This series includes a strategic selection of the most important cities in the history of Islam which, at some point, were the capital of an important medieval kingdom or empire. All of them will be presented by world specialists in their study, who will address both the history of the capital in question (its period of greatest apogee and urban expansion, offering an informative visual contribution that conveniently expresses its evolution and development) and a critical and current vision focused on the study and conservation of the vestiges of the cities that have survived to the present day (abandonment, despoilment, wars, real estate pressure, etc.).
On this occasion, Professor Rafael Blanco Guzmán of the University of Cordoba will speak about the city of Cordoba on 20 September at 19:30h at the headquarters of the Fundación Tres Culturas.
Registration is required to attend the event here.
Prof. Rafael Blanco Guzmán.
Professor Blanco holds a degree in Art History from the University of Cordoba (2005) and an official interuniversity Master's degree in Archaeology and Heritage from the Universities of Cordoba, Huelva, Malaga and Pablo de Olavide (2008).
His main lines of research include Andalusian domestic architecture and Almohad urban planning. Professor Blanco participates in several research groups such as Sísifo, with which we are collaborating to hold this series of lectures, and in R&D&I projects of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. He has carried out several research stays abroad, including a couple of them in Paris in the Sorbonne-Paris IV, U.F.R. Histoire de l'Art et Archeologie during 2008 and 2009.
His latest publications include: The fitna and its consequences. The urban revitalisation of Cordoba in the Almohad period., A city in transition: the beginning of Islamic Cordoba o Late Islamic Cordoba and its domestic architecture.