La Fundación Euroárabe de Altos Estudios celebria el 3 y 4 de noviembre de 2011, en Fez (Marruecos), un seminario Internacional sobre “Funciones y usos del Patrimonio: enseñanzas del terreno” en el marco del programa "Artes, Culturas en el Siglo XXI: Desafíos del Patrimonio" de la Cátedra Euroárabe de Arte y Cultura coordinado por el profesor Mohamed Chadli, Conservador del Museo Nejjarine de Artes y Oficios de Madera de Fez.
Este seminario reune investigadores, expertos e instituciones que trabajan en el sector del patrimonio y la museología en España, Marruecos y Francia. El objetivo de este evento es debatir e intercambiar las enseñanzas sacadas de las prácticas y de las experiencias de valoración, conservación y gestión del Patrimonio y de los Museos en el Mediterráneo. El seminario trata también de ser el punto de partida de una red mediterránea de expertos e instituciones que trabajan en el ámbito del Patrimonio y la Museología.

Programa

Ferdowsi’s poetic masterpiece, the Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, was completed 1,000 years ago, in March 2010. To mark this millennium, an international conference on the Shahnama has been organised to coincide with this landmark event. The conference is the seventh in a series of meetings organised in Cambridge, Edinburgh and Leiden since 2001 under the auspices of the ‘Shahnama Project’, with a view to stimulating research on the Shahnama in a broad framework of interests that approach the poem as literature, history and in the context of the arts of the book. There is a particular emphasis on the study of the manuscript tradition and the relationships between Ferdowsi’s text and the images created to illustrate it for over 600 years.
Reflecting this broad remit, and building on the work of earlier meetings, the conference brings together established scholars from different fields, as well as young researchers who are newly engaging with the Shahnama in their recent work. The overall scheme of the conference is to elaborate various areas of existing research, and to open up new topics for study in anticipation of the continuing appreciation of the poem in world literature as it enters its next thousand years. In particular, the reception of the Shahnama in Persian literary and visual culture, and its impact on neighbouring regions (Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India, Central Asia and the Caucasus), continue to provide fertile topics for investigation.