Wednesday July 6, 2022
- 10:00–10:30 Welcome and introduction to the themes of the conference
10:30–12:00 THE MARITIME EXPERIENCE
Chair: Chiara Zazzaro
- Julian Jansen Van Rensburg, A Sea of Islands: Rediscovering Red Sea maritime space
- Dionisius Agius, Water availability and accessibility: Red Sea voyages in the early modern period
- John Cooper, Decorative schemas on Yemen’s wooden watercraft—a unique tradition
12:00–12:20 Coffee break
12:20–13:50 MAPPING THE RED SEA
Chair: Steven E. Sidebotham
- Pablo Gutiérrez de León, From Adulis to Guardafui: Remapping and understanding the southern Red Sea and Horn of Africa trading ports
- Irene Rossi and Jérémie Schiettecatte, Mapping and synthesizing ancient Arabia: The Maparabia project
- Arthur de Graauw, Location of ancient harbours in the Red Sea—an attempt
13:50-14:50 Buffet lunch
14:50–16:50 RELIGION AND THE SEA I
Chair: Roxani Margariti
- Pierre Schneider, Why was the Garden of Eden located at the edge of the Indian Ocean?
- Andreu Martínez, A Roman Catholic Red Sea? A Portuguese quest
- Carolina Cornax Gómez, The meeting ground: Mosques in Somaliland during the medieval period
- Scott Kugle, God’s favor is a heavenly rain, God’s saints are like the seas: Sufi networks from Gujarat to the Red Sea
18:30 Opening
reception at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies
Thursday July 7, 2022
9:00–9:45 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Chair: Pierre Schneider
- Iwona Zych, The fading of Berenike: the last days of the Red Sea harbor
- Marta Bajtler and Szymon Popławski, In the heart of late Antique Berenike—who could have built monumental crossroads?
- Troy Wilkinson, The Roman military and the distribution of potable water in the Eastern Desert
- Shahista Refaat, Ethiopian eunuchs in Medina (Hijaz) in the Mamluk era
- Roxani Margariti, From sponges to pearls: Aegean mariners in the Red Sea (19th–20th century)
9:50–11:20 ARCHAEOLOGY OF CONTACT ZONES I
Chair: Iwona Zych
- Solène Marion De Procé, Al-Qusar: Excavating a Roman military settlement in the Red Sea?
- Joachim Le Bomin and Julie Marchand, Late Roman Deir el-Atrash fort: Daily life in a late 4th-early 5th c. fort in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
- Ahmed Adam, The archaeology of the islands and hinterland of the Red Sea region of Sudan: Erih Island, Erkawit and Khor Nubt, as a case study
11:20–11:40 Coffee break
11:40-13:10 APPROACHES TO BORDERS AND BORDERLANDS
Chair: Antonis Anastasopoulos
- Thomas Kuehn, Rethinking late Ottoman rule in Yemen from the Red Sea coast: Hudayda elites and the governance of southwest Arabia, 1871–1914
- Mohamed Gamal-Eldin, Lessepsian migration, the Red Sea and the Israeli military and scientific occupation of the Sinai and eastern seaboard of the Suez Canal, 1967–1972
- Noura Salem, Aya Bseiso, and Khalid Odeh, Fruits of Barzakh in Aqaba
13:10-14:10 Buffet lunch
14:10-15:40 LIVES ACROSS THE RED SEA
Chair: John Cooper
- Magdalena Moorthy-Kloss, Slave trading across the Red Sea in the Rasulid era (626–858 AH / 1229–1454 CE)
- Craig Perry, News from Qus, Aswan, and ʿAydhab: Evidence from the Cairo Geniza
- Marina Rustow, Geniza letters about the rigors of Red Sea travel
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-18:00 CHANGES AND TRANSITIONS IN THE PREMODERN RED SEA
Chair: Solène Marion de Procé
- Luisa Sernicola, Transitions and cultural transmissions between the two shores of the Southern Red Sea in the early 1st millennium BCE: A view from highland Ethiopia
- Matthew Cobb, The Imperial to the Late Antique Red Sea: Reconsidering the third century CE as phase of decline, break or transition
- Joan Oller-Guzmán, Changes, continuities and transitions in the Smaragdos: Emerald mining in the Egyptian Eastern Desert between the Early and Late Roman period
- Simon Dorso and Julien Loiseau, Tell Kwiha Cherqos (Tigray, Ethiopia): from an Aksumite site to a modern village. Occupation sequence and overview of the settlement over the past two millennia.
Free evening
Friday July 8, 2022
- 9:00-9:15 Tribute to Roberta Tomber
9:15-10:45 THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
Chair: Scott Kugle
- Steven E. Sidebotham, Marianne Bergmann, Martina Stoye, Shailendra Bhandare, Joanna K, Rądkowska, Szymon Popławski, and Mariana Castro, South Asian sculptures, a terracotta and an inscription from Berenike (Red Sea coast, Egypt)
- PJ Cherian, P. Deepak, and Siddhartha Saha, The She Sphinx that flew over the Red Sea: Artefact, author, agency and audience
- Jerzy M. Oleksiak, Nicholas Bartos, Roderick C.A. Geerts, Crossroads of the Red Sea: New ceramic data from the port of Berenike
10:45-11:05 Coffee break
11:05-12:35 ARCHAEOLOGY OF CONTACT ZONES II
Chair: Dionisius Agius
- Marek Woźniak and Joanna Rądkowska, Discovering Hellenistic Berenike: Answers, questions and perspectives
- Noran Hamed, Interpreting the Red Sea: Challenges and strategies for a better future for the heritage sites
- Jacke Phillips, “… fashioned in the local manner”
12:35–13:35 Buffet lunch
13:35-15:05 FROM MEDIEVAL TO EARLY MODERN
Chair: Marina Rustow
- Amélie Chekroun, The African ports of the Gulf of Aden at the end of the Middle Ages
- Jorge de Torres Rodríguez, Nomads, towns and states: The archaeology of Somaliland during the medieval period
- Dejanirah Couto, Gregório da Quadra’s journey into Arabia (1516–1517) and the 16th-century Portuguese representations of the Red Sea
15:05-15:25 Coffee break
15:25–17:25 THE OTTOMAN RED SEA
Chair: Thomas Kuehn
- Fatih Yücel, Ottoman governors-general of Egypt and trade in the Red Sea during the last quarter of the sixteenth century
- Abdulmennan M. Altıntaş, A dilemma between security and trade: The maritime boundaries of the Ottoman-dominated Red Sea (16th and 18th centuries)
- Chiara Zazzaro, Chiara Visconti, Romolo Loreto, Nicola Melis, and Luisa Terminillo, Further developments in the study of the Umm Lajj shipwreck and other 18th-century shipwrecks in the Red Sea
- Muhammet Habib Saçmalı, Rebuilding the Hejaz: The Red Sea and the Hejaz in the Münşeat of Ebubekir Paşa, the governor of Jiddah between 1725 and 1728
17:25–17:45 Concluding remarks and farewell
19:30 Closing dinner
Saturday July 9, 2022
Group excursion (optional) – The island and heritage site of Spinalonga