Investigation

It is often believed that cultural heritage is only found in museums or cultural centers, however, universities are valuable venues that house a wide variety of historical assets. During these fifty years of institutional life, the University of Piura has received a series of material goods that have become part of the University Cultural Heritage:

•  Library of the archaeologist Federico Kauffman Doig (Lima campus)
•  Library of the art historian Santiago Sebastián (Piura campus)
•  Library and personal objects of the historian José Antonio del Busto (Piura campus)
•  Casona Pardo (architectural building, Italian Villa, and historical memory of the Miraflores district)
•  Harpsichords donated by Mrs. Ana Savarain.
•  Collection of watercolors, drawings, engravings and scores by maestro Francisco González Gamarra (Lima campus)
•  Chulucanas handicraft collection (Piura campus)
•  Collection of pre-Columbian ceramics and metallurgical objects (Piura and Lima campus)
•  César Pacheco Vélez special collection on historical topics (Piura campus)
•  Special collection by José María Desantes Güanter on communication issues (Piura campus)
•  Photographic collection of the newspaper El Tiempo de Piura (Piura campus)
•  Documents from the Duncan Fox Commercial House (Piura campus)
•  Recordings of classes, talks and conferences by the philosopher Leonardo Polo (Piura campus)
•  Sheet music and musical arrangements of the UDEP University Choir (Piura campus)
•  Bibliographic and periodical heritage (Piura and Lima campuses)
•  Planoteca of the architect Enrique Seoane and others (Piura campus)

This important material serves as a research source for students and teachers of the History and Cultural Management program, mainly, and will be gradually made known through exhibitions, publications, seminars, among others.

Leonardo Polo Barrena, one of the most renowned philosophers of recent times, maintained a very close academic link with the University of Piura, which he visited in European summers for 17 years since 1983, leaving behind a significant school during that time. His valuable work is a subject of research not only for the teachers of the Philosophy department, but also for both undergraduate and graduate students from the different academic faculties.

In the present era of knowledge and globalization, thanks to his work the two great challenges of every university can be tackled; firstly, the interdisciplinarity between the different scientific fields since in his Theory of Knowledge (initially about two thousand pages) he discovers the status of each of the different sciences, contributing to interdisciplinary work both in the themes and in the different methods; and secondly, the urgent personalization and humanization of human life in the field of social sciences. Hence, the Polo Complete Works project (about thirty volumes so far) is promoted by researchers from the University of Malaga, the University of La Sabana, the La Santa Cruz University of Rome, the University of Navarra and from the University of Piura.

Castellano Actual is a blog maintained and administered by teachers from the Department of Language and Literature of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Piura. The objective of this space is to show, in simple and clear language, the richness of the Spanish language, taking into account grammatical, lexical and orthographic issues, as well as the particularities of the use of Spanish, especially in Peruvian speech. It also offers a section dedicated to literature in Spanish, in which reviews are published that invite you to enjoy reading outstanding works written in the Hispanic field by different classic and modern authors.

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The Lyric Poetry Research Center (CIPL) is a unit attached to the Institute of Humanistic Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, which seeks to carry out research, editing, dissemination, teaching and training tasks around the phenomenon of lyric poetry from different periods. and cultures.

The objective of the CIPL is to become a point of reference in studies on lyrical poetry, open to the concerns of academics and, especially, the general public.

Immigration to our territory is a phenomenon that has occurred since the time of the conquest, with the first two groups to arrive in these lands being the Spanish and the Africans. Although, for other purposes, other European groups (English, Italians and Germans) and Asians (Chinese and Japanese) continued to arrive during the Republican era.

The objective of this project is to analyze four of the most important immigrations that occurred from the 16th to the 20th century: Spanish, African, English and Chinese; mainly, to the northern coast of the current Peruvian territory, and for this, we focus on the contributions that each of them brought with them, making the racial and cultural scenario of Peruvian society more complex.

The archaeological, architectural and historical studies carried out through three excavation campaigns from 1999 to the present have allowed us to get to know the old checkerboard urban layout of what was the first Spanish city in Peru in the 16th century, and which was settled on a series of pre-Inca and Inca layouts and roads. Studying this area has allowed the University of Piura and, in particular, the Faculty of Humanities to become part of the Ibero-American Research Network on Colonial Urbanism. Without a doubt, it is advisable to study the area of Piura la Vieja not only as a historical monument, but, above all, the political, economic and social relations that were established in said area.

It is worth highlighting that, based on a heritage asset such as Piura la Vieja, a proposal for the comprehensive development of the area (tourism, economic, social) can be proposed that would benefit the residents settled in the hamlets of Piura la Vieja. San José del Chorro, La Bocana, Pabur Viejo and Monterrico, areas that currently have deficiencies in basic services.

In recent years, interest in regional history has been growing, for this reason it has been considered appropriate to review the 2004 publication, History of Piura, prepared by a group of professors, and, from there, continue investigating, but with an interdisciplinary thematic structure that includes different aspects, and that offers a more complete vision of our region, in the three great historical periods: pre-Hispanic, viceroyalty and republic.

By 2024, it is planned to publish a book that will collect the latest research, but following a thematic structure based on aspects such as political, social, economic, religious, cultural, territorial and population.

The Institute of Humanistic Studies has thought it appropriate to carry out this project, because it considers that the bicentennial is an important opportunity to reflect, from the humanities, not only on what happened in our country, but, above all, because it will allow us to discover what we are now and deepen the sense of our identity as an independent and sovereign country.

A series of activities and publications have been scheduled that will be carried out periodically:

CONFERENCES

2012 Towards the bicentennial of the independence of Peru: the Napoleonic invasion and the courts of Cádiz in the Peruvian viceroyalty (1808-1814)

2015 The independence process in northern Peru and southern Ecuador

2018 Peruvian culture on the threshold of the bicentennial

2021 Celebration of the bicentennial of the proclamation of the independence of Peru

2024 Celebration of the bicentennial of the battles of Junín and Ayacucho

PUBLICATIONS

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2013 Manuel Prendes and Víctor Velezmoro (eds.). The Cortes and the crisis. Essays on the Constitution of Cádiz and its American dimension. Vol. I History and law. 

2013 Manuel Prendes and Víctor Velezmoro (eds.). The Cortes and the crisis. Essays on the Constitution of Cádiz and its American dimension. Vol. II Thought, arts and letters. 

2016 Julissa Gutiérrez Rivas and Cristina Vargas Pacheco. Putting down roots in fertile soil: Chinese immigrants on the northern coast of Peru (1876-1940). 

2018 Carlos Arrizabalaga, Shirley Cortez, Crisanto Pérez E. and Manuel Prendes G. (eds.). Two hundred years of arts, letters and daily life in northern Peru.

2021 Pablo Sebastián Lozano and Carlos Arrizabalaga (eds.). One hundred years later. Peru at the beginning of the 20th century. 

The Institute of European Studies is a space dedicated to teaching, study and research and dialogue about the European reality and its relations with Latin America and specifically with Peru. It has an interdisciplinary nature and seeks the collaboration of professors from various faculties of the University who are experts in European issues. It is included in what in Anglo-Saxon universities is called “area studies”, intended to study a part of the world from different perspectives.