Memória institucional da Faculdade de Direito de Santos: a gênese da Universidade Católica de Santos (1951-1953)

Abstract

This essay handles the creation process of Santos Law School, the first catholic university in Santos, the genesis of the first university of Santos region, with a historical cutout between 1951 and 1953, year that preceded the authorization, subsequent year from the authorization for its effective operation and the first year of operation. It intends to interrogate the feeling of belonging in the concrete practices of people who participated in the creation process of the institution and rebuild the two starting years of history of this institution of higher education, attempting to the impacts produced in the city. The record of this journey is important for the construction of institutional and historical Memory, in a way to contribute for the image empowerment of this higher education institution. When working with the concepts of historical and institutional memory and higher education institution, it details the comprehension envolving collective memory; that is, that memory which is narrated by an individual (hereby understood and taken as significative totality, or as a bundle of multiple determinations, relations) who, when reminiscing the past, evidences events defined as socially important and structuring by the society of its time. Therefore, research techniques (interviews, mainly) are used for such purposes and offered by Oral History.