Friday, November 11, 2011

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:30 Registration of participants - Registration of participants  
09:30 - 11:00 Introductory speeches - Officials  
11:30 - 13:00 The geology and geomorphology of Wadi Rum  
11:30 - 12:15 Geology, environmental setting, and natural impacts on Petra and Wadi Rum, southern desert of Jordan - Hani Alnawafleh and Sa'ad Twaissi  
12:15 - 13:00 Fluvial and eolian forms in the region of Wadi Rum - Yann Callot and Nicolas Jacob  
14:30 - 15:30 Rock conservation: lessons learned from Petra  
14:35 - 15:00 Rapid base-line condition assessment of rock-cut tombs at Petra: a case study in prioritizing intervention and effective targeting of funding - Patricia Warke, Bernard Smith, Fadi Bala'awi and Fawaz Ishakat  
15:00 - 15:30 Architectural sandstone weathering and tourism: lessons learned from Petra - Thomas R. Paradise  
16:00 - 17:00 Animal ecology  
16:05 - 16:30 Ecology and birds in Wadi Rum - Fares Khoury  
16:30 - 17:00 Biodiversity of mammal and reptiles in Wadi Rum - Zuhair S. Amr  

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Time Event  
09:00 - 11:00 Prehistoric human settlements  
09:05 - 09:30 An assemblage of pottery sherds from test excavations and surveys at Wadi Ramm: a preliminary report - Zeidan Kafafi  
09:30 - 10:00 Research at the 9,500 years old early neolithic sites Ayn Abu Nukhayla - Donald O. Henry  
10:00 - 10:30 Subsistence strategies in Wadi Rum: an archaeobotanical study of the site of Hudayb al-Rih - Linda Herveux  
10:30 - 11:00 Architectural, functional, and temporal variability at Tarayf al-Maragh, Wadi Ramm - Gary O. Rollefson  
11:30 - 13:30 Civilization in the desert  
11:35 - 12:00 Pre-Islamic Wadi Rum: deities and sanctuaries - Saba Farès  
12:00 - 12:30 Desert deities and the men who worshipped them: the religious beliefs of the pre-Islamic bedouin of Jordan - Cassandra Bennett  
12:30 - 13:00 Immersed in grandeur: the eastern complex at Wadi Rum - Barbara Reeves and Dennine Dudley  
13:00 - 13:30 Water projects in the region of Wadi Rum: from ancient heritage to the current resource - Nicolas Jacob and Yann Callot  
14:30 - 15:30 On the edge of Islamic history  
14:35 - 15:00 Wadi Rum in the works of Arab geographers - Abdel Aziz Al Mani'  
15:00 - 15:30 Islamic inscriptions from Wadi Rum - Khaled Jbour  
16:00 - 17:00 Society, economy and development in contemporary Wadi Rum  
16:05 - 16:30 Society and economy in the Wadi Rum area from the early 20th century to the present - Géraldine Chatelard  
16:30 - 17:00 Developing the Wadi Rum Protected Area: environmental protection, tourism and bedouin communities - Laura Strachan  

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Time Event  
09:00 - 11:00 Monitoring and conserving the natural and cultural heritage of Wadi Rum: bridging between research and policy  
11:30 - 16:00 Visit of the excavation of Hudayb al-Rih and Rock arts - Visit of the excavation of Hudayb al-Rih and Rock arts