| Crdts. Teor. | 4 | Historical and cultural memory is a precious, but sometimes fragile treasure. Since human beings acquired the capacity of thinking, they have created themselves enemies obsessed with making us forget those ideas, those thoughts fixed in writing. But they are there; many books, many papers, many documents continue to exist, resisting the passage of centuries, surviving, defeating time, the elements and, what is worse, the destructive will of the human beings themselves. Through this second part of the course, we will deepen in that itinerary through the history of our cultural memory; in that knowledge of the destruction of our books and documents, of archives and libraries, of the institutions disappeared or destroyed by phenomena related to ideological issues, identity conflicts, wars or natural causes. Likewise, and more specifically, students will have to know the competences and responsibilities over heritage: acquiring the knowledge and skills which are essential to interpret, differentiate and value the forms of culture projection over time and its materialisation in archives and libraries, understanding, analysing and reflecting on the social, ethical and political dimensions that are implicit to the cultural processes under study; finally, developing capabilities and attitudes that create a critical position regarding this part of history and heritage. |