The School of Philosophy and Letters holds the II workshop of Doctoral Students in History, Art History and Geography.

The School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra hosted the II workshop of Doctoral Students in History, Art History and Geography, a meeting that brought together eleven young researchers with the goal of sharing advances in their doctoral thesis and promoting interdisciplinary academic dialogue.

Throughout the meeting, a wide range of topics were addressed, from the latest developments at the archaeological site of Los Bañales to childhood as a historical agent, including the Roman foundation of Pamplona, the reception of the Flavian dynasty and peace in the Colombian conflict. This event is an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research, share methodological reflections and establish connections with colleagues from related disciplines.

Professor Francisco Javier Caspistegui, Full Professor at the University of Navarra, stressed the importance of these conference to enrich the research of doctoral students, but also the doctoral program in Arts and Humanities, the School and the University. "The goal is for doctoral students to share their research and at the same time share doubts, methodological reflections and problems that affect them as researchers in related fields," he explained. In this sense, he stressed the value of the interdisciplinary approach of the meeting: "Both these disciplines, traditionally close, and all the other disciplines of the University, share some basic principles, related to the need to raise hypotheses with which to break the barriers of what is already known, to innovate and provide new views on the reality around us, to introduce methodological mechanisms and knowledge that allow to overcome what has been known so far".

In addition to contributing to the advancement of knowledge, the workshop has also allowed the doctoral students to develop fundamental skills for their academic future: "Being able to show what they dedicate a good part of their time to in a synthetic and orderly manner, focusing on what they consider most relevant and willing to discuss not so much the details, but rather the procedures, analysis techniques and elements common to all the perspectives confronted, is a continuous learning process in which these first steps are extraordinarily formative," said Professor Caspistegui.

The event also featured the inaugural discussion paper by Ignacio Peiró, Full Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza and one of the main representatives of Historiography in Spain. Under the degree scroll "Academic virtues, professional commitments. Being a historian in Spain", Professor Peiró highlighted the role of young researchers in the evolution of the Humanities.