the historian and his stories
surely many of those who are
here present fervently believe in
that history is boring and they will think
that I’m going to come and tell you one
story and you are going to be bored but
that is not my goal
the issue is that many people always
he thought the story was boring and
it really is not, but why
they came to that conclusion that the
history was boring in part the
responsibility is of those who
they teach a story by not putting the
enough wins enough
enthusiasm and on the other hand the
historians those historians like
this person that you are
observing that we were a person who
always occupied a very important place
in all societies
particularly in Argentina and
Latin America
the historian was always seen in the
society as a cultural reference as
a person who truly knew
everything and that was an element of consultation
by the different governments
this person the historian was someone
that he did not have an academic education
and professional
he was a person who liked the past
curious interested and then I was looking
I was looking for material I accumulated and then
ordered it chronologically and
I ended up writing the story was
a story that did not question the order
valid
on the contrary, it legitimized the order of
things is to say that story justified
why we lived like this
historian was as someone told them
that I did not have that training but I had
much love for his work and he believed in
that what he had done was
reality of what had happened in the
past
sometimes locked in on his own
knowledge were quite intolerable
I did not accept any kind of
questioning nor questions to your knowledge
they were the ones who dictated the knowledge
that had to be reflected in the books
that later they would be used in the
classroom books that were cool payrolls of
officials with a lot of data with many
enumerations of facts and issues that
they made this story out
boring a simple investigation
accumulates Basques to the ordinate
chronologically and this gave like
result a simple story a
story that came in handy for
authorities of the moment of all
Latin America and all of Argentina
because he consecrated in that story to
certain people and condemned others
notice the power they have had at
throughout our evolution as
society
the historians because they were
responsible for some people
some names
some figures some heroes
they appear in the pages of history
in this case of Argentine history
but also as I was saying it happens in
Latin America and marginalized from it
to another group of people
look at how that power will be
because the generations that came
then they had to study with those
books therefore later when
they grew and watched and discovered
that there was another story written by
another person realize that
there really was something that in the
previous books with the previous ones
historians had not figured and as
consequence I did not know who said the
true but that’s how it was
in all societies the historian
is the central figure creates a
knowledge created the pantheon of
heroes and those heroes what
it made people almost immortal
unquestionable
these historians did not admit any
kind of questioning the hero who
they had consecrated in writing
of his
history pages that’s why
they considered irreverent and respectful of
that someone doubted that that place did not
it was deserved and that’s how we
we live in our history that appear
people who occupy important places
of our past that can be consecrated
in the bronze they built statue their
name appear on the streets in certain
institutions but then we saw that
there was truly another kind of
knowledge that I had not told
this historian who elaborated the
speeches for official events
the one who dictated the knowledge that
I had to be repetitive and constant
for all those who governed because
they were the ones who had consecrated
historical knowledge and his book was
took the classrooms and the classroom happened
This is what I come to say to the boys
the young adults considered
this has happened and they considered it
boring because it was something common that
justified the order of things and that
they went to the depth but the form
they tried to get everyone there and others
they marginalized you look at what
would happen if someone had to
write the history of these moments
in which you are the
protagonists
but that person does not make them appear in
the story books but good this
the societies were evolving
Latin American and in society
Argentina particularly
historians started doing then
professionals began to return from
faculty universities began
to acquire knowledge
specifically about methodology
historical research and
they started to move some of that
place these historians that what
better we do go to the
comparison in the field of
medicine we can call healers
they cured but with other methods
now doctors come with a
knowledge of the problem
scientific because historians in
what it does today is to plant itself
in front of
an object of study and be formulated
problematic questions to that object of
study
those are the questions he wants
answer the historian when you start
an investigation and hypotheses arise
that are possible answers to that
problematic
the scientific research that
performs the historian takes them to
transit different areas no longer has
the role of prominence as I had it
the previous historian that everyone what
I knew that I knew everything and that
will admit any kind of
questioning
this professional historian of the
new time works as a team because
the story needs a team of
economists to explain the change
of currency
the inflation rate in which way the
they affected the social life of
sociologists to explain some
human behaviors of anthropologists
to detect deposits
anthropological that is to say a
multidisciplinarity as Peter said
vogue and also went into crisis the
paradigm of the old behind the
old historians
there is for example the one crisis of this
paradigm that is being replaced by
the appearance of the new historian is
historian also have tools
I did not have the previous one
new technologies and new
technologies make their appearance together
with the professionalization of the task
of the historian and allows him to handle
important volumes of information
he no longer has them in his house in that
library but you have it in a
pendrive no longer has to travel with
stacks of books be a place but
transmits that information over the internet
he no longer works with numbers in a
spreadsheet has a spreadsheet in
excel for example and also has a
computer that allows you to delete send
assimilate any type of information
has new tools
but also the help of other sciences
the medicine and the dn while we
we are talking here in europe thanks
DNA is being identified
mortals of
soldiers who died in the second
world war 70 years ago creation
genetic bank that’s this is
identifying DNA is helping the
historical science to keep going and
this is not showing that the paper
of the historian and stopped being the one
legitimized the speech that today
It was an official story
on the contrary the historian in the
currently submits to hiring
Test all documents all
testimonies all theories
supported by the votes of the
historians and submitting them to this
contrast to this test to this essay and
error is discovering a new
knowledge and is the progress of the
history
the story is not static
many teachers say I recently
I taught my students certain
questions and now I have to tell you
that they are not like that they have changed the
things like it can be because the story
it is change is also the contribution of all
these currents all this knowledge
in the transformation of it and in the
best action of the human being
now you will ask and the
historian of who live today the
historian is a person a
professional who is consulted sometimes
by television channels to provide
a testimony about the progress of a
political or economic social process
for writing a script
cinematographic or a historical novel
like many who are circling today
By television
the historian is a permanent advisor
of academic institutions and
educational to find an identity and
also from private sector companies
yes, although it seems to be a lie ,
historian helps to elaborate the
companies their own history
institutional your identity that that’s going
to allow that private company to have
a business card very
important above all when going to
bids where the
trajectory and experience and
tradition of a company in such a way
that the historian good to have a
real performance
this whole issue but above all
things a professional performance have
changed methods have changed the
physiognomy has changed the way
work from individual work to
teamwork methods
traditional to new technologies
and the scientific contributions of a
static story to a story
dynamics of a story that legitimized
the order of things to a story that
permanently questions everything
happened and that goes in search of the
truth the search for the truth
the historian’s goal and over
everything
I think it’s the goal of one that has
as a way of life the search for
true
each one of you can be a
Potential historian
you just have to be curious have
have interest and put passion for
the things he loves for his work
professional
the historian has to be a good
researcher has to know how to apply the
scientific method to find
answers to that question to that
hypothesis
he has to be a good educator because
You have to know how to download those contents to
classroom to teach young people and
third has to be a good popularizer
because many people like us
we access that knowledge thanks to
role that these historians sometimes
they have today mainly in the
media and networks
social in such a way that the
historian keeps writing stories
and it still has a future although its
main job is in the past
thank you very much
[Applause]
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