'Extraordinary . . . stunning' - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory 'Vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful women' - Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana Five generations of women, linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share, and by a single book passed down through a family, with an affirmation scrawled in its margins: We are force. We are more than we think we are. 1866, Cuba: Maria Isabel is the only woman employed at a cigar factory, where each day the workers find strength in daily readings of Victor Hugo. But these are dangerous political times, and as Maria begins to see marriage and motherhood as her only options, the sounds of war are approaching. 1959, Cuba: Dolores watches her husband make for the mountains in answer to Fidel Castro's call to arms. What Dolores knows, though, is that to survive, she must win her own war, and commit an act of violence that threatens to destroy her daughter Carmen's world. 2016, Miami: Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, is shocked when her daughter Jeanette announces her plans to travel to Cuba to see her grandmother Dolores. In the walls of her crumbling home lies a secret, one that will link Jeanette to her past, and to this fearless line of women. From nineteenth-century cigar factories to present-day detention centres, from Cuba to the United States to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them. It is a haunting meditation on the choices of mothers and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their truth despite those who wish to silence them.

The Future of the Past is a biennial conference generally carried out during the commemoration date of the incorporation of Santa Ana de Los Rios de Cuenca Ecuador as a World Heritage Site (WHS). It initiated in 2014, organized by the City Preservation Management research project (CPM) of the University of Cuenca, to create a space for dialoguing among interested actors in the cultural heritage field. Since then, this space has served to exchange initiatives and to promote coordinated actions based on shared responsibility, in the local context. The third edition of this conference took place in the context of the 20th anniversary of being listed as WHS and a decade of CPM as the Southern host of the PRECOM(3)OS UNESCO Chair (Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites). For the very first time, and thanks to the collaboration with the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation of the University of Leuven (Belgium), the conference expanded its local scope. On this occasion, contributions reflected round a worldwide challenge in the cultural field: revealing the paths towards participatory governance of cultural heritage. Participatory governance is understood as institutional decision-making structures supported by shared responsibilities and rights among diverse actors.

Entre febrero y junio de 1926, el diario Ultima Hora realiza una encuesta sobre el libro nacional y su venta. Que sean libros en blanco reune las respuestas de escritores, editores y "hombres de letras" con prestigio indiscutido en ese entonces. Complementariamente, se publican tambien otros materiales ineditos que se relacionan con el precio de los libros, las colecciones populares y los entretelones de los premios de literatura. Este libro se corresponde con El viento de las circunstancias - Materiales sobre literatura (y otras expresiones culturales) argentinas en el Buenos Aires de 1926, por el mismo autor, el mismo sello editorial, y la misma especialista a cargo del Estudio Preliminar. Por otra parte, el tema central de Que sean libros en blanco se relaciona con otra obra del autor, titulada El mas caro de los lujos - Primera Exposicion Nacional del Libro. Teatro Cervantes, septiembre de 1928, tambien publicado por Teseo, con presentacion y conclusiones a cargo de Florencia Abbate.

El historiador Guillermo Gasio ofrece una vasta recopilacion de fuentes en torno al ano 1926, memorable para la literatura argentina. Los materiales proceden de textos y publicaciones raramente consultados y, por ende, citados de un modo escaso, teniendo como objetivo presentar un panorama de conjunto que permita apreciar el nivel alcanzado por la cultura argentina. Esta suerte de antologia exhibe a personajes consagrados, famosos, influyentes, nuevos y muchos olvidados. Los de Florida y los de Boedo. A los ensayistas poco recordados les siguen autores de provincias de gran merito. Ademas de los textos, se agregan las referencias a las penas literarias, las muestras de arte, ciertas manifestaciones teatrales, cinematograficas, y la consolidacion del tango cantado. Gabriela Garcia Cedro ha realizado el estudio preliminar centrado en algunos aspectos relevantes de las letras argentinas de aquel momento. Este libro se corresponde con Que sean libros en blanco. En torno a una encuesta del diario Ultima Hora sobre "El libro nacional y su venta" (febrero a junio de 1926), por el mismo autor, el mismo sello editorial, y la misma especialista a cargo del estudio preliminar. Por otra parte, el tema central de El viento de las circunstancias se relaciona con otra obra del autor, titulada El mas caro de los lujos. Primera Exposicion Nacional del Libro. Teatro Cervantes, septiembre de 1928, tambien publicada por Teseo, con presentacion y conclusiones a cargo de Florencia Abbate.