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AAR/SBL at San Francisco

 

This year will see the happy re-unification of AAR and SBL at San Francisco. I am sure most of you have booked their tickets already - and so have we. If you are planning to attend either SBL or AAR and are presenting a paper, taking part in a panel, hosting a breakfast with the author session or anything else, please do drop us a note so that we can make sure to take enough copies of your book!

Thanks much!

Friedemann Golka RIP

I was very sad to learn today of the death of Friedemann Golka in June. Friedemann was always a friendly face and interesting conversation partner at SOTS Meetings (The Society of Old Testament Study) and had published his 'The Leopard's Spots' with T&T Clark several years ago, when the company was still based in Edinburgh. I believe it came about when Geoffrey Green, former publisher at T&T, heard Golka give a paper at a conference. Friedemann taught at Exeter University for a time, but was predominantly based at  the University of Oldenburg. He was known for his work on social anthropology and the Old Testament, and for his books on Thomas Mann and the bible. I will certainly raise a glass to him at the forthcoming SOTS in Oxford.

SBL fun in London

Well, ISBL last week in London was great fun. It was brilliant to catch up with all our main monograph series editors - Mark Goodacre, Andrew Mein and Claudia Camp, and Lester Grabbe... as well as countless authors and other publishers. To be able to do it all within 400 yards of our offices was an added bonus, although it did mean we spent a lot of time running between the book exhibit and the office trying to get things done, looking things up, collecting extra catalogues, or books we hadn't taken but which people had specifically requested.

All in all it was a very useful conference, good for sales, and good publicity I hope. I also hope that everyone who went saw the conference porters in T&T Clark t-shirts (part of me really wants to use the word 'livery' here).

So congrats to KCL and to SBL on a great conference on London's trendy South Bank.

ISBL Welcoming Ceremony - Streaming Live

The ISBL Conference opening ceremony, with welcomes on behalf of King’s College London and the SBL and an address by the Archbishop of York, will be webstreamed live by the BNTS on Monday 4 July from 4pm (BST), so for those of you who can't make it, you will be able to watch proceedings online.

Free registration with email address is required, and that then takes you straight on to the page where things will be happening – although at the minute you get a message to tell you that the event hasn’t started yet!

https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1002030