Research news
Music in Sumer and after - a call for conference
papers
International Conference of Near Eastern
Archaeomusicology at the British Museum
The Department of the Middle East at the British Museum is
organising a three-day conference in December 2008.
Entitled Music in Sumer and after, the conference
will take place on site at the Museum on 4, 5 and 6
December.
The programme has yet to be finalised.
Those interested in taking part in the conference are invited to
submit papers within the following categories:
- Cuneiform musical texts
- The conservation and reconstruction of Ancient Near Eastern
musical instruments
- The musicology and the organology of the Ancient Near Eastern
instrumentarium
- Comparative ethno/archaeo-musicology.
To request a registration form, please
contact: archaeomusicology@talktalk.net
Guidelines for submitting a paper can be
obtained from: archaeomusicology-papers@talktalk.net
For any other relevant information about the
conference, please contact: archaeomusicology-enquiries@talktalk.net
The conference organising committee consists
of Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper in the Department of the Middle
East at the British Museum and archaeomusicologist Richard
Dumbrill, assisted by Sam Mirelman.