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Sounds great. Alas, visa restrictions mean that I cannot come, but I wish you all a very successful meeting and look forward to reading the abstracts and finally, papers. Sincerely, Salima Ikram Chair, SAPE Department Professor of Egyptology American University in Cairo P. O. Box 74, Road 90, Tagammu 5 New Cairo 11825, EGYPT [log in to unmask] Fax: 20227957565 On 30 Jun 2012, at 17:55, Guy Bar-Oz wrote: > The 11th ASWA Meeting > Haifa, Israel, June 23-28 2013 > First Announcement > > ARCHAEOZOOLOGY OF SOUTHWESTERN ASIA and Adjacent Areas > > You are kindly invited to the coming ASWA meeting that will be held at the University of Haifa Mount Carmel Campus, from June 23rd to June 28th 2013. The campus is situated on the outskirts of the city of Haifa and the Carmel National Park and enjoys a magnificent view that combines sea, mountain and forest. The city of Haifa is connected with highways and a railway to the Ben Gurion International airport located about 100 km away. Haifa is unique in its diversity of faiths and cultures and is one of the few places where Christians, Moslems, Druze, Bahais and Jews cohabit peacefully as neighbours, giving a special atmosphere to the city. The city offers hotels of various classes with good transportation to the university campus. > > The meeting will include a special symposium (Animal Bones and Cultural Diversity) and general presentations that will be organized according to preselected topics (oral and poster presentations), as will be detailed in the second announcement. Ideas for special sessions are welcome. In addition we are planning social events and two days of tours to nearby world heritage sites and visits to protected wildlife reserves. > > Please mail us to [log in to unmask] of your intention to participate and provisional title before January 01 2013. > > A brief outline of the schedule: > > 1 January 2013: Deadline for provisional titles and sessions > 31 March 2013: Deadline for abstracts and Conference Registration > 23 June 2013: Delegates arrive and welcome reception > 24-25 June 2013: General Sessions > 26 June 2013: Excursion day > 27 June 2013: Special symposium (Bones and Identity) > 28 June 2013: excursion day and farewell party > > Further information will follow in the meeting website that will be launched in a few weeks. > > Looking forward to hearing from you, > > The Organizing Committee > Guy Bar-Oz, Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Nimrod Marom, Rivka Rabinovich, Nuha Said-Agha, Lidar Sapir-Hen, Lior Weissbrod, Irit Zohar