Conferencia "Red Sea: Connected HInterlands"

La Universidad de Southampton organiza la 4ª Conferencia Internacional sobre las Gentes de la región Mar Rojo los días 25 y 26 de Septiembre en el Centro de Arqueología Marítima de la misma Universidad.

Call for Papers. The fourth international conference on the peoples of the Red Sea region. 25-26 September 2008. Centre for Maritime Archaeology. University of Southampton.

RED SEA IV. CONNECTED HINTERLANDS

Supported by the Society for Arabian Studies.

Please send abstracts of 250-500 words by email to redsea@soton.ac.uk
Submission deadline: 1º March 2008


Red Sea IV: Connected Hinterlands

Building upon the Society for Arabian Studies' successful Red Sea biennial conference
series, the Centre for Maritime Archaeology of the University of Southampton is
delighted to bring Red Sea IV to Southampton in September 2008.

Red Sea IV explores themes of connection and communication across and along the
Red Sea through the material culture, anthropology, ethnography, history, and
languages of peoples living in the hinterlands of the sea from the earliest times to the
early modern period.

The committee welcomes submissions on the following topics:
·Seafaring and navigation
·Trade routes, ports and harbours
·Human migration and contact
·Ethnicity and identity
·Religion and pilgrimage
·Coastal heritage management
·Linguistics

The committee also welcomes academic posters for display at the conference.

The proceedings of previous Red Sea conferences have been published by
Archaeopress as part of the Society for Arabian Studies Monograph Series. The
committee intends to continue this tradition.

Red Sea IV is hosted by the Centre for Maritime Archaeology of the University of
Southampton. The conference organizers wish to thank the Society for Arabian Studies
for its financial and practical support.

The organisers of Red Sea IV are:
- Dr Lucy Blue
- John Cooper
- Ross Thomas
- Julian Whitewright

They can be contacted on all conference-related matters at redsea@soton.ac.uk

The two-day conference will be held at the Avenue Campus of the University of
Southampton. An evening reception will be held at the end of the first day. For details of accommodation, travel, or other conference-related matters, please see the conference website.

www.arch.soton.ac.uk/redsea08