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IWFP – Preliminary report on the 2009 season

«The International Wadi Farasa Project» (IWFP) has published its preliminary report of the 2009 season.

Changes and Challenges

11th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan
Under the Patronage of HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal

Monday, June 7 through Saturday, June 12, 2010
Paris, France

The International Conference on the History & Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ), to be held in Paris from 7 to 12 June 2010, is the eleventh in a series of scientific conferences initiated for the first time in 1980 by HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Prince Hassan has continued to grant his patronage to successive ICHAJ meetings, at times in association with the Hashemite Royal Court. In 1989 HRH Queen Noor Al Hussein personally inaugurated the conference that was held in Lyon, France.

The event will gather a large number of scholars from a variety of disciplines – History of the Antiquity, the medieval, modern and contemporary periods, Archaeology, and Anthropology – who conduct research on Jordan or its immediate neighbours in relation with Jordan. ICHAJ is an opportunity to present and discuss current work on the Jordanian heritage, to highlight recent scholarly development on this important region of the Near East, and to share findings with a broader public. As in previous events, ICHAJ 11 will devote a large part of its programme to discussions and decisions about the conservation and the presentation of heritage, in Jordan and other international contexts. The department concerned with education and research in the field of heritage conservation at the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, the local organiser of the Paris conference, will be closely associated to the work of the conference.

More Informations can be found on the website of the ICHAJ.
The complete conference program is available as PDF document.

Seminar for Arabian Studies Conference at the British Museum

Thursday 22nd – Saturday 24th July 2010

If you wish to offer a paper, please send a 200-word abstract before the 15th of February 2010 for consideration. Abstracts submitted after the abstract deadline may be rejected at the discretion of the organizers or suggested as a poster contribution. The proposal must include:

the name(s) and full contact details (affiliation(s)) of the contributor(s)
the title of the proposed paper
set out what the paper intends to cover
the approach it will take
indicate the significance of the topic

Due to the limited time available for the programme, and the increasing number of abstracts we receive there is no guarantee that all papers will be accepted. As in previous years we can normally only accept one paper from any given project.

All abstracts received by the February deadline will be considered by the Steering Committee in early March and will be selected on the basis of quality, originality, and importance of the topic.

Details of the Seminar will be posted on our website soon and further information will be sent out in April once the provisional programme has been organized.

Ancient Arabia Colloquium in Cambridge

Clare Hall, July 26–28, 2010
Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
The Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem

July 26

12:00: Arrival and Registration
13:00: Lunch
16:30–16:45: Greetings
- On behalf of Clare Hall – Sir Martin Harris, President
- On behalf of Jm. IAS – Prof. Eliezer Rabinovitci
- On behalf of the organizers – Prof. Joseph Patrich
16:45–19:00: Opening Session
- Moderators: Prof. Prof. Glen Bowersock and Prof. Yusuf M. Abdullah
- Israel Ephal: «The Ancient Arabs revisited»
- Christian Robin: «The Ancient Kingdoms of South Arabia, update on the state of research»
- Discussion
19:00: Dinner

July 27

9:00–13:00: Morning Session – The Epigraphical Evidence

Moderators – Prof. Christian Robin and Prof. Alessandro de Maigret
John Healey: «On Stone and Papyrus: Nabataean Epigraphy in a New Context»
Michael Macdonald: «Was there a ‹Bedouinization of Arabia›?»
Discussion
Tea/Coffee break
Mohammed Maraqten: «The Foreign relations of Ancient Yemen: Diplomatic missions to Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine and Abyssinia»
Robert Hoyland: «Arabia and the Arabs augmented»
Discussion

13:00–15:00: Lunch
15:00–16:45: Afternoon Session – New Archaeological Studies 1

Moderators – Prof. Israel Ephal and Michael Macdonald
Arnoulf Hausleiter: «Tayma and Arabia – the Role of a Major North-Western Arabian Oasis»
Alessandro de Maigret: «The Saudi-Italian excavation project at Dumat al-Jandal: a preliminary historical and archaeological survey of Adumatu»
Discussion

16:45–17:15: Tea/Coffee break
17:15–19:45: Evening Session – New Archaeological Studies 2

Moderators – Dr. Arnoulf Hausleiter and Dr. Mohammed Maraqten
Derek Kennet: «Settlement patterns in Pre-Islamic Eastern Arabia»
Laila Nehmé: «Results of the excavations at Madâ’in Sâlih – ancient Hegra»
Yusuf M. Abdullah: «Awam temple and Nashan: Two ancient South Arabian ‹Archives›!»
Discussion

20:00: Dinner

July 28

9:00–13:00: Morning Session – The Nabataeans

Moderators – Prof. John Healey and Dr. Laila Nehme
Stephan G. Schmid: «The Archaeology of Petra – an update on the state of research»
Joseph Patrich: «The ‹Nabataean› forteresses in the Negev re-examined»
Discussion
Tea/Coffee break

New Historical Studies
Moderators – Joseph Patrich and Stephan G. Schmid
Glen Bowersock: «Roman Arabia in Late Antiquity»
Fergus Millar: «Rome’s ‹Arab› Allies in Late Antiquity: Conceptions and Representations from within the Imperial Frontier»
Discussion

13:00–15:00: Lunch
15:00–16:45: Afternoon Session – At the Eve of Islam

Moderators – Prof. Robert Hoyland and Prof. Derek Kennet
Michael Lecker: «The Jāhiliyya re-evaluated»
Uri Rubin: «The pre-Islamic history of the Ka’ba as viewed in the Quran and the extra-Quranic sources»
Discussion

16:45–17:15: Tea/Coffee break
17:15–18:00: Round Table discussion: «The Future Challenges of the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabia»

Moderators: Prof. Christian Robin, Prof. Michael Lecker, and Prof. Robert Hoyland

Red Sea V: Navigated spaces, connected places

The fifth international conference on the peoples of the Red Sea region – Celebrating ten years of Red Sea scholarship

16 September (Thursday) – 19 September 2010 (Sunday)
Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

The fifth conference of the highly successful Red Sea Project series is to be held at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. After a focus at the 2008 conference on the territorial hinterlands, Red Sea V brings the conference back to the Red Sea itself, and to the theme of life lived on and from the marine environment in all periods.

The conference organisers would in particular welcome proposals for papers from potential speakers in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, history and linguistics on subjects including:

Maritime networks, seafaring, navigation and ports.
Cognitive land/seascapes.
Boatbuilding traditions and technologies.
Maritime industries and economies.
Marine ecologies and their human exploitation.
Coastal communities.
Maritime migration.
Pilgrimage and the spiritual landscape.
Sociolinguistics.

The conference will coincide with the forthcoming Dhow Exhibition also to be held at the IAIS.

Programme

A provisional programme will be posted once abstracts have been received and processed. The conference will open in the evening of 16 September with a keynote speaker, followed by two days of conference sessions, including a conference dinner on the evening of 17 September. Delegates will have the option of joining a conference outing on the morning of 19 September.

Organising Committee

The Organising Committee comprises Professor Dionisius Agius, Dr John Cooper, Dr Chiara Zazzaro, Mr Julian Jansen van Rensburg and Miss Lucy Semaan, and is supported by Ms Beata Faracik. For further information, please write to redseav@exeter.ac.uk.

For more informations please visit the website of The Mares Project

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