Alan R. Millard

A colloquium in honour of Professor Alan Millard, FSAA symposium on 'Writing and Ancient Near-Eastern Society' is to be held on 11 April 2003 in the Merseyside Maritime Museum to mark the retirement of Professor Alan Millard, FSA, as Rankin Professor of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at the University of Liverpool.The speakers are Pierre Bordreuil (Collège de France), Graham Davies, FSA (University of Cambridge), John Davies, FSA (University of Liverpool), Irving Finkel (British Museum), David Hawkins (School of Oriental and African Studies), John Healey (University of Manchester), Kenneth Kitchen (University of Liverpool), Michael Macdonald, FSA (University of Oxford), Christopher Tuplin (University of Liverpool) and Alan himself.

Not a million miles away in theme is the volume of essays published in honour of our Fellow Alan R Millard called Writing and Ancient Near East Society, edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Fellows Christopher Mee and Elizabeth Slater.