Seminar
for Arabian Studies
About us
The SEMINAR FOR
ARABIAN STUDIES is the only international forum which meets annually
for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities
on the Arabian Peninsula (including archaeology, epigraphy, ethnography,
language, history, art etc.) 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).
Click here to read an Outline History of the
Seminar for Arabian Studies.
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 contains new research on Arabia and reports of new
discoveries in the Peninsula in a wide range of disciplines.
The Proceedings of
the Seminar for Arabian Studies is edited by an Editorial Board formed
from members of the Steering and Editorial Committee of the Seminar, under
St John Simpson and Dr. Lloyd Weeks, the Editors-in-Chief. All correspondence
concerning the PSAS should now be addressed to them, via St J. Simpson,
Department of the Ancient Near East, The British Museum, London, WC1B
3DG. Email: email:
ssimpson@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Click
here (Acrobat pdf file - 472 Kb) to download the guidelines for authors
who are submitting manuscripts for publication in the Proceedings. You
will require the Adobe Acrobat viewer. If you do not have this please
visit the Adobe
website to download this free program. Authors who would like to publish
their papers in the Proceedings must submit their papers by the 15th September.
The
2008 Seminar for Arabian Studies will be held at the British Museum in London
from Thursday 24th - Saturday 26th July 2008.
Click here to
view the Draft Programme.
At 18.30 on Thursday 24 July a Special Lecture will be given in the BP lecture
theatre organised by the Seminar as part of the British Museum's public
programme. It will be the third of our annual Special Lectures, which we
have now entitled the MBI
Al Jaber Lectures in honour of our main sponsor.
This
year we are delighted to annouce that the lecture will be:
Cartography and Cantatas: Arabia and the European Enlightenment - Professor
Dan Potts, Sydney University
This
event is supported by the MBI
Al Jaber Foundation. Visit
their website at: www.mbifoundation.com
and read details about their sponsorship at http://www.mbifoundation.com/mbi-foundation-projects/seminar-for-arabian-studies.html

HOW
THE SEMINAR IS ORGANISED
HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER
PUBLICATION
INVITATIONS
HOW
THE SEMINAR IS ORGANISED
The Seminar meets
for three days - Thursday to Saturday - in the third week of July each
year in London or another British university town. Over 180 people attend
the Seminar from all over the Middle East, Europe, and North America as
well as India, Pakistan, Australia and Japan and up to 50 papers are now
presented each year.
All of the 700-plus
people and institutions on the Seminar's mailing list receive a first
circular and call for papers in November of each year and a second circular
with a provisional programme and booking forms in April. Those who are
not already on the mailing list should write to or email the Secretary.
For further details click here.
HOW
TO SUBMIT A PAPER
Those who wish to
give a paper at the Seminar or present a poster display, are asked to
submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to the Secretary by the
15th February. As there are usually many more offers of papers than can
be accommodated in the programme, the Seminar's Steering Committee has
to make a selection and it is seldom possible to accept all those submitted.
Owing to the number of papers, each is normally limited to twenty minutes
of presentation followed by five minutes for discussion and questions.
Wherever possible, papers are grouped thematically and chaired by a specialist
in the subject.
Authors of multi-author
papers are asked to select only one of their number to deliver the paper,
though it is hoped that their colleagues will be ready to answer questions
and contribute to the discussion. Owing to the number of papers it is
regretted that only one paper on any single project can usually be accommodated
in the programme in any particular year, although additional material
may be presented in poster displays. Routine annual reports on fieldwork
are discouraged in favour of works of synthesis or communications on particular
aspects of a site or of outstanding discoveries. However, reports every
three or four years on the progress of field projects are very welcome
and there is no limitation on poster displays. Facilities are provided
for poster displays on boards displayed near the lecture hall.
PUBLICATION
The Proceedings of
each year's Seminar are normally published in time for the following year's
event as the Proceedings of the Seminar for
Arabian Studies. Authors who would like to publish their papers in
the Proceedings must submit their papers by the 15th September following
the Seminar. Guidelines for authors submitting papers can be obtained
by clicking here (pdf
file - 472 Kb).
The Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies is edited by an Editorial
Board formed from members of the Steering and Editorial Committee of the
Seminar, under Dr St John Simpson and Dr Lloyd Weeks, the Editors-in-Chief.
All correspondence concerning the PSAS should now be addressed to them,
via
Dr St J. Simpson, Department of the Ancient Near East, The British Museum,
London WC1H 0PY, U.K. - email: ssimpson@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
INVITATIONS
Invitations to attend the Seminar and/or to give a paper can be issued
on request to enable participants to obtain leave from their academic
institutions and/or to obtain visas. However, invitations to give a paper
can only be issued after an abstract has been submitted and accepted.
In addition the Seminar is run on a largely voluntary basis and is non-profit-making.
It is therefore unable to offer financial assistance for travel or accommodation
or to waive the conference fee.
R. Carter, Chairman
January 2008
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