The Physical Geography Working Group of the Spanish Association of Geography (AGE) and the Department of Geography at USC, with the collaboration of CISPAC, are organizing the 38th Field Conference on Physical Geography from June 2 to 6.

These field days are aimed at professionals, researchers, students, and AGE members interested in exploring the Galician territory from a geographical and environmental perspective.

KosmoTech_1200 é un proxecto que combina tecnoloxía avanzada e investigación interdisciplinar para reconstruír dixitalmente o coro pétreo e o nártex occidental da catedral de Santiago de Compostela, obras mestras do Mestre Mateo. O seu obxectivo é recuperar a dimensión orixinal destes espazos como “máquinas” intelixentes que moldeaban a percepción e a espiritualidade das comunidades medievais, ofrecendo unha nova visión sobre o seu funcionamento simbólico e sensorial.

O proxecto vén de publicar a proposta de reconstrución estrutural do coro do Mestre Mateo, dispoñible na súa canle de Youtube.

On Thursday 22nd of May, CISPAC will host the conference “Agroecoloxía e Xustiza de Xénero: Perspectivas e Loitas das Mulleres Rurais na Península Ibérica” by Rita Calvario, researcher at DINAMIA'CET-Iscte. The session will take place at 12:00 h in Seminar 103 of the Fontán Building (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia).

The activity is part of CISPAC's scientific program and is open to the public until full capacity is reached.

Next Tuesday, May 27, the 17th session of the "Theses in Discussion" cycle will be held at CISPAC, a space for presentation and debate around ongoing doctoral research.

The activity will feature the interventions of Luca Grisolini and Hager Fathi, and will take place in the Lar do CISPAC at 11am.

The Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory recently entrusted the HISTAGRA Group of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, linked to CISPAC, with the elaboration of the State Census of Victims of the Civil War and the dictatorship in the period 1936-1939, in compliance with article 9 of Law 20/2022 of Democratic Memory. The order was formalized through an agreement signed by the rector of the USC, Antonio López, and the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez López.

With the aim of coordinating and specifying the terms of the project, the USC research team, led by Lourenzo Fernández Prieto and Antonio Míguez Macho, met this Friday at the CISPAC facilities with a ministerial delegation headed by the General Director of Victim Assistance, Zoraida Hijosa, accompanied by the director of the Exhumations Division, Jaime del Rey Gómez-Morata, and the head of area of the General Directorate, José Luis Muñoz Romano.

Next Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 7 p.m., the researcher Ulrich Pfisterer (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich) will give the lecture Mandrake – A Natural History of Image-Making in Early Modern Europe in the Sala de Profesorado of the Facultade de Xeografía e Historia (USC)

This activity is coordinated by the Aevum Research Group: Idade Media e Medievalismos.

Last Monday, May 5, the first presentation of the Elgar Encyclopedia on Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism was held in the city of A Coruña, a collective work that offers a critical and multidisciplinary look at contemporary migratory processes, activism and cultural production.

The publication delves into the new challenges of human mobility in a global context marked by the digitalization of social life and the transformation of borders.

O luns 20 de maio ás 11:00 horas celebrarase unha nova sesión do ciclo de seminarios científicos organizados polo CISPAC. Nesta ocasión, contaremos coa participación de Omar Arellano Aguilar, profesor titular da Universidade Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

O relator presentará o seu traballo "Restauración ecosistémica de los ríos en la península Ibérica: bitácora de investigación", unha aproximación aos procesos de restauración ecolóxica en ríos da península desde unha perspectiva interdisciplinar.

The article Landscape and subsistence in NW Iberia during the Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 3): Faunal analysis of Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Galicia, Spain), published in the international journal Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, offers a new perspective on the territory in which the last Neanderthals of Galicia lived, showing the existence of a considerably colder environment but with a precipitation regime similar to the current one.

On Tuesday, May 13th at 11:00 am, a new session of the CISPAC seminar series will take place in seminar room 103 of the Edificio Fontán (Cidade da Cultura). This time, it will feature the intervention of Noelia Parajuá, Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher, member of the HISTAGRA group and CISPAC.

The researcher will present a lecture entitled "Explorando as transformacións dos sistemas alimentarios contemporáneos. O caso de España (1980-actualidade)".

The HISTAGRA Research Group, part of CISPAC, has just published four job offers linked to the state project for the preparation of the census of victims of the dictatorship, the result of an agreement signed between the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.

The deadline for submission of applications will be five working days from the day following the publication of the official call on the USC portal.

On Wednesday, June 5, a new session of the "Theses in Discussion" cycle will take place at CISPAC, a space for presentation and debate around ongoing doctoral research.

We will have the participation of Chiara Luce Breccia and Arslan Asghar, and will take place in the Lar do CISPAC at 11am.