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He studied at the University of Valencia and got his Ph.D. in Art History in 2000 with the Thesis El monasterio de San Miguel de los Reyes. Arquitectura y construcción en el ámbito valenciano de la Edad Moderna. He was appointed a Reader in 2001 and Professor in 2017.

His teaching is developed through subjects related to the Artistic Heritage, the art and architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque, and the application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in teaching and research in Art History. He has directed many Ph.D. thesis as well as Master theses.

His research focuses on the Artistic Heritage, with special attention to cultural and visual aspects, and the heritage of public works. He has led and participated in numerous research projects. He has treated the reception of the works in its development, he is interested in how art was made, used and viewed over time. Currently, he developes this focus in the R&D project “Memory, Image and Conflict in Renaissance Art and Architecture: Germanias revolt in Valencia”, Ministry of Science and Competitiveness. He has participated in numerous conferences, seminars and congresses, and he has authored numerous publications linked to the artistic and architectonic activities in Spain in modern times.

He has been editor-in-chief of Ars Longa. Cuadernos de Arte from 2009 to 2014 and he is member on the editorial board of the different journals. He has been coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Art History (UJI and UVEG, with Mention to Excellence) from 2011 to 2015, and he has been head of the Department from 2008 to 2014. He is head of the institutional chair “Demetrio Ribes” since 2017.

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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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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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I am an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat de València since 2019. Previously, I was a Research Assistant (2010-2014) and then Head of Project (2014-2015) at the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster (Germany), before changing to the UV in 2015 with a tenure-track position. I have also been Visiting fellow at the Free University of Berlin (Friedrich-Meinecke Institut), University of Vienna (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas), as well as Guest Lecturer at the universities of Potsdam, Humboldt of Berlin and Vienna.
My International PhD (2014) focused on the relations between the Women's Section of the Spanish Falange and the Nazi Party's youth and women organizations in Germany. My main research interest is the relation of gender and fascism as well as the cross-border cooperation of European fascists in the 1930s and 1940's. Besides, I publish on the history of València as Capital of the Spanish Republic 1936-1937, and on Spain's struggle with Francoism's symbolic remains in the public space after 1979.
I have co-edited the volumes Reactionary nationalists, fascists and dictatorships. Against democracy (Palgrave 2019) and Tot està per fer.València, Capital de la República 1936-1937 (UV 2016). Furthermore, I authored numerous articles in European journals, including, among others, the Journal of Contemporary History, Zeitgeschichte, and Historia y Política. Besides I translated various articles and three scientific books into Spanish: Haupt/Langewiesche (eds.), Nation und Religion in Europa (Campus 2004); Raphael, Geschichtswissenschaft im Zeitalter der Extreme (C.H. Beck 2003), and Caruso, Geist oder Mechanik (Peter Lang 2010).

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Jorge Sebastian Lozano is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art of the University of Valencia since 2014, in whose Master of Cultural Heritage he had been a visiting professor since 2006. He has received research grants from the Real Colegio Complutense of Harvard University, in 2017 and 2018.

His research as a historian spans a variety of fields. He devoted his dissertation to the visual representation of gender in the Spanish monarchy of the Early Modern Age, publishing several articles and essays on the topic. More recently, he has dedicated special attention to the painter Sofonisba Anguissola, through various publications and collaborations.

Additionally, he has taught multiple courses on the application of ICT to the study and dissemination of historical heritage. Since 2018 he is Technical Manager SILKNOW, a research project funded by the European Commission (programme Horizon2020).

He has also organized many exhibitions and conferences about contemporary art, mainly in Fundación Mainel.

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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