FORTHCOMING IASA LECTURES

The IASA 2023 lecture series is currently being finalised and members will be sent details in due course. Non-members may check our social media accounts for details, or contact outreach@theiasa. com

Seminar For Arabian Studies

The Seminar for Arabian Studies, founded in 1968, is the only international forum that meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula 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 contain new research on Arabia and reports of new discoveries in the Peninsula in a wide range of disciplines.

Department at Moesgaard Museum.

Approximately 75 papers will be delivered during the conference ranging from the Paleo/Neolithic of the Arabian Peninsula to early Islamic times. On 5th August, 11 of these papers will be delivered in a special session, Bronze Age Arabia - 70 years on… - what we have learned, and what we still don’t know?, in which invited international experts will treat the latest research on Bronze Age Arabia and explore new directions. There will also be approximately 25 thematically oriented posters.

On 4th August, Prof. Adrian Parker, Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at Oxford Brookes University, will deliver the keynote Beatrice de Cardi Lecture at this year's Seminar (sponsored by the Society of Antiquaries). The keynote lecture will be held in the new main auditorium of Moesgaard Museum and is followed by a wine party also at Moesgaard Museum. The wine party will be a celebration of the 70th jubilee Moesgaard Museum and Aarhus University pioneering expeditions to Bahrain and will be attended by a number of long retired senior pioneers of the first expeditions (1953-1978).

We cordially invite you to participate in the conference, which will be held as a hybrid event in presence and virtually. Registration will be open soon.

Please note before you reserve accommodations in Aarhus that the Seminar will be held at Moesgaard Museum only on the first day (4th Aug.) and at Aarhus University on both the second and third day (5-6th Aug.). It is highly recommended that reservations are made in Aarhus Town in proximity to Aarhus University and not near Moesgaard Museum.

Moesgaard Museum. Image: https://www. moesgaardmuseum.dk

From 4th – 6th August 2023, the 56th Seminar for Arabian Studies will take place at Moesgaard Museum and Aarhus University, Denmark. This year we celebrate the 70th jubilee of the pioneering Arabian Gulf expeditions (est. 1953-). The seminar has been jointly organized by the department of Archaeology at Aarhus University and the Orient

Further information can be found here and from the Seminar secretary, Kate Ayres-Kennet: seminar.arab@iasa.com