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The latest on the project: outreach, milestones, and public engagement by the team at NuestramemorIA.
September 8, 2026
Successful International Seminar on “Sites of Memory, Archives, and the Digital Humanities” at UC
Technology as a tool for the pursuit of justice and historical memory: this was the theme of the presentations given by various experts at the international seminar “Sites of Memory, Archives, and the Digital Humanities,” held in the Auditorium of the School of History, Geography, and…
September 7, 2026
Hugo Rojas: “NuestramemorIA s the HACS with engineering to strengthen institutions that protect human rights”
Interview conducted at the Office of the Vice President for Research at Alberto Hurtado University: https://investigacion.uahurtado.cl/sin-categoria/hugo-rojas-nuestramemoria-une-las-hacs-con-la-ingenieria-para-fortalecer-las-instituciones-que-protegen-los-derechos-humanos/ What happens when millions of documents, photographs, court records, letters, audio recordings, and testimonies—which are currently scattered across various sources—can be analyzed and linked using artificial intelligence? That is one of the questions addressed by the interdisciplinary project in which Hugo Rojas, a sociologist of law, is participating,…
August 24, 2026
Guillermo Peralta Wins an Award in the Museum of Memory's 2026 Thesis Competition for Research That Applies AI to the Analysis of Historical Archives
Researcher Guillermo Peralta Godoy, a doctoral candidate in Engineering Sciences (Computer Science) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a member of the Nuestramemoria.cl team, was selected as one of the winners of the 2026 Thesis Competition, an initiative organized by the Collections and Research Department of the Museum of Memory…
August 14, 2026
"Memories of the South": Artificial Intelligence at the Service of Human Rights
To create a digital infrastructure that serves as a repository for archives produced during the 20th-century dictatorships in the Southern Cone of South America: this is the goal of the project “Memorias del Sur: Interdisciplinary Research Platform on Archives of the Recent Past in Uruguay and the Southern Cone,” which was selected as one of…
August 6, 2026
Challenges Posed by Indigenous Datasets for Artificial Intelligence Models
Archives are the foundation of all the developments we now know as artificial intelligence: How do we approach these archives from a computational perspective when neither their traces nor their records are part of what we know as official history? These are some of the key questions addressed at the Third “ NuestramemorIA ” Workshop, “Archives…
June 17, 2026
Technological Sovereignty and Memory: International Seminar on Archives, Memory, and Artificial Intelligence
NuestramemorIA He presented his findings at the International Seminar held at the Catholic University of Uruguay, alongside researchers from Uruguay and the United States.
May 26, 2026
LASA Annual Conference in Paris: Rethinking the Documentation of Crimes
Hugo Rojas gave a presentation on fragmented archives and emerging technologies at the annual LASA conference in Paris.
