SPEAKING OF ST. GEORGE, here's a conference announcement from the Hugoye list:

Subject: ARAM Forthcoming Conference

Dear Colleague,
I am writing again to update you on the progress of the ARAM Twenty Second International Conference on "Iconography and Mythology of Prophet Elijah, St. George and al-Khodor in the Syrian Orient", to be held at Oxford University, 4-6 July 2006.
The conference will start on Tuesday 4 July at 9am, finishing on Thursday 6 July at 5pm. Each speaker's paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.
I would like to thank those who have already answered our first announcement of the ARAM conference, and they will receive soon the list of the speakers with the programme of the conference.
I would like also to inform you that we can still accept another five speakers, but we need their names before mid-May 2006.
If you know of academic colleagues who might like to contribute to the conference, please forward this message to them or send us their names and email addresses.
All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a
future edition of the ARAM periodical, subject to editorial review.
I am also writing to remind you of our ARAM new website
(www.aramsociety.org), which aims to update our colleagues and friends on ARAM academic activities. ARAM has also its own new email address:
aram@aramsociety.org
However, you can still use our current email address at Oxford University:
aram@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Both email addresses can reach our ARAM Society.

Thank you very much for your interest in our ARAM Society.
Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd (Dr.)
ARAM Society
The Oriental Institute
Oxford University
Pusey Lane
Oxford OX1 2LE, UK.
Tel: ++44-1865-514041 Fax: ++44-1865-516824