Conference Description:
The 2010 Exeter Gulf Studies Conference
“The 21st-Century Gulf: The Challenge of Identity”
A cutting-edge interdisciplinary conference of over 60 research papers exploring the challenges of ‘identity’– political, economic, socio-cultural, and international – as the GCC states, Iran, Iraq and Yemen undergo paradigm-shifting changes.
Centre for Gulf Studies, IAIS, University of Exeter
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Clive Holes (University of Oxford)
Prof. Gary Sick (Columbia University / Gulf2000)
Dr Ali Al-Khouri (UAE Identity Authority)
Dr Neil Partrick (PartrickMideast & RUSI)
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, KCMG (FCO)
And including the official opening of the unique exhibition:
“Journey of a Lifetime – Photographs taken by HRH Princess Alice in Saudi Arabia in 1938”,
on loan from the King Abdulaziz Public Library (Riyadh),
previously shown only at George’s Chapel, Windsor castle.
In the presence of HRH Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, Saudi Ambassador to the UK
Organised by the Centre for Gulf Studies (http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/iais/centres/g ulf/index.php) at the University of Exeter, this continues an illustrious tradition of Exeter conferences on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf region. The Call for papers is now closed and the programme finalised, but all are very welcome to join in for a very rich menu of scholarship and debate!
The Centre, part of the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS), has a choice location in Britain’s “most beautiful” university grounds (Michelin Green Guide), in the medieval cathedral city of Exeter, set amidst the rolling hills of Devon, a stone’s throw from Dartmoor (http://www.exeterandessentialdevon.com/ )
Start Date: 2010-06-30
Last Day: 2010-07-03
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 2010-05-01
Contact Person: Jane Clark
Email: jane.clark@exeter.ac.uk
Address:
IAIS, Stocker Rd., Exeter, EX4 4ND, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1392 264040
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