The Politics and Culture Department, one of the oldest areas at CEDES, was established in 1982 under the name of “Culture and Ideology” and comprises one of the institution’s most important research programs. The department’s activities were interrupted in April 2003 following the death of its long-standing director, Oscar Landi, Senior Researcher at CEDES. (see [1] [2]) Nevertheless, we cannot but highlight the work this department conducted over twenty years and the brilliant career of Oscar Landi, who passionately and professionally dedicated himself to research, to teaching, and to the dissemination and devoted social debate about the society . With his outstanding insight and work, Oscar deeply enriched the contribution that CEDES has been interested in making to the development and the strengthening of the social sciences and an the informed public debate. The academic activity of Oscar Landi at our institution that lasted from 1975 until his death can be illustrated trough his following main research projects: > The crisis of the Peronist government (1973-76). > Political discourse of the government of the National Reorganization Process. > The transition from school to work and the alteration of labor cultures over the past ten years. > Institutional transition and cultural policies in Argentina today. > Democratization and transformation of political cultures (a comparative analysis between Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay). > Justice, human rights, and political representation in Argentina. > Consumption and cultural practices in the city of Buenos Aires. > The television industry and the formation of its viewers. > Audiovisual languages and current forms of political action. > The communicative dimension of the social policies. > The body in the process of socialization at the end of the century. It is worth mentioning that Landi also participated in the interdisciplinary research department on human rights, which CEDES conducted between 1989 and 1993. The project, “El juicio a las Juntas: derechos humanos y transición a la democracia en Argentina” (“The trial of the Junta: human rights and the transition to democracy in Argentina”) was carried out by a research team in areas of sociology at CEDES: Elizabeth Jelin, political analysis; Carlos Hugo Acuña and Catalina Smulovitz, social communication; Oscar Landi, Inés González Bombal, Luis Alberto Quevedo, and Ariana Vachieri, as well as visiting researchers (Luis Moreno Ocampo, Susana Kaufman, Silvia Rabich, and Leonardo Pérez Esquivel), as well as CEDES fellows. The project was coordinated by Oscar Landi and Elizabeth Jelin and counted with the collaboration of Carlos H. Acuña and the external support Adam Przeworski, University of Chicago. The research explored constitutional forms and social, cultural, and political intervention in the thematic of human rights in the transition and the post-transition period of democracy in Argentina. It focused on the privileged analysis of the trial of the Military Junta, but also expanded to the analysis of a vaster set of processes that occurred in the country. Landi, in addition to his role as researcher, held other positions at the Center. He was CEDES director between 1992 and 1994 and was the director of the Young Researcher’s Training Program. Some of the fellows in this program were Alberto Quevedo, Rodolfo Lemez, Ariana Vacchieri, and Roxana Juiz Ferro.