27th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology
Istanbul, 8th till 11th October 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues,

Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA), an international group of experts with multi-disciplinary background, meets every year since 1982 to discuss chemical, analytical, biological, historical and technological aspects of natural and synthetic dyestuffs.
More information on this issue and preceding DHA meetings and publications can be found at
http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/dha/meetings.html

The 27th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, including a welcome reception, a gala diner, an extra diner and post conference visits to museums will take place from the 8th till  11th October 2008 in Istanbul, Turkey. The oral and poster sessions will be held at the Marmara University Rectorate Building Conference Hall in Sultanahmet, on the 9th and 10th October 2008. The meeting will be jointly organised by the Marmara University.

The organisers kindly invite you to attend the meeting and look forward to receive your contributions for the scientific sessions.

Please fill in the registration form and send it back until 1st June 2008. For address, fax and e-mail see the registration form.

Contributions should consist of an oral presentation or a poster. For oral presentation speakers will have 20 minutes to perform. For posters, the maximum size is 70 cm wide x 100 cm high. Abstracts of oral presentations and posters should include titles, authors and contact addresses and should be submitted until 1st July 2008. (A sample of abstract format is attached.) If the total duration of oral presentations exceeds the total duration of whole program, some oral presentations could be converted to a poster presentation by a decision of scientific committee.

The abstracts will be published as pre-prints during the conference. After the conference, a publication of the presentations will be produced in the regular series of DHA publications. The language of the conference and the later publication is English.

The fee for the two-day conference (including the welcome reception, tea, coffee and lunches during the conference, an abstract book and post-conference visits to museums) is 120 EURO for registration before 1st June 2008 and 140 EURO thereafter. For extra fees (gala diner, extra diner) see the registration form.

For payment information, see ‘Information about money transfer form.

This meeting is limited to 200 participants and the registration will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis. The full programme of the meeting will be sent by the beginning of September 2008 to all those who registered.

The actual information about DHA 27 including information for accommodation is available at the homepage http://www.dha27.com

Looking forward to welcome you in Istanbul.

Yours sincerely,
Recep Karadag and Emre Dolen



The scientific advisory committee
Chris Cooksey
Dominique Cardon
Emre Dolen
Jan Wouters
Jo Kirby-Atkinson
Maarten van Bommel
Mark Clarke
Recep Karadag
Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer


The organisation committee
Recep Karadag
Emre Dolen
Turkan Yurdun
Feza Gunergun
Fisun Okyar
Seher Karsli
Nese Erdinc

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