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Daniel Benito Goerlich (Valencia 1955) has a degree in Philosophy and Literature (History Section) MEC 19/9/77, Doctor in Geography and History (History of Art Specialty) MEC 22/6/81; with qualification: outstanding cum laude unanimously, and extraordinary prize of doctorate by the Faculty of Geography and History in 1983.

Professor at the Department of Art History, whose faculty has been working since 1977. He has been Conservator of the historical artistic heritage of the UVEG from 1987 to 2018.

Director of the Patriarch Museum of the Royal Seminary College of Corpus Christi.

He has dedicated his research to nineteenth-century architecture, the conservation of cultural heritage, history, iconography and Valencian art.

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Licenciado en Geografía e Historia por la Universitat de València

Licenciado en Historia y Ciencias de la Música por la Universidad de La Rioja

Doctor por la Universitat de València

Estancias en el extranjero: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milano-Trieste, Italia), Universitatea din Bucuresti (Rumanía), Universidad Islámica Azzad de Teherán (Irán).

Editor de Cuadernos de Bellas Artes – Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social.

Líneas de investigación:

1. Música
2. Historia del Arte
3. Estética.

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Sergi Doménech García (Carlet, 1982) es doctor en Historia del Arte por la Universitat de València (cum laude) con mención internacional. Obtuvo una beca predoctoral en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la UVEG. Ha sido investigador en la Cátedra Demetrio Ribes e investigador de plantilla en el Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  Ha realizado diversas estancias de investigación en diversos centros internacionales –entre ellos en el Warburg Institute, Londres– y ha sido profesor invitado en varias universidades de Iberoamérica. Es miembro de la Sociedad Española de Emblemática y secretario de la revista Imago que esta sociedad edita. En la actualidad es Director del Departament d'Història de l'Art de la Universitat de València.

Ha dedicado parte de su investigación al estudio del arte iberoamericano, aunque no de manera excluyente. Sus investigaciones se centran en el análisis e interpretación de la imagen. Su principal línea de investigación es el estudio de las “prácticas, ingenios persuasivos y retórica visual de la imagen religiosa en el periodo barroco”, así como la continuidad de prácticas y expectativas de la imagen sagrada en la modernidad. Reflejo de esto último es su línea de investigación sobre “Imagen, religión y poder en la España contemporánea”.

Albert Ferrer Orts (Meliana, 1965) graduated in Geography and History -specialization in Art History- (1989) at the Universitat de València-Estudi General, institution in which he received his doctorate in 2004 thanks to a thesis that won the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in 2005.

He has been a Secondary Teacher (2000-2013) and associated PDI in the Department of Art History of the Valencian Estudi General (2006-2013), professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Chile in Talca, Chile (2013-2014) and full professor of the Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación (Facultad de Arte) in Valparaíso, Chile (2014-2015). Accredited by the ANECA to university professor in 2014, since 2015 he works as a PDI assistant doctor in the Department of Art History of the Universitat de València. Since September 1, 2018, he is the initiative leader of the Unisocietat program (vice-rector for Territorial Projection and Society, of the same academic institution).

His lines of research have focused on the art and architecture of l'Horta Nord, the architecture and the sgraffito decoration of the 17th century in the Kingdom of Valencia, the Carthusian history and art of the former Province of Catalonia, particularly in the Valencian area, and Valencian painting of the sixteenth century. Lately, he has also dealt with the origins of art history in Chile and some of its museums and collections.

Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer Lozano studied at the University of Valencia and got her PH D in Art History in 1995 under the direction of prof. Joaquin Berchez. She has also a degree on English Studies. She got a Master's Degree in Architectural Sciences in Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings in the Centre d’Études de la Conservation du Patrimoine Architectural et Urbain de la Universidad of Leuven, Bélgium (1995), under the supervision of prof. Raymond Lemaire and Krista de Jonge. Professor of History of Art, she has been the coordinator of the Degree since march 2010 and is now coordinator of the Doctoraal Programme in History of Art. She has directed many PH d thesis as well as Master theses. She has participated in over 8 research projects, including the National Program I+D, with an actual project of Geographies of the artistic mobility. Valencia at Modern Times, as well as in international projects as the Mencia Research Project linked to the Getty Research Institute.  Her main field of studies is linked to the artistic and architectonic activities in Spain in medieval and modern times, in several aspects as construction techniques, works of art and architecture, artists culture, travelsetc. She has taught in several universities and participated in international congresses. She got a Senior Research grant from the Fulbright Comission for a stay at Harvard University. 

Mireia López Bertran is lecturer (profesor ayudante doctor) at Departament of Art History

of the Universitat de Valencia since October 2016. She was graduated in Humanities by

the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2000 and received her PhD degree in History from the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) in 2007. She specialises in the Phoenician-Punic

archaeology, with research interests in iconography, ancient Mediterranean art, embodiment,

rituals and gender. Between 2010-2012, she was postdoctoral researcher of the Spanish

Ministry of Education and Culture-FECYT and she worked as an Honorary Research Fellow

at the Archaeology Unit of the University of Glasgow. She undertook a project called “ Craft,

rituals and gender in the Punic Mediterranean: a comparative analysis between Eivissa

and Sardinia” . She was appointed Beatriu de Pinós/Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona between 2014 and 2016 and she undertook a project

entitled “ Change and continuity in the cemeteries of the Phoenician and Punic world:

funerary rituals and conceptions of the body”.

She has also been awarded with funds from the DAAD

(German Academic Exchange Service) to be visiting scholar at the Eberhard-Karl Universität

Tübingen in 2006, 2010 and 2014. She has joined the Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and

the Ancient Wolrd (Brown University) as visiting scholar in April-May 2015.

She has been involved in several national and international I+D+ i, and, she is also a member of the research group ARSMAYA (GIUV2013-09) leaded by  Cristina Vidal (Universitat de València) that deals with the documentation, value and diffusion of cultural heritage.  

Currently, she is working on art and iconography of the Iron Age Mediterranean from a embodied and gender perspective. More specifically she is specialised in coroplastic art from a material culture perspective.

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María Elvira Mocholí Martínez earned her Ph.D. from Universitat de València in Art History. She received a fellowship at the Department of Art History of this university and conducted research stays at the Warburg Institute in London. After more than a decade of professional activity in the field of cultural tourism, in 2016 he resumed his teaching and research function in the Department of Art History of the University of València, where she currently is as an assistant professor. She is secretary of the Imago journal, edited by the Sociedad Española de Emblemática.

Her research concentrates on the study of the medieval image in all its aspects (relics and reliquaries, miniatures, etc.) to carry out an analysis and interpretation of it in its cultural context, with special attention to the sculptural imagery of Mary in the ancient kingdom of Valencia. Currently, he participates in the project "The iconographic subjects: Old Testament I".

Mariángeles Pérez-Martín holds a PhD in Art History (2019, cum laude) and a Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies (2015) from the University of Valencia. She won the National Award for a Bachelor's Degree in Art History (2012) and the Extraordinary Award for a Master's Degree in Art History and Visual Culture, UVEG (2013). Her research focuses on the field of Women's History and Contemporary Art. She has published the book Ilustres e ilustradas. Académicas de Bellas Artes ss. XVIII-XIX (Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). She is Principal Investigator of the Project Art, Historiography and Feminisms (arthistFEM), University of Valencia (GIGE2022/130), funded by the Conselleria of Education, Universities and Employment, Generalitat Valenciana (2023-2024). Member (2022) and Coordinator of the TrencArt Educational Innovation Project. Trencant la Història. Images, texts and contexts for equality in the History of contemporary art (PIEE-3326371/2024), University of Valencia, academic year 2024-2025. Member of the VALuART research group. Valencia, university and art. Art, museums and visual culture, from 1750 to the present, GIUV2015-224 UVEG; and of Relecturas. Museum itineraries in a gender key, UVEG. Collaborator of the R&D project Artists in the Spanish cultural scene and their relationship with Europe, 1803-1945, University of Zaragoza (Ministry of Science, 2021-2025). She has been a member since 2018 of MAV-Women in the Visual Arts, of which she has been Territorial Coordinator (acv) (2021-2024); of the AEIHM-Spanish Association for Research in the History of Women (2016-present) and of the CEHA-Spanish Committee for the History of Art (2015-present). She is currently Head of Initiatives of Activa Cultura UV (2024).

Sagunt, 1962. PhD thesis El individuo exterior. Figuras y espacios en la ilustración gráfica del siglo XIX (The external individual. Figures and spaces in the graphic illustration of the Nineteenth-century) (2007).

His research can be framed within the theoretical field of visual studies and, focusing on the historical interpretations of 19th and 20th century European painting and photography, aims to open the cultural connections between the history of Aesthetics and technical epistemologies. He took part in the I+D+i Project "The artistic life in Valencia (1880-1936). Sources for a dictionary of artists". (HAR2009-14480). In 2010 he published his PhD dissertation in the book ‘Graphic illustration in the 19th century. Functional and dysfunctional features’ (La ilustración gráfica del siglo XIX. Funciones y disfunciones). Since then, he has been invited to take part in the Workshop on Satirical, Caricature, and Graphic Illustration (ASCIGE) at the Nouvelle Sorbonne University, Paris and regularly collaborates in International Arts Festivals such as Incubarte (6 and 7) and Perifèries 13. Committed to making contemporary art accessible to all, he has participated in outreach programmes at the Cañada Blanch Foundation (Fundación Cañada Blanch), the Contemporary Culture Centre of Valencia (Centre de Cultura Centemporània del Carme) and the Valencian Institute of Modern Arts (IVAM). He has also published various critics of contemporary artists and develops curatorial tasks at the University of Valencia and the Casa Museu Benlliure. Valencia.

Graduate in Geography and History MA (Universitat de Valencia, Spain, 1986)

PhD (History: Art History) (Università degli studi di Bologna, Italy, 1988)

Research Fellow Spanish College (Bologna, Italy) (1987-1988)

Researcher Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (FPI programme) at Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universitat de Valencia (1988-1991)

Assistant Professor (Profesor Asociado) at Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universitat de Valencia (March 1991- September 1996)

Associate Professor (Profesor titular) Art History, Universitat de Valencia (September 1996-September 2012)

Full Professor (Catedratico) Art History: Medieval Art, Universitat de Valencia (September 2012-present day)

Visiting professor Universitat de Girona, Università degli studi di Palermo and Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

My main research interests are Late medieval and Early Renaissance architecture, Art of the Crown of Aragon in an European context; Reception of art and identities in late medieval Iberia.

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