Thursday 14 May, at 18.30, us presentem una conferència sobre arqueologia. The full title is "Archaeological heritage in cities as roots of culture and bridges of understanding between peoples: experiences of a Catalan in the Mayan lands of Yucatan" and will be taught by Josep Ligorred, archaeologist and professor at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (Merida, Mexico).
Through archeology we can understand how the cities we live in have come to be what they are, to locate ourselves historically and socially in those spaces where we live and to know why we still live there. In this conference we want to start sharing what has been done for decades regarding the management of the archaeological heritage in the modern city of Mérida, capital of Yucatan (Mexico), built damunt of an ancient Mayan city. The goal is that heritage, invisible and abandoned, become an axis of urban development policies, and also a didactic element for the knowledge and dissemination of a millennial culture.
However, the objects of the past, the archaeological and historical remains, they become signs of identity, sum of ways of living and living together through time. With them we establish connections between peoples and cultures. Catalans abroad have our cultural heritage as a memory of who we are today and this is part of the differential fact that distinguishes us to be ambassadors wherever we move. Com a missatgers és hora compartir altra vegada amb els altres la nostra identitat.
La conferència és gratuïta i, later, hi haurà un sopar al local.
The lecturer
Josep Ligorred i Perramon és de Manlleu i fa 40 years living in Mexico, on va estudiar Arqueologia. He is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY). Doctor en Gestió de la Cultura i el Patrimoni per la Universitat de Barcelona (UB), studied Bachelor of Archeology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and the Master's degree in Anthropological Sciences at the UADY. He has participated in several INAH and international archaeological projects in the Maya area. published, in specialized magazines from Europe and Mexico. He 1997 see the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies.
He 1998 published the book T'Hó, the ancestral Merida. He has co-directed, amb investigadors del Centre INAH Yucatán, archaeological rescue projects in areas of urban growth in the municipality of Mérida; he also co-directed the Archaeological Survey Project at the Historical Center of Mérida, with researchers from UNAM’s Institute of Anthropological Research, and the Xoclán Archeological-Ecological Park Project with researchers from the University of Barcelona. He 2010 his thesis received the Manuel Gamio Prize awarded by the National Council for Culture and the Arts, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History. Books stand out among his publications Mirades catalanes a l’antropologia mexicana, Històries dels Casals de la Xarxa de Mèxic, Amèrica Central i el Carib” i Integration of built heritage in cities with continuity of life in America and Europe.