledge.

Guadalupe Reinoso — 2024-09-20

This e-book, edited by Guadalupe Reinoso, Federico Uanini, and Sebastián Di Tomaso, consists of a selection of nine articles that explore the legacy of classical Pyrrhonism in late antiquity, in modern and contemporary authors, as well as in the exploration of a current neo-Pyrrhonian proposal.

In the footsteps of the past. Twenty years after the opening of the San Vicente graves

Victoria Chabrando — 2024-09-01

The new political direction taken by Argentina in and since 2003 was decisive in reopening trials for crimes against humanity that had been stalled until then, and the discovery of the mass graves at the San Vicente Cemetery provided eloquent proof of the crimes committed by the civil-military-ecclesiastical dictatorship and represented a fundamental advance in the struggle for Memory, Truth, and Justice. The compilation of texts presented here represents the voices of the experiences and people who played a leading role in that search, discovery, and identification. The writings offered here reflect on and commemorate the events that mobilized the entire society, 20 years after the opening of the graves in the San Vicente Cemetery by members of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) and collaborators from different parts of the country and from our National University of Córdoba (UNC).

Rethinking school psychopedagogy in context: Contexts and subjects that challenge school learning

Cristina Vairo — 2024-08-30

This publication focuses on psycho-pedagogical issues that are “experienced” in private schools by teachers and students in a variety of situations.
It aims to weave these experiences together with a reflective approach that recovers categories worked on in the different seminars and workshops of the degree program, and revisits theoretical contributions in search of new paths in the field of School Psycho-Pedagogy.

Third Conference on Human Rights at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities

Carolina Alvarez Avila — 2024-08-20

The Third Human Rights Conference was proposed as a space for building

political and academic discussions about strengthening democratic states and societies

. The publication of the proceedings is an effort to publicize the various

instances of exchange generated with the aim of sharing research, projects, work, and

perspectives on various issues and questions with answers, always partial, about the

potentialities, commitments, and challenges in the construction of democratic life.

Public safety, institutional violence, and human rights Institutional violence and human rights

Victoria Chabrando — 2024-08-07

The various activities proposed throughout 2023, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the recovery of democracy in our country, led to questions from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities about the role of this institution in democratic life. From those turbulent years to the present day, this school has worked tirelessly to build a common language about the implications of learning and teaching based on respect and the promotion of Human Rights. On this matter, we agree with many authors who argue that there is—at least for now—a widespread social consensus on the repudiation of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the terrorist state. The question is how reflecting on the violation of rights by the state in that era leads to considerations about the continuity of state violence in democratic times.

Languages of Memories and Human Rights in the Southern Cone 1970-2022

Mirian Pino — 2024-07-24

This book talks about memories as a central node that undoes idle temporal linearity to give way to an evocation in which the future is an Ariadne's thread that weaves and knots together times. Approaching memories through the languages of culture also empowers us to break with the monotony of a single disciplinary voice and seek an epistemic articulation that is nourished by the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts in dialogue with other knowledge and life experiences. Multiple memories move through territories where reflection not only needs critical discourse but also poetry "in the first voice," narrative "in the first voice," or the collapse of genres, because the delimitation of the borders between them is too small for the voices that remember. Memories are also found in spaces, in search of a new semiosis of the past, that question monuments and heritage, or in philosophy that turns to bodies and photography to build a discourse that can glimpse what cannot be fully said.

Ethographic research files

Ludmila Da Silva Catela — 2024-06-06

This publication is based on the documentary collection produced as a result of research conducted with relatives of disappeared persons in La Plata between 1996 and 1999. It includes interviews, field notes, photographs, recordings of public events, material from the private archives of relatives of the disappeared, documents, and primary sources such as newspapers, magazines, and clippings, creating a new and dynamic way of accessing the research by framing the material using excerpts from the book No Habrá Flores en la Tumba del Pasado (There Will Be No Flowers on the Grave of the Past), which was originally a doctoral thesis. It is a connective ethnography that, as the central themes of the research are presented, generates and proposes: links, connections, openness, and interaction with the original research documents, located in the UNC's open Suquía system, and builds links with other media present in the networks that show the extent of actions, practices, cartographies, and monuments in memory of those who disappeared during state terrorism in Argentina.

Arroyo Leyes. Perspectives and voices on an Afro-Argentine legacy

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Museo de Antropologías. Idacor — 2024-06-01

The second catalog of the Museum of Anthropology seeks to reflect multiple perspectives, showing the meanings that the pieces have had and continue to have for different human groups, individuals, and institutions. This publication presents the complete Arroyo Leyes collection of the MdA, composed of pieces from Arroyo Leyes, Argentina, and others from Alto Paraguay, Paraguay, which were associated and unified due to their stylistic similarity. The selection of this collection has been driven by the renewed relevance of the pieces almost a century after their discovery and by the growing interest among different people in learning more about the Arroyo Leyes pieces, especially among Afro-descendant communities, who consider them part of Afro-Argentine heritage.

March, a month of struggles

Ianina Moretti Basso — 2024-03-24

This publication is a proposal that represents an active intersection between feminism and the
human rights perspective. With the idea of intertwining agendas, the commemorations
of International Working Women's Day and National Day of Remembrance, Truth, and Justice
are presented as an invitation to highlight the challenge of recognizing intersections of
perspectives, viewpoints, and actions. This work is the product of a meeting held on March 30
at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities entitled: "March. Month of struggles.
Conversations around 24M and 8M in the imagination of the future."

What can reading do?

Camila Aguirre — 2024-03-12

What is reading? Is there a theory of reading? What is writing a reading? How do you read an image? What is the subject's involvement in reading and in the production of what they read? How do you read an archive? What does reading as an experience involve? How do you teach reading literature? This book brings together a collection of essays that seek to answer these questions in one way or another. These are texts written by researchers from different countries (Argentina, France, Brazil, Portugal). In this sense, it is an anthology that represents the current international state of the art on reading, focusing on different aspects (teaching, writing, archiving, criticism, image) and from different disciplinary fields (literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, history, sociology).

The politics of dispute

Jessica Blanco — 2024-03-04

This book, edited by Jessica Blanco, is the result of research advances made by members of the Consolidar project “Cultures and political actions in Córdoba during the 20th century” (2020-2024), based at the FFyH Research Center.

Insistence on the letter

Paula La Rocca — 2024-03-01

The visual poetics we bring together in this doctoral thesis are related through a series of affinities. To name them, we draw on the category of vectors of legibility from Nelly Richard's critical theory. This allows us to read from the perspective of the recovery of techniques, in a vindication of that which is constructed from minimal quotations and minor materials.

Style guide Publications Area

2024-03-01

The main objective of the FFyH Publications Area Style Manual is to contribute to the process of publishing original texts, both in paper and digital formats.
To this end, the material compiled in these pages is intended as a reference tool that offers suggestions and guidelines on spelling, grammar, and writing, as well as guidelines for the presentation of original manuscripts.
Furthermore, given the specific nature of publishing in the university environment, and particularly at our institution,
this Manual aims to provide a distinctive style for both paper and digital publications.

Imaginary spaces and material remains in contemporary Argentine fiction

Ana Neuburger — 2024-03-01

This doctoral research is entitled Imaginaries of Space and Material Remains in Contemporary Argentine Fiction, in which we consider a series of novels by César Aira (2011, 2015), Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (2009, 2017), Selva Almada (2012), and Carlos Busqued (2009).
We propose to reflect on this corpus, based on its formal aspects, its material explorations, and visual procedures, a broader issue in which fiction, theory, and criticism are linked: a crisis of the space-time coordinates as they were constituted in modernity and that in the present, fictions explore the scope of their effects based on the material remains left over from the crisis of that project.

The city that inhabits us

Florencia Capitaine — 2023-12-12

The anthology of the Arcilla Contest entitled “La ciudad que nos habita” (The City That Inhabits Us) compiles the top three winners and seven honorable mentions from a literary contest for young writers held between August and October 2023 in the city of Córdoba Capital, Argentina. The selected texts were chosen by the participants themselves, who, in addition to submitting their own texts, were tasked with scoring the texts of the other participants through rounds of voting. The theme of this first edition of the contest was inspired by the 450th anniversary of the founding of the city of Córdoba, and the proposal was to write a prose text addressing the urban space of Córdoba. This is our small tribute to this city that we inhabit and that inhabits us.

Philosophy of Science by Young Researchers

María Gabriela Fissore — 2023-11-09

This volume, edited by María Gabriela Fissore, Agustín Mauro, Barbara Paez Sueldo, and Mateo Santillan Castro, brings together the papers originally presented at the 4th Conference of Young Researchers in Philosophy of Science (JJFIC), held on October 4, 5, and 6, 2022, at the CONICET Auditorium of the National University of Córdoba.

In the mother tongue.

Alejandro Milotich — 2023-11-03

The e-book, written by Alejandro Milotich, Maximiliano Chirino, Magalí Argañaraz, Simonetta Torres, Ari Costamagna, Camila Meyar, and Laura Arese, with a foreword by Paula Hunziker, brings together a series of reflections on Hannah Arendt's posthumous book, entitled “The Life of the Mind.”

Proceedings of the 11th Social Sciences and Humanities Conference: “The challenge of inequality: criticism and intervention”

Carolina Yelicich — 2023-10-28

This is the first of two volumes of the digital book of Proceedings of the 11th Interdisciplinary Meeting on Social Sciences and Humanities: “The challenge of inequalities: criticism and intervention,” held from November 29 to December 2, 2022, and organized by CIFFyH and the Institute of Humanities (IDH) – CONICET. The works gathered here, the result of the numerous presentations given at the 11th Meeting, reflect the space for reflection, exchange, and communication of knowledge that we cultivate daily between the IDH and the CIFFyH.

Pollinate

María Florencia Ortiz — 2023-10-04

This book compiles the work carried out by a team of teachers who are part of a research project based in the Literature Department of the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (UNC)—with funding from SECyT, UNC—to capture their reflections and bring them together.

The concern for philosophy

Facundo José Moine — 2023-10-03

This e-book, edited by María Carla Galfione and Facundo José Moine, presents the results of a collective research project that draws on Michel Foucault, who provides the specific keys to the approaches proposed here.

Conversations: research in education

Gabriela Lamelas — 2023-10-02

This e-book compiles and systematizes a series of exchanges between guest specialists and colleagues from our Faculty within the framework of the Conversation Series: Research, Educational Experiences, and Pedagogical Knowledge organized by the Education Area of Ciffyh, the School of Education Sciences, and the Program for Coordination between Research and Graduate Studies.

Proceedings of the 11th Social Sciences and Humanities Conference: “The challenge of inequality: criticism and intervention”

Guillermo Vázquez — 2023-09-28

This is the second of two volumes of the digital book of Proceedings of the 11th Interdisciplinary Meeting on Social Sciences and Humanities: “The Challenge of Inequalities: Criticism and Intervention,” held from November 29 to December 2, 2022, and organized by CIFFyH and the Institute of Humanities (IDH) – CONICET. The works gathered here, the result of the numerous presentations given at the 11th Meeting, reflect the space for reflection, exchange, and communication of knowledge that we cultivate daily between the IDH and the CIFFyH.

The power of argumentation

Guadalupe Reinoso — 2023-09-09

This book, edited by Guadalupe Reinoso, is a selection of some of the articles presented at the Second Conference on “The Power of Argumentation,” held at the University City of Córdoba on August 29 and 30, 2019. The publication features contributions from prominent academics from various universities in Latin America.

Experiences with older people

Gabriela Pedernera — 2023-07-10

This book compiles the proceedings of the Third Conference on Educational Practices in Museums, coordinated by the Museum Educators Association (EEAE).

Researching in “the field”: experiences of multidisciplinary approaches in rural and peri-urban areas of Argentina

María Laura Freyre — 2023-06-30

The e-book presents the results of the work carried out by the research teams “Techniques, practices, and processes in rural Argentina today,” led by María Laura Freyre and Juan Manuel Barri, and “Practices of production, circulation, and consumption of food and medicinal plants in situations of resistance and subordination,” led by Cecilia Pernasetti.

Philosophy of Science by Young Researchers vol. 3

María Gabriela Fissore — 2023-06-27

This volume brings together the papers originally presented at the 3rd Conference of Young Researchers in Philosophy of Science (JJFIC), held in October 2021 in the city of Córdoba and on multiple screens throughout the country. The virtual format—which the pandemic forced upon us—was made possible thanks to the renewed efforts of each of the actors who brought this event to fruition. One of the main objectives of the JJFIC is to bring together philosophical reflections on the sciences from diverse perspectives, reflecting the plurality of trajectories and interests of our current research community. Thus, this volume, edited by María Gabriela Fissore, Francisco Elías Moreno, Barbara Paez Sueldo, and Martina Schilling, reflects the collective desire to propose a discussion on the ways in which we research the sciences, from a space designed by and for young researchers.

Records of the Kakana language

Rita del Valle "Waira" Cejas — 2023-06-07

This record has been compiled based on the knowledge of a Kakana language recorder, Rita del Valle Cejas, whom we affectionately call Waira and whose name in Kakana is Bimma Olka (red wind) and, in Quechua, Waira Puka. She shared her knowledge of the language with us in the form of words, phrases, and songs during numerous conversations we had between 2018 and 2020.

On this occasion, we are attempting to systematize this knowledge, as we promised before her death in December 2020. This wonderful woman told us legends and stories of the Calchaquí people and invited us to explore many aspects of their culture.

The aim of this work is to make available to all interested parties those fragments of Kakán that Waira preserved in her memory. For centuries, this language was considered extinct. However, in reality, it remained hidden, and one of the places where the language was preserved was in her memory: she learned it from her grandmother (who lived in the town of Talapazo, Tucumán), although under the promise not to spread it. Fear of discrimination based on the language spoken and opposition from the church—even in the 20th and 21st centuries—are some of the explanations for this silencing.

How many of us are there? And those of us who are here, how are we?

2023-06-01

This report revisits some key questions from the first survey of the transvestite, transgender, non-binary, and intersex population at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (UNC), which allows for an initial diagnostic mapping of some central issues such as work, health, relationships, and the ways in which these issues impact coursework and other aspects of academic life in the community.

7th and 8th ACIC Literary Contest

2023-06-01

This book is the result of a long journey that began in 2013 as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Israeli Cultural Association of Córdoba (ACIC), which began in those years as the Israeli Youth Library.

There, Jewish immigrants who arrived in Córdoba, driven by hunger, persecution, discrimination, and the desire to be part of a new homeland that would take them in, built this space to preserve and share their books, their readings, their language, and their knowledge. That is why, and in their honor, the ACIC Library organized the ACIC Literary Contest in collaboration with the School of Letters of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba, which accompanied us, along with other institutions, throughout all these years on this journey.

Why a Literary Contest? In the prologue, the Contest Organizing Committee states: "As a cultural space, we view people in their feelings, their knowledge, their actions, and their struggles as integral beings with the right to express themselves, recognizing their history of participation and contribution to the multicultural fabric of our society. We think of those who dare to write, whether known or unknown, with or without a track record, who are willing to leave a mark for others, as a way of inviting them again and again to possible horizons. We wanted to offer this opportunity because writing is another form of expression and we do not see it as the heritage of a select few. We are opening our doors to support this space for writing in Córdoba and the country."

This book is part of the prizes for the 7th and 8th ACIC Literary Contest for those who managed not only to sit down and write during the pandemic, a time of great reflection and introspection, but also to be recognized for their work. In 2020, 290 stories were submitted from 18 provinces in our country, and more than 150 stories from 14 provinces in 2021.

Rinconada. A Much more than a place in the middle of nowhere

Guillermina Espósito — 2023-06-01

Rinconada. Much more than a place in the middle of nowhere brings together the work carried out by 6th and 7th grade students at School No. 23 “María de los Remedios de Escalada de San Martín” in Rinconada, in the province of Jujuy, Argentina, to systematize the cultural, historical, and scenic riches of the department.

The methodology used was research, compilation, and generation of data, information, and materials through talks and interviews with their grandparents, searching for photographs, bibliographic explorations in books and archives, and writing monographs. Guided by teacher Pastora Cornelia Villegas, the students “[became] aware of the importance of knowing, caring for, preserving, and defending what is ours in order to contribute to conservation and preservation, foster respect, and awaken affection for our cultural heritage.” This work is about Rinconada, but it also reflects the joint effort of a teacher and her students, who articulated narratives about the department of Puno, creating a sense of collective identification and projecting a possible history of Rinconada.

ELSE Dimension. Theoretical notes and teaching contributions in Spanish as a second and foreign language

Ingrid Viñas Quiroga — 2023-06-01

This publication, coordinated by Ingrid Viñas Quiroga, is part of the CIFFyH Collections and is part of an ongoing reflection by teachers, researchers, graduates, and students on language, interculturality, and the acquisition and teaching of a foreign language.

The e-book brings together a series of lines of work, notes, inquiries, and concerns about Spanish as a foreign language, specifically the local variety of Spanish. It also deals with the teaching of grammar in textbooks that are widely used today and compares their treatment with that of materials intended for teaching Spanish as a native or first language.

On the one hand, the book focuses on the impact of proficiency level on students' use of oral communication strategies during the CELU (Certificate of Spanish Language and Use) exam. and, on the other hand, addresses the relationship between oral communication strategies and courtesy tactics among young university students participating in a Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) immersion program at the National University of Córdoba (UNC).

Likewise, “Dimensión ELSE” addresses the processes of teaching Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) mediated by information and communication technologies and also presents rich and innovative proposals for teaching ELE with different approaches and methodologies, some aimed at refugees and migrants, others at students in university exchange programs.

Although the direct target audience for this work is ELE teachers and students, this e-book may also be of interest to teachers of other foreign languages and Spanish as a mother tongue due to its combination of theoretical reflections and didactic transposition.

“Dimensión ELSE. Notas teóricas y contribuciones didácticas en español como lengua segunda y extranjera” (ELSE Dimension: Theoretical Notes and Didactic Contributions in Spanish as a Second and Foreign Language) presents a wide variety of texts and activities for all levels and ages, both in immersion and non-formal education contexts, which encourage metalinguistic reflection and questioning about one's own culture and that of others.

The e-book is part of the CIFFyH Collections, an initiative of the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center (FFyH) in conjunction with the FFyH Publications Department, which seeks to strengthen the production and dissemination of the work of the Center's research groups, encourage the participation of students, graduates, and teachers in the production and circulation of knowledge, and create institutional spaces that enable such circulation.

Córdoba

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Museo de Antropologías. Idacor — 2023-06-01

The publication presents part of the Folklore Collection – Musicology Section of the Museum of Anthropology Archive (FFyH-UNC), consisting of musicological files and photographs that are the product of research carried out by folklorists in the 1940s and 1950s.

The catalog offers a complete and detailed record of the historical significance of the objects in this collection within the institution and in the field of musicological, folkloric, and anthropological studies of the period.

Discursive policies. Diversity, affections, genders

Magdalena Uzín — 2023-06-01

The book “Discursive Policies: Diversity, Affects, Genders,” edited by Magdalena Uzín, aims to recover and share some of the work developed within the framework of the research project “Discursive Policies of Sexual Diversity: Technologies of Affects,” which began at CIFFyH in 2018 as part of the Secyt (UNC) Consolidar project.

The e-book recovers works that highlight the contributions of feminism, gender studies, and the theoretical line of the so-called affective turn for the study, analysis, and discussion of the field of affectivity in discourses.

Based on these theoretical proposals, a wide variety of discourses (literature, print media, educational materials, performances, audiovisual fiction, etc.) are analyzed.

Although this is only a partial overview of the team's academic production, the opportunity to recover these works has been highly positive, as it provides a panoramic view of the path traveled so far and offers the possibility of proposing new perspectives and areas of interest for further investigation, both in theory and in the discourses analyzed.

The e -book is part of the CIFFyH Collections, an initiative of the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center (FFyH) in conjunction with the FFyH Publications Department, which seeks to strengthen the production and dissemination of the work of the Center's research groups, encourage the participation of students, graduates, and teachers in the production and circulation of knowledge, and create institutional spaces that enable such circulation.

Urban and rural youth and adults

María del Carmen Lorenzatti — 2023-06-01

This book, compiled by María del Carmen Lorenzatti and Verónica Ligorria, compiles the results of the program “Structural transformations, political processes and practices, and educational experiences in rural and urban areas,” directed by Dr. Lorenzatti and based at CIFFyH.

Anthropological intervention. A proposal

Julieta Quirós — 2023-06-01

“Anthropological Intervention” is the title of the second publication by Julieta Quiros, anthropologist and researcher at the Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba-CONICET, Museum of Anthropology-UNC, within the collection “Anthropology: A One-Way Trip.” The book invites readers to revive the links between research and social intervention through dialogue between anthropology and psychoanalysis, in a sensitive framework where listening and speaking are paramount.

What does it mean to intervene in the anthropological sense of the term? With this question as a starting point, Julieta Quirós invites teachers, researchers, and students of social sciences to revive the links between research and social intervention. In a visual format that is as agile as it is attractive, created by Florencia Bacchini, the researcher proposes a dialogue between anthropology and psychoanalysis, aware of the importance of listening and the significant meanings assumed in the taking and use of words.

From an anthropological perspective, “to know and intervene is to produce a singular and dynamic effect on the affairs of common life, that is, on the possibilities of being better,” reads the back cover. Thus, “La intervención antropológica” (Anthropological Intervention) is presented as the second publication in the collection “Antropología un viaje de ida” (Anthropology: A One-Way Trip), published under the Publications Area of the FFyH of the UNC. A space created to bring together the experiences and conversations of professionals in the anthropological sciences on topics of disciplinary interest.

In this sense, the collection provides tools for approaching anthropological knowledge, its forms of configuration, methodologies, contributions, and curiosities, aimed at people who are beginning their disciplinary training, or those who are investigating the different potentialities for the development of the anthropological sciences and other disciplines, and are interested in incorporating an anthropological perspective into their professional work.

Inhabiting institutions. Subjects and scenarios

Gloria Borioli — 2023-06-01

This e-book, compiled by Alicia Arias and Melina Cuello and coordinated by Gloria Borioli and Ana Luisa Cilimbini, recovers the debates presented at the Working Group “Inhabiting Institutions: Actors and Scenarios.” This activity was organized by the postgraduate program “Specialization in Adolescence with a focus on Education or Developmental Psychology” and took place in August 2021.

Within the framework of the UNC's Specialization in Adolescence, the working groups emerged as an initiative to critically address new topics related to this age group. The program's administrators conceive of subjectivities as provisional results of processes embedded in diverse and constantly changing cultural contexts that require dialogue, exchange, and different perspectives. This gave rise to the idea of bringing together different local thinkers at the roundtable, which this publication recovers with the aim of going beyond the comfort zone and basic training offered by the program.

The digital book, authored by Horacio Paulin, Mariana Chaves, Adriana Barrionuevo, and Facundo Boccardi, addresses issues and debates in the fields of health and education in institutions inhabited by adolescents, as well as laws that regulate bodies, pleasure, and health and operate as political devices for the construction of subjectivities.

Community (re)territorialities

Marcela Cecilia Marín ( Ed ) — 2023-05-13

This work raises questions about community in a context of asymmetrical disputes over the advance of mega-mining in the province of Chubut. It posits community as a triadic movement of para-con-entre. The work unfolds between two mining projects, Esquel and Navidad, in a temporality open to exceptions: 2003 and 2014.

Cemetery of San Vicente

Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (EAAF) — 2023-05-06

The digital book is a reissue of the report produced by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) on the exhumation carried out at the San Vicente Cemetery in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2003. The e-book also inaugurates the “40 Years of Democracy Collection,” which will bring together a series of publications produced by the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities under its publishing imprint.

Epistemology and History of Astronomy

Maximiliano Bozzoli — 2023-04-08

This e-book brings together a selection of papers presented at the First Conference on Epistemology and History of Astronomy (JEHA-I), which took place virtually between November 1 and 3, 2021.

Violence and pain

Natalia Ferreri — 2023-04-01

This book, edited by Natalia L. Ferreri and Cecilia V. Peralta Frías, presents a compilation of original works by Agustina Concepción Alonso, Paula Gamba, Ana Virginia Lona, Francisco Pagés Reimon, and Lucía Villagra, and is part of the CIFFyH Collections.

Topics in the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars

José Giromini — 2023-03-15

This e-book, edited by José Giromini and Nahuel Recabarren, brings together works from a wide range of fields that address the breadth of Sellars' thinking. The book is part of the CIFFyH Collections.

Mapping and diagnosis of Córdoba's public archives

Norma Fenoglio — 2023-03-10

The book Mapping and Diagnosis of Córdoba's Public Archives, coordinated by Norma Fenoglio, compiles the findings and results obtained by the project of the same name, which is based in the Social Sciences Department of the María Saleme e Burnichon Research Center (FFyH, UNV).

6th Gender and Society Conference

Maite Rodigou Nocetti — 2023-03-01

This e-book brings together the papers presented at the 6th Gender and Society Conference, which took place on September 21, 22, and 23, 2022, at the Venezuela Pavilion, University City (UNC), and was organized by the Feminisms, Gender, and Sexualities Area (FemGeS) of the CIFFyH (FFyH, UNC), by the Interdisciplinary Gender Program and the Doctorate in Gender Studies of the CEA (FCS, UNC), and by the Feminisms, Sexualities, and Rights Extension Program (FCS, UNC).

Take on teaching

Celia Salit — 2023-03-01

The e-book “Taking on Teaching: New Teachers' Knowledge and Challenges in Uncertain Contexts,” edited by Celia Salit, is the result of the work of a group of teachers and researchers from the Teaching Practice and Residency Chair (Seminar-Workshop) at the School of Education Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Cordoba.

Mapping of graduates from the School of Education Sciences

María Laura Díaz — 2023-03-01

This mapping systematizes a survey conducted between December 2021 and July 2022 of graduates from the teaching and education science degree programs at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba.

Childhood and adolescence in educational and community processes

Gloria Borioli — 2023-03-01

This book brings together work from three postgraduate courses offered at our academic unit: Specialization in Educational Counseling and Management, Specialization in School Psychopedagogy, and Specialization in Adolescence with a minor in Education and a minor in Developmental Psychology. The latter, co-managed by the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities and the Faculty of Psychology, was the driving force behind the compendium we are presenting.

The cross-cutting theme is the exercise of critical reflection on youth. The distinctive feature is its interest in the production of theoretical, methodological, and technical knowledge closely linked to the issues that are the subject of intervention.

We hope that the texts gathered here will become a genuine invitation to imagine more livable realities and possible futures. Building institutions and schools involves enabling conflicts whose resolution cannot always be anticipated or resolved through prefabricated recipes.

Perhaps this is our greatest responsibility to the younger generations: to commit to building relationships of trust, open endings, and questionable answers that teach us how to deal with the uncertainty of these times as the main tools for transforming reality.

What past for our present? Public debates on memories, denialism, and apologism

Victoria Chabrando — 2023-03-01

This e-book, compiled by Victoria Chabrando and Leandro Inchauspe, aims to share perspectives, exchange readings, and test possible strategies for responding to discourses and practices that deny or apologize for state terror.

How are we dealing with the pandemic in our libraries? : Resilient experiences

María Carmen Ladrón de Guevara — 2022-10-01

Libraries experienced years of profound learning during 2020 and 2021. This period has required them to urgently rethink their resources and services in order to meet the information needs of their users. This is not really new for information units, given that the dynamism required to work for users, who are at the center of all their actions, demands continuous adaptation to the changes produced by the transformations in the context in which the recipients operate, providing them with an essential and quality service for their satisfaction.
This book recovers the experiences of the outreach project "Cycle: Challenges and
Opportunities of the New Normal: Articulating Practice in Libraries and the Teaching of Library Science," in which we share the experiences we had during the years of the pandemic in our virtual library services.

Inclusive language

2022-06-01

This work was coordinated by Sofía De Mauro, produced by the Commission on Inclusive Language Use (FFyH – UNC), and published by the Publications Department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. The articles in this publication—written by Sofía De Mauro, Paulo Aniceto, Amparo Argüello Solís, Guadalupe Erro, Eduardo Mattio, Sofía Caballero Menas, Patricia Bandín, and Cecilia Pacella—are presented to the reader grouped under a title that bears question marks; a question, or rather, many questions. The how, why, and what for seem to be there inviting us to explore different reflections from which to attempt answers. However, the question marks, which stubbornly remain, seem to warn us of something else.

The articles collected in Inclusive Language: How, Why, What For? are presented to the reader under a title that includes question marks; a question, or rather, many questions. The how, why, and what for seem to be there inviting us to explore different reflections from which to attempt answers. However, the question marks, which stubbornly remain, seem to warn us of something else.

A question always confronts us with a concern, with an unknown path that challenges us, but above all, it opens up space in the silence to listen to another voice. Every question is an invitation to conversation, to dialogue, to encounter others. Allowing the question to remain in the present of each reading indicates that the invitation to encounter does not seek to close with a final answer, but rather to keep that space open for listening to other voices.

The reflections gathered in this document, coordinated by Sofía De Mauro and prepared by the Commission on “Inclusive Use of Language” (FFyH – UNC), do not seek to arrive at conclusions that are intended to be true, but rather aim to accompany the concern and safeguard the space that every question opens up, open to reflection and, above all, to the emergence of new questions.

Endow, build, connect. Stories about the Bourbon monarchy's rule in Spain, Tucumán, and the Río de la Plata (1700–1809)

Griselda Tarragó — 2022-06-01

This book, coordinated and compiled by Griselda Tarragó and Martín Gentinetta, is the first to be published in the CIFFyH Collections in its 2022 edition.

Dotar, construir, conectar. Relatos sobre el gobierno de la monarquía borbónica en España, el Tucumán y el Río de la Plata (1700-1809) (Endow, Build, Connect: Stories about the Bourbon Monarchy's Rule in Spain, Tucumán, and the Río de la Plata (1700-1809)) compiles the results of a research project that began in 2018 within the Modern History Department of the School of History (Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba).

The proposal was aimed at creating a space for production and teaching-learning that would, on the one hand, develop paths of “modernist” training specifically oriented towards the Spanish monarchy. On the other hand, it sought to conceive of an American modernity, at least in relation to the kingdoms of the Indies integrated into the monarchy.

The fundamental objective of the project, reflected in the works gathered here, has been to explore the possibility of a highly connected and integrated Old Regime world in political, territorial, and economic terms. A world where “the colonial” and “the European” merge and share histories and experiences. This perspective is reinforced by the observation of the vitality of the composite monarchy in the 18th century, as well as the inexorable presence of agencies and networks that shape it and give it meaning.

Equipping, building, and connecting are part of the CIFFyH Collections, an initiative of the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center (FFyH) in conjunction with the FFyH Publications Department, which seeks to strengthen the production and dissemination of the Center's research groups' work, encourage the participation of students, graduates, and teachers in the production and circulation of knowledge, and generate institutional spaces that enable such circulation.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient History IV

2022-06-01

The Faculty of Social Sciences, together with the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC, jointly published the interdisciplinary report: “Casa Bamba”. Violation of rights and historical-cultural and natural heritage in danger, prepared by the interdisciplinary team for territorial work and socio-environmental studies “Casa Bamba”.

Since early 2019, the safety and rights of those living in the “Casa Bamba” area, located on the side of Route E55 between the cities of La Calera and Carlos Paz, have been seriously violated by the arbitrary closure of the only safe access to the village by a mining company. Its inhabitants suffer constant threats and intimidation from private actors and suffer from institutional neglect of the multiple complaints and reports they have been making. This situation, which violates the collective rights of the community and has been going on for three years, has a negative impact on daily life, causing material and psychosocial damage.

Twenty years after the creation of the Bamba Water, Recreation, and Nature Reserve—within which Casa Bamba is located—the lack of government regulation and attention leaves the province's main watershed in a highly vulnerable situation. In addition, the historical and cultural assets present in the “Bamba” Reserve, which constitute an invaluable heritage, are in a state of neglect, in constant deterioration, and at risk of destruction due to socio-natural threats.

The interdisciplinary report “Casa Bamba: Violation of Rights and Endangered Historical, Cultural, and Natural Heritage” is the result of research conducted by the interdisciplinary team for territorial work and socio-environmental studies “Casa Bamba” at the request of the Casa Bamba community.

The report was produced between September 2020 and April 2022 with the participation of teacher-researchers and students from the fields of social sciences, humanities, and earth sciences with experience working on issues related to land, human rights, gender, and socio-environmental conflicts. In addition to interdisciplinary work, the research involved a “dialogue of knowledge” that integrates local community knowledge with the diverse voices of actors linked to the territory.

Transgression in the Library of Babel

José Agustín Conde De Boeck — 2022-03-01

In this study, using a toolbox derived from the sociology of literature, discourse analysis, and semiotics, we trace the complex map of tensions where the magazine Babel (1988-1991), one of the main platforms from which the Argentine literary canon was constructed during the post-dictatorship period, deployed its game of inclusions and exclusions, transgressions, inheritances, and impostures.

Religion, clericalism, and schools. The struggle for hegemony in education: legislation, curriculum, and school practices. Córdoba (1880–1930)

Gabriel Lamelas — 2022-03-01

In this research, we work with multiple chronologies that overlap in time and interact in a manner that is not always synchronous with political, legislative, regulatory, curricular, and practical aspects, as will be discussed later. In this sense, the period indicated is also approximate, given that the levels of analysis need to be studied from different temporalities.
This work is set in Córdoba. Its importance in national politics, especially during those years, is decisive. Focusing the study on this province does not imply the objective of a regional study that seeks the exceptional in the local case. On the contrary, we hope that it will enrich a more complex view of the national education system, its constitution, its formation, and its relationship with a faction of the Catholic Church that fought to preserve its influence in education in the face of the advance of the centrality of the state and secularist policies. We maintain that Córdoba was key in this heterogeneous and unstable process.

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Images of English and Argentine culture:

Eva Lencina — 2022-03-01

Based on an imagological study, we analyze Hudsonian identity from the perspective of the discursive strategies through which the social subject inscribes itself textually through images of the self and the other, where intersections between the American, the European, the Creole, and the English circulate.

Physical Education and Teacher Training in Córdoba.

Carina Bologna — 2022-03-01

The text we are making available for reading shares the findings resulting from research into teaching in vocational training in Physical Education. The aim of the study was to describe and analyze how Physical Education is taught, by investigating the ways in which the profession is transmitted in Teaching Practice and Residency III and IV classes, two curricular units that open up the perspective of teaching practice by offering students an insight into the educational reality and the real conditions and processes of teaching Physical Education in schools

The crisis of tradition in Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben

Erika Lipcen — 2022-03-01

This paper explores the problem of the crisis of tradition based on the writings of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, considering their interpretations of Kafka's literature. We investigate how the authors observe a crisis of the common past, and we question the possibilities of rebuilding bridges that connect the past and the present, since we need some kind of historical affiliation so that our actions are not reduced to a mere accumulation of scattered fragments. These concerns guide our work, concerns that can be condensed into the question of meaning after the crisis of once-inherited certainties. If all traditional references have lost their validity, how can we restructure time to orient ourselves in history, how can we find meaning without seeking support in some ultimate foundation?

In the first chapter, we explore Benjamin's diagnosis of the “impoverishment” of the ability to transmit experience. We argue that the idea of “montage of quotations” constitutes a resource for narrating and constructing new connections between the past and the present. In other words, we show how quotations are a resource for transmitting certain forgotten and frustrated experiences from the past, thereby constructing a temporal horizon to guide our actions. In the second chapter, we propose two elements of Benjamin's interpretation of Kafka that allow us to position ourselves in the face of the crisis of transmission, namely: the form of the “parable” in rabbinical narratives and the idea of “study.” In the third chapter, we return to Agamben and argue that the author radicalizes and generalizes Benjamin's statements about the crisis of transmission. For him, the crisis involves not an “impoverishment” but the ‘destruction’ of experience. Despite this, we propose the hypothesis that it is also possible to find elements in Agamben's work that would allow us to address the crisis of tradition, such as the “montage of temporalities,” the “paradigm,” and “testimony.” In the fourth chapter, we focus on Agamben's reading of Benjamin's reception of Kafka, in which the author's interest lies in deepening the current disarticulation of tradition in order to experience, at this extreme, the absolute power that constitutes us. If Agamben emphasizes remaining in the experience of power, in Benjamin we find a way to build links between the past and the present that allow us to orient ourselves in time in new ways. We conclude by considering the relevance and challenge of constructing new meanings after the crisis of tradition, notwithstanding the importance of always keeping in mind our condition of absolute power.

Social ontology and normativity

José Giromini — 2021-06-01

Social reality is instituted; it does not comprise a universe of things that is given by nature. On the contrary, it depends, in order to exist in the first place and to be maintained or modified, on the activity of people. Social reality, however, is also real; it exerts constraints, delimits ranges of possible actions, and is endowed with its own structure that means certain effects can only be achieved by mobilizing certain resources. The purpose of Social Ontology and Normativity is to examine these two attributes, of institution and reality, whose conjunction composes the social as a specific ontological domain.

Social Ontology and Normativity is a pragmatist study: it seeks to illuminate social reality as instituted and as real based on the conceptual links that connect it to human action. On the one hand, human action has an instituting dimension; it projects how social things should and should not be and, in this sense, evaluates them. Evaluation and normativity are not, therefore, abstract assessments, but acts aimed at maintaining or transforming social reality. On the other hand, human action flows through channels objectively given by social structures and, in this sense, simply adapts to them. This work insists on clearly delimiting these two aspects under which social reality is presented to action. In turn, it emphasizes the priority of the aspect of constraint, showing that actions aimed at transforming or maintaining certain fragments of social reality cannot but treat others as merely given.

The followers of the New Historical School Enrique Mariano Barba, Carlos Salvador Ángel Segreti, and Ernesto Joaquín Antonio Maeder 1955-2001

Agustín Rojas — 2021-06-01

The Epigones of the New Historical School: Mariano Enrique Barba, Carlos Salvador Ángel Segreti, and Ernesto Joaquín Antonio Maeder (1955–2001) is the result of five years of research on three key historians in Argentina. Trained in the mid-20th century in Buenos Aires and La Plata, under Americanist precepts and those of the so-called New Historical School, they formed part of a dense network of local and international circles with an affinity for traditionalist history.

The greatest challenge for today's “historiographers” is to break away from outdated conceptions restricted to the study of canons, “works,” and “great intellectuals” isolated from their contexts in order to promote, on the contrary, a diverse program open to interaction with the most vibrant dimensions of historical culture. That is why this work is based on a history of Argentine historiography in dialogue with intellectual history and the history of ideas. It covers a period that could be broadly defined as “post-Peronism,” including a long duration.
Conceiving of true communities of interpreters rather than isolated individuals helps to understand how science has been carried out in a country where, for many decades, the principle of science as an end in itself was the subject of corrosive criticism. By presenting its practices and political definitions simultaneously, it is possible to appreciate the conflictive intellectual scenarios in Argentina since the “Peronist event.”
The physiognomy of their métier easily stands out through their practices, intellectual circuits, and political choices. The vitality or decline of these professional and political trajectories, in short, is no different from the unstable course that Argentina suffered in a century assumed by many political traditions as a “national failure.” of young people.

The Perimeters of University Democracy. Processes of Politicization and Student Participation at the National University of Córdoba

Marcos Javier Luna — 2021-03-01

Student political participation in the university setting has historically been a topic of debate—academic, but also social—which has revolved around its dynamics, its repertoires, and its legitimate and illegitimate forms. This thesis aims to contribute to these discussions by exploring the functioning of politics at the National University of Córdoba from the perspective of students who, in different circumstances, became involved in institutional decision-making processes. Based on ethnographic work carried out between 2012 and 2016, this research addresses the question of the relationship between students and politics, while exploring the functioning of co-government, the form of democracy characteristic of national public universities in Argentina.

Reading the ethnographic material in light of a series of studies in anthropology and political socio-history allowed us to argue that university politics operates under a constitutive ambiguity—or a policy of exclusion—a characteristic it shares with Western democratic systems. A policy that involves the production of active citizens, but at the same time conditioned to participate only at certain times and through certain pre-established forms.

Student participation develops within and amid this ambiguity, which in the university setting manifests itself through the simultaneous operation of two conflicting principles: on the one hand, the principle of co-government, achieved by the reformist movement in 1918 as a tool for the democratization of the university, which has since constituted both a condition of possibility and an impetus for student participation in university governance.
On the other hand, there is a principle associated with the existence of an asymmetrical structure in terms of conditions for political participation, manifested in unequal student representation within co-government. By analyzing the expressions of this duality of principles through processes of conflict, co-government is shown to be the result of the dynamic and constant social production of its forms, rules, and boundaries.

Contemporary Mapuche poetry: identity, community, and body

María Fernanda Libro — 2021-03-01

The Secretariat for Research, Science, and Technology and the Secretariat for Graduate Studies of the FFyH have published, in open access, the e-book Contemporary Mapuche Poetry: Identity, Community, and Body, by María Fernanda Libro.

The research presented here takes as its object of study one of the most striking aesthetic productions of recent Latin American literature: Mapuche poetry. The emergence of these writings in the literary field, mainly since the 1990s, requires a broadening of cultural inquiries in general, and of literary criticism in particular, based on the emergence of a voice that had previously been confined to the realm of indigenous literature.

María Fernanda Libro holds a degree in Modern Literature from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (UNC) and a PhD in Literature from the same institution. She was a CONICET doctoral fellow (2016-2021), with the project “The divided experience: poetic traces in contemporary Mapuche writing,” research based at the CIFFyH. Since 2010, she has been continuously involved in research projects related to recent Latin American writing.

Blanchot: the rumor of anonymous communities

Carolina Villada Castro — 2021-03-01

The work explores the stories of Maurice Blanchot, revealing how a network of whispers is transformed into a form of writing by anonymous communities, a collective, rebellious, and testimonial form of writing that, in addition to rejecting the unbearable and unjustifiable, manages to name the unspeakable, to invoke and welcome those who are absent.

Copy, discuss, and protest. An anthropology of civic education in secondary schools (Córdoba, Argentina)

Andrés E. Hernández — 2021-03-01

Citizenship education has been a persistent theme in debates about the role of schools within the universe of institutions that shape social structures. The different variants observed and considered in terms of concepts or paradigms, some more traditional and others more contemporary, have given rise to different types of analysis.
These analyses reveal how legal, regulatory, curricular, and socioeconomic issues are constantly intertwined to define medium- and long-term historical processes. Amid this polyphony, new perspectives have emerged that seek to account for the heterogeneities and inequalities that characterize contemporary school experiences. There, a new echo of the challenge resounds: to deploy more complex ways of capturing the meanings and practices at play in everyday scenarios, without neglecting the sometimes invisible presences of other broader processes in which the notion of totality resonates.

Based on ethnographic work carried out in three secondary schools in the city of Córdoba, this paper proposes an approach to the different experiences that shape diverse and unequal modes of civic education, conceived in terms of structures, relationships, and processes. This involves giving substance to an anthropology of politics in motion, following
the traces of the experiences of the protagonists themselves. In this sense, decentering the classroom is one of the conditions that makes it possible to reconstruct this processual dynamic.
Then, conversely, it will be the very variations observed in the configuration of different ways of arriving at and inhabiting school settings that will allow us to identify the experiences and plots in which the political crystallizes. This double movement is one of the many intersections from which specific and situated forms of reflexivity are explored, tested, and interpreted, with a constant focus on understanding the experiences of citizenship and political participation among young people.

Divergent us

Carolina Álvarez — 2020-12-01

Education Department of the Museum of Anthropology

Free access, neoliberalism, and criticism

Carolina Rusca — 2020-10-18

The e-book Elección, Cuidado, Gratuidad (Choice, Care, Gratuitousness) brings together articles originally presented at the XV Conference on Political Philosophy: “Choice, Care, Gratuitousness,” which took place in the city of Córdoba between June 6 and 8, 2019. In this publication, you will find works that seek to imbue three words with meaning: choice, care, and gratuity in a context of material desolation, with a state ravaged by four years of debt policies and faced with the political urgencies of a situation in which the possibility of a change or renewal of government in Argentina was looming.

Philosophy of Science by Young Researchers

Ignacio Heredia — 2020-03-01

Philosophy of Science by Young Researchers Vol. 1 contains a selection of papers presented at the First Conference of Young Researchers in Philosophy of Science, held in Córdoba in June 2019. The publication is the result of the joint work of the members of the research group “Modeling, Simulating, and Experimenting: An Epistemological Analysis from Scientific Practices” (funded by SECyT and based at the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center, School of Philosophy, FFyH, UNC), in particular, students and graduates who have formed and run the organizing, evaluation, and editing committees throughout the year.

The selected works were evaluated by a student and a teacher, according to the specific topics addressed in each case. The aim of this decision is to build a horizontal and collaborative space between the different levels that make up our work teams. This edition aimed to promote philosophical discussion in the broad field of the philosophy of science, from and for young researchers, and responds to the desire to consolidate our philosophical community, strengthening local production by young researchers. Broadening the spectrum of discussion enriches us as a community and allows us to forge new dialogues between fields that are still not as close as they could be. We are confident in the academic and political power of this joint effort.

The book is part of the CIFFyH Collections, an initiative of the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center (FFyH) in conjunction with the FFyH Publications Department, which seeks to strengthen the production and dissemination of the Center's research groups' work, encourage the participation of students, graduates, and teachers in the production and circulation of knowledge, and create institutional spaces that enable such circulation.

Memories, what for?

Eliana Lacombe, — 2020-03-01

This book brings together lectures and presentations originally given at the Second International Seminar: Political Memories in Latin American Perspective, held at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina) from September 19 to 22, 2018. The seminar was organized and held in a context of sociopolitical upheaval in the region.

Proceedings of the Second Argentine Conference on Programming Education

Araceli Acosta — 2020-03-01

The Second Conference on Programming Education at the National University of Córdoba, which gave rise to this publication, was held in June 2019. Its objective was to bring together and listen to the community from across the country that was implementing innovations promoting the inclusion of computer science in schools.

(In)visible youth

Alejandra Soledad González — 2019-06-01

This paper studies some processes of constructing (in)visible youth, which were developed during the last Argentine dictatorship through cultural policies and artistic strategies. It sought to approach the political-social macrocosm and delve deeper into the artistic-plastic microcosm of the city of Córdoba. From a cultural history perspective, four objectives were outlined: 1) to explore representations and biopolitics of youth designed by the state; 2) to understand the meanings acquired by cultural policies dedicated to the world of the visual arts; 3) to investigate two performances with which officials deployed their symbolic power with varying intensity between 1976 and 1983: the celebrations for Youth Day and the ceremonies for the Founding Anniversary of Córdoba; 4) to investigate interstices of resistance, both material and symbolic, where some subjects (self-)identified as young people were able to preserve spaces to exercise freedom of expression. The analysis of written, oral, and visual historical sources corroborated how, between 1980 and 1983, cultural policies proliferated, inaugurating institutions and artistic events where young people in general, and young visual artists in particular, gained prominent visibility. From 1980 onwards, there was a steady increase in local and interprovincial exhibitions, the allocation of studios in neighborhood cultural centers, mural competitions at official festivals, and awards at the Salón and Premio Ciudad de Córdoba. These measures reached their peak in 1982 with the development of a municipal Youth Salon and a collective exhibition of Young Art that brought together more than a hundred works. These policies were supported by an official ideology that defended the existence of an all-out war against communism, which, from their point of view, was being waged on both material and spiritual levels. This, alongside the destructive phase that eliminated those people and ideas considered subversive, a constructive action was developed that proclaimed the reestablishment of a social order based on the values of God, Country, and Family. The year 1980 stands out as a turning point, as the official diagnosis celebrated the armed victory over Marxism but warned of its latent threat on the cultural level. Within this framework, cultural programs focused on the spiritual battle for hearts and minds, especially among young people, were intensified. At the same time, in a context that mixed repression, exceptions, and patronage, some actions by young artists (sometimes in collaboration with other social sectors) contributed creative strategies. Several tensions can be seen in the artistic productions, whose images we reproduce and interpret in this text. From traditional disciplines (drawing, sculpture, engraving, painting) to emerging genres (such as objects and installations), some creators constructed works that, through their themes, styles, titles, techniques, or materials, proposed existences that disrupted the aesthetic and ethical canons that underpinned official taste. At the same time, they reconstructed structures of feelings that reflected their contemporary experiences: uncertainty, violence, confusion, silence, absence, death, madness, and shocked characters and environments.

The adoption of a mathematical ontology in Alain Badiou's philosophy

Leandro Garcia Ponzo — 2019-06-01

This work explores the relationship between the ontology proposed by Alain Badiou and some of its indirect political consequences. It is a thesis that has been constructed. Firstly, it is based on an almost omnipresent political concern: that of the emancipation, even if only local, of the exploited and oppressed. In this sense, it has been driven by a need that is less theoretical than biographical. Added to this is a particular interest in a philosophy—and a philosopher—who has been obsessively concerned with the same issue. This interest also has an additional affiliation: a taste for Platonic philosophy, which predates even the writing of this thesis.
These three separate interests have ended up coming together, or at least that is something we hope to bring into play here. Badiou, himself a Platonist, advocates for the continuity of this libertarian philosophy in the lineage that opens up after Marx. He continues, as his teacher Althusser proposed, the exploration of that steep path that seeks to forge a materialist philosophy. To this end, he will discuss even Marx's conception of politics.

We believe that in this attempt, Badiou deploys an unprecedented strategy, in which the fundamental appeal will be to the figure of Plato. There, he will repeat a resource that has always been at the origin of systematic philosophy: the taking and use of the matheme, that is, the mathematical device as such, to grant it a specific ontological status. In this way, he will attempt to resolve other crucial issues in his quest to continue that materialist dynasty.
Thus, the hypothesis that underpins this paper is as follows: there is a fundamental operation, which can be called “good repetition” with respect to an original operation carried out by Plato, which allowed Badiou to rehabilitate philosophy and preserve a relatively effective emancipatory politics, but which today proves to be insufficient, both theoretically and practically. In turn, this insufficiency is inherent in the fundamental operation. The present investigation, then, will attempt to offer a detailed account of this transition, while also raising some questions—and perhaps answers—to the aforementioned insufficiency.

The role of instruments and simulation in contemporary astronomical observation

Maximiliano Bozzoli — 2019-06-01

This work revolves around philosophical reflection on the concept of observation in contemporary astronomy. It analyzes the technological development of the most important instruments of recent decades in this scientific discipline and attempts to answer the following questions: What is currently considered an astronomical observation? How is it carried out? And what are its epistemological “faces”? Specifically, it addresses the links between the most recent observational practices and the current observational instruments that contribute to them. As these practices have become more sophisticated, the traditional concept of observation has lost its ability to reflect subtle nuances of epistemological relevance. The techno-scientific components associated with the activity in the fields of observation and simulation have been investigated. Computing plays a central role in astronomical laboratories, and simulations establish key links in the processing of available information. Here we analyze how observations can be carried out through computational simulations, showing how these practices allow not only the development of heuristic guides in the resolution of specific observational problems, but also the generation of new knowledge in this discipline.

The metamorphosis undergone by the classical notion of observation has also been reflected in its very reflection. Through the morphological method, a meta-analysis is established that allows astronomical observations to be identified and classified.

Contemporaries of the world: politics of image and renewal in the poetic work of Joaquín O. Giannuzzi and other Argentine poets

Franca Maccioni — 2019-03-01

This study analyzes the relationships between the different variables involved in reading fluency in a group of second, third, and fourth grade elementary school children. Reading models, word recognition models, comprehension theories, and speech production theories are used as references. Likewise, in the case of fluency, the different perspectives that define the scope of this construct have been considered.

A writer in the open air: critical constructions and literary logic surrounding the figures of Roberto Bolaño's writers

Valeria Bril — 2019-03-01

This work examines the critical constructions and literary logic surrounding the figures of writers that Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) traces in his texts, mainly in his novels 2666 (2004) and The Savage Detectives (1998), which are characterized by his way of being a writer. This approach relates to Bolaño's own literary experience, since it translates from that experience as a privileged value for the constitution of his identity as a writer.

Divergent

Silvia Burgos — 2018-12-01

Education Department of the Museum of Anthropology

Semiotic transformations in the processes of defining mathematical objects

Mabel Panizza — 2018-03-01

This book presents the results of the author's doctoral thesis, carried out using a semiotic-linguistic approach under the supervision of Raymond Duval and consisting of two parts with different methodological characteristics.
The first part consists of an empirical study conducted in the fields of algebra, geometry, and mathematical analysis. Its purpose is to study how the operations that constitute the processes of defining mathematical objects are manifested in students' procedures. Among these operations, the author identifies those of observation, recognition, description, and naming.

The study establishes that students do not spontaneously conceive representative examples of a mathematical object, which is why the aforementioned operations are performed on a limited domain of instances and on few representations that bear the mark of particularity. The study also suggests that the symbolic or natural language descriptions that students make of the objects observed are based on local associations and are generally not adequate—either by excess or by default—for the objects they are trying to describe. These and other phenomena related to the categorization and naming of objects motivated the need to identify didactic conditions for an entry into the relevant definition from a mathematical point of view, which is the subject of the second part of the thesis.

The second part consists of a semiotic analysis of mathematical tasks that favor the expansion of students' field of familiar objects, the development of the ability to formulate verbal and symbolic descriptions appropriate to the objects they seek to characterize, and the understanding and use of explicitly formulated definitions. The cognitive and didactic variables identified promote construction and deconstruction through observation and description of new objects by means of tasks that require the identification of semantic categories and block discursive operations based on local associations that capture properties typical of representations of few examples.
The different types of The different types of expression substitution identified ensure discursive progress through a change of meaning and referential invariance, enabling access to and control of meanings and the operability of a definition in validation processes.

Informal Logic Learning and the Use of New Technologies for Argument Diagramming

Federico Ferrero — 2018-03-01

The thesis contemplates the intersection of three disciplinary areas: the Learning Theory of Vygotskian tradition, Informal Logic, and Educational Technology. Its purpose is to understand the dynamics of constitution, development, and transformation of the learning activity system oriented to diagramming arguments with software in university classes of "Informal Logic" (FFyH, UNC, Argentina). In fact, the research describes the system of activity established for diagramming arguments with Araucaria software. As a result, it shows the systemic perturbations that occur in it. Then, the research presents a new technologically possible diagrammatic system that tries both to overcome the systemic tensions warned and to stimulate new thinking forms. The main finding indicates that the modification of the system of argument diagramming enabled by the inclusion of digital technologies transforms the students’ learning practices in a double sense: the valuation of cognition in its plural manifestation and the enrichment of the original metacognitive activity. Thus, the systemic perturbations analyzed at the beginning can be solved when both the object and the motivation of the diagrammatic activity are transformed. Consequently, the institution of a different and innovative activity system can be enabled: the reticular diagramming.

Recent history of Córdoba

Silvia Romano — 2017-12-14

The second edition of “Recent Stories of Córdoba,” compiled by Silvia Romano, updates and expands the list of students, graduates, teachers, and non-teaching staff of the UNC who disappeared and were murdered in the 1970s as a result of illegal repression and state terrorism. This edition also strengthens the section of images recovered from audiovisual records of Canal 10 and Canal 12 in Córdoba and the bibliography and sources consulted.

As Silvia Romano points out in her foreword to this second edition of “Recent Stories of Córdoba,” in the four years between the first publication in November 2013 of Recent Stories of Córdoba—now out of print—and the digital version presented here, progress has been made in various aspects of research into the biographies and public careers of people from Córdoba who disappeared and were murdered in the 1970s as a result of illegal repression and state terrorism.

These advances warrant the updating, expansion, and dissemination of the list of students, graduates, faculty, and staff of the National University of Córdoba (UNC) contained in this volume. This was facilitated by the review of new documentation in the archives of the UNC and other universities in the province for the 1960s and 1970s, namely: the Catholic University of Córdoba (UCC), the National Technological University – Córdoba Faculty (UTN), and the National University of Río Cuarto (UNRC).

The continuity of the research, which included consultation of other sources, contributions from family members, as well as testimonies given at the Mega causa La Perla trial, made it possible to improve the knowledge gained in the historical reconstruction of the group of victims of repression that we published in the book Colectivos y parcialidades políticas y sociales. Los desparecidos y asesinados de Córdoba en los 70 (Political and social groups and factions. The disappeared and murdered of Córdoba in the 1970s).

This volume brings together texts that address somewhat diverse dimensions and issues, which warrant the use of “histories” in the title of the book, as they constitute visions focused on specific historical processes, areas, and time periods and propose perspectives on certain actors of the past, or emphasize making visible the “backroom of research” that allows them to construct their contributions. They can also be thought of as pieces of a puzzle with no pretensions of composing the whole, united by political history and human rights in a broad sense. Even though the disciplinary backgrounds of their authors are diverse, they share the purpose of historicizing aspects of the recent past and the motivation to know, understand, and interpret it on their own terms.

Leading figures in the new Cordoba theater scene. Interviews. Theater, politics, and university, 1965–1975

Artemia Barrionuevo — 2017-12-01

This is one of three digital books produced by the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities and the Institute of Performing Arts at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) as part of the research project “Theater, Politics, and University: Córdoba, 1965-1975.”

The three books are being published jointly by the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities Press and the Institute of Performing Arts of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (UBA). As Jorge Dubatti points out in the prologue “Towards a Cartography of Argentine Theaters” of the book that begins the series, “these three volumes represent a fundamental contribution to the knowledge of Argentine theaters (in the plural) and to the construction of an increasingly complex and rich national theatrical cartography,” adding that “the research works brought together in the three volumes fulfill this condition of radical cartography, mapped thinking, and an invitation to dialogue on cartographies beyond Córdoba.”

The works were produced as part of the research project “Theater, Politics, and University: Córdoba, 1965-1975,” carried out between 1996 and 1999 at the Center for Advanced Studies, directed by Horacio Crespo and co-directed by Nora Zaga. The project was subsequently based, between 2000 and 2010, at the Research Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (UNC), under the direction of Adriana Musitano and co-directed by Nora Zaga.

The publication of the three volumes was subsidized by the Secretariat of Science and Technology, National University of Córdoba, and endorsed by the Department of Theater of the Faculty of Arts (UNC), the Argentine Association of Theater Research and Criticism (AINCRIT), and the Latin American Network of Performing Arts Documentation Centers.

Children's Square

María Cristina Boixadós — 2017-07-01

The Memorias de mi Plaza collection is an initiative of the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of Córdoba, which requested the collaboration of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC through the Vice-Dean's Office and the Extension Secretariat. This edition recovers facts, stories, and accounts of the Plaza located in front of the Bus Terminal, which was known interchangeably as Plazoleta Rawson or Plaza de los Niños because it was close to the hospitals of the same name; and which undoubtedly provided the area with a place for rest and relaxation. In the text, we find accounts of the transformations that this place has undergone over time.

Aguilera Square

María Cristina Boixadós — 2017-06-01

The Memorias de mi Plaza collection is an initiative of the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of Córdoba, which requested the collaboration of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC through the Vice-Dean's Office and the Extension Secretariat. This edition recovers facts, stories, and accounts of the Plaza erected in honor of former municipal mayor Mr. Américo Aguilera, who during his tenure worked on the development of the area, making it today a place cherished by the residents of the General Paz neighborhood. In the text, we find accounts of the transformations that this place has undergone over time.

Spain Square

María Cristina Boixadós — 2017-05-05

The Memorias de mi Plaza collection is an initiative of the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of Córdoba, which requested the collaboration of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC through the Vice-Dean's Office and the Extension Secretariat. This edition recovers facts, stories, and accounts of Plaza España, erected in honor of the country of reference. This green space was conceived with the purpose of connecting the park with the city, alluding to Sarmiento Park, which gradually became part of the urban and social fabric. In the text, we find accounts of the transformations that this place has undergone over time.

The fluent reading relationship between textual characteristics and word recognition, comprehension, and prosodic features

Vanesa De Mier — 2017-03-01

The thesis is developed in three studies. In two of them, theoretical models are proposed on the relationships between the variables involved in fluency, analyzed using SEM (structural equation modeling). In the first model, the relationships between word recognition, phonological processing skills, vocabulary, and comprehension are analyzed, taking into account the role of memory in the reading process. The second model focuses on the role of prosody as an indicator of reading comprehension, also considering the role of vocabulary, decoding, and memory. The third study in this thesis addresses the weight of textual factors in reading comprehension and explores the difficulties that children may encounter when comprehending different types of texts.

The results show that the development of reading fluency is a more complex process (construct) than some positions suggest, in which only speed and accuracy in reading isolated words are used as indicators. In addition to helping to specify the cognitive mechanisms underlying the development of reading fluency aloud, the results have educational implications as they allow us to consider which factors favor the reading learning process.

Power relations, social imaginaries, and identity practices in contemporary Bolivian narrative 2000-2010

Magdalena González Almada — 2017-03-01

This research analyzes a corpus of narrative texts published in Bolivia between 2000 and 2010 written by Edmundo Paz Soldán, Giovanna Rivero, Juan Pablo Piñeiro, Maximiliano Barrientos, Liliana Colanzi, Sebastián Antezana, and Rodrigo Hasbún. The corpus is examined from three conceptual perspectives: power relations, social imaginaries, and identity practices. The dynamics of power relations are understood as a way of thinking about a possible social organization, from its macro to its micro levels, in which configurations of the ways in which subjects relate to each other appear. The concept of social imaginaries assumes that societies try to explain themselves based on imaginary meanings that allow us to understand the ways in which the social and the cultural are articulated. Identity practices allow us to define an identity based on the observation and analysis of various social practices. This conceptual matrix, then, makes it possible to analyze the corpus based on certain problematizations that are developed throughout the work.
In its theoretical aspects, the research recovers and dialogues with the critical work of both Bolivian researchers and those from Córdoba and the rest of Argentina, this being one of its most original aspects. On a methodological level, the work addresses
the analysis of the Bolivian literary tradition in tension with contemporary text.

This research analyzes a corpus of narrative texts published in Bolivia between 2000 and 2010. The study of Bolivian literature also involves an in-depth analysis of the social and political dynamics affecting this Andean-Amazonian country. In this regard, the analysis of categories such as territory, writing, and identity, among others, is
fundamental to this work.

Theater, politics, and university

Adriana Musitano — 2017-03-01

This is one of three volumes of digital books produced by the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities and the Institute of Performing Arts at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), as part of the research project “Theater, Politics, and University: Córdoba, 1965-1975.”

Literature and Peronism

Juan Ezequiel Rogna — 2017-03-01

The main objectives of the thesis were to study the treatment of popular culture in Argentine narrative that addressed/problematized Peronism during the 2000s and to systematize the study of such literary expressions in light of the civilization/barbarism formula and the advent of Kirchnerism.
First, we traced a theoretical-critical path around popular culture understood as an “otherness” with respect to the cultured-civilized-literate paradigm and national, popular, and democratic movements as a “political and cultural otherness” in contrast to the conservative-liberal model. At the same time, we understand Peronism as a political, social, and cultural phenomenon that produces its own “otherness” and identify its oxymoronic logic.
Subsequently, we devoted four chapters to the analysis of the corpus. In the first, we pointed out the emergence of a certain “literary revisionism” which, framed within the Argentine post-dictatorship narrative, came to participate in the discursive front deployed around the actions of armed organizations during the 1970s. The second chapter complemented the previous one and was intended to observe the links between sexual otherness, political violence, and revolutionary militancy. The third chapter dealt with Eva Perón and her current literary relevance; there we attempted to piece together a map of the strategies employed by contemporary narrators when modeling her figure. Finally, we studied works inscribed in the new Argentine narrative; in this way, we focused our analysis on certain particularities presented by young writers when approaching Peronism and its constitutive relationships with the popular culture of the Buenos Aires suburbs.

The buzz of humor

Ana Beatriz Flores — 2017-03-01

The rumor of humor, the title we chose for this book, evokes that discourse that dissipates, that enters labyrinths or holes through which it is lost, that adapts to a concreteness that transforms itself; the impossible place, says R. Robin about rumor, which is linked both to the implicit and the explicit, voices, indices of the significance of the ideological. When the rumor is humor, like the air expelled in laughter, it mixes into the social atmosphere, becoming the oxygenation of a certain community. Its oxygen and its sign. A sign of the rules that are being questioned, of the hegemonic discourses whose normality is exposed with a critical accent, of the underlying conflict, of the clichés and stereotypes to be exposed and dismantled, of the effect of normalization to be deconstructed. The link between humor and rumor is what makes explicit the implicit but doubly twisted law: what it shows is its denial, that is, the denial of the norm (through irony), its exaggeration (through satire and caricature), its devaluing imitation (through parody) to destabilize the norm.

This book contains attempts to explain and describe the humorous fluidity that, in its many manifestations, permeates culture across different eras and media. These attempts were presented at the Research Conference: Innovation, Ruptures, and Transformations in Argentine Humorous Culture, which sought to account for manifestations, innovation, ruptures, and transformations, as well as readings of tradition in Argentine and Latin American humorous culture.

Most of the articles in this book are reworkings, in terms of length, intensity, and complexity, of the majority of the presentations we shared and discussed at the conference. They bear traces of the discussions and questions that, despite the limited time available, dominated the participants' contributions. Even those that remained oral and are not included in this book. Because at no point did we lose sight of the fact that we were dealing with the politics of humor.

Daily practices, levels of physical activity, and ways of life in populations of the southern sector of the Pampas mountains during the late Holocene

Soledad Salega — 2017-03-01

The objective of this study is to examine the archaeological populations that inhabited the southern sector of the Sierras Pampeanas and the northwest of the Pampean Region during the late Holocene, from a bioarchaeological perspective. More specifically, the research focuses on the study of levels of physical activity as a way of approaching the daily practices carried out by the pre-Hispanic populations that inhabited these regions.

We are interested in understanding the uses of the body, which are related to the daily practices carried out by people—in particular, those practices linked to subsistence, craft, and mobility activities, which can be inferred from bone markers—as well as estimating the influence that processes such as plant domestication, sedentary life, or social grouping may have had on these practices.

To this end, three groups of bone indicators were taken into consideration: degenerative changes, enthesial changes, and extra facets, impressions, and joint extensions. The results obtained indicate, on the one hand, that there would have been a change in physical activity levels over time, with a decrease in the late Holocene, which is not consistent with what is expected from data provided by other bioindicators and the archaeological record.

On the other hand, the regional differences detected suggest that in the Plains area, the higher frequencies of the markers analyzed from an early age would refer to more marked physical wear and tear compared to that recorded in the Mountains, which in turn may suggest issues of mobility and travel (over greater distances or involving greater physical effort) linked to the procurement of foreign raw materials.

Speech and Power in Greece and Rome

Agustín Moreno — 2017-03-01

The history of the National Workshop on Ancient History and Classical Studies dates back to 2012, an event that was part of the Interdisciplinary Program of Classical Studies (PIEC) of the Center for Research and Studies on Culture and Society (CIECS, CONICET-UNC). It was able to continue over time thanks to the financial support it received in its various editions from the Secretariat of Research, Science, and Technology of the National University of Córdoba and the institutional endorsement of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities.

The objectives of the workshop are to provide a forum for dialogue on a specific topic, allowing for the exchange of questions and working hypotheses, with an emphasis on discussing the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the invited participants' ongoing research. At the same time, it seeks to create and strengthen ties with other research groups in the country and abroad, as well as to provide a forum for those interested in the ancient world to access scientific knowledge not only as passive listeners, but also as active participants during the open discussions that follow each presentation.

Discourse and Power in Greece and Rome: Readings from History and Literature is the first issue of the Interpretatio collection, Cuadernos del PIEC, which brings together works by five specialists in the field of Greco-Roman classical studies discussed at the III National Workshop on Ancient History and Classical Studies, “Discourse and Power.” In the first chapter, Diego Paiaro focuses on the discursive constructions of the “liberation” of Athens in the political confrontations during the establishment of democracy.

The new theater in Cordoba

Adriana Musitano — 2017-03-01

The work of Paul Celan

Hugo Echague — 2017-03-01

This thesis proposes a study of the published poetic works of Paul Celan (1920-1970), with references to his theoretical texts, the Bremen Speech (1958) and The Meridian (1961). The controversy surrounding the meaning of this author's work, which points to the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis against Jews, as well as against homosexuals, Gypsies, and Germans or citizens of other countries whose ideology opposed the dictatorial and murderous government that ruled Germany between 1933 and 1945. The victims of the extermination camps number in the millions. Paul Celan dedicated his work to confronting this crime, taking the voice of the victims as his witness. This led him into constant confrontation with critics, who wanted to see him only as a precious poet, an avant-gardist alien to history—even from the opposition to the regime, he was attacked from that position. They failed to see that Celan's supposed hermeticism responded to a greater design: to rectify the German poetic language, subjecting it to a revision as indicated by the author we follow in our work, the critical philologist Jean Bollack (1923-2012). Celan subverted language from within, especially in relation to certain German poets who were used to justify Nazi ideology, such as Hölderlin and Rilke, which led him to rewrite them, to counter them with his own words. Thus, Celan's poetry constructs a world of words, taking up German war and hymn poetry to turn it against itself, to make it say what it should have said in order not to collaborate, even unwittingly, with the crimes; to make it say the nothingness to which it has been reduced by the atrocities in which it was implicated.

This mechanism, with its dual operation—one autonomous, in which words from history, including poetry, are reshaped in often enigmatic ways, and a second, heteronomous moment, in which the work, thus rewritten, returns to history—is what we identify as the key to his writing. In this way, Paul Celan's poetry has confronted crime, not as a mere complaint or denunciation, but as the remaking of a language that had been perverted and destroyed through the years of lies and death that lasted throughout the regime. The implementation of this approach, in our analysis of model poems from Paul Celan's work, shows this intention to renew language, and with it life in its entirety, thus intertwining poetry with poetics, metapoetics, and ethics, since his work reflects on itself and its own making and thus becomes metapoetic, just as its aesthetics are identified with ethics. This perspective, which destroys the presumption of an indecipherable poet, proposes to put these keys into action to show the achievement of his enormous poetic work, which seeks to establish a memory that is more than a return to trauma, but rather installs a memory that does not cease, so that it is not forgotten, so that a dignified life is still possible.

Digital interaction in the classroom. The processes of meaning-making in the use of computer simulations in secondary school

Andrea Miranda — 2017-03-01

This research deepens our understanding of the interaction processes that are constructed when interactive digital tools are included in secondary school classrooms. In particular, it studies activities carried out in physics classrooms in which computer simulations are used.
Digital interaction is at the core of the analysis. The study focuses on understanding how digital interaction influences social interactions and content, while also being influenced by them. The narrative of the activity makes it possible to reconstruct the students' actions, what they do and say during the interaction.

The results indicate that simulations can become tools for conceptualizing physical phenomena to the extent that the limitations of the underlying computational model are identified. They also highlight the importance of teacher guidance and intervention in addressing the diversity and complexity of these learning situations.
When interacting with simulations, argumentative constructions are developed based on what they represent and the available conceptual references. Constructions that seek to confirm or refute conjectures engage digital interaction. Thus, the variety of interactive situations during the activity is directly related to the discovery and exploration of the tool's functionality. The exploration of disciplinary content is restricted by the understanding of the tool's functionality. In turn, the potential of interactive tools becomes visible to the subject the more they delve into their understanding of the school content.
The study of the argumentative sequences of a learning situation with interactive tools allows us to identify the stages in which these tools progressively acquire the character of an instrument. It is possible to ascertain the degree of appropriation of the tools and the factors that determine it.

Paseo de las Artes

María Cristina Boixadós — 2017-02-06

The Memorias de mi Plaza collection is an initiative of the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of Córdoba, which requested the collaboration of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC through the Vice-Dean's Office and the Extension Secretariat. This edition recovers facts, stories, and accounts of the Paseo de las Artes, a place named Plaza de Carretas in 1862, which functioned as a merchants' market that evolved over time without losing its essence; today, it hosts a crafts fair, cultural activities, and gastronomic events. The text includes accounts of the transformations that this place has undergone over the years.

Anthropology in the first person

Museo de Antropologías — 2016-09-24

Letters and stories for curious young people.

Institutions, subjects, and contexts

Olga Silvia Ávila — 2016-06-01

This volume compiles the work carried out within the framework of the project: “Institutions, subjects, and social transformations. Critical intersections and instituting processes in the education of children and young people,” subsidized by Secyt-UNC and based at the “María Saleme de Burnichón” Research Center of the UNC Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities.

The project brings together the work carried out by the team in recent years and focuses on the study of institutions, subjects, and social transformations, proposing an articulated view of the school as an institution constituted from collective practices, the experiences of childhood/adolescence in their pluralities and heterogeneities, and recent processes in urban contexts. Taking into account the socio-historical configuration of local spaces, the aim was to analyze institutional developments and transformations within these networks, the place of subjects and the subjective elaborations coined in these plots, as well as the constructions of childhood/adolescence in community organizations and their school articulations.

It is worth noting that this first effort to produce a publication based on educational research—which has already been discussed with fellow researchers at various scientific events—aims to go beyond academic boundaries and strengthen the dialogue already initiated through various proposals with teachers, administrators, professionals in the system, teacher training students, members of organizations concerned with education, and all those interested in sharing and comparing perspectives and questions in the field of issues addressed in these pages.

Educational innovation in history and other social sciences classes

Laura Valdemarca — 2016-06-01

Those of us who created this book as the Microfilm Research and Production Team participated as researchers in the project Memory and Recent History: Search, Preservation, Uses, and Research Based on Oral Testimonies, based at the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center at the National University of Córdoba.

The project to produce audiovisual materials on local and recent history began several years ago and addressed two concerns that have been on our minds for many years. On the one hand, we worked with oral sources to reconstruct processes of recent and local history, generally very close in time and involving issues that affected so-called minorities: families and/or women living in poverty, political persecutees forced into exile or internal exile, illegal occupants of land on which they built their homes and organized their daily lives, etc. During the interviews, our witnesses often recounted anecdotes or episodes that we felt were suitable for capturing the attention of a teenager in a history class.

This led to the second question: how to make the analysis of historical processes meaningful for adolescents and in secondary school and contribute to the re-legitimization of the educational system as a space for knowledge construction, while at the same time spreading to other audiences the fascination that we feel for investigating the past. The initial intention of the project was to recover everyday life in order to teach history in secondary school. Then other questions arose. One of them concerns the potential of oral testimony to help understand the climate of an era, because those who transmit their experiences do so from a very personal perspective, helping us to understand what the protagonist felt during the episode being narrated. It was a first opportunity to rethink and respond to the teaching of history from a more friendly perspective than that of the school textbook, which generally presents an immobile structure that is alien and distant from the reality of a student in Cordoba.

These initial questions and insights were extremely useful in helping us overcome our deep concern about the teaching of history, which was rooted in a greater and more profound distress felt by many history teachers and historians and stemmed from the crisis in secondary and sometimes even university education. The questions we asked ourselves among colleagues could be summarized as: why teach history in a world that repeats its failures in various forms of material and symbolic violence, from persecution to exploitation, discrimination, poverty, and exclusion? Perhaps what needs to be changed is the question itself, and it is no longer just the content of history, but the method and how to teach history in order to rethink a better society. After all, perhaps history class is one of the few opportunities that children and adolescents have to learn about our past and understand it from a place of action, criticism, openness, and concern for citizenship; a past that is not closed in the way it is generally explained by the historiography adopted in schools and that perhaps does not go anywhere in particular, as intended by a teleology of history, now outdated in university classrooms but still present in common sense, even among many history teachers and most citizens.

It is possible to continue teaching on “autopilot,” pretending that everything is fine, and this is the alternative chosen by many teachers at all levels. However, it is more complicated to continue teaching in a crisis situation because crises challenge us, irritate us, and often force us to find answers. From our work and experience as teachers and researchers at Argentine public universities, we also try to provide some answers to this question. The first step was to imagine new materials whose format would be more relevant to the subject we are teaching, the one with whom we must generate the empathy necessary for learning: the 21st-century teenager. This is the young person who is caught between childhood and adulthood, whose era is that of video games and channel surfing, and who is also the future citizen of a globalized world, where time and space—two fundamental components of history—take on unusual dimensions due to the use of technology.

The construction of citizenship in the pedagogical discourse of liberal Protestantism

Eunice Noemí Rebolledo Fica — 2016-03-01

In this research, we focus on reconstructing an educational historical narrative that was woven into the political, social, and cultural fabric of a period of great significance for the construction of national identity. The conditions under which it was produced reflected a series of political and social confrontations surrounding the expansion and consolidation of the nation. We examine the pedagogical discourses produced and disseminated by liberal Protestants in Argentina during the early decades of the 20th century, who conceived and articulated an educational project aimed at addressing the shortcomings of the state among the poor and marginalized sectors of the city of Buenos Aires.
The period we address corresponds to the duration of the educational project (1898-1932), during which we analyze its process of genesis, consolidation, and disappearance. Its mentor, the English immigrant William Case Morris, was also the director of the monthly publication LA REFORMA: revista de religión, educación, historia y ciencias sociales (LA REFORMA: magazine of religion, education, history, and social sciences), a documentary source used in this study.

The range of issues addressed, including educational subjects, moral education and its projection into patriotism, training for work, democracy and social order, and the dissemination of science, among others, formed the core of discursive differentiation in confrontation with other discourses that shaped the political debate on education. They were articulated in diverse, sometimes contradictory ways in the meanings that citizenship acquired for liberal Protestantism in the dynamic and complex national and international political context that characterized the period.
The pedagogical discourse disseminated in this publication was articulated with a political and social project that was promoted and driven fundamentally in opposition to intransigent Catholicism and in alliance with secular liberalism, although it differed from the latter in that it introduced elements of Protestant religiosity into thinking about education.
In particular, we question the formation of citizenship, as it unfolded in the struggle for hegemony. In relation to this central concern, a wide variety of discourses were developed by intellectuals and national and foreign officials, which fed into the discursive practices of those who participated in the educational project, some of whom would occupy strategic positions in the Argentine state apparatus.

Relations between the State and the world of work

Patricia Roggio — 2016-03-01

The purpose of this compilation is to disseminate sources that shed light on issues related to the world of work, an expression that refers to a wide range of topics: the actions of trade unions, their ideological orientation, labor parties, material living conditions, cultural frameworks, and the relationships between workers and the state and other social actors. The expression involves the State, from the perspective of institutional construction, through which it acted as a mediator between capital and labor, both to satisfy demands and to apply repressive policies through the security forces.

From responsibility for the other man to responsibility for the world in the work of Emmanuel Levinas

María Soledad Ale — 2016-03-01

From responsibility for the other man to
responsibility for the world in the work of
Emmanuel Levinas

Córdoba 40 years after the coup

Ana Carol Solís — 2016-03-01

On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the last and most fateful coup d'état perpetrated in Argentina, some professors of Contemporary Argentine History at the Faculty of Communication Sciences, National University of Córdoba, considered it appropriate to publish a book that would bring together a series of scattered studies on the themes of Córdoba and dictatorship.

Originally, the central idea was to produce a text that would address research concerns on topics from the recent past with a strong territorial anchor, reflecting the unique characteristics that differentiate us from the rest of the country. With this in mind, and in order to enrich the project, various individuals who had been working on related topics were invited to contribute their insights and expertise. Although, for various reasons, not everyone was able to participate, eight research projects were coordinated that express the main lines of debate and historical inquiry on the subject.

This book brings together eight chapters grouped into four sections that reflect experiences of militancy, repression, the press, and continuities between the dictatorship and the present.

First, the concern for bringing together the reconstruction of the universe of those who suffered reprisals and studies of militancy is integrated into the chapter by Alicia Servetto and Ana Noguera dedicated to constructing a profile of the militants of the armed revolutionary organizations of Córdoba.

Secondly, from a counterrevolutionary perspective, Eliana Lacombe's chapter analyzes the so-called Marxist infiltration as a political-religious enemy.

Thirdly, regarding the broad and diverse debate that has been taking place in recent years about the armed struggle and, in particular, about the militaristic deviations of some left-wing organizations, Gabriel Montali analyzes the political and military action of the Communist Organization Workers' Power (OCPO), which in Córdoba—between 1974 and 1976—became the third most important revolutionary organization behind Montoneros and the PRT-ERP.

Fourthly, and in relation to union activism, Ana Elisa Arriaga presents an overview of the impact of violence and state repression among electrical workers in Córdoba, addressing both the progressive loss of collective rights in terms of the weakening of their capacity for union action and the curtailment of individual labor rights.

Fifth, based on the murder of nine university students in Córdoba in early December 1975, Melisa Paiaro focuses on the formation and actions of the self-styled Comando Libertadores de América (Liberators of America Command).

Sixth, regarding violence suffered in the field of social communication, Pablo Ponza and José Soaje examine the continuity and rupture of repressive actions against journalists and the print media in Córdoba, based on the unique political scenario that began with the Navarrazo.

Seventh, in the field of human rights, Ana Carol Solis explores the ways in which the press did or did not favor the creation of an alternative common sense regarding reports of violations committed, one that was supportive of the cause of the victims of reprisals, their families, and their loved ones.

Eighth and last, Marta Philp investigates how the dictatorship based its actions on key ideas about the political order, the role of different social sectors, and Argentina's place in the world.
Libertadores de América Command.

Philosophical thought from intellectual marginality. The marginal identifications of Benjaminian discourse

Julio Alejandro Páez — 2016-03-01

This paper proposes to reconstruct Benjamin's philosophical thought from the category of “marginality.” In this way, his thought is interpreted as inclined will that situates, locates, and installs itself) to constantly seek out the margins of different blocks so that, from this new position, he can build something totally different (exercise his power). In this sense, such thinking would be ‘strange’ and in keeping with his own existence, which was decentralized and marginal, an existence that found him as an outsider.
The approach mainly proposes a ‘conceptual axis’ (genealogical identification of ideas and concepts, with which Benjamin established identifications and constructed elective affinities) complemented by another ‘biographical-contextual’ axis (Benjamin's production in relation to the marginalizing states that affected his personal and social life) focused on the
historical and socio-political context surrounding his production. The result is that thinking from the margins, which as his life progresses is more or less consistent with his existence: at first he seeks the margins in the academic sphere, then in the sphere of the Weimar Republic, and finally in the sphere of exile (absence of space). Thus, once his thinking has been constructed from the place of ‘intellectual marginality’, it will no longer be considered unfortunate or anecdotal, but quite the contrary, it will be the necessary foundation consciously and deliberately sought so that once he is in that position, he can formulate an original alternative of thought and expression.

Political and social groups and factions

Silvia Romano — 2016-03-01

The purpose of this edition is to disseminate the current status of our research on those who disappeared and were murdered in Córdoba between 1969 and 1983 as a result of illegal repression, parastatal terror, and state terrorism. It is, in a way, a continuation but also an update of two previous books (Vidas y ausencias. Destinatarios de la represión, Córdoba 1969-1983 [Lives and Absences: Targets of Repression, Córdoba 1969-1983] and Historias recientes de Córdoba. Política y derechos humanos en la segunda mitad del siglo XX [Recent History of Córdoba: Politics and Human Rights in the Second Half of the 20th Century]) and now includes other contributions related to this subject.

Thought of in terms of groups and partialities, as it deals with a heterogeneous universe of social and political subjects—of diverse ages, genders, occupations, educational backgrounds, and political and union experiences— in our view, they have in common the fact that they were victims, if not “privileged” targets, of a spiral of repressive violence for political purposes that, from the mid-1970s onwards, reached aberrant and unprecedented dimensions in Argentine history.

he printed version of the book Colectivos y parcialidades políticas y sociales (Political and Social Groups and Factions) has been revised for this digital publication. The main purpose was to correct spelling mistakes and other errors that were noticed, as is often the case, after rereading the texts. The most significant errors were corrected with an errata sheet inserted in the printed book. Some clarifications and additional information obtained during the revision process were also included.
Despite this, we are aware that, given the volume of information handled in the compilation of the List of People from Córdoba who disappeared and were murdered in the 1970s, and above all due to the dispersion and fragmentary nature of the information, errors may still exist.

Despite this, we are aware that given the volume of information handled in the preparation of the List of people from Córdoba who disappeared and were murdered in the 1970s, and above all due to the dispersion and fragmentary nature of the available sources, other clarifications will emerge over time. This will be particularly true based on the contributions we may receive to amend possible errors and improve the knowledge achieved to date. We understand that open access to this publication will contribute to expanding and enriching the biographies and trajectories of the people included in the List, to including others, and, in short, to continuing to recover part of the history of our recent past.

If you have any information to contribute, please write to us at the following email address: archfilm@ffyh.unc.edu.ar

Voices and social actors in Marco Denev's narrative

Nicolás D. Abadie — 2015-03-12

In Voices and Social Actors in Marco Denevi's Narrative: A Political Examination through Oral Fiction, Nicolás Abadie analyzes the narrative of Marco Denevi (1920-1998), as it involves the social stratum of individuals belonging to the controversial Argentine middle class as its main actors. Through the literary device of oral tradition, Denevi's texts seem to mediate between context and expression, creating the effect that the characters express themselves naturally and spontaneously. Within these configurations, the political analysis of the situation takes on special significance.

OCCUPATIONAL IMAGES AND THEIR CONSTITUTIVE PROCESSES. A CASE STUDY

Elena del Carmen Moiraghi — 2015-02-19

In this e-book, Tomás Vera Barros explores the poetic language of Girondo, Fijman, Pizarnik, and Lamborghini, constructing a complex map of authors, texts, and circulations within a conception of criticism that produces multiple articulations, alerts us to internal processes within the Argentine intellectual field, and reveals a particular conception of literature and its limits.

OCCUPATIONAL IMAGES AND THEIR CONSTITUTIVE PROCESSES. A CASE STUDY

Tomás Vera Barros — 2015-02-19

This book is the result of in-depth case research focused on a pressing, complex, and current issue: vocational guidance. To this end, Elena Moiraghi delves into the constituent processes that shape the occupational and professional images of the different groups involved in choosing and making decisions about their future, which are part of the society and culture to which they belong.

Critical dictionary of humor terms and brief encyclopedia of Argentine humor culture

Ana Beatriz Flores — 2014-12-11

The book consists of two parts: the first is a critical dictionary of terms used in the study of humor, which brings together, in a systematic and user-friendly way, the most common definitions of the categories used to study it. The second part is a brief encyclopedia that provides an overview of some Argentine humorous productions. The selection prioritizes humorous works that are not so commercial and/or that produce aesthetic innovations (in literature, theater, graphic humor, shows), as well as everyday practices that are generally invisible.

Biographical overview of leaders who challenged the world of work in Córdoba, 1900–1950

Gardenia Vidal — 2014-12-11

“I have always found prosopographic work on the individuals we study to be extremely useful for gaining insight beyond the political or social logic on which we focus our research, because it allows us to understand subjectivities that undoubtedly enrich the historical context we are working with. That is why, while conducting our studies, we have decided to devote ourselves to collecting data on the outstanding individuals in each of our investigations in order to get closer to the everyday world of those who made up each group and had an impact in one way or another on the world of work. For the time being, and as this is our first systematization, we have decided to call it a Biographical Review, clarifying that the objective is to continue with it and turn our work into a Dictionary of leaders who were busy and concerned—albeit for different reasons—with workers," Vidal points out.

This project stems from studies focused on specific associations and political forces. In this sense, it does not cover the entire universe of leaders who intervened on behalf of the working classes, whether as legislators, members of associations, politicians, union activists, etc., Nor is it a list of figures structured according to criteria of public relevance, but rather a group of individuals who appeared in the specific research of the group's members and whose biographical data was sought out and systematized with the intention of contributing to the knowledge of unique actors through their participation in certain organizations. This objective does not prevent the biographies of several individuals who did not come from the world of work, but rather were clearly members of the local elite; in any case, all the protagonists are connected in one way or another to that world.

Expressing opinions and speaking one's mind

Gustavo Giménez — 2014-10-14

Those who participated in the preparation of this publication are a group of professors who coordinate the Teaching Practice and Residency seminars (Humanities area) and Language Teaching I seminars for Modern Humanities teachers at the UNC Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. In addition to the teaching work that brings them together in these spaces, they participate in a research team interested in studying, among other things, the ways in which content related to language, texts, language, or discourse is reconstructed for teaching in the language textbooks used in language classrooms and classes.

In this book, the focus is particularly on argumentation or argumentative discourse as a subject of teaching in school textbooks. It is worth highlighting three reasons that make argumentation a relevant topic in language teaching today: the apparent hegemony that studies on argumentation have gained in the field of linguistic and/or discourse studies; its relative “novelty” as an object of systematic reflection in the universe of language teaching content; and the centrality that has been given to it in the educational goals set out in official curriculum documents in this area.

These, then, are some of the ideas that motivated the concern to address and deepen the study of the teaching of argumentative discourse through school textbooks, on the one hand, and the need to design a didactic alternative in this regard to accompany the work of teachers in the classroom, on the other. Both motives make up the two main parts into which this book is organized.

The first part contains chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, with conceptual developments on argumentation and advances from different perspectives on the interpretation of the teaching of argumentation through school textbooks. The second part offers a specific teaching proposal that we have entitled “opining and saying one's own.” The title attempts to express an educational aspiration of the entire team: that the student's argumentative participation should not be the “end point” of the activity to interpret what others say and reinforce the same meanings, but rather the “starting point.” That is, to mobilize the students' own experience and words to weave them together (and confront them, why not?) with those of professional debaters (columnists, journalists, politicians, etc.).

This second part is divided into sequences. Each sequence has its own development, alternatives, and appendices with examples, texts, etc., with the idea that each teacher who reads it can implement it as is or redefine it in and for their own practice.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient History IV

Cecilia Ames — 2014-08-30

This volume brings together the contributions of the guest speakers at the Fourth National Conference – Third International Conference – on Ancient History, which took place in the city of Córdoba (Argentine Republic) on May 21, 22, 23, and 24, 2012.

These conferences began in 2005 following a call for papers issued by the Department of Ancient History at the National University of Córdoba (AR), aimed at scholars of the Ancient World, with a view to strengthening the links between Ancient Eastern History, Greco-Roman History and Classical Studies, and bringing together teachers and researchers from universities in Argentina and abroad.

The motivation and organization of the event has always been based on an interdisciplinary approach, given that the fundamental objective is to create a space for the convergence of different disciplines that share common issues surrounding the Ancient East and the Classical World and their different projections, in the conviction that Antiquity continues to be, even today, a space in and from which to discuss and reflect on central issues in the social sciences and humanities.

In accordance with these guidelines, the four calls for papers issued to date (2005, 2007, 2009, and 2012) have attracted historians, archaeologists, philologists, philosophers, and specialists in art and ancient religions, with the aim of representing all areas of knowledge and, thereby, all alternative approaches and interpretations of the different issues, thus reaffirming the interdisciplinary nature of the meeting.

The different articles that make up this volume do not revolve around a specific theme but rather address the fundamental points of research, perspectives, and problems of antiquity, developed in recent years by the disciplines involved in its study, hence this volume represents an update.

Contributions to thinking about archival science in the 21st century, from research, outreach, and practice

Jaqueline Vassallo — 2014-08-26

Archival science has undergone a radical transformation in recent decades, occupying a prominent place in both Europe and Latin America. Various factors have contributed to its scientific and professional development, including regulatory frameworks governing archives, the advancement of professional associations, the establishment of numerous institutionalized and non-institutionalized working groups at the national and international levels, and, of course, the formal introduction of archival studies in public and private universities.

The Third Conference on Archival Reflection (2013), co-organized by the Alumni Association of the School of Archival Science and the Secretariat of Research, Science, and Technology of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities—with the endorsement of the School of Archival Science— provided a space for meeting and reflection attended by more than a hundred teachers, professionals, and students, with the participation of more than twenty speakers from the U.N.C., CONICET, the Judicial Branch of the Province of Córdoba, the Catholic University of Córdoba, the National University of La Rioja, and representatives of R&D projects based at the International Council on Archives, UNESCO.

It was a space in which the aim was to share with the various agents in the archival field the knowledge generated in different institutions and in which everyone could give an account, in the first person, of their knowledge production processes and professional practices.

Given that the event sparked discussions and debates in the room—but also in the hallways and during coffee breaks—it was considered important to have a follow-up event to revisit the experiences shared and the results presented. Thus, the speakers were invited to contribute to this publication, as were other attendees who did not speak publicly during the meeting.

The lines of work that appear in this book are very heterogeneous and respond to different individual and/or group interests, which revolve around certain practical professional concerns, as well as theoretical reflections more closely related to scientific research, reflecting the diverse academic and professional backgrounds of the authors. In short, new and old problems are addressed, in some cases, from innovative perspectives.

The contributions revolve around the link between archives and society, the use of new technologies, the types of archives according to their format, the evaluation of digital documents, the right of access to information, the right to be forgotten on the Internet, and new curricular possibilities for the Archival Science degree program.

Likewise, there is no shortage of classic lines of work related to paleography and studies aimed at identifying and analyzing specific types of documents and their context of creation. In short, this work brings together outreach experiences with theoretical and methodological reflections and discussions related to archival science and related sciences, by both Argentine and Spanish authors.

Professional development in mathematical modeling scenarios

Cristina Beatriz Esteley — 2014-08-11

This thesis seeks answers to three questions related to meanings attributed by three mathematics teachers in modeling scenarios, privileging their voices (Bajtín, 1999, 2000; Britzman, 2003, Bubnova, 2006) and emphasizing the relationship between experience and meaning (Larrosa; 2006). The questions on which the research is based draw on voices that speak of meanings attributed to the curriculum (Alterman, 2009), ICT (Borba & Villarreal, 2005), and interpersonal relationships.

These voices were brought together in Experiencia 2004, a space for professional development (Ponte, 2001; Bicudo, 2003b; Fiorentini et al., 2005; Passo et al., 2006; Even & Ball, 2009), in which an innovative teaching practice focused on mathematical modeling as a pedagogical approach was put into play (Bassanezi, 2002; Borba & Villarreal, 2005, Villarreal et al. 2010).

Given the nature of the questions raised and the interest in meaning, I have opted for a naturalistic design (Lincoln & Guba, 1985). In particular, I resort to a case study focusing on the problem raised by the three secondary school teachers who implemented modeling scenarios in the classroom (Stake, 1998, Ponte, 2006) during Experience 2004.

The main sources of data for this study come from semi-structured interviews with teachers, email interactions, and documents related to Experience 2004. From the analysis of the teachers' voices, it could be noted that, in modeling scenarios, the curriculum, ICT, and interpersonal relationships constitute a framework in which it is possible to identify the curriculum as situated and as an entity that integrates content, meanings, and voices.

ICTs emerge as responses to new activities, and interactions with them allow for the emergence of new knowledge and other practices. Interpersonal relationships arise as a necessary condition for sustaining the modeling scenario.

Curious inhabitants. The work of Bustos Domecq and B. Suárez Lynch as an aesthetic and cultural discussion

María del Carmen Marengo — 2014-08-01

This work analyzes how the collaborative work written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, published under the names H. Bustos Domecq and B. Suárez Lynch, articulates a discussion about Argentine literature and culture in the early decades of the 20th century. This highlights the authors' efforts to carry out an aesthetic renewal as well as to achieve a different configuration of the intellectual field. Among the multiple trends present in Argentine culture during those years (modernism, realism, avant-garde), regionalist realism takes on special importance in these texts as a target of parody. Likewise, a recurring theme throughout the corpus is nationalism in its different forms and historical mutations. The ideological position taken by the work of Borges and Bioy can be identified, in principle, with that of the magazine Sur; however, it goes further and acquires the anarchic characteristics of carnival, in the Bakhtinian sense, where everything is mocked, even themselves. From the marginal space in which this work is located, an attempt is being made to develop new aesthetic parameters, an operation that coincides with the crisis of realism that took place in Latin America beginning in the 1940s.

Plazas to the four winds

María Cristina Boixadós — 2014-07-01

The Memorias de mi Plaza collection is an initiative of the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of Córdoba, which requested the collaboration of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC through the Vice-Dean's Office and the Extension Secretariat. In this edition, we will encounter the squares of the first neighborhoods that were established after the construction of the bridges that crossed the Suquía River: General Paz, San Vicente, Alberdi, and Alta Córdoba.

Modernity, culture, and criticism. The Frankfurt School in Argentina (1936–1983)

Luis Ignacio García García — 2014-03-12

This work studies the reception of the so-called Frankfurt School in Argentine intellectual history between 1936 and 1983. To this end, it intertwines three fundamental registers. First, a discussion of the legacy of critical theory and heterodox Marxism in the 20th century. The study considers the Frankfurt School not so much as a theoretical or doctrinal corpus but rather as one of the fundamental attempts to renew the legacy of historical materialism in a century of revolutions and totalitarianism. The Frankfurt School appears through the prism of Argentine readings that break down any homogeneous image of it and instead present it as a multifaceted laboratory for experimentation in local critical thinking. In a second register, the work reflects on the cultural and methodological dilemmas that arise when addressing processes of cultural translation or the international circulation of ideas.

To this end, a set of strategies and tools from intellectual history and reception theory are mobilized, but a long tradition of essays throughout Latin America that have addressed the problem of “misplaced ideas,” the constraints as well as the critical potentialities of intellectual production on the “periphery,” is also reviewed. The development of the work confirms the impossibility of any receptive theory of “reception” and instead confronts us with processes of active re-signification of the traditions and productions received in each case. The third part of the study is an effective analysis of the different moments in the reception of the Frankfurt School in our country. This journey, which constitutes the main body of the work, includes the following most important stages: the “operative aesthetics” of Luis Juan Guerrero, the “scientific sociology” of Gino Germani, the translations of the “Estudios Alemanes” collection by the Sur publishing house, the essays of Héctor Álvarez Murena, the “new left” of Juan José Sebreli, the Marxist philosophy of Carlos Astrada and Miguel Lombardi, the beginnings of communication studies in Jaime Rest, Enrique Luis Revol, and Heriberto Muraro, and, finally, the interventions on literature and society by Ricardo Piglia, Carlos Altamirano, and Beatriz Sarlo.

At each of these stages, the Frankfurt School reveals different aspects depending on the various ways of reading and updating it at different times, from different reading frameworks and with divergent and sometimes even contradictory interests. In this way, the work as a whole proposes a relational approach in which neither the theoretical corpus of the Frankfurt School, always modulated according to the prismatic variations of each reading and singular appropriation, nor Argentine intellectual history, which appears before one of the main legacies of 20th-century critical Marxism, remain untouched. The work proposes this unique field of forces as a possible laboratory for investigating the alternatives of a local critical theory.

Leopoldo Marechal

Valeria Esther Secchi — 2014-03-12

Leopoldo Marechal's aesthetic is a unitive aesthetic, in which ontological beauty, artistic production, eroticism, epistemology, and mysticism converge. Aesthetics is the starting point and the golden thread from which all of Marechal's work can be read.
The intention of this study is to promote communication between the Argentine poet and a selection of Greek and Christian sources.
Among these, three levels of preference are established. The first level is the reception of Plato and Dante, who constitute the author's fundamental sources. The second level is the reception of Homer and Aristotle, in order to understand the author's philosophical and aesthetic foundations. The third level is the reception of the Bible, which constitutes the author's religious and spiritual foundation. Among these, three levels of preference are established. The first level is the reception of Plato and Dante, who constitute the author's fundamental sources. The second level is the reception of Homer and Aristotle, in order to construct Marechal's poetics. The third level is Plotinus and Isidore of Seville, for the treatment of some specific issues.
The starting point is the assumption that Marechal's writing constitutes a “philosophical poetics,” that is, a “thinking through images” that is sustained in an ontological dimension, which serves as a scaffolding or support for the poetic form. The external form is an excuse, a hook, that attracts from the outside toward a center of meaning.
This center proposes an experience that transcends the horizon of the literary. It is a philosophy that seeks to break through the limits of the rational in order to ascend to mystical experience.

Situated learning processes in basic programming courses

Ana Leticia Losano — 2014-03-11

Professor of Physics, graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics at UNC. For the past five years, she has been working within the Science and Technology Teaching Group – Mathematics Area at FaMAF. She also collaborates with international groups dedicated to mathematics education: Grupo de Pesquisa da Prática Pedagógica em Matemática at the Faculty of Education of the University
This work is the result of research that seeks to analyze and describe the learning processes in introductory programming courses for first-year university students studying computer science. The research was carried out by studying the entry into the Bachelor of Computer Science program at the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics of the National University of Córdoba. The theoretical perspective underlying this thesis is the theory of situated learning, which allows for a broad approach to the research problem, bringing to the forefront the mutually constitutive relationships between social communities and people's identities.

Under this approach, the problem of entering the degree program can be analyzed as the encounter between new students and the community of the degree program that the students intend to join. Using a qualitative methodology, data was collected through four months of ethnographic fieldwork focused on the Introduction to Algorithms course, which is the first course in the curriculum strongly related to programming.

Through fieldwork, it was possible to gain insight into the experiences and difficulties that six first-year students and three teachers encountered on a daily basis. The ethnographic records were supplemented and contrasted with interviews conducted with the main informants in the fieldwork. A comprehensive description of the research field and the daily lives of teachers and students in it allows us to situate the analysis, which is broken down into four emerging categories.

The first category, considering learning as a culturally, socially, and historically situated process, analyzes what students learn during their entry into the degree program. The second category focuses on one of the practices that, due to its place in the
curriculum, is central to achieving good performance in the subject: the construction of formal demonstrations.
The third category analyzes the characteristics of the communities of practice of which the students with whom we worked became members, analyzing the trajectories that each of them followed within them. Finally, the fourth category refers to the construction of identities, success, and failure as social, cultural, and historical processes in which a multiplicity of people are involved. The ongoing relationships established between the analyses carried out within each category make it possible to account for the varied trajectories, experiences, and experiences of the students participating in the research in their attempt to become members of a particular educational community.

Disputed territories. Meanings and practices surrounding the struggle for land in a peasant organization in northern Córdoba.

Sabrina María Villegas Guzmán — 2014-03-07

Land struggles in rural areas of the province of Córdoba are the focus of this paper. Social conflicts are conceptualized here as turning points that allow, on the one hand, to address the issue of power and domination—that is, the ways in which capital, the state, and their forms of organization impact the territory and the most diverse aspects of life—while representing, on the other hand, the possibility of opening spaces for the construction of alternative projects to the hegemonic ones.
The central thesis is that the emergence of the peasantry in the provincial context of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, its public-political constitution through organization and struggle, can be understood from the logic of the event. From this perspective, the emergence of the peasantry in the sphere of local politics—once silenced and invisible—enables new possibilities for life that, far from appearing as certainties, must be outlined through experimentation, creation, and new processes of subjectivation.

Indian ethnic groups in colonial America People of color

Julieta María Teresa Consigli — 2014-03-01

This work, which falls within the field of “Colonial Studies and Neo-Latin Literature” and “Studies of Mentalities,” focuses on one of the works of Father Domingo Muriel and aims to contribute to Jesuit production and the area of ancient collections. The first part addresses the problem of the discursive construction of certain selected passages from the Fastos and the typological analysis of the main American racial groups, which sheds light on the theme of Indian ethnic groups and the social and religious exclusion-inclusion of Indians, mixed-race people, and particularly Black people, as the central focus of the thesis. The consideration of “people of color” in their various classifications is the basic substrate for understanding the canonical legislation that, together with royal law and social practices, largely defines the New World. The text of the Fastos combines theoretical and rhetorical aspects (typical of the 18th century) that demonstrate the author's effort to reorganize a vast amount of geographical, scientific, and ethnographic material in order to also organize a reality and configure it discursively to position it as a cultural fact that had to be legislated, evangelized, and socialized.

The second part offers the first complete Spanish translation of the selected excerpts, which corresponds to the facsimile copy of the original printed text, followed by the list of authors and the frequency of terminology.

History of pre-Hispanic populations in the southern sector of the Sierras Pampeanas

Mariana Fabra — 2014-03-01

This study focused on the craniofacial variation of human groups that inhabited the southern sector of the Sierras Pampeanas and surrounding plains in pre-Hispanic times, from a perspective that combines qualitative and quantitative morphological analyses with analyses based on geometric morphometry.

The specific objectives were: a) to morphologically characterize unpublished archaeological collections of skeletal remains, b) to study the craniofacial variation of the aforementioned collections using geometric morphometric analysis, c) to establish genetic relationships between populations in the central region of the country and other geographical-ecological regions of Argentina and South America (Andes, Amazonia, Gran Chaco, Patagonia-Tierra del Fuego), d) to test different models on the possible routes of settlement in the center of the country.

The results suggest significant similarities in terms of cranial morphology and epigenetic variation between samples mainly from the eastern side of the mountains—now part of the province of Córdoba—and populations from central and northeastern Patagonia and the Pampas region. Taking into account the overall results, we consider that the settlement of the southern region of the Sierras Pampeanas is related to that which occurred from the northeast of the country, following a general north-south route across the Atlantic coast.

Bibliographic guide to authors and literary works from Cordoba in the 20th century

Bibiana Eguía — 2014-02-28

This Bibliographic Guide to authors and works of Cordoba literature is the result of research in the field. In this sense, the Bibliographic Guide aims to provide scholars of Cordoba literature with organized data on the work of local writers in order to reduce the margin of exclusion and seclusion of writing in the province.

The Faculty of Philosophy in science, experiences, and shared knowledge

Jaqueline Vassallo — 2014-02-14

Between March 15 and April 14, 2013, as part of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the UNC, Cuatrociencia took place. This was a grand celebration of science, technology, and the arts, which sought to share with the community the knowledge produced at the UNC in all its disciplinary areas and within the framework of strong policies promoting science and technology at the national level.

The FFyH participated in the exhibition process and, together with the Faculty of Arts, was responsible for the management and production of the “Desde el Río” (From the River) stand. The stand was a privileged opportunity to strengthen and deepen the link between the faculties of philosophy and humanities and the faculty of arts and the Cordoba society of which they are a part; a society that at the same time shapes, challenges, sustains, and modifies them.

However, “Desde el río” was not the only way in which the FFyH participated in the fair, as the faculty presented more than 27 proposals in the Interactive Classroom, which took place in the Assembly Hall of the Pabellón Argentina and was attended by hundreds of students from schools throughout the province and the general public. The Interactive Classroom was understood by our Faculty as an opportunity for researchers, teachers, and extension workers from the University to give first-hand accounts of their knowledge production processes to the rest of the community. The organization of the proposals presented was undertaken by the FFyH's SeICyT in coordination with the Cuatrociencia organization.

Given the novelty and richness of the experience, the FFyH considered it important to hold a follow-up session after the presentations in the Interactive Classroom to review the experience and provide a space for reflection on this specific practice.
The participating teams were therefore invited to contribute to this publication.

The presenters were invited to describe their experiences, taking into account the reasons that motivated them to address the topic, the methodological decisions regarding the form of presentation, and the expectations that this circumstance generated in the teams. They were also asked to report on new situations that arose during the meeting, as well as their reflections on how the experience affected or changed the team, the topics addressed, and their preconceptions prior to the meeting.

In their work, the authors reflect on how they selected the theoretical and practical content they presented. They also explain how they decided to publicly disclose the scientific processes, methods, and even uncertainties they had about the audience's reception, whose profile they did not know when preparing the activity. They also reflect on the effort they made to use metaphors, comparisons, and analogies to explain complex ideas or theoretical models. Several of the experiences acknowledge having explicitly invited those present to offer their voices, perspectives, participation, and views, which in most cases is described as a moment of enthusiastic and intense participation. And for several teams, the Interactive Classroom was a space that allowed them to strengthen ties between university and non-university actors who have been developing projects together for some time.

The Cañada walks

María Cristina Boixadós — 2014-01-12

The Memorias de mi Plaza collection is an initiative of the Córdoba City Council's Department of the Environment, which requested the collaboration of the UNC's Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities through the Vice-Dean's Office and the Department of Extension. In this edition, we will learn about the history of Paseo Sobremonte, which originally included the bed of a small lake where people used to go boating from a dock; the Plaza de la Intendencia, where the monument in memory of those who fell in the Falklands War stands; and the Plaza Italia, with its tribute to the Italian community and its three gazebos symbolizing the most distinguished rivers crossing the cities.

Pure aesthetics. Contribution to the system of absolute materialism

Edgardo Gutiérrez — 2013-11-05

The research carried out in this work proposes the determination of the specific object of aesthetics, obliterated by the classical identification of aesthetics with the philosophy of art, based on Hegel's formulation, which has presented an obstacle to philosophers thematizing such a specific object. This determination would allow for the constitution of a pure aesthetics; that is, an aesthetics autonomous from metaphysics, ethics, politics, and history. The phenomenon of the aesthetic, as we understand it, manifests itself in perception and pleasure. The research has been divided into two parts, which respectively address these two manifestations of the aesthetic. The first part presents a theory of perception (Estesiology), and the second part presents a theory of pleasure (Hedonology). Each section covers the most relevant contributions of philosophers who, from different traditions of thought, have found elements of the pure aesthetics that we seek to establish. Thus, in the first part, which reviews the aesthetic theory that focused on perception and the imaginary, we examine the work of Kant, Sartre, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Lucretius, Epicurus, and Nietzsche. In the second part, we explore the theories of pleasure in Kant, Freud, Marcuse, Aristotle, and Epicurus. In the conclusions, through the mediation of Deleuze's and Heidegger's interpretation of the aesthetic, we arrive at the final formulation of the problem from a materialist perspective, and in the appendix of the work, we open up avenues for future research within the framework of the system of pure or absolute aesthetics.

Dialogism and intertextuality in the work of Remo Bianchedi and its institutional context

Fabiola C. De la Precilla — 2013-11-04

In this doctoral thesis entitled "Dialogism and Intertextuality in the Work of Remo Bianchedi and his institutional context," we analyze certain categories and theoretical perspectives on the problem of the visual image and the work of art in the dimension of cultural semiotics. To this end, we apply elements from a set of textual theories—Bajtín (1997), Bajtín & Voloshinov (1976), Calabrese (1993), Bourdieu (1988, 1990, 1995, 2003) and Verón (1998)—to the actions, products, and practices of an artistic context of the visual arts in Argentina in general and of the artist in particular, taking into account the dimensions and complexity of such artistic manifestations and their significant surfaces, considering the works as theoretical objects, endowed with metasemiotic means. This allows us to simultaneously carry out a historiographical analysis of certain poetic and philosophical references from critical theory of modernity: Rimbaud, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and from modern visual arts: from the historical avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde: Duchamp, Beuys, et al. And how our artist—Bianchedi—reappropriates these legacies in a dialogical, intertextual, and allegorical key—Brea (1991), Buchloh (2004)—using poetic procedures characteristic of contemporaneity or the neo-baroque age (Calabrese). In addition to the author's artistic and literary production, we analyze his institutional context, referring to the Nautilius Foundation, in the field of emerging artistic formations (Williams) during the Argentine crisis of 2001. Likewise, this work makes an epistemic-methodological contribution by taking the work: The Large Glass. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (Duchamp, 1915-1923) as a topographical model for research.

Philosophical thought and religious experiences in contemporary Argentine poetry

María Gabriela Milone — 2013-09-03

This doctoral research—directed by Dr. Silvio Mattoni and co-directed by Dr. Adriana Musitano—addresses the relationship between poetic discourse, religious experiences, and philosophical thought in a corpus of poetic works by Héctor Viel Temperley (Buenos Aires, 1933-1987), Hugo Padeletti (Santa Fe, 1928), Oscar del Barco (Córdoba, 1928), and Hugo Mujica (Buenos Aires, 1942), recognizing in them the elements that outline the uniqueness of a poetic-religious experience characterized, in some cases, by the manifestation of a mystical ecstasy, and in others, by the affirmation of thought and language in the absence of the sacred. Given the originality manifested in these poetic expressions in relation to a certain religious experience of the emptying of the sacred, they are analyzed from categories derived from modern post-Nietzschean philosophers such as Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Georges Bataille (1897-1962), Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995), Jean-Luc Marion (1946), and Giorgio Colli (1917-1979). In this way, by relating the category of experience to the sacred in contemporary thought, we can see the specificity of a type of religious experience that—as we observe in the poets of the corpus—is linked to philosophical thought and manifests itself in poetic writing.

San Martín Square

María Cristina Boixadós — 2013-09-01

The Memorias de mi Plaza collection is an initiative of the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of Córdoba, which requested the collaboration of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC through the Vice-Dean's Office and the Extension Secretariat. A team made up of trained and trainee researchers, agency staff, amateur neighbors, designers, and officials took on this challenge, and the result of their combined efforts is consolidated in this third installment of the collection, dedicated to Plaza San Martín, named after the most symbolic hero of our country and South America.

The metamorphosis of the Faustian myth in German and Argentine literature in the second half of the 20th century

Gustavo Giovannini — 2013-07-11

This thesis analyzes how German and Argentine literature, from the 1950s to the end of the 20th century, revisited a literary theme inherited from a long European tradition: the Faustian myth. The study of a selection of narrative and dramatic works produced during the same period in two literatures that are very distant from each other in linguistic, geographical, and cultural terms allows us to elucidate the respective processes of literary symbolization, their manifest differences, and also their affinities, which can be explained, to a large extent, by the presence of common hypotextual references considered classics in both literary systems. In this sense, the importance of three fundamental texts of the Faustian tradition in both Germany and Argentina can be perceived: The History of Dr. Johann Fausten (1587), Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808-1832), and Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947).

The selected German works highlight the impact that historical and political events had on literary production after the war and the decidedly critical way in which authors approach one of the greatest literary myths of their culture, which has been the subject of various ideological manipulations since the early 20th century. Argentine writers, for their part, also rework the European theme, which is widely established in national literature, using it in many cases as a “cultural mediator” both to interpret elements of European culture from their own geographical and historical situation and to critically read local reality. In both cases, the problem of Western modernity is identified with the story of the man who sells his soul to the devil.

Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera Square

María Cristina Boixadós — 2013-07-01

The Memorias de mi Plaza collection is an initiative of the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of Córdoba, which requested the collaboration of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC through the Vice-Dean's Office and the Extension Secretariat. A team made up of trained and trainee researchers, agency staff, amateur neighbors, designers, and officials took on this challenge, and the result of their combined efforts is beginning to materialize in this first installment of the collection, which stands out for its high conceptual and artistic quality.

Travel Journal

Natalia Zabala — 2013-03-13

The contents of the Traveling Museum exhibition, the educational kits, and the Anthropology Museum exhibition are the result of social science research conducted in an interdisciplinary relationship with the natural sciences. In this educational material, we will focus on one of the branches of anthropological sciences: archaeology.

Teacher Training, Curriculum, Subjects, and Educational Practices. The Perspective of Research in Argentina and Brazil

Estela M. Miranda — 2013-03-01

The purpose of this book is to continue a collective publishing project that began with (Re)Pensar la Educación Pública (Rethinking Public Education). Contributions from Argentina and Brazil, where we recovered the work of professors who participated in courses, seminars, and conferences given within the framework of the Binational Program of Associated Graduate Centers Argentina/Brazil (CAPG-BA), between the Doctorate in Education Sciences at the National University of Córdoba and the Doctorate in Education at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

In this volume, the topics addressed by the professors and researchers from both institutions reflect the diversity and priorities of the region's educational research agendas.

Teacher training, curriculum policies, assessment, teaching technologies, and educational practices for young people and adults in diverse schooling settings are powerful concepts addressed through the systematic and rigorous reflection provided by research in our countries.

This book is divided into two parts. The first part contains a series of articles that examine, from different and complementary analytical perspectives, teacher training (initial and in-service), curriculum policies, and educational practices, linking macro and micro contexts of production and intervention. The second part brings together chapters on subjects and schooling processes in diverse contexts.

Vélez Sarsfield Square

María Cristina Boixadós — 2013-03-01

This edition recovers facts, stories, and accounts of the square erected in honor of Dr. Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield, and in its texts we will find accounts of the transformations it has undergone over time. Enjoying its content and sharing it with your family is another step toward understanding who we are as Cordobans, as well as being a sign of our effort and commitment to making our squares accessible to everyone.