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SANCHEZ LEON, Pablo. History of the Present Time, Studies on Memory and Conceptual History. Critical Bases for a Combined Research Agenda. Hist. graf [online]. 2025, n.65, pp.95-143.  Epub 04-Ago-2025. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi65.569.

This text tries to critically reestablish the study of the history of present time, overcoming the epistemological, methodological and theoretical limitations that have accompanied it since its birth, through the combination of contributions from memory studies and the history of concepts. It begins by pointing out the analogies and convergences between history of present times and memory, as well as their common weaknesses, which have to do with their condition of situated knowledge unable to offer accounts that are distanced from the language instituted in the present. It then points out the crucial contribution that the history of concepts provides in distinguishing between contexts within the present time, offering a redefinition of the category of event focused on questions of meaning and discourse. In identifying the conditions of possibility of a distanced discourse, the text chooses the case of trauma when it is publicly stated in the form of a denunciation that may contain new semantics which force and at the same time allow the development of new discourses and distanced accounts of the present past. As an example of the proposal, the text focuses on the movement for the recovery of memory in Spain in the transition from the 20th to the 21st century.

Palabras llave : History of the present time; Memory studies; Conceptual history; Epistemological distancing; Semantic change; Change of context; Event; Trauma; Movement for historical memory; Spain.

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