56th Seminar for Arabian Studies
Name of applicant
Steffen Terp Laursen
Title
Head of Oriental department, Moesgaard Museum and (Honorary) Associate Professor AU, Archaeology
Institution
Moesgaard Museum
Amount
DKK 60,000
Year
2023
Type of grant
Conferences
Summary
This year’s Seminar for Arabian Studies is hosted by Moesgaard Museum and Aarhus University, Denmark from Aug. 4-6th, 2023. The International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA) has granted us hosting this year to mark the important the 70th jubilee of our pioneering – (Carlsberg founded) - Arabian Gulf expeditions (est. 1953-). The conference will gather researchers from all across the globe and cover topics including archaeology, history, epigraphy, languages, literature, art, culture, ethnography, and geography from the beginnings to the present or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire. The proceedings of the conference with be published in June 2024, and a book "Bronze Age Arabia" based on a special session will be published in 2025.