June 9-12, 2007
University of Comahue, Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina

This conference welcomes contributions from researches in many fields, according to the multidisciplinary nature of its scope. Appropriate topics for submission to this conference are varied within some areas of research and they are not limited to:

-The concept of representation after the linguistic turn
- Representation, reconstruction, reproduction, mimesis of the past
- Problems of representations of the past in history and art
- Know the past, remember the past, using the past
- Ways of evaluating representations in conflict about troubled near times
- The cinema as historical representation of the past?
- Alternative ways of accessing to a troubled past
- Experience, memory and representation
- Representations of traumatic pasts
- The past presence in the public sphere
- Representations of recent past and its political uses: the press and the state
- Ethical and political dimensions of the history of the recent past