The Seminar for Arabian Studies 2017 will take place from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 August at the British Museum, London. To celebrate the completion of Phase 2 of the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia in March 2017, the next Seminar for Arabian Studies will include a Special Session on “Languages, scripts and their uses in ancient North Arabia”.
Abstracts of paper and posters can be sent to seminar.arab@thebfsa.org on or before the 28th of February 2017 for consideration by the Steering Committee (https://www.thebfsa.org/seminar/papers-and-posters/)
The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the annual international forum for the presentation of the latest academic research on the Arabian Peninsula. The subjects covered include archaeology, history, epigraphy, languages, literature, art, culture, ethnography, geography, 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).