The new Seminario de Estudos Galegos (SEG) was created in 1978 at the initiative of the Laboratorio de Formas, which wanted to re-establish the old institution (Castelao had already been planning this in exile) within the framework of an exhibition-homage to the SEG marking the official opening of the Sargadelos Gallery of Santiago, at which the re-edition of the work Terra de Melide and the book Testemuñas e perspectivas do Seminario de Estudos Galegos were presented.
The new Seminario de Estudos Galegos (SEG) was created in 1978 at the initiative of the Laboratorio de Formas.
The surviving partners of the old institution took part in the re-foundation of the new SEG, together with writers and artists of the Galicianist cause, professors of Galician universities and scientists from research centres around Galicia.
The surviving partners of the old institution took part in the re-foundation of the new SEG, together with writers and artists of the Galicianist cause, professors of Galician universities and scientists from research centres around Galicia.
The university professors and the researchers constituted the majority of the more than three hundred active partners of the scientific areas of the new institution: Geology and Mining (supported by the Isidro Parga Pondal Geological Laboratory of Laxe), Biological Sciences, Agrarian Sciences, Marine Sciences, Legal Sciences, Economic Sciences, Social and Political Sciences, Art and Communication, Philosophy and interdisciplinary working groups in the History of Science and Technology and of the Galician Middle Ages.
The scientific areas of the new institution were Geology and Mining, Biological Sciences, Agrarian Sciences, Marine Sciences, Legal Sciences, Economic Sciences, Social and Political Sciences, Art and Communication, Philosophy and interdisciplinary working groups.
As well as organising scientific conferences and meetings, thanks to the publishing work of Ediciós do Castro, the SEG has the most important collections of scientific publications in Galicia (more than 180 titles). They have also carried out research work in areas that did not exist at universities until recently, such as Geology and the History of Science and Technology, as well as promoting the publication of the mediaeval sources of the history of Galicia; and, together with the archdiocese of Santiago, of the collection of its documentary sources of Santiago Cathedral.
The SEG, thanks to the publishing work of Ediciós do Castro, has the most important collections of scientific publications in Galicia with more than 180 titles.