The British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology

Membership of BANEA is open to anyone who is interested in the archaeology, languages and history of the Ancient Near East. The Association exists to bring together professionals and non professionals with similar interests, to distribute and exchange information about recent developments in the field, and to make such information available to a wider public.

These aims are achieved by various means. An annual Newsletter, which will generally contain brief reports on current British fieldwork in the region, information on universities and museums with relevant departments, news about exhibitions, new books, research in progress and grants, is distributed to all members. BANEA also organises Schools Days. A conference open to all members is also held every year and takes place in a different university or institution each time. The next conference will be held in Durham, 8-10 January 2009. Details and registration forms will be sent to members. Membership of BANEA also entitles you to membership of one of the Regional Groups which organise their own programmes of lectures and events.

For further information please write to: Dr Joanne Clarke Chair, BANEA. School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ.

Your subscription helps us achieve our aims and fund these activities
Membership costs £15 per annum (£7.50 for students and unwaged)

Subscriptions for 2009 are now due.
For information concerning subsciptions please contact Jan Picton, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY.

Subsciptions, standing orders and gift aid

The BANEA Steering Committee

Student grants for conferences
Deadline for Student Grant applications for BANEA 2009: 31st December 2009

Conferences:

BANEA 2009: Annual Conference

The Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA) will be held at Durham University, between Thursday 8th and Saturday 10th January2009

Call for papers: Paper titles are currently requested for submissions to any of the proposed sessions; the deadline for title submission is Sunday 16th November 2008 and should be submitted by e-mail to the relevant session organiser (see Sessions).

There are proposed sessions on:

  • Archaeology in Iraq: War and Peace
  • Beyond Boundaries: Deconstructing dichotomies, boundaries and concepts of liminality within South West Asia.
  • Cuneiforum
  • Empires and their networks
  • Fragile Crescent Project
  • Levant Environment & (Pre) history
  • Networks in the greater Near East
  • Recent Fieldwork

Any further enquiries regarding the conference should be addressed to either Prof. Graham Philip or Prof. Tony Wilkinson.

Regional Groups

Scotland and northeast England

The Near East in the North West (Manchester and Liverpool)

London Centre for the Ancient Near East

London diary

West and Southwest England (Oxford, Birmingham, Bristol)

British Near Eastern Links
 
Stuart Campbell, Archaeology Group, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL
Last modified January 2009