We are proud for having been honored with the task of organizing this traditional Congress, particularly on this Tenth Edition, that will mark the evolution of 20 years of permanent labor by researchers from every corner of the world, who have built rather than a subject for study, a life devoted to revalue this segment of the American history. It relates, undoubtedly, to a past that can be considered an example for many, since they understand that there existed a group of people who wanted to build a better world within a completely unfavorable context.
We are also greatly pleased with this opportunity to act as a link between the Jesuit-Guarani culture and the teachings with which the Jesuit Fathers, through their Ratio Studiorum, built their missionary and educational experience.
These seminars have had a long history since they were first organized within the national symposia held in Brazil from 1971 through 1991. They were born as a complement of those symposia, always with the clear purpose of encouraging scientific research. The first seminar was held in Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina) in 1982, organized by Dr. Ernesto J. A. Maeder, the then Director of the Geohistorical Research Institute of the CONICET. Since then, eight symposia have been held in Posadas, Argentina, in 1984; in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1986; in Asunción, Paraguay, in 1990; in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1994; in Marechal Rondón, Brazil, in 1996; in Resistencia, Argentina, in 1998; in Encarnación, Paraguay, in 2000; and in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2002.
On our part, the International Congress organized to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the Jesuits to Cordoba, held in 1999, aimed at calling upon the researchers of various parts of the world and gathering them precisely in this emblematic site of the Society of Jesus in the capital city of Cordoba, was a unique challenge in which the acknowledgement of the work of the Society of Jesus prevailed. That work which spread over one and a half centuries was crowned in the year 2000 with the inclusion of Cordoba’s Jesuit architectural heritage in UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Cordoba, the old seat of the Jesuit Province of Paraguay, witness of the educational and missionary activities of this large area, will be therefore, in the Spring of 2004, the site for the gathering, exhibition, discussion and debate of the work of many experts, researchers, professors and students who work on and study the history and culture which developed in a far corner of the world, and which originated a very special understanding among men.
The guidelines for this Congress shall be the educational and missionary work which the Society of Jesus projected like two parallel and well organized action tracks, thus creating a solid experience which later would allow them to implant the ideas of the Christian and Western culture in this part of the world.
And finally, we wish to emphasize how honored we feel to prepare and then to host this gathering of the scientific community and every person interested in this subject, and how pleased we are to share and also to pay back the immense gratefulness we owe to our peers and to those who have been our teachers..

Carlos A. Page

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Authorities

Executive Committee

Dra. Susana Carena
Dra. Marcela Aspell
Dra. Ana Celton
Dra. Alicia Malastesta
Arq. Carlos A. Page

Permanent Committee

Dr. Arno Kern (PUC-RS, Brasil)
Dra. Olinda M. Kostianovsky (Academia Paraguaya de Historia-Asunción)
Dr. Ernesto Maeder (CONICET-Resistencia, Argentina)
Dr. Bartomeu Meliá. S.J. (CEPAG-Asunción, Paraguay)
Dr. Luís Rodolfo González Rissotto (Investigador, docente y Ministro de la Corte Electoral de Uruguay)

Academic Committee

Dr. Ernesto Maeder
Mgter. Silvia Palomeque
Dr. Darko Sustersic
Dra. Branka Tanodi
Dra. María Cristina Vera de Flachs
Dra. Ana María Martínez de Sánchez

Cordinator

Arq. Carlos A. Page

Organizing Institutions

Universidad Católica de Córdoba
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

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Site of the Congress

Universidad Católica de Córdoba - Obispo Trejo 323 Córdoba

Structure of the Congress

1. Main Conferences in charge of renowned scholars.
2. Symposia. Directed by one or more coordinators who shall be responsible for the academic and organizational level of each symposium. They must submit the subject, its justification, a brief CV (maximum 3 pages) and a list of the speakers invited. The minimum number of speakers for each symposium shall be six, and the maximum shall be eighteen. The proposal for each symposium shall be submitted to the Academic Committee.
3. Plenary Sessions. Grouped around the subject matters proposed hereunder, the papers shall be submitted for their acceptance directly to the Academic Committee, which in turn will appoint the coordinators for each panel with functions similar to those of the symposia.

Papers

• These must be submitted in Spanish or Portuguese.
• Characteristics :

Size A 4 – maximum 15 pages – space between lines: 1_ - font: Times New Roman - body 12 (including notes, bibliography, annexes and illustrations)

• An abstract of up to 200 words with the same style and characteristics abovementioned must be included.

Deadline for the symposia proposals, March 31st, 2004

Deadline for the reception of papers (symposia and general panels) June 30th, 2004.

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Subjects for Discussion

Anthropology, Archeology, Art y Architecture, Demography, Political and Social Science, Economic Science, Evangelization, Philosophy and Education, Literature and Linguistics, History, Cultural Heritage, Urban Planning and Environment.

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Participants and fees

For those participants living in the MERCOSUR countries, the enrolment shall be in Argentine pesos. For people from outside the MERCOSUR, the enrolment fees shall be in US dollars. In order to be included in the Conference program, the participants shall be required to cancel enrolment fees before June 30, 2004.

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Guided visits and cultural activities

Together with the Symposia, several cultural activities are planned as well as guided visits to the old Collegium Maximum and Jesuit Residence, and the Estancias.

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Further information

About the symposia, general activities, recreation, lodging, transportation, etc., please visit our websiteb
Mail: pagehist@arnet.com.ar

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