About the Journal

The Journal of the National University of Córdoba (RUNC) was a periodical founded in 1914 and devoted to various topics of university production. Among its first articles published were on history, legal sciences, biology, astrophysics, philosophy, geology and sociology. The first series was directed by Enrique Martínez Paz as part of his alternative university publishing project to the one that Eufrasio Loza carried out at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Córdoba under the name "Anales de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de Córdoba", whose edition began in 1913. Unlike Loza's proposal, which focused on texts of legal disciplines already consecrated, Martínez Paz offered in the RUNC an editorial experience closer to other publications of great national importance such as the Journal of Law, History and Letters, the Argentine Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Philosophy, Science, Culture and Education, directed by Estanislao Zeballos, Rodolfo Rivarola and José Ingenieros, respectively. Rather than specializing in law, Martínez Paz sought to integrate the legal sciences and other fields of knowledge into a horizon of universal culture far removed from professionalism or specialization. The fate of the RUNC was tied to the cadence of the university's institutional conflicts. After the departure of Martínez Paz in 1918, Félix Garzón Maceda was director for a brief period. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Augusto Schmiedecke, Sebastián Soler and Ernesto Deheza also acted as editors of the journal already published from the University Press, inaugurated in 1925 by the then Rector León Morra. From the early 1930s Alfredo Poviña, director between 1935 and 1943, relaunched the journal project together with the expansion of the DGP's catalog. The intervention to the university in 1946 appointed a new authority at the head of the RUNC while maintaining its profile as a university journal open to many subjects. Néstor A. Pizarro and Oscar E. Cocca were the directors during the years of the Peronist government. With the beginning of the second series of the RUNC, from 1960 onwards in the context of Jorge Orgaz's rectorship, the direction fell on Santiago Montserrat. A distinctive mark of the RUNC was the persistence of the Crónica Universitaria (with the exception of the late forties and early fifties) and Bibliográfica sections, which published documents on the administrative functioning and intellectual work of the university as well as the updating of books and journals received in the library. In this sense, from its beginnings, RUNC fulfilled the objective of serving as an institutional publication more oriented to the contact with other academic units than to the market.

Ezequiel Grisendi
PHAC-IDACOR-CONICET/ UNC - Anthropology Dept.
http://culturasinteriores.ffyh.unc.edu.ar