Arabic-L:GEN:Mandaean Conference at SOAS

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1) Subject:Mandaean Conference at SOAS

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Date: 20 Sep 2007
From:aram at aramsociety.org
Subject:Mandaean Conference at SOAS

September 2007

Dear Colleague,

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organising its Twenty  
Sixth International Conference on the theme of The Mandaeans, to held  
at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of  
London, 08-10 September 2008.
The conference aims to study Mandaeism and its relationship to Near  
Eastern religions and gnostic movements, and it will start on Monday  
08 September at 9am, finishing on Wednesday 10 September at 6pm. Each  
speaker’s paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10  
minutes for discussion.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please send your answer  
to the above Aram email address of Aram before December 2007. If you  
know of colleagues who might like to contribute to the conference,  
please forward this message to them or send us their names and email  
addresses. Yet, we would like to remind our colleagues that only  
academics are allowed to present a paper at an ARAM conference.
	The conference will start on Monday 8 September at 9am, finishing on  
Wednesday 10 September at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 30  
minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers  
given at the conference will be considered for publication in a  
future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.
If you wish to know more about our ARAM Society and its academic  
activities, please open our website: www.aramsociety.org
If you have any questions or comments at any time, I am always happy  
to receive them.
Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd (Dr.)
Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Society
The Oriental Institute
University of Oxford
Pusey Lane
Oxford OX1 2LE – UK
Tel: +1865-514041
Fax: +1865-516824
shafiq.abouzayd at orinst.ox.ac.uk

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