Contiendas por el pasado de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral durante su primer medio siglo

Abstract

Every founding event claims a meaning, for this reason institutions give themselves a past and shape an image to be projected to society. This text analyzes the sense configurations that between the mid-twenties and the end of the sixties sought to give a past to the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). The interest in setting a genealogy that would draw a line of continuity between the national university established in 1919 and the former provincial university (Universidad de Santa Fe, 1889) can be identified in the second half of the 1920s. However, this selective strategy brought about difficulties in achieving a synthesis that would unify visions and positions during the 1940 (twenty years since the UNL creation) and the 1969 (fiftieth anniversary) commemorations. Likewise, certain critical political situations are taken into account in order to observe emphasis shifts in relation to the genealogy outlined in the twenties. Universidad, UNL magazine since 1935, is the main source to analyze tensions and divergences among those who assumed themselves as spokespeople of the institution history.