Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires

The UBA Superior Council mandated the creation of a faculty of philosophy and letters on 3 March 1888, but the corresponding presidential decree was only released twelve years later, on 13 February 1896, by issue of President José Evaristo Uriburu. In that same decree, Uriburu appointed Bartolomé Mitre, Bernardo de Irigoyen, Carlos Pellegrini, Rafael Obligado, Paul Groussac, Ricardo Gutiérrez, Lorenzo Anadón and Joaquín V. González as the faculty's new authorities.{{cite web|url=http://23118.psi.uba.ar/academica/carrerasdegrado/psicologia/informacion_adicional/obligatorias/034_historia_2/Archivos/inv/3primeracatedra.pdf|title=Acerca de la creación de la primera cátedra de psicología en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UBA, 1896|work=Facultad de Psicología UBA|last1=Miceli|first1=Claudio|last2=Bruno|first2=Darío|last3=Riccitelli|first3=Laura|last4=Celentano|first4=Carlos|last5=Reghitto|first5=Miguel|access-date=23 September 2022|language=es}}

Despite being one of the oldest faculties, FFyL has historically been relegated infrastructure-wise. It originally had its seat on the rectorship building, on Viamonte 430—originally the private residence of engineer Emilio Agrelo, built in 1891. It wasn't until 1962 that the faculty was granted a seat of its own, a building on Avenida Independencia 3065, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera. The building had originally been built as a nursing home by the Dominican Order. Following the creation of the faculties of Psychology and of Social Sciences, both as splinters from FFyL, the faculty was relocated to a building on Puán 480, in Caballito. The building formerly housed the Nobleza Piccardo tobacco factory. Said building remains the faculty's seat to this day.{{cite web|url=https://www.uba.ar/historia/contenidos.php?id=4&s=41|website=uba.ar|title=Facultad de Filosofía y Letras|access-date=23 September 2022|language=es}}

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• Licenciatura on the Arts
• Licenciatura on Librarianship and information science
• Licenciatura on Anthropological sciences
• Licenciatura on Education sciences
• Licenciatura on Literary editing
• Licenciatura on Philosophy
• Licenciatura on Geography
• Licenciatura on History
• Licenciatura on Letters
• Licenciatura on Classical languages and literature
• Licenciatura on Modern languages

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In addition, FFyL offers professorship degrees on arts, anthropology, education sciences, philosophy, geography, history, and letters.{{cite web|url=http://carreras.filo.uba.ar/|website=filo.uba.ar|title=Carreras de grado|access-date=23 September 2022|language=es}} Moreover, the faculty offers a number of specialization degrees, as well as magister degrees, doctorates and post-doctoral degrees.{{cite web|url=http://posgrado.filo.uba.ar/|website=filo.uba.ar|title=Secretaría de Posgrado|access-date=23 September 2022|language=es}}

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| image1 = Palace Hotel desde 25 de Mayo y Perón.jpg{{!}}Laboratorio de Idiomas

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| footer = FFyL seat at 25 de Mayo St. (left) and Juan B. Ambrosetti Museum of Ethnography (right).

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The Faculty of Economic Sciences counts with up to twenty-two research institutes covering diverse fields, such as the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani", one of the most renown and prestigious institutes of American and Argentine history.{{cite journal|url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/10915/80266/Versión_en_PDF.pdf?sequence=1|journal=Trabajos y Comunicaciones|publisher=Universidad Nacional de La Plata|last=Pagano|first=Nora Cristina|title=El reordenamiento del Instituto Ravignani durante los primeros 60 en la documentación institucional|volume=50|date=5 July 2019|issue=50 |pages=e097 |language=es|doi=10.24215/23468971e097|s2cid=199147687 |doi-access=free}}{{cite news|url=https://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/829991/actualidad/francia-distinguio-historiadora-tucumana.html|work=La Gaceta|title=Francia distinguió a una historiadora tucumana|last=Espinosa|first=Roberto|date=29 December 2019|access-date=23 September 2022|language=es}} There are FFyL-affiliated institutes studying archaeology, anthropology, education sciences, philosophy and philology, linguistics, art history and theory, ancient history, Eastern history, Argentine, Spanish and Latin American literature, among others. Most of these institutes have their seat at the 25 de Mayo building, which previously housed the Palace Hotel.{{cite news|url=https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/peligra-edificio-funciono-lujoso-palace-hotel_0_H1rWYCeCKl.html|work=Clarín|title=Peligra el edificio en donde funcionó el lujoso Palace Hotel|date=17 January 1999|access-date=23 September 2022|language=es}}

In addition, FFyL also oversees the Juan B. Ambrosetti Museum of Ethnography, one of the university's 16 museums. It was declared a site of interest in the City of Buenos Aires by the City Legislature.{{cite web|url=https://ilamdir.org/recurso/1409/museo-etnogr%C3%A1fico-juan-bautista-ambrosetti|website=ilamdir.org|title=Museo Etnográfico Juan Bautista Ambrosetti|access-date=23 September 2022|language=es}}

Like the rest of the University of Buenos Aires's faculties, FFyL operates under the principle of tripartite co-governance, wherein authorities are democratically elected and professors, students and graduates are represented in the faculty's governing bodies. The faculty is headed by a Dean ({{langx|es|decano}} or decana), who presides over the Directive Council (Consejo Directivo). The Directive Council is made up of eight representatives for the professors, four representatives of the student body, and four representatives of the faculty's graduates. Deans are elected by the Directive Council every four years, while elections to the council take place every two years.{{cite web|url=https://rrhh.uba.ar/Paginas/asamblea-universitaria.aspx|website=rrhh.uba.ar|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|title=Ricardo Gelpi fue electo rector de la UBA}}

Since 2022, the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters has been Ricardo Manetti, with Graciela Morgade as vice dean.{{cite news|url=https://www.letrap.com.ar/nota/2022-7-30-10-29-0-la-uba-inicia-una-nueva-etapa-con-yacobitti-en-la-cabina-de-control|work=Letra P|title=La UBA inicia una nueva etapa con Yacobitti en la cabina de control|date=30 July 2022|access-date=19 September 2022|language=es}}

The Faculty of Philosophy and Letters has produced a number of important thinkers and researchers in the fields of social science and philosophy. Social anthropologist Esther Hermitte, credited with introducing structural-functionalist anthropology in Argentina, was a FFyL alumna, as was post-marxist theorist Ernesto Laclau.{{cite news|title=Murió el politólogo Ernesto Laclau, el pensador que inspiró al kirchnerismo|url=http://www.losandes.com.ar/notas/2014/4/13/murio-politologo-ernesto-laclau-pensador-inspiro-kirchnerismo-779200.asp|date=13 April 2014|access-date=13 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414131615/http://www.losandes.com.ar/notas/2014/4/13/murio-politologo-ernesto-laclau-pensador-inspiro-kirchnerismo-779200.asp|archive-date=14 April 2014|language=es}} Sociologist and political activist Pilar Calveiro began her studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, before the creation of the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1988.{{Cite news |url=https://www.clarin.com/ediciones-anteriores/fede-juventud-comunista-dio-cuadros-guerrilla-menem_0_H1gCfKATYe.html|title=La Fede, la juventud comunista que dio cuadros a la guerrilla y también a Menem|work=Clarín|language=es|date=2 August 2009|access-date=2 January 2018}} In 2008, Estela Beatriz Cols, pedagogue, researcher, and educator, received her Ph.D. in Education from this faculty.{{cite web |last1=Cols |first1=Estela |title=Estilos de enseñanza: Sentidos personales y configuraciones de acción tras la semejanza de las palabras |url=http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/4216 |access-date=23 July 2023 |language=es |date=2007}}

Several renown writers and artists have also been educated at FFyL, including novelist and short story writer Julio Cortázar, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. Cortázar began a philosophy degree aged 18, but did not complete it due to financial woes.{{cite book|last=Herráez|first=Miguel|title=Julio Cortázar, Una Biografía Revisada|publisher=Alrevés|date=2011|isbn=9788415098034|page=343|language=es}} The poet and critic Jorge Fondebrider studied literature at FFyL, and later served as director of the UBA-owned Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas.{{cite web|url=https://www.unl.edu.ar/noticias/news/view/jorge_fondebrider_abri%C3%B3_el_argentino_de_literatura#.YwqkWHbMLIU|website=unl.edu.ar|title=Jorge Fondebrider abrió el Argentino de Literatura|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es}} The Manipulated Man author Esther Vilar,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/13/archives/she-says-its-the-men-who-are-enslaved.html|title=She Says It's the Men Who Are Enslaved (Published 1972)|first=Judith Weinraub Special to The New York|last=Times|newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 13, 1972}} and the poet and translator Alejandra Pizarnik,{{cite news|last1=Enríquez|first1=Mariana|author-link=Mariana Enríquez|title=Soy|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/soy/1-2635-2012-09-28.html|access-date=22 August 2020 |work=Página 12|date=28 September 2012|language=es}} also attended FFyL. The short story writer Samanta Schweblin studied film design at UBA.{{cite web|url=https://www.cervantes.es/bibliotecas_documentacion_espanol/creadores/schweblin_samanta.htm|website=cervantes.es|title=Samanta Schweblin. Biografía|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es}} Elena Presser also began her studies at the University of Buenos Aires,{{Cite web|url=https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/elena-presser|title=Elena Presser {{!}} National Museum of Women in the Arts|website=nmwa.org|access-date=2019-04-26}} as did film director Juan Cabral.{{Cite news|url=http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/199326/HOTLINE-Fallon-poaches-art-director-Mother/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH|title=HOTLINE: Fallon poaches art director from Mother|date=9 January 2004|work=Campaign|access-date=3 December 2011}}

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