Call for Applications: Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024

The purpose of the call is to incorporate into the “Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean”, the document or documentary set, of an archival, bibliographic or audiovisual nature, existing in countries of the Region, with relevance for the collective memory of Latin American and Caribbean society.

The Memory of the World registry for Latin America and the Caribbean reflects the history and evolution of a region with a great documentary wealth of universal value. It includes more than 200 documents that remain kept in archives, libraries or museums and that have been recognized and selected by the MoWLAC Regional Committee to integrate the MoW regional registry.

Objectives

• The Memory of the World Program in Latin America and the Caribbean has the following objectives:
  • Facilitate the preservation of the region’s documentary heritage, especially in areas affected by conflicts and/or natural disasters.
  • Allow universal access to documentary heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Increase public awareness of the importance of documentary heritage among the general public.

Criteria

• They invite you to submit proposals to the Memory of the World, with records that account for the features of the history and evolution of Latin America and the Caribbean, to join those that the Regional Committee has recognized in previous years in archives, libraries or museums and, that document, among other milestones, processes and characteristics of:
  • migratory flows;
  • cultural, personal, artistic, scientific or commercial exchanges;
  • the struggle for land and geopolitical changes;
  • the colonial past;
  • the development of native populations or languages;
  • the richness of natural resources, their biodiversity and their endemic species;
  • the origin and development of dictatorships in the twentieth century; and
  • the struggle for human rights.

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