Under the auspices of the Embassy of Cyprus and with the presence of Ambassador Helena Mina, the Spain-Cyprus Mediterranean Meetings 2022 will take place at the headquarters of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Malaga (Plaza de la Constitución, 7).
These Encounters will consist of a series of four conferences, presenting different aspects of the history and culture of Cyprus. This framework of relations will be inserted in the great currents of the evolution of the Mediterranean world, in which Cyprus and Spain have been closely linked at certain points in their history.
Malaga and Cyprus share a similar situation on both sides of the Mediterranean, very close to their exits to the west and east, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, respectively. The space between them includes most of the Mare Nostrum.
While Malaga and its coastline are the connection to the Atlantic, Cyprus is the platform that connects the Mediterranean with Asia. Because of its location, the island has orbited between the three neighbouring continental shores (European, Asian and African), developing its own personality, a product of both invasions and its own internal evolution. Its status as a member state of the European Union further reinforces its role as an outpost to the Middle East, but its ancestral culture has been firmly rooted in Europe since Antiquity and throughout the Middle and Modern Ages.
The dates are at 7 p.m. next Wednesday with the archaeologist Eduardo García Alfonso, who will speak on Cyprus, crossroads of Phoenician expansion in the Mediterranean; on Thursday 24 March, Elias Eliades, Ambassador of Cyprus (retired) with the lecture The history of Cyprus through its coins: From the first coins to the beginning of the Ottoman period (620 BC – 1571 AD). On Thursday 21 April, Marion Reder Gadow, Professor of Modern History at the University of Malaga, will speak on Cyprus in the Mediterranean politics of the Habsburgs: the Battle of Lepanto, and on Wednesday 11 May, Moschos Morfakidis, from the Centre for Byzantine, Neo-Greek and Cypriot Studies, University of Granada, with his lecture Cyprus in the Spanish literature of the Golden Age: Cervantes and Lope de Vega.
