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 Birmingham, 1-3 April 2007. 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 Louise Steel Hon. Secretary BANEA, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, SA48 7ED.

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

Subscriptions for 2007 are now due.
For information concerning subsciptions please contact Jan Picton, Institute of Archaeology UCL, 31 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY.

Subsciptions

Gift Aid

The BANEA Steering Committee

Student grants for conferences
Deadline for Student Grant applications for BANEA 2007: 29th March 2007


Conferences:

DRUGS, BUGS, HEALTH AND SOCIETY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

* Note recent revisions to both dates and costs *

The 2007 BANEA Annual conference will be 1-2 April 2007 in the University of Birmingham, organised by the Centre for the History of Medicine, School of Medicine and the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity in collaboration with Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery.

The revised second circular for the conference, with a request for contributions, registration details and information on accommodation can be accessed here as an Adobe Acrobat file.

Keynote Lectures

Arkadiusz Soltysiak
Osteological studies on diseases in past human populations of Mesopotamia: a short overview

JoAnn Scurlock
No Bones About It: The Recovery of Medical Knowledge from Assyo-Babylonian Texts

Provisional Programme

Offers of papers and posters on the main theme or on any topic in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology should be sent to Dr Alasdair Livingstone as soon as possible.

The conference fee will be £40 (waged) and £32.50 (unwaged). Sunday only is £10 (waged) and £7.50 (unwaged), while Monday only is £30 (waged) and £25 (unwaged). Please use the form in the revised second circular. This includes the conference and conference materials, a wine reception, teas and coffees and lunches.

Those who have already registered at the previous rates will be refunded accordingly.

Student grants to attend the conference are still available; see above with an extended deadline.

Further information on organisational matters can be obtained from Robert Arnott, Director, Centre for the History of Medicine, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT Telephone: 0121-414 6804 Email: R.G.Arnott@bham.ac.uk

 


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 March 2007