Welcome to Red Sea V
The conference Call for Papers (for details, please click here.) is now closed.
The provisional programme is available here.
Abstracts of papers selected for presentation during the conference are available here.
Registration for the conference is open. You can register to attend here.
The Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies is proud to host the latest event in the Red Sea Project conference series – the premier forum for the archaeology, anthropology, history, and languages of the Red Sea region. Previous conferences have been held at the British Museum and the University of Southampton.
After a focus at the 2008 conference on the Red Sea’s terrestrial hinterlands, Red Sea V brings the conference back to the sea itself, and to the theme of life lived on and from the marine environment in all periods.
Papers presented will focus on subjects such as:
- 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 opening of the forthcoming Dhow Exhibition, also to be held within the gallery spaces of the Institute. In addition to the conference sessions, delegates have the option of attending a conference dinner, and will have ample opportunity to socialise in and visit the city of Exeter. The conference is organising a sightseeing boat-trip on the river Exe for the Sunday.
The organising committee comprises Professor Dionsius A. Agius, Dr John P. Cooper, Dr Chiara Zazzaro, Mr Julian Jansen van Rensburg, Ms Lucy Semaan and Ms Beata Faracik. For further information please write to redseav@exeter.ac.uk.