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Fernández Díaz gave a lecture on Local History in a global world on the Regional Day of Local History, held in San Javier and organized by the Center for Historical Studies and Local Research Foundation
Roberto Fernández Díaz, Professor of Modern History, Rector of the University of Lleida and National History Prize warned yesterday in San Javier about "the danger of local patriotism that although it is inevitable runs the danger of becoming a cantonal nationalism."
Fernández Díaz, who has chaired the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities, CRUE, since last year, gave a lecture on the importance of Local History in a global world, during the celebration of the Regional Day of Local History that was celebrated in the San Javier Museum organized by the Center for Historical Studies and Local Research Foundation.
The event, which was chaired by the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo;
the General Director of Universities and Research, Juan Monzó;
the president of the Center for Historical Studies and Local Research Foundation;
Juan Roca Guillamón, and its director Francisco Chacón, counted on the presence of the rectors of the UMU, José Orihuela, and of the UPCT, Alejandro Díaz.
In his lecture, Fernández Díaz, a declared constitutionalist, who worked on a Local History about Lleida in his principles as a historian, pointed out that the study of Local History "should not be used in a tortuous way" or "to generate excluding entities".
For Fernández Díaz Local History "should never depend on the political class, nor obey the postulates of the market, the economy or political ideals."
He also reminded historians that "it is as important to investigate as to disseminate, History must reach citizens," said the professor who ended with a triple deontological slogan addressed to students of Local History "science, science and science."
Fernández Díaz highlighted the importance of Local History as proof of the general or universal, and as a tool to detect mechanisms that grant continuity or generate changes in the historical development of places.
It also allows us to perceive with more clarity the common of what is different in human beings and is essential for Comparative History, said the Professor of Modern History who coined the term "glocal" to underline the importance of the local in the global and vice versa.
New story of San Javier
The mayor of San Javier José Miguel Luengo took advantage of the celebration in San Javier of the Regional Day of Local History to announce in his speech at the beginning of the act, the publication in 2019 of a complete History of San Javier resulting from an agreement between the City Council of San Javier, the University of Murcia and the Center for Historical Studies and Local Research Foundation.
Luengo said that with this work, which will develop a team of historians of the University and the Foundation, it is intended to update a complete history of the municipality of San Javier from its origins to today on a scientific and research basis.
The new History of San Javier will update the only one that exists until the moment written by Professor Jiménez de Gregorio in 1958 and reissued by order of the City Council 25 years later.
Luengo added that this work should become "a patrimony of all, an indispensable reference for scholars and neighbors about their own history".
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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