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Carlos Chávez and Esther Cruces in conversation with Edward de Ybarra

Eccles Institute event: archives of a return journey

Arequipa 2025, Friday 7 November 2025

Archives are the last bastion of a memory and history shared on both sides of the ocean. What is, on the face of it, a simple deposit of documents is really a story of past voices and lives, something that can guide our present. Talking about this matter will be three expert archivists and historians: Carlos Chávez (Peru), historian and ex coordinator of the PUCP Film Library; and Esther Cruces Blanco (Spain), archivist and recently the director of the Archivo General de Indias. Moderated by Edward de Ybarra, who was responsible for the project creating the Archivo Cinematográfico del Sur in Arequipa.