The Faculty of History at the Ourense campus hosted the third edition of the Heritage Research Conference, a scientific meeting space for students of the Doctoral Program in Cultural Heritage Protection. Ten doctoral candidates presented their work, both in person and virtually, covering topics from the safeguarding of intangible heritage in Guano (Ecuador) to the use of artificial intelligence in heritage reconstruction.
The communications were grouped into three thematic blocks. The first, "Heritage, Territory, and Community," included studies on intangible heritage, Galician natural lakes, and cultural landscapes. The second, "Memory, Representations, and Heritage Construction," addressed trade union heritage, material culture in the Igbo land, the conservation of the Church of Santa Maria Annunziata in Roccaverano (Italy), and the collegiate church of Santa María de Sar (Santiago de Compostela).
In the third block, "Materiality, Memory, and Heritage Research," presentations focused on "playful medievalisms" and the Japanese video game director Hidetaka Miyazaki, the archaeoastronomical phenomenon of San Miguel de Celanova, and generative AI in heritage reconstruction.
Additionally, Teresa Campos López from the University of the Basque Country led a workshop on socializing and transferring heritage research, while Ramón Yzquierdo Peiró, technical-conservator director of the Cathedral Museum of Santiago, presented recent research and conservation projects for Compostelan heritage.
The program, conducted in a semi-presential format, aims to continue the philosophy of the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Cultural Heritage Protection of the universities of Vigo, Santiago de Compostela, and A Coruña, fostering an interprofessional meeting space for heritage protection.
