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.
Provisional programme

Organising Committee

The organising committee of the conference comprises:

• Dr Lucy Blue, Centre for Maritime Archaeology
• John Cooper, PhD student, Centre for Maritime Archaeology
• Ross Thomas, PhD student, Centre for Maritime Archaeology
• Julian Whitewright, PhD student, Centre for Maritime Archaeology

They can be contacted by email at redsea@soton.ac.uk

Speakers

For details of assistance in accommodation and travel, please contact the organising committee.

Registration and attendance

The registration form is available here.

Travel

For details on how to get to Southampton, click here

Accommodation

There will be a limited amount of accommodation in Halls of Residence for speakers and delegates. Hotel and Bed & Breakfast accommodation can also be arranged independently via this link.

The Red Sea conference series

Details of previous conferences in the Red Sea series are available here.

Sponsors

Red Sea IV is made possible by the financial support of the following:

• The Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Southampton (www.lass.soton.ac.uk)
• The Society for Arabian Studies (www.societyforarabianstudies.org)
• The Saudi-British Society (www.saudibritishsociety.org.uk)