Torrent, 1967. Degree in Geography and History (1990) and a PhD in Art History (2010) from the Universitat de València. He has developed his professional activity as director of the Museu Comarcal de l'Horta Sud Josep Ferrís March, from its creation in 1996 until 2013. Throughout this period he has combined this activity with teaching as an associate lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of Valencia. In 2013 he obtained a position as assistant professor and since 2018 he has been a full professor. He has been an elected member of the Senate since 2014, where he has been a member of several university management bodies, such as the Governing Council, the Statutes Committee and the Claustro Board. Between 2018 and 2023 he was director of the cultural heritage area of the Universitat de València.

His lines of research focus on the study of certain manifestations of cultural heritage related to the landscapes where they are integrated, such as popular architecture, industrial architecture and the heritage of public works, on which he has published various contributions in specialized journals and collective works.

He has worked on drawing up inventories of immovable ethnological heritage (1994) and industrial heritage in the Valencian Community (1997-2005) and has been a member of the drafting teams of various territorial planning instruments, special plans, master plans for monuments and municipal catalogues of protected buildings and spaces, and has authored a good number of reports on the protection and management of immovable cultural monuments. He has participated in more than ten research contracts and in several R&D projects financed in public calls.

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”.

Mireia Ferrer Álvarez is Associate Professor at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València.

PhD in History of Art from the University of Valencia with the PhD Dissertation "Paris y los pintores valencianos 1880-1914" (2007). She studied at the Universitat de València, at the Université Paris Sorbonne IV, École des Hautes Études in Sciences Social in Paris and at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of New York.

She has been teaching at the Universitat de Valencia History of Art Department since 2000-2001. Currently teaches in the Degree in Art History (Universitat de València), Master de Patrimonio Cultural (Universitat de València), Master Universitario en Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual (Universitat de València. Universitat Jaume I de Castelló); Diploma de Especialización en Análisis y Autentificación de obras de arte (Universitat de València); PERMEA. Programa Experimental de Mediación y Educación a través del Arte ( Consorcio de Museos de la Comunitat Valenciana-Universitat de València) and Master de Fotografía Universitat de València-Espai d'Art Fotogràfic.

She has directed as (PR) the Research Project (R&D) "El arte y su función social en las sociedades contemporáneas" and as a member of nine R & D Projects of the Universitat de València, the Universitat de Barcelona and the European Union.

Her fields of research are focused on Cultural Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Museum Studies, Artistic Heritage and Spanish and Valencian contemporary art.

Marta García Carrión has a PhD in History and she is full-time teacher in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the University of València. Her research has focused on the cultural history of cinema in Spain and its relationships with nation and region identities in the first third of the 20th century. She has carried out post-doctoral research stays at Paris Sorbonne Université, Université Paris 8-Saint Denis and the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome. She is the author of three monographic books: Sin cinematografía no hay nación. Drama e identidad nacional en la obra de Florián Rey (Inst. Fernando el Católico, 2007),  Por un cine patrio. Cultura cinematográfica y nacionalismo español (Publicaciones Universidad de Valencia, 2013) y  La regió en la pantalla. El cinema i la identitat dels valencians (Afers, 2015). Furthermore, she has published more than thirty papers in academic journals and collective books. Recently, her research has focused especially on the gender identities in the Spanish cinema. She is principal investigator of the research projects Género y nación. De la literatura popular a la ficción televisiva en la España contemporánea (CIAICO/2021/234, funded by Generalitat Valenciana) with Ferran Archilés, and Heroínas, castizas y modernas. Modelos de feminidad nacional y cultura de masas (1898-1930) (PID2021-128388NA-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and FEDER. A way of making Europe), with Xavier Andreu.

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 Yolanda Gil Saura (1972) is a full professor attached to the Departament d'Història de l'Art of the Universitat de València where she has been teaching since 1999. She has been the academic secretary of the department, coordinator of the Degree in Art History and Head of the Art History Department. Secretary and editor-in-chief of  Ars Longa journal.She has been part of the Board of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia.She is currently coordinator of Master's Degree in History of Art and Visual Culture. 
 He got his PhD under the direction of prof. Joaquín Bérchez about baroque architecture in the Valencian territories of the ancient diocese of Tortosa. Since then his research has focused on the art and architecture of the Spanish Modern Age especially the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has taken an interest in architecture at the crossroads of Valencian, Catalan and Aragonese territories and has subsequently turned his attention to the world of nobiliary collecting. He studied the cultural presence of the Austrian exiles in Vienna after the War of Succession, a topic on which he continues to work and that led him to make a stay at the University of Vienna. Ongoing research focuses on the viceregal court of Valencia and cultural exchanges with the Italian field, which has led him to make stays and give lectures at the universities of Palermo, Cagliari and Venice. His research has been framed uninterruptedly in funded research projects led first by Professor Joaquín Bérchez and then by Professor Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer. She is part of the  group GIUV2013-055 Art and Architecture of the Modern Age-GEOART and is IP of the research project PID2021-126266NB-100 Living nobly in early modern Valencia, a court of the Hispanic Monarchy.

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Graduate in Art History and Higher Professor of Music, she has been a research scholarship recipient from the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia thanks to the University Teacher Training Program of the Ministry of Education. In 2011 she presented her European Doctorate thesis “El fuster, definition of an office in medieval Valencia” directed by Dr. Amadeo Serra within the framework of the research project HUM-2004-5445-ARTE “Architecture under construction in the Valencian area in medieval and modern times.

She received the Senyera Prize for Scientific Research, the honourable mention in 2011, and also the Demetrio Ribes UVEG-FGV Award in its 8th Edition in 2011.

She has carried out study abroad stays at the Hertzian Library of the Max-Planck Institute in Rome and in the Laboratoire de Archéologie Médiévale Méditerranéenne of the French Center National de la Recherche Scientifique in Aix-en-Provence. In 2010 she directed the research project “Historical-artistic study of the San Vicente de la Roqueta de València building” funded by Municipal Urban Actions S.A. (Valencia), linked to the restoration heritage. In the line of history of construction research in the Middle Ages, she has participated in the project “Houses and Cities built in Earth. Conservation, significance and urban quality within the Culture 2000 Program of the European Union, and she has collaborated in conferences organized by the “Laboratoire de Medievistique Occidentale de Paris (UNIR 8589 Paris 1-CNRS).

In 2010 she directed the nationally funded research project linked to the restoration and dissemination of heritage. She has been a member of the emerging research group GV / 2018 // 117 for the realization of the R + D + i project “History and city. Social dynamism and urban transformation in Valencia from a comparative perspective (15th-18th centuries). She has been a member of the research group AICO / 2020/044 dedicated to the study of “L'espai domèstic i la cultura material en el regne medieval de València. “An interdisciplinary vision (13th-16th centuries)”. She is a member of the Erasmus + Ka2 project (0830060) “Women Legacy. Our cultural heritage for Equity.”

As a Senior Professor of Music she has focused her interests on musicological research, both in musical heritage and in the presence and significance of music in Valencia in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Currently she is a Permanent Labour Professor in the Department of Art History at University of Valencia. Her main lines of research focus on artistic production in carpentry in the medieval period; architecture and its reflection in Gothic painting; material culture and identity in the Middle Ages and its representation in the figurative arts; literature as a source for the study of Art History; the feminine legacy in artistic production.

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Professor of Archaeology at the University of Valencia. He has six recognized teaching sections and six research productivity sections. Member of the Grup de Recerca en Arqueologia del Mediterrani (GRAM) of the Universitat de València. Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (under the auspices of the International Association for Classical Archaeology). Director of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Valencia (1999-2002). Coordinator in 2013 and member of the Academic Committee of the PhD Programme of the University of Valencia, Geography and History of the Mediterranean from Prehistory to the Modern Age (2013-2023). Director of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage: Identification, Analysis and Management at the University of Valencia (2014-2023). He has directed 11 doctoral theses and currently directs 7 others in progress. He has been Principal Investigator for several national and regional R&D&I projects, as well as for some twenty non-competitive R&D&I contracts/projects with public administrations. His research activity has developed in the field of archaeology, mainly Roman with studies in Spain and Italy. He has directed or co-directed archaeological campaigns in Bilbilis (Calatayud, Zaragoza), Villa del Mitra (Cabra, Córdoba), Roman Temple of Cordoba, Roman aqueduct of Peña Cortada (Los Serranos, Valencia), Roman villa of L'Horta Vella (Bétera, Valencia). He has also directed several archaeological intervention projects related to the 1% Cultural in the Valencian castles of Chirel and Pileta (Cortes de Pallas), Buñol and Turís. He has also directed archaeological research linked to the Rehabilitation Project of the Palau de Cerveró in Valencia, current headquarters of the Institut d'Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero of the University of Valencia. In Italy he has made the architectural study of the sanctuary of Juno in Gabii and has been part of the Spanish archaeological team in Pompeii, who has carried out the study of the Casa/Caupona I. 8. 8 and Casa I. 8. 5. He has carried out research stays in different universities and institutions of Rome, Bologna, Naples, Pompeii, Warsaw.

Main lines of research: 1) Roman urbanism and architecture; 2) Hispano-Roman cities, Valentia and its rural environment; 3) Roman hydraulics in Valencian territory; 4) Dissemination and enhancement of archaeological heritage. Of these themes, author or editor of 7 complete books and about 200 publications in scientific journals, book chapters and congresses, national and international. He has lectured in Spain, France, Portugal, Italy and Poland.

He has curated two exhibitions, El Apolo de Pinedo (Valencia) at the Prehistory Museum of Valencia (1994) and Bajo la cólera del Vesubio. Testimonios de Pompeya y Herculano en la época de Carlos III, in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia with several itinerances in Sagunto, Alicante and Murcia (2004-2005). He has also participated in the preparation of the exhibition Sotto i lapilli in the Auditorium of Pompeii (Italy) (1998).

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Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual has a Degree in Art History and Journalism. Phd in Geography and History from the Universitat de València and PHD in Art History from the Universitat Politècnica de València.  Master in Development Cooperation with the speciality of International Humanitarian Aid by the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló. He is Currently Professor of the Department of Art History at the Universitat de València. Dean of International Relations, Quality and Educational Innovation at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València. His line of research for almost two decades has been the material, cultural and symbolic study of color in Ancient Mesoamerica, with special emphasis on Mayan culture. His most recent research focuses on the binomial "Materiality and Meaning", applied to the colors, fragrances and textures of different cultures of the ancient world, with the aim of investigating the issue of sensory perception through art and the ritual (public and private). In parallel, his training and experience in International Cooperation has allowed him in his projects and research, mostly focused on the Mayan area (Central America), combining the binomial Cultural Heritage and Local Development. Between 2009 and 2014 he was an autonomic Vice-President of International Cooperation and Humanitarian Diplomacy in the Spanish Red Cross – Comunidad Valenciana. He Has experience in Central America (Mexico and Guatemala), West Africa (Burkina Faso, Niger) and Asia (Sub-Continent India), especially linked to groups of children and women.

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