Saturday, 26 December 2009
A new harbour for Socotra Island
As Socotra is "developping" a new harbour near the actual airport is foreseen to be finished by 2013. As the money is available, infrastructure ideas and connectivity will follow, more info here.
Sunday, 22 November 2009
A new website for Socotra!
Socotra can be proud on a new website: "Socotra Governance and Biodiversity Project (SGBP)"
For the most up to date info, this will the new place to visit!
For the most up to date info, this will the new place to visit!
Thursday, 15 October 2009
December 2009
Exactly 10 years ago the SKP was inaugurated; reason enough to celebrate the occasion. More info soon.
SKP-gathering
20/11/2009: SKP-gathering for data processing to prepare a sequel SKP2005-2009 report. Also a renewed general website and the gentle preparations for SKP10 will be discussed.
Dvipa Sukhadhara: The forgotten Island of Bliss
08/11/2009: Julian Jansen van Rensburg will lecture on “Dvipa Sukhadhara: The forgotten Island of Bliss”
at the Ancient Indian Ocean Corridors: placing coastal and island south Asia in their broader Indian Ocean context a joint UCL - University of Oxford conference, to be held at the School of Archaeology, Oxford. All details at: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/articles/ancient-indian-ocean-corridors.html
at the Ancient Indian Ocean Corridors: placing coastal and island south Asia in their broader Indian Ocean context a joint UCL - University of Oxford conference, to be held at the School of Archaeology, Oxford. All details at: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/articles/ancient-indian-ocean-corridors.html
The Indian inscriptions from the cave Hoq on Socotra
31/10/2009: Dr Ingo Strauch will give a lecture, titled “Indian traders between Africa and South-Arabia: The Indian inscriptions from the cave Hoq on Socotra” at the collaborative workshop Global Geographies: the Indian Ocean in Historical Perspective, organized jointly by the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) and the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD. More details here.
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
FoS AGM in Tübingen, Germany
The organisation the 9th FoS AGM in Tübingen was just supreme!
Thanks a lot Dana for all the effort and the opportunity to explore some of the Schwäbische Alb. The minutes and outcome of the meeting can be found in the near future on the FoS website.
Click here below on the image to see more pictures.
Thanks a lot Dana for all the effort and the opportunity to explore some of the Schwäbische Alb. The minutes and outcome of the meeting can be found in the near future on the FoS website.
Click here below on the image to see more pictures.
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