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The conference will first of all present new and current research in the fields of archaeology, material culture and art history. Secondly, it will continue and stimulate the necessary discussion on the different directions and challenges of our field. It seems to be in transition, in museums and in universities. Excavations face difficulties as never before due to political uprisings and wars. Conversations in the past year have left the impression that the definition of our field still remains an exciting and controversial topic. We all come from different scholarly backgrounds and approach our common subject with rather diverse methods and research questions.Hamburg offers a good background for such discussion. The founding of the University is connected with Carl Heinrich Becker, one of the pioneers of material culture for the societies creating it. Becker was a close friend of Ernst Herzfeld, and opened his journal “Der Islam” for preliminary excavation reports of Samarra and for Fritz Saxl on Art History. Hamburg was also one of the places where Kurt Erdmann, later director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, taught.We welcome submissions of a title and an abstract of no more than 1,000 characters of your presentation; the deadline is May 31, 2014. Each presentation is limited to 20 minutes and 10 minutes discussion. A meeting of the graduate and PhD students is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, July 3rd. A poster session is possible. The symposium proper begins on Friday, July 4th, in the morning. The annual meeting of the society will be held as usual on Saturday afternoon.Please direct any correspondence about the conference to the team oforganisers:Stefan Heidemann and Simon Gundelfinger.Stefan.heidemann@uni-hamburg.deSimon.gundelfinger@uni-hamburg.deRegistration and participation is without any fee, and guests to the symposium are welcome. We are grateful for the generous support of the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung.We kindly request that speakers organize their own travel and accommodation.Hamburg has a wide range of hotels and Bed-and-Breakfast accommodations.Information on that will be sent later.The Ernst Herzfeld Society and the Universität Hamburg look forward to welcoming you to the tenth Colloquium.With kind regardsPD Dr. Martina Müller-Wiener (for the board of the EHG)Stefan Heidemann and Simon Gundelfinger (for the organizers)Stefan HeidemannProfessor of Islamic StudiesUniversität Hamburg, Asien Afrika Institut Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, OstD-20146 Hamburg, GermanyT +49 40 42838 3180 or 3181T +1 347 537 2535F +49 40 42838 5674E stefan.heidemann@uni-hamburg.deW www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/W www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/Personal/Heidemann.html