Intercultural Conferences, University of Seville

On Thursday, March 5, an intercultural conference will be held at the University of Seville under the title “Aldalusiés Contributions to Universal Thought”, organized by the Department of Social Anthropology in collaboration with the Mosque Foundation of Seville.

The conference on Andalusia in the imaginary of interculturality of the Mediterranean, taking as contributions the historical reference of the Andalusian Seville and the contributions to the universal thought of Islam of the work of the Murcian Ibn Arabi. The session consists of two invited lectures by two specialists, and a subsequent discussion session. The writer and translator into English of Ibn Arabi’s work, Aisha Bewley, with wide recognition among specialized readers in the Anglo-Saxon world, and Joaquín Nieto Moreno as a writer who has published on Andalusian Seville. The conference is open to students and the general public interested in these topics and in Andalusian culture as a benchmark for interculturality in the contemporary Mediterranean.

They are held at the Faculty of Geography and History (C/ Doña María de Padilla s/n), room XVI, from 5 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. and is open to the public.