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Red Sea V: Navigated spaces, connected places
The fifth international conference on the peoples of the Red Sea region
16 September (Thursday) - 19 September 2010 (Sunday), Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE HAS BEEN CHANGED AND CAN BE ACCESSED HERE.
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.
Click here for details of previous conferences in the Red Sea Project series.
Programme
A provisional programme can be accessed here.
Registration and attendance
Registration form is available here.
Travel
For details on how to get to the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, click here.
A map of the Streatham campus (IAIS Building - no 16) is available here.
Accommodation
A limited number of places will be available for speakers and delegates in university accommodation. Booking has not yet opened. Please check this page for updates.
Alternatively, hotel and bed & breakfast accommodation can be arranged independently via this link. The Organising Committee is not responsible for the content of external links.
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.
Alternatively, you can contact Dr John Cooper (j.p.cooper@exeter.ac.uk), Dr Chiara Zazzaro (c.zazzaro@exeter.ac.uk) or Prof. Dionisius A. Agius (d.a.agius@ex.ac.uk) directly.
For any general enquiries please contact Ms Beata Faracik.
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