The Seminar for Arabian Studies (SAS) - 2008
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This is a final reminder that the Seminar for Arabian Studies is taking place this year from Thursday the 24th-Saturday 26th July 2008.
I would be very grateful if you are planning to attend, and have NOT done so, please fill in and return a Registration Form as soon as possible. The Registration Form can be found at http://www.arabianseminar.org.uk/Reg-Accomm-form2008e.doc or by request to this e-mail address. Although registration is not necessary to attend the Seminar it will help the Seminar keep its records up-to-date.
The other reason for this e-mail is that all Accommodation has now been allocated. However, it is still possible to find accommodation by special arrangement. Accommodation will not be in Ramsay Hall, as previously advertised, but will be at Schafer House (168 – 182 Drummond Street, NW1 3HZ. Tel: 020 7387 1286 & Fax: 020 7383 3920). The cost is still £37.00 per night (bed & breakfast) per person in single bedrooms. Please note that Schafer House is a student residence, not a hotel, and for those who prefer to make their own arrangements a list of hotels can be found on our webpage, however, the Seminar bears no responsibility for these.
**Seminar at The British Museum**
**Thursday 24th - Saturday 26th July 2008**
**www.arabianseminar.org.uk**
Seminar for Arabian Studies,
The British Museum,
c/o Middle East Department,
Great Russell Street,
London,
WC1B 3DG,
England.
e-mail: seminar.arab@durham.ac.uk
Project Details
The SEMINAR FOR ARABIAN STUDIES is the only international forum which meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula (including archaeology, epigraphy, ethnography, language, history, art etc.) from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).
Papers read at the Seminar are published in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies in time for the Seminar of the following year. The Proceedings therefore contains new research on Arabia and reports of new discoveries in the Peninsula in a wide range of disciplines.
The Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies is edited by an Editorial Board formed from members of the Steering and Editorial Committee of the Seminar, under St John Simpson and Dr. Lloyd Weeks, the Editors-in-Chief. All correspondence concerning the PSAS should now be addressed to them, via St J. Simpson, Department of the Ancient Near East, The British Museum, London, WC1B 3DG. Email: email: ssimpson@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
At 18.30 on Thursday 24 July a Special Lecture will be given in the BP lecture theatre organised by the Seminar as part of the British Museum's public programme. It will be the third of our annual Special Lectures, which we have now entitled the MBI Al Jaber Lectures.
This year the lecture will be: Cartography and Cantatas: Arabia and the European Enlightenment - Professor Dan Potts, Sydney University.
Please visit http://www.arabianseminar.org.uk/seminar2008.html for further information including a provisional programme, abstracts and speaker details.
