The Social Sciences Area as a political and intellectual commitment. Interview with Mirta Antonelli, Ana Correa, Alicia Gutiérrez and Patricia Morey

Abstract

For this first interview in the Conversas section, we decided collectively to speak with researchers who had been part of the Social Sciences Area of the CIFFyH since its creation, or who had developed their intellectual work in close relationship with the institution. With this objective, we contacted Mirta Antonelli, Ana Correa, Alicia Gutiérrez and Patricia Morey, who were willing to meet and talk with us. Between mates and flour we chatted intensely for almost three hours in a bubbling dialogue that in its drift went through numerous questions, reaching a direct, kind and deep rope. The stories of the CIFFyH mentioned in the interview were reconstructed together in an emotional exchange in which evocation was also linked to moments of the present, to experiences, places and current problems. Throughout the meeting, the figure of María Saleme de Burnichon, who gives our centre its name, appeared strongly in all its dimensions: political, educational, militant and intellectual. This gave us access to stories of the space in which we work, marked by struggles and disputes, but also by affections and encounters.