-Deconstructing to build the future. Susana Andrade. 7th Research Conference; 6th Outreach Conference and 5th Meeting of Graduates and Postgraduate Students. Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay. October 11, 12 and 13, 2017. “Afro and indigenous memories: narratives, resistance and identity productions of cultural singularities in Latin American Nation-States” Coordinators: L. Nicolás Guigou (Department of Social Anthropology, Institute of Anthropological Sciences, FHCE and Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Communication, FIC, Udelar), Eliana Lotti (Master’s in Anthropology of the Cuenca del Plata, FHCE, Udelar) and Martín Iguini (Bachelor’s in Anthropological Sciences, FHCE, Udelar). Objectives The objective of this Working Group is to investigate the memories of indigenous and Afro groups in Uruguay and in Latin American countries. The aim is to delve into these memories through the anthropological study of the narratives of these cultural singularities in terms of peculiar temporalities, modes of resistance and forms of identity production within the framework of the Uruguayan nation-state and the nation-states of the region. Basis and possible thematic lines The basis of the theme of this WG is found in the relevance of anthropological studies on the narratives of indigenous and Afro groups in Latin America, and incipiently, in Uruguay. The WG aims to encourage the meeting of researchers studying the collective and social memories based on the aforementioned ethnic groups, considering the production of narratives in the temporal configuration of their identities as the main source of these memories. Likewise, the GT will try to collaborate in systematizing, through the different investigations that will be presented, the narrative temporalities that produce identities within the framework of the contemporary phenomenon of the so-called ethnic re-emergences, the formation of minority and resistance discourses within the framework of the nation-state, and the narrative re-elaboration of indigenous and Afro-American singularities based on the various forms of recognition that they have been experiencing on the part of the State and actors of civil society. Thematic lines: Identity, memories and narratives. Memories and resistance. Memories and stories of the nation-states. Manifesto. The nation-states – or rather their triumphant versions, the ones we know – made us believe (this has always been a matter of faith) in the predestination of their births, in their inevitable genesis, in their singular and monotonous natures. The impossible coherence of the Nation-States has been maintained only through violence, silencing, denial and the more contemporary domestication of the external and internal heterogeneities that make them up. Afro and indigenous memories – buried memories, from the margins – have also been able to tenaciously resist, endure and reinvent themselves again and again amidst the thanatic delirium of the Caucasian Mnemosyne, the routine Sevillian theft and the devastation inherent to the gestation and temporality of the very white Latin American nation-states. Today the temporalities, the memories, are different. Beyond margins and centers, Afro and indigenous memories move through connections and disconnections in local and global spaces, between various times and geographies, questioning the very logic of the Nation-States, breaking their limits, undermining their genocidal and denying spirit, questioning the current pseudo-tolerance, full of instrumental multiculturalism. These memories are here today. In reality, they were always there. It happened that we did not want to listen to them. L Nicolás Guigou; Eliana Lotti; Martin Iguini