<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-transform: uppercase;">PLEASE COULD YOU POST THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON OUR SYMPOSIUM.</span></p><div>Yours,</div><div>Robert Pocklington</div><div>Presidente SEEA</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">__________________________________________________</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-transform: uppercase;">21ST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">of the <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE ESTUDIOS ÁRABES</span> (SEEA) <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">IN CORDOBA</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2nd - 5th of October 2014, in the<b> </b>Biblioteca Viva de al-Andalus (Palacio del Bailío, Córdoba, Spain).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">THURSDAY 2ND OCTOBER<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">17.00 Doors open with tea, coffee and refreshments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">17.30 Presentation and projection of the newly released documentary <b>Al-Mariya, Puerta del Levante</b>, on the occasion of the city of Almería's millennium 1014-2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">18.15 Presentation of <b>Awraq 9</b> <b>"Islam Today"</b> by the Director General of Casa Árabe D. Eduardo López Busquets. Then of the latest publications on Arabic topics by <i>Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo</i> and <i>Fundación Ibn Tufayl</i>, and of a small exhibition of "Classic Books on Arabism and Andalusi Cordoba".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">18.55 Break.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">19.15 Projection of the recent Arabic film with Spanish subtitles: <b>Where do we go now?</b>, by Nadine Labaki.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">FRIDAY 3RD OCTOBER<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">09.15 <b>Inauguration</b> of the Symposium by the Director General of Casa Árabe <i>D.</i> <i>Eduardo López Busquets</i>, a representative of the Mayor of Córdoba and <i>Dª.</i> <i>Margarita Ruiz Schrader</i>, Vicepresident of the Fundación Paradigma Córdoba.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">09.45 Award of the 1st "Cálamo de Honor" prize to the publishers <b>Ediciones de Oriente y del Mediterráneo</b>, for "granting a direct voice to the Arab world through its literature"; acceptance speech by directors <i>Inmaculada Jiménez Morell</i> (Director) y <i>Fernando García Burillo</i> (Univ. Autonoma of Madrid).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.10 <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">SESSION ON CORDOBA</span>. Presided by <i>Jorge Lirola</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <b>Pedro Marfil</b> (Univ. of Córdoba) “Arab monuments in Cordoba; recent discoveries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <b>Clara María Thomas de Antonio</b> (Univ. of Sevilla) "Cordoba in the neo-Arabic literature".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.15 Break.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.40 The Iraqi authoress<b> Bahira Abdulatif</b> (Univ. of Bagdad and Univ. Autonoma of Madrid), translator into Arabic of the works of Rafael Alberti and J. L. Borges and committed to women's rights in the Arab and Islamic world: "Femenism and Arabic feminine literature". Presided by <i>Fernando García Burillo</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">13.30 Short walk through the <b>old city centre</b> (the Medina) followed by optional lunch at the <i>La Montillana</i> tavern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">16.30 <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">SEEA PRIZE FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS</span>, with the patronage of Casa Árabe and presided by <i>Javier Rosón</i>. This year's finalists:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Desirée López Bernal</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (Univ. of Granada) “From Orient to Al-Andalus: medieval Arab writers and humour”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Elia Romo Terol</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (Univ. of Barcelona) “From the Blog to the Book: Egyptian 2.0 Literature and New Debates”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patricia Olcina Ponsell</span></b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Univ. of Granada) “The Murabitun Movement in Granada”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The finalists present their research and answer the questions of the audience, who will be asked to express their preference. The name of the winner will be announced during the Members Gala on Saturday night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">18.15 Break.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">18.40 <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">ANDALUSI HISTORY AND CULTURE</span>, presided by <i>Miquel Forcada.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pedro Cano Ávila</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (Univ. of Sevilla) "Andalusi and Arabic coins from the Seville Archaeological Museum".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Emilio González Ferrín</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (Univ. of Sevilla) "Oriental wisdom in Ibn Tufayl and European personalism".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jorge Lirola Delgado</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (Univ. of Almería) "Cordoba and the Andalusi intellectual legacy. Its presence in the <i>Biblioteca de al-Andalus"</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">21.30 Optional tapas dinner at the <i>Caravansar</i> Arabic food restaurant, close to the Mosque-Cathedral.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">23.00 Guided visit to the <b>Alcázar and its Gardens</b> with water, light and sound show.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SATURDAY 4TH OCTOBER<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">09.15 SESSION IN ARABIC, presided by <i>Bahira Abdulatif</i>, with questions and debate in Arabic (Spanish summaries will be made available).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt; line-height: 14pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hanaa Mohamed-Hammadi Mejdoubi</span></b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Ceuta) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Conflict of Ideological-Linguistic Systems in the Contemporary Arab World".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt; line-height: 14pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Miquel Forcada</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (Univ. of Barcelona) "Science Behind the Curtain During the Cordoba Caliphate"<span style="color: rgb(16, 73, 188);">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.00 Break.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.30 ANDALUSI PLACE-NAMES, presided by <i>Robert Pocklington</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Juan Antonio Chavarría Vargas</span></b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Univ. Complutense Madrid) “The Andalusi Arabisation of Hispanic Pre-Roman Place-names and the Result in Romance. From Opacity to the Optimum Sequence”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Virgilio Martínez Enamorado</span></b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Univ. of Malaga) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Andalusi Place-Names: the forging of a rich heritage".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">13.30 Visit to the Roman Bridge, Guadalquivir River and the Calahorra Tower.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">14.30 Optional lunch in the well-known <i>Casa Pepe de la Judería</i> tavern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">17.00 <b>General Assembly</b> of the<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Calibri;">SEEA</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">21.30 <b>Gala dinner</b> for members, and award of the SEEA Prize for Young Researchers by the Director General of Casa Árabe D. <i>Eduardo López Busquets</i>. At the Palacete Andaluz <i>Taberna Los Berengueles</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.45pt; text-indent: -35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.00 Guided visit to the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, by <b>Pedro Marfil</b>, author of the book <i>Las puertas de la Mezquita de Córdoba durante el emirato Omeya</i>, and formerly the archaeologist responsible for its preservation over a period of 18 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br></span></div></body></html>