COMMUNICATION, SUBJECT, CULTURE: JOYS AND SOLITUDE INAUGURAL LECTURE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR 2002 OF THE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY, DOCUMENTATION AND INFORMATION

When you are invited to offer a conference like this, can not stop having a series of questions and considerations about the very fact of speaking to an audience informed and educated about the issues that the title might suggest exposure and how without falling into the usual cliches, without repeating the views and opinions set forth, if not obvious. I propose, then, establish, as a starting point, two things: the first is a promise: I will not talk about internet, a recurrent theme in his classes and activities. The second is a kind of contract between you and me: check out the obviousness of some views and question it, see it from behind, because that is where we might find the seams, some of the patches, if not outright nudity. I wonder if this is not precisely one of the first tasks of teaching in the University: to force what seems obvious to justify its obviousness, which is not easy.We can start messing things up a bit, looking like a very smooth and made ​​some surrealist poets to cut one by one the words of poems and writings, throw them into the air and read with amazement the order they fall to form a new verse, Perhaps more interesting and evocative than the first. Is not this somewhat random operation of new blends the fundamental operation of so many new discoveries and innovative ideas in the fields of science, culture, arts? Some of you know the thought of Pascal says: "Do not say that I am not proposing something new: the order in which the material presented is different."

Editorial

Hace 14 años aquí mismo, -no en este edificio que apenas estaba en nuestros sueños-pero sin este rincón del planeta que llamamos Heredia, expresamos nuestra fe en otro tipo de profesional bibliotecario:. uno que fuera sensible ante las noticias que manejaba y que sintiera como su imperativo ético el deber de informar con la verdad, de enfrentar al usuario a opiniones diversas que le permitieran buscar la verdad.

Borges, imperialismo y colonialidad

Conferencia inaugural del Doctorado Interdisciplinario en Letras y Artes en América Central y de la Maestría en Estudios de la Cultura Centroamericana.

Del positivismo a la historia cultural. Un balance finisecular de la teoría de la historia

ResumenConferencia dictada como lección inaugural de la escuela de historia de la universidad de Costa Rica, el 11 de agosto del 2000. Abstract Speech delivered as the inaugural lectura at the school of history of the University of Costa Rica, august 11, 2000.

Elogio de un inmigrante

ResumenConferencia inaugural del Doctorado en Historia de la universidad nacional.AbstractInaugural lecture of the doctoral program in history at the University of Costa Rica.