2nd International Conference on the Heritage of al-Andalus Convened in Spain

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The Second International Conference on the "Heritage of al-Andalus: Iberia-Iran" was convened at the University of Seville, Spain.

Thanks to the cooperation of Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU), the University of Seville, and the Three Cultures Centre (Spain), the second round of the International Conference on the "Heritage of al-Andalus: Iberia-Iran" was convened at the University of Seville, 16 and 17 November 2016. The ATU delegation in this event was headed by Dr Habib Honari, ATU Vice-President for Research, and Dr Najmeh Shobeiri, Head of the ATU Spanish Department.

At the beginning of the conference, Dr Najmeh Shobeiri pointed to the first round of the conference held on 17 and 18 November 2015 in ATU, saying that the second conference aims at improving academic cooperation on research methods in intercultural and interdisciplinary studies. She added: "Research on how and where the two Iberian and Iranian cultures first met and on their mutual influence on one another during centuries was a necessity. Holding this conference paved the way for an academic analysis of the interactions of these two cultures, being the inheritors of some of the most ancient heritages of humanity."

Dr Shobeiri informed the audience of their round of the conference to be held in Shiraz next year and said: "The proceedings of the second conference will be published through the collaborations of ATU, University of Seville, and the Three Cultures Centre, in English, Persian and Spanish." The conference was organized in eight panels chaired jointly by Dr Shobeiri and Dr Emilio Ferrin, a faculty member at the University of Seville. The conference concluded with Dr Honaris's speech.