La universidad como lugar de memoria: el caso de la Universidad Técnica del Estado, sede Concepción, región del Biobío, Chile

This article analyzes the university as a site of post-dictatorship memory in Chile, exploring how it has lost one of its original purposes: to be a space that integrates a community with a collective project aimed at transforming society through knowledge production and the reconfiguration of power relations. Focusing on the Universidad Técnica del Estado (UTE), Concepción campus, now Universidad del Bío-Bío (UBB), addressing the forgetfulness generated by dictatorial intervention, which denied its history and relegated institutional memories. Hypothesizing that current memory works can perpetuate the discontinued university project. The methodology employs a qualitative documentary approach, analyzing data from UTE, UBB, and the university community through primary and secondary sources. Findings include the impact of the dictatorial university model on student identity, the institutionalization of forgetfulness, and the relationship between social research and theatrical production as memory work.