DOSSIER 2026: Approaches to Communication and Culture with Memory and Oral History

Synopsis:

This dossier originates from papers presented at the V International Symposium on Communication and Culture: Approaches to Memory and Oral History - The Challenges of Interculturality, held in May 2025 at Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo, Brazil, through the joint action of the Latin American Network of Researchers in Memory, Culture, and Communication, formed by Brazilian, Mexican, and Colombian universities, including the University of Medellín, responsible for the scientific journal Anagramas. The dossier aims to present articles involving studies of social memory and oral history in communication and culture research. Since the turn of the 21st century, the field of studies involving memory, oral traditions, narratives, and cultural studies has been gaining ground in areas of knowledge such as communication. Memory has a communicative character when considered in relation to culture and establishes an eminent relationship with the cultures that construct, sustain, or transform it, from oral narratives and multiple accounts that come from unique and unrepeatable historical subjects, protagonists of microhistory. In turn, the field of communication currently dialogues closely with such perspectives. Thus, this edition of Anagramas aims to present how communication studies—on media, narratives, technologies, images, and arts—approach and dialogue with issues of social memory, orality, and Oral History methods.

Coordinators:
Priscila F. Perazzo
Mauricio Andrés Alvarez Moreno