Seminar for Arabian Studies

Seminar 2012

The 2012 Seminar for Arabian Studies will be held at the British Museum in London from Friday 13th to Sunday 15th July 2011.

This will be supported by the MBI Al Jaber Foundation. Visit their website at: www.mbifoundation.com

Seminar for Arabian Studies 13-15 July 2012 (British Museum, London, U.K.)

Call for Papers: 2012 Seminar for Arabian Studies Conference

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that the 46th Seminar for Arabian Studies Conference will be held at the British Museum from Friday 13th July to Sunday 15th July 2012. Please note this a change from previous years when the Seminar ran from Thursday to Saturday.

The Seminar for Arabian Studies 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). The Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies are published the following year in time for the next Seminar.

Call for Papers

If you wish to offer a paper, please send a 200-word abstract to seminar.arab@durham.ac.uk before the 15 February 2012 for consideration by the Steering Committee. Do not send abstracts to any other e-mail address. Abstracts that are significantly over the word limit may rejected. Abstracts submitted after the deadline may be accepted or rejected at the discretion of the Committee.

Abstracts must include:

1) the name(s) and full contact details and affiliation(s) of the contributor(s);

2) the title of the proposed paper;

3) what the proposed paper intends to cover;

4) an outline of the approach it will take;

5) an indication of the significance of the topic;

6) five keywords;

7) up to three relevant bibliographical references.

Presentations are limited to 20 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for discussion.

Due to programme time constraints, and the ever-increasing number of abstracts received, there is no guarantee that all papers will be accepted. The Steering Committee will select those abstracts that are most scholarly, with a focused statement of thesis or importance, clear aims and methodology, well-organized research data, specified sources, and coherent conclusions. As in previous years, the Committee will normally only accept one abstract from any given project.

Only those papers that are physically presented at the Seminar will be considered for publication in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, and they will be subject to editorial and peer review.

Special Session

In 2012, the Seminar will incorporate a Special Session entitled 'The Role of Museums in Arabia', organised by Dr Mark Beech (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, UAE), Sarina Wakefield (The Open University, UK) and Dr Celine Hullo Pouyat (TDIC, Cultural Department, Abu Dhabi, UAE). Abstracts related to this theme are welcome and potential contributors are encouraged to contact Dr Mark Beech (mark.beech@adach.ae) for additional information on the session.

Session Proposals

The Committee is willing to consider possible Session Proposals. A Session Proposal must include a minimum of four papers and have a clear scholarly focus with the explicit purpose to promote discussion and debate on work currently in progress, the current state of scholarship, issues involved in the application of new approaches and models etc. A Session Proposal should include a session summary of up to 200 words in length, along with abstracts formatted as outlined above for individual abstracts. The Committee will still consider each session abstract individually. A Session chair may be nominated but a final decision on this will remain with the Committee.

Posters

The deadline for the submission of Posters is the 30 May 2012. A poster submission form and guidelines will be available on the Seminar's website soon.

For further information please contact seminar.arab@durham.ac.uk

Seminar for Arabian Studies,
British Museum,
c/o Middle East Department,
Great Russell Street, London,
WC1B 3DG, UK.
e-mail: seminar.arab@durham.ac.uk

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