Abstract

TESCHE ROA, PAULA et al. The university as a place of memory: the case of the Universidad Técnica del Estado, Concepción campus, Biobío region, Chile. memorias [online]. 2025, n.55, pp.66-100.  Epub Jan 31, 2025. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.55.956.852.

This article analyzes the university as a site of post-dictatorship memory in Chile, understood as a space that integrates the memories and forgetfulness associated with a community with a collective project that, through the production of knowledge, sought to transform society. Focusing on the Universidad Técnica del Estado (UTE), Concepción campus, now Universidad del Bío-Bío (UBB), addressing the forgetfulness generated by dictatorial intervention, which denied its history and relegated institutional memories. Hypothesizing that current memory works perpetuate the discontinued university project. The methodology employs a qualitative documentary approach, analyzing data from UTE, UBB, and the university community through primary and secondary sources. Findings include the impact of the dictatorial university model on student identity, the institutionalization of for-getfulness, and the relationship between social research and theatrical production as memory work.

Keywords : memory site; Universidad Técnica del Estado Concepción campus; dictatorship; Universidad del Bío-Bío; institutional oblivion; memory works.

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