KIM
Uluslararası Kültepe Toplantısı / Kültepe International Meeting

Second Circular

Accommodation: (participants)

We are happy to announce that the Kayseri Municipality will sponsor all your rooms during the conference, beginning July 26th and ending on July 30th. We have booked rooms for allspeakers, chairs, and guests.

Your address will be:

Hotel Ibis Kayseri
Yenipervane Mah
Kocasinan Bulvarı No. 161-162
Tel. (+90) 352 2073030
Fax (+90) 352 2073040
H6905-RE@ACCOR.COM
GPS: N 38° 44' 7.59'' E 35° 29' 50.81’'

You are yourself in charge of getting to and from the airport / train station / bus station to the hotel. If you arrive by car there will be parking nearby the hotel. Check-in is at 2 pm and check-out is at noon. There are four rooms for individuals with reduced mobility – please let us know if you would prefer us to book you one of them.

Transport to the meeting: (NB: speakers and chairs only)
The meeting has received some limited support for transport. For those of you who have paid the trip out of your own pocket and have no research funds to cover the trip, please bring along you invoice and/or purchase receipt, boarding passes, ticket (electronic or paper), etc. and we will do our best to reimburse you fully or partially after the meeting.

Transport during the meeting: (everyone)
The Municipality of Kayseri Municipality has graciously offered to provide everyone with daily transport to and from the site – two large busses, one minibus, and two cars. You will be picked up from the hotel in the morning as listed in the programme. Please help us assure a timely departure so that we do not being our meetings running behind schedule.

Opening Ceremony: (everyone)
The opening ceremony on the afternoon of the 26th of July will take place in the main hall of the Gevher Nesibe Selçuklu Müzesi (http://www.selcuklumuzesi.com/ustmenu.asp?id=8&euid=1&sid=8), courtesy of the newly elected Mayor of Kayseri. The President of Ankara University and the General Director of Antiquities have announced that they will attend the ceremony.

The Governor of the Kayseri Province will in turn invite all meeting participants to a festive dinner in a recently restored Ottoman quarter at Kayseri following the opening ceremony.

Practical Information: (everyone)
For this first evening dresscode is semi-formal. For the remainder of the time, we suggest informal wear – the site will be warm and shorts and short sleeves / dresses are recommended. The evenings can get cool, but never cold.

The meeting itself takes place in the Kültepe Meeting Hall, which is air conditioned and microphoned. All posters will be placed outside the hall in the area where coffee and refreshments are served between sessions. There will be a PC running PowerPoint and a Macbook running Keynote (NB: ver. 5.3) to show images on. There is even an ordinary slide projector, in case you wish to go old-school.

All meals during the conference 27-28-29 July are served on site. There will be tours of the site on the evenings of the 27th and the 28th. Meals and soft drinks are served without charge throughout the meeting. Alcoholic beverages are offered for sale at the site. Bring cash. Bring an instrument if you have one. The kind offer of transport from the Municipality gives us a lot of freedom, and we will see to it that you are taken back to your hotel in the evening as you require.

We look very much forward to welcoming you all at Kültepe,

Fikri Kulakoğlu and Gojko Barjamović