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Conference was held on the 18th and 19th of May, 2017 in Madrid
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Dr Valentina Živković, senior research associate of the Institute for Balkan studies, SASA, participated in an international scholarhly conference Congreso internacional: Antes del orientalismo: Las "imagenes" del Islam en la Peninsula Iberica (siglos XV-XVII) y sus conexiones mediteraneas which was held on the 18th and 19th of May, 2017 in Madrid (Spain), by the Departimento de Historia del Arte u de la Facultad de Geografia e Historia de la UNED with the support of Fundacion BBVA a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales. During the conference, in which more than 30 researchers took part, V. Živković presented a paper on the topic of: Il feroce stuolo a dio nemico - Hayreeddin Barbarossa and the veneration of Cattro's civic patron saints. The papers will be published in the themed volume of Sharq al Andalus magazine.