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This area of concentration is dedicated to the production of historical knowledge in its themes and multiple times, considering memory, visuality and culture as dimensions constitutive of the social. The theoretical-methodological perspective contemplated include the transformations in the historiographic field (connections, transits, discontinuities), the plurality of perspectives (Visual Studies, Studies of Heritages and Public Archeology, Cultural, Intellectual and Environmental History), inter-disciplinarity in fields like memory, studies of images, subjectivities, gender, discourses, narratives and the incorporation of repertoires that problematize the historical knowledge and its meanings in the contemporary world.  The area considers the transforming power of the historiographic analysis, acknowledging that the work of historians is marked by their subjectivity, be the forms of writing History and historicization of happenings.