Book launch “Words for Memory. Poetry recital for Never Again”
- Salón de Honor, Casa Central, U. de Chile, Av. Bernardo O’Higgins 1058, Metro U. de Chile.
- Wednesday, September 11 – 12:00 p.m.
- Registration HERE.
“Words for Memory. Poetic Recital for Never Again” is the name of the book that brings together the texts read by twenty-four poets at the ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état that took place at the University of Chile.
The poets who participate in this intergenerational collection, with long careers as well as emerging authors from different parts of the country, are: Andrés Ajens, Mirka Arriagada, Gustavo Becerra, Carmen Berenguer, Eugenia Brito, Margarita Bustos, Daniela Catrileo, Carlos Cociña, Soledad Fariña, Jaime Huenún, Jorge Montealegre, Maribel Mora Curriao and Gabriela Paz Morales.
The poetry recital reconstructed in this book was one of the many initiatives through which the University of Chile commemorated the event under the motto “Education for Democracy.”
According to the director of Extension at the University of Chile, Fabian Retamal, the readings of this poetry recital, held on September 4, 2023, “allowed to open a collective space in which to house the pain, the torture, the absence of the disappeared, but also the hope and resistance to the dictatorship and its present effects. Because, as it was said there, “September is a very difficult month to spend alone,” the meeting took the form of verses, caresses, and tenderness. Words for Memory: Poetic Recital for Never Again seeks to rescue and preserve this act of commemoration carried out within the framework of the activities for the 50th anniversary of the civil-military coup d’état that occurred in Chile.”
The book will be distributed free of charge on Wednesday, September 11, at the Official Commemoration Ceremony of Human Rights and Memory Day at the University of Chile. On this occasion, the Human Rights and Democracy Distinction of the University of Chile will also be awarded to the distinguished jurist Cecilia Medina Quiroga, former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, co-founder of the Human Rights Center of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and Professor Emeritus of our institution, for her notable “contribution to Human Rights and Democracy.”
This ceremony will also see the sixth presentation of university awards of posthumous and symbolic degrees and posthumous and symbolic academic degrees for former students who were detained, disappeared, and politically executed. On this occasion, the honoree will be Claudio Silva Peralta.
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