Begins the 17th Congress of Contemporary History in Valencia from a critical perspective towards the 21th century
More than 600 researchers have been these days in Valencia to debate about the evolution of discipline over the last decades.
10 de july de 2025
The Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València has been this morning the stage for the official inauguration of the XVII Congreso de Historia Contemporánea (AHC), that will be extended until Friday, 11 July. With more than 600 researchers reunited around more than 50 workshops and sessions, the event is consolidated as one of the main European meetings dedicated to the historiographic analysis and debate.
The inaugural workshop, celebrated in the Joan Fuster Assembly Hall, has counted with the institutional participation of the Principal of the Universitat de València, M.ª Vicenta Mestre; the president of the AHC, Carme Molinero; the congress director, Julián Sanz Hoya, the director of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Sergio Valero; and the Dean of the Faculty of Geography and History, Manuel Lomas.
The date, will be celebrated twenty five years after the edition that the city took in 2000, frames itself as a collective balance about the evolution on discipline the last decades.
Under the non-official motto “history to understand the present”, the congress proposes as a plural and critical space to dialogue methodologic focuses, academic generations and current concerns. Throughout the three intense workshops, topics that go from contemporary populisms and climate change to the challenges of migrations, digital technologies or new social movements, will be approached.
The closure, stablished on 11 July, will include a support act to the Palestine academic community and will count with the intervention of the professor Riad Ali El Aila, from the University of Gaza.
With the support of the Valencian government and the Valencia Provincial Council, this new edition of the Congress of the AHC consolidates the role of Valencia as a reference point for the European historiography, reaffirming that the study of the past continues being essential to comprehend —and transform— the present.