Summer Meeting 2010
The Edge, Endcliffe, Sheffield
under the presidency of Professor Cheryl Exum
Revised version of the SOTS programme
Printable version of The Aileen Guilding conference programme with separate booking form
The booking form for SOTS conference and Aileen Guilding conference
Location and Map
MONDAY 19th JULY
(2.00 p.m.) [Committee Meeting]
3.30 p.m. Registration (High Tor Meeting Rooms)
5.00 p.m. Reception hosted by the University of Sheffield
6.00 p.m. Dinner
7.45 p.m. Dr Martin O'Kane (Lampeter), 'Biblical Art from Wales: Text and Context'
TUESDAY 20th JULY
7.30-8.30 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Ms Elizabeth Harper (Durham), 'Genesis 5:29: It's all in the Name'
10.00 a.m. Dr Carly Crouch (Cambridge), 'Sit Down upon the Dust: A Talionic Approach to Warfare in Deutero-Isaiah'
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Dr Florentina Badalanova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute), 'The Akedah: Ethnohermeneutic Interpretation'
12.00 noon Professor Nicolas Wyatt (Edinburgh), 'The Griffin in the Ideology and Iconography of the Levant'
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.30 p.m. Workshop on Career Development, with Dr Stuart Weeks (Durham) and Dr James Aitken (Cambridge)
3.30 p.m. Tea
4.15 p.m. Dr Yvonne Sherwood (Glasgow), 'The Persistence of Blasphemy: The Bible as a Public Edifice in the "Secular" State'
6.00 p.m. Dinner
7.45 p.m. Professor Michael Fox (Madison), 'Job's Tale'
9.00 p.m. Reception hosted by Sheffield Phoenix Press
WEDNESDAY 21st JULY
7.30-8.30 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Dr Elzbieta Lazarewicz-Wyrzykowska (Cambridge), 'Male Body, Masculine Honour: A Gendered Reading of the Samson Narrative'
10.00 a.m. Dr Eryl Davies (Bangor), 'Ethics and the Narrative Tradition of the Hebrew Bible'
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Dr Krzysztof Sonek (Jerusalem), 'Reading Genesis 12-25 with Hans Frei: Some Implications for the Historical Method'
12.00 noon Business Meeting (Members only)
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.00 p.m. Outing to Haddon Hall, followed by Tea, hosted by the President
7.00 p.m. Dinner
Joint Session with the Aileen Guilding Conference
8.15 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks: Professor David Clines (Sheffield), 'Aileen Guilding and Her Work'
8.30 p.m. Professor Kristin De Troyer (St Andrews), 'The Septuagint and the New Testament: Another Look at the Samuel-Kings Quotations and Allusions in the New Testament'
For the remainder of the Aileen Guilding conference, see the attached programme.
Domestic Arrangements
The venue for the Meeting is the High Tor Meeting Rooms, The Edge, 34 Endcliffe Crescent, Sheffield S10 3ED; the telephone number for the Conference Office is 0114 222 8822. Please refer to the attached map for information on how to get to the University. There is limited parking on site but plenty of street parking nearby.
The charges for hospitality are shown on the Booking Form. Members are requested to pay their accounts in full when returning the form but, if necessary, a non-returnable booking fee of £30 will be accepted and the balance will be payable on arrival at the Meeting. A discounted price is available to those whose Booking Forms are received by 27th May 2010 (please see the details on the form). There is a subsidized price for those on low incomes or from economically disadvantaged countries. All bookings must be received by 24th June 2010; no bookings can be accepted after that date. Bookings may be made by email as long as cheques follow by post.
Please note that in making a booking, members render themselves liable for payment of the full cost of that booking, a liability that will be waived only in the light of extenuating circumstances and only when the final conference accounts permit a refund. You may wish to consider taking out insurance on your booking (or check that your annual travel insurance is applicable) to cover the possibility of you having to cancel your booking. You are advised to make a copy of your completed Booking Form for your own records.
Please send the Booking Form to the Hospitality Secretary, Ms Elizabeth Harper, Flat 4, 69-70 Crossgate, Durham DH1 4PR (e-mail e.a.harper@dur.ac.uk), so as to arrive by 27th May 2010 (for the discount price) or at the latest by 24th June.
Correspondence concerning the affairs of the Society should be sent to the Secretary, Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ (tel. 01392 764290, email f.stavrakopoulou@exeter.ac.uk). Applications for a Conference Grant to assist in meeting the costs of attending the Meeting must reach the Secretary by 13th May. Proposals for new members must reach her by 30th June. Forms for these matters are available on the SOTS website (http://www.sots.ac.uk).