The Intellectual and Cutural History Group of Studies (GEHCI), directed by Dr. Jordi Casassas, professor of the Contemporary History Department at the University of Barcelona, was founded in the year 1989. Since then the GEHCI has worked to create a space for historical reflection, debate and research into subjects related to cultural history.
The main concern of the group has been the study of Catalan and professional intellectual sectors connected in particular to the Spanish problem and Europe in general. The first research project was financed by the Jaume Bofill Foundation and it consisted of analysing the current studies of the intellectual sectors and their participation in the cultural, institutional and political dynamics of Catalonia. Subsequently, these aspects of the research were completed and they took the shape of the collective work "The intellectuals and the power in Catalonia. Material for a cultural history essay of the contemporary Catalan world (1808-1975)" (Proa, 1999).
Several individual pieces of research carried out by members of the group have complemented the main body of research and have helped to consolidate the necessary international projection of these studies. Following this line, since 1995, there have been contacts with some other projects addressed to comparing the contemporary intellectual in the international scene (Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris). From 1998 the GEHCI has supported a Network of Mediterranean Cultural History, leading to partial results into several scientific works and new plenary sessions (Barcelona-4, Palma-2, Tarragona-1, Viterbo/Italy-2).
Currently the GEHCI is completing the initial studies with a body of work about cultural spokepersons as organs of cultural production and public and political intervention in contemporary Catalonia, a project that involves several experts from the Autonoma University of Barcelona, the UIB and the Ramon Llull University. In this investigation framework, the GEHCI publication, ''Cercles'. Cultural History Magazine' helps us to get to know the research team and its members, to open communication channels and some other spaces of production as well as debate and, especially, to promote the knowledge of the wide range of Spanish scientific production along with that of some other countries, stimulating the interchange of arts and ideas between different research groups.

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