Travels of dialogue "Remembering & travelling"
Our travels of dialogue are part of GUMELAB project's transfer activities aimed at sharing scientific knowledge with society through the Citizen Science approach. There will be two dialogue tours in Chile and three in Colombia with different participants.
Remembering & travelling #1: “(In)visible images of the Dictatorship in Tocopilla”:
On Wednesday 16 March 2022, the first travel of dialogue took place in Tocopilla - Chile in cooperation with the University of Chile. During the travel of dialogue “Remembering & Travelling: (In)visible images of the Dictatorship in Tocopilla”, the GUMELAB team visited different places in the city of Tocopilla together with students from the Liceo Polivalente Domingo Latrille. We talked about the memories of the dictatorship in Tocopilla and how it is portrayed in TV series. Other topics were mining, the environment and what social protest look like yesterday and today in Tocopilla. These issues are directly and indirectly present in the few series that depict the history of the Chilean North, such as the Chilean series “Ecos del Desierto”.
Remembering & travelling #2: “Los 80 in Santiago’s downtown – protests and the economic model”
Together with students of the fields film, communications and journalism from the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano and the Universidad Santiago de Chile, as well as with our cooperation partners of the Institute of Communication and Image at the Universidad de Chile, the second travel of dialogue “Los 80 in Santiago’s downtown: protests and the economic model” took place in the city center on Thursday, March 24, 2022. We visited various places in Santiago that are, on the one hand, relevant for the plot of the Chilean TV series Los 80. On the other, these places are in the present still important for Chile’s history because of their role for social protests or for the economic model. The historical archival materials that are included into the plot of the series show the links between the past and the present.