05.05.2022
Abu Erteila exhibition – Rome
Dear Colleagues, A small exhibition about Abu Erteila will take place in Rome from 15 April – 12 June 2022 and may be of interest to you. Please see the attached flyer for more information. An Italian-Arabic catalogue of the exhibition has also been published and information concerning it may be found here: http://www.scienzeelettere.it/book/50352.htmlPlease contact the organisers directly […]
17.01.2022
DiverseNile Seminar Series 2022
Dear Colleagues, The following may be of interest:Attached please find the programme for the 2022 DiverseNile online lecture series ‘Landscape and Resource Management in Bronze Age Nubia’. Please address any questions to the seminar organisers. All the best, Julie
15.01.2022
Steffen Wenig
Dear Colleagues, I am very sorry to inform you that Steffen Wenig passed away on 11 January 2022. Attached please find a short obituary courtesy of Angelika Lohwasser, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Pawel Wolf, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Sincerely Julie
03.01.2022
Mograt Island resource and ‘Kushite Kingdom Manga’
Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to a new bilingual Arabic-English resource on Sudanese archaeology is available for viewing and free download on the Mograt website: https://www.mogratarchaeology.com/en. The “Kushite Kingdom manga” comic book was developed collaboratively by UCL PhD student Amanda Ford Spora and teen artists from the Harris Academy Chobham in London, using 3D print […]
03.01.2022
Dotawo Readers Survey
Dear ISNS members,The Editorial Board of Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies would be grateful if you would participate in an anonymous survey concerning the readership and content of Dotawo. Results generated by this survey will be discussed during a workshop at the forthcoming ISNS conference in Warsaw.The link to the survey may be found here: https://ergamenis.cloud68.co/apps/forms/Rk8Mg9MddRWFeq9L Sincerely, […]
03.01.2022
Registration for the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies
Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that the registration for the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies is now open and the registration form is available on the Conference website: https://nubianstudies2022.uw.edu.pl/registration2/ The deadline for submitting your paper proposals is 31 March 2022. For more information see the enclosed Third Circular For updates check the conference webpage: https://nubianstudies2022.uw.edu.pl/ and Facebook profile:https://www.facebook.com/Nubian-Studies-2022 […]
04.11.2021
The Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project. Provisional type series of monuments
The Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project. Provisional type series of monuments by Zbigniew Borcowski and Derek Welsby is available online.
15.09.2021
‘Abu Erteila 2008-2020’, Book Launch
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The following may be of interest to you. Please contact the publishers directly. ——————————————————- A book launch of Abu Erteila 2008-2020. Twelve Years of Research in a New Meroitic Site, will be held in Rome on 15 September 2021, at 5.00 pm CET. The presentation will be live streamed on youtube (https://youtu.be/KvbqAKXdcs4). It […]
08.09.2021
New Book Series Announcement
Dear Colleagues, The following may be of interest to you. We are excited to announce the launch of a new book series, Nubia: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Northeast Africa, to be published by the academic publisher Brepols. This is a great opportunity for all of us to publish with an outstanding academic press […]
19.08.2021
Dotawo Volume 9 – Call for Papers
Nubian Homescapes from Antiquity to the Present Abstract: This special issue of Dotawo takes a long-term perspective on Nubian houses and households to explore the distinctive material, visual, and phenomenological worlds of Nubian homescapes. We are especially interested in exploring homelife during periods when there were changes in the political and social organization in Nubia. By exploring a […]
