This cycle of conferences will gather a strategic selection of the most important cities in the History of Islam and which, at one point, became capitals of important medieval kingdoms or Empires. All of them will be explained by worldwide renowned experts who will discuss not only about the History of the capital tackled (their highest peaks and urban expansions) but also about the conservation of ancient remains of the cities (abandonment, pillaging, wars, real-estate pressures, etc)
In this opportunity we will discuss about the Tunisian city of Sabra al-Mansuriyya, next October 18th, 19:30h at the Three Cultures Foundation with the prestigious Professor Sophie Gilotte of the University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).
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Prof. Sophie Gilotte
Professor Gilotte obtained in 2004a Phd in Art History and Islamic Archaeology from the University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). She is senior member of Escuela de Altos Estudios Hispánicos de la Casa Velázquez (1999-2001) and has headed several courses in the University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) in 2005 and 2006 and in the Instituto Histórico Hoffmeyer (IAM/CCHS-CSIC, España,) between 2008 and 2010. She has also been co-head in charge of the cultural component of the programme Maghribadite financed by French National Agency for Research. Finally, she has participated in the I+D project: “Material research of Madinat al-Zahra” in which the Spanish CISC also participated.