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The History, People and Culture of the Nile Valley
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( ) APRIL 2008 16th Bolton Archaeology & Egyptology Society. AGM & Lecture. Speaker: Ben Edwards.
18th Friends of the Petrie Museum. John Baines: Ancient Egyptian Attitudes to Landscape.
18th Poynton Egypt Group. Ken Griffin: Images of Rekhyt Birds.
19-20th Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society. Weekend Conference. Various Speakers. Contact Society for details.
19th Egyptian Society (Taunton). Charlotte Booth: Mummies.
19th Leicestershire Ancient Egypt Society. Derek Welsby: Excavation & Survey in Sudan.
19th Petrie Museum – University College London. 10.00am.-1.00pm. Drawing Faces. Practical art workshop using the Roman portraits in the Petrie as an inspiration. Course led by Jane Elliott. £5.00, book in advance – materials included. Contact: Debbie Challis, tel: 020 7679 4138, e-mail: d.challis @ ucl.ac.uk
19th Southampton Ancient Egypt Society. Michael Rice: Swifter than the Arrow – the Dog in Ancient Egypt.
24th Carlisle & District Egyptology Society. Victor Blunden: The Amarna Heresy – Akhenaten & the Amarna Period.
24th Petrie Museum – University College London. 6.00-9.00pm. Swashbuckling Archaeology. To mark the release of the new Indiana Jones film, the Petrie will screen previous incarnations of the archaeologist on film. Free – just turn up.
26th Egyptology Scotland – Edinburgh Branch. Tom Hardwick: Muwatallis, Rameses & the Battle of Kadesh.
26th Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt – Nottingham Venue. Alan Lloyd: Digging in Egypt – An Old Kingdom Cemetery.
26th Sussex Egyptology Society – Horsham Venue. Valarie Maxfield: Quarrying in the Eastern Desert.
30th Petrie Museum – University College London. 2.00-5.00pm. Drawing Faces. See 19th April (above) for other details.
( ) May 2008
1st The Petrie Museum - University College London. 6.00-9.00pm. Swashbuckling Archaeology. See 24th April (above) for other details.
3rd Wessex Ancient Egypt Society. Penny Wilson: The Kings of Sais - Renaissance & Regeneration in Late Period Egypt.
4th Essex Egyptology Group. Ian Johnstone: The Game of Mehen - a Practical Workshop.
7th Staffordshire Egyptology Society. Peter Robinson: Flying over the Valley of the Kings by Balloon.
8th Egyptian Cultural Bureau. Aidan Dodson: Saites, Sarcophagi … and a Scottish Pretender.
8th The Petrie Museum - University College London. 6.00-9.00pm. Swashbuckling Archaeology. See 24th April (above) for other details.
9th Friends of the Petrie Museum. Rosalie David: The Ancient Egyptian Pharmacy Project - a Multidisciplinary Study of Pharaonic Medicine.
9-11th Wedgwood Memorial College (Stoke on Trent). Residential Course. Tutor - Victor Blunden: Ancient Egypt - Gods, Temples & Tombs. Contact the College on Tel: 01782 372105/373427. E-mail: wedgwood.memorial@stoke.gov.uk Web-site: www.stoke.gov.uk/wedgwoodmemorialcollege
10th Egyptology Scotland - Glasgow Branch. EES/Egyptology Scotland Joint Lecture. Patricia Spencer: Back to the Future - Archaeology in the Nile Delta.
10th Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society. Richard Jaeschke: New Faces from the Past - Conservation of the Middle Kingdom Cartonnage Mask and Coffin of Senw & Three Old Kingdom Terracotta Statues from the Reign of Khufu.
12th Manchester Ancient Egypt Society. Bill Manley: Ancient Egypt in Edinburgh. 12th Tameside Egypt Group. TBA.
12th Wirral Ancient Egypt Society. At 2.00pm. Sarah Symonds: Astronomical Ceilings.
13th Egypt Society of Bristol. Ian Shaw: Digging the Desert Frontier - Mining Pharaoh’s Gemstones.
13th The Ancient World Society. Margaret Beaumont: Isis - Mother of Magic.
14th Formby U3A (Merseyside). Victor Blunden: Artwork of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Contact: Ms Meg Henderson. Tel: 01704 834070. E-mail: meghendersoon5@hotmail.co.uk
14th Friends of the Egypt Centre - Swansea. Martin Bommas: Gods, Graves & Glorification - the Context of Recitations for the Deceased in Ancient Egypt.
14th Three Counties Ancient History Society. Martin Bommas: Gods, Graves & Glorifications - Becoming Osiris in Ancient Egypt.
15th The Petrie Museum - University College London. 6.00-9.00pm. Swashbuckling Archaeology. See 24th April (above) for other details.
16th Poynton Egypt Group. Rosalind Janssen: The Rash Adventurer - John Pendlebury at Amarna.
17th Egyptian Society (Taunton). Valerie Maxfield: Egypt - Rome. Note: this meeting will be held in Exeter.
17th Manchester Museum. Day School: The Two Brothers at the Manchester Museum - Researching and Displaying Egyptian Mummies. Speakers: Rosalie David, Piotr Bienkowski, Karen Exell, Steven Snape, Glenn Godenho & Clair Malleson. Tickets £30 (Students £15). Contact: Phyllis Stoddart at Manchester Museum. Tel: 0161-275 2643. E-mail: phyllis.stoddart@manchester.ac.uk
17th Leicestershire Ancient Egypt Society. Alan Alford: The Egyptian Cosmos & the Eternal Repetition of the Events of the ‘First Time’.
17th RAMASES. Aidan Dodson: The Tomb of Osiris at Abydos.
17th Southampton Ancient Egypt Society. Sue Giles: The New Egyptian Gallery at the Bristol Museum.
21st Bolton Archaeology & Egyptology Society. Judith Seath: The Hyksos in Ancient Egypt - Settlers & Invaders.
21st Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt - Chesterfield Venue. Dylan Bickerstaffe: Seekers of the Sacred Stone.
22nd Carlisle & District Egyptology Society. Angela McDonald: Voices in Stone - The World Within Ancient Egyptian Temples.
22nd Egyptian Cultural Bureau. Colin Reader: Aswan Granite.
22nd Horus Egyptology Society. Charlotte Booth: Battles of Rameses II and Rameses III.
31st Friends of the Petrie Museum. One Day Conference. 10a.m. - 5.15p.m. Professor David Silverman, the University of Pennsylvania Museum: Tutankhamun, the Making of a Legend. Bloomsbury Theatre, Tickets £30. Box Office: 020 7388 8822, Web-site: www.thebloomsbury.com
31st Plymouth & District Egyptology Society. Day School. Nadine Moeller: Edfu - Latest Excavation Results.
31st Sussex Egyptology Society - Brighton Venue. Ian Shaw: Warfare - the Military Technology of Egyptians & Hittites.
( ) June 2008
1st Essex Egyptology Group. Charlotte Booth: Personal Adornment in Ancient Egypt.
2nd Tameside Egypt Group. Ken Downs: Montu & His Temples.
4th Staffordshire Egyptology Society. Victor Blunden: Building a Pyramid – The Archaeological Evidence.
5th Egyptian Cultural Bureau. Rosalie David: Diet & Disease in Ancient Egypt – Recent Scientific Studies.
7th Wessex Ancient Egypt Society. Dylan Bickerstaffe: Seekers of the Sacred Stone.
7th Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society. Lectures and Strawberry Lunch. David Holding: DNA and Population Movements. Carol Andrews: Pets or Power – Animals in Ancient Egypt.
9th Manchester Ancient Egypt Society. AGM, followed by Sally-Ann Ashton: The North Karnak Survey.
9th Wirral Ancient Egypt Society. Joyce Tyldesley: Ptolemaic Queens of Egypt.
11th Friends of the Egypt Centre – Swansea. Martina Minas-Nerpel: The God Khepry and his Significance for the Royal Ideology of the New Kingdom.
14th Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society. Neal Spencer: The Sun Disc Sets to Illuminate the Beyond – British Museum Fieldwork at Kom Firin in the Western Nile Delta.
17th Egypt Society of Bristol. Olaf Kaper: Roman History Written in Hieroglyphs – New Discoveries in the Temples of the Dakhleh Oasis, followed by the Summer Party.
18th Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt – Chesterfield Venue. Andrew Fulton: Egypt in the Bible.
19th Egyptian Cultural Bureau. Bob Partridge: The Royal Mummies.
19th Three Counties Ancient History Society. Steven Gregory: Herihor – High Priest or King?
20th Poynton Egypt Group. Kathryn Piquette: Early Scripts of the Nile Valley – By Whom and For Whom?
20-22nd Higham Hall (Cumbria). Residential Course. Victor Blunden: Pharaohs & Pyramids – Old Kingdom Egypt. Contact Higham Hall on: 017687 76276. Web-site: www.highamhall.com E-mail admin@highamhall.com
21st Southampton Ancient Egypt Society. Alan Lloyd: A Greek in Ancient Egypt – Herodotus the First Egyptologist.
23-27th Manchester University Egyptology Summer School. Jointly organised by the KNH Centre and The Manchester Museum. Application forms from: www.manchester.ac.uk/coursespublic E-mail: cce.reception@manchester.ac.uk Tel: 0161 275 3274.
26th Carlisle & District Egyptology Society. Aidan Dodson: The Tomb of Osiris at Abydos.
27th Friends of the Petrie Museum. AGM and Museum Reports followed by the Summer Party.
28th Egyptian Society (Taunton). Joanne Rowland: The Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey.
28th RAMASES. Martin Davies: Drowned Land of Nubia & the Rescue of its Monuments.
28th Sussex Egyptology Society – Worthing Venue. Bob Partridge: Discoveries in the Valley of the Kings and “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” in London.
EXHIBITIONS AND COURSES
Until 11th May 2008 EXHIBITION, LEIDEN: BENEATH THE SANDS OF TIME – DUTCH EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT National Museum of Antiquities, Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW, Leiden, the Netherlands. www.rmo.nl Further information: http://www.siteclx.nl/rmo/index.php/do-exhibitions/language-en/sub-soon
Until 30th August 2008 EXHIBITION – THE O2 (“THE DOME”), GREENWICH, LONDON TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHARAOHS Website: www.KingTut.org (See also page 10 of June/July magazine.)
22nd - 29th May, 2008 X CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EGYPTOLOGISTS – IN RHODES www.rhodes.aegean.gr/tms/congress2008.htm
21st - 22nd July 2008 EES CONFERENCE 2008 Conference on funerary archaeology. Brunei Gallery Theatre, SOAS, London. Speakers: Dr. Martin Bommas, Prof. Rosalie David, Ms Marleen de Mayer, Dr. Aidan Dodson, Prof. Geoffrey Martin, Mr. Chris Naunton, Ms Caroline Simpson, Dr. Alice Stevenson, Dr. John Taylor and Prof. Harco Willems. Contact the EES for details.
27th July - 1st August, 2008 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON PREDYNASTIC AND EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT – THE BRITISH MUSEUM EGYPT AT ITS ORIGINS www.origins3.org.uk
4th March - 20th July 2008 EXHIBITION, LJUBLJANA: PHARAONIC RENAISSANCE. ARCHAISM AND SENSE OF HISTORY IN ANCIENT EGYPT Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Exhibits lent by the British Museum, Musée du Louvre, the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), and from Berlin, Florence, Munich and others. Contact: +386 (0)1 24 17 170 or http://www.cd-cc.si
THE RAYMOND AND BEVERLY SACKLER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN EGYPTOLOGY GOLD AND IVORY IN THE DELTA: Excavations at Tell el-Farkha Given by Krzysztof Cialowicz, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. This Sackler Lecture will itself be followed by a Reception in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery of The British Museum. Ticket prices: Sackler Lecture £15, Colloquium £20, Both events £30, Reception only £5. Please apply for tickets from 1st June only, from Alison Cameron, Dept. of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum, Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG, enclosing an SAE. Enquiries: Tel: 0207 3238306; Email: acameron@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
9th March - 28th Sept. 2008 EXHIBITION, VIENNA: TUTANKHAMUN AND THE WORLD OF THE PHARAOHS Museum fur Volkerkunde, Neue Burg, Heldenplatz, 1010, Vienna, Austria. For more information, visit the web site www.tut.khm.at Objects on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, more than seventy objects from Tutankhamun’s tomb and seventy-five other objects from tombs in the Valley of the Kings etc. (including the gold mask of Psusennes from Tanis).
9th - 11th May 2008 RESIDENTIAL COURSE, STOKE ON TRENT: ANCIENT EGYPT – GODS, TEMPLES & TOMBS The Wedgwood Memorial College, Station Road, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent. ST12 9DG. Contact the College on 01782 372105 /373427. E-mail: wedgwood.memorial @ stoke.gov.uk www.stoke.gov.uk/wedgwoodmemorialcollege
July and August 2008 BLOOMSBURY SUMMER SCHOOL A series of short courses on a wide variety of topics. Enquiries to: The Director, Bloomsbury Summer School, Department of History, University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT. Tel 020 7679 3622, email: bloomsbury @ egyptology-uk.com www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury
27th July - 1st August 2008 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON PREDYNASTIC AND EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT – THE BRITISH MUSEUM EGYPT AT ITS ORIGINS www.origins3.org.uk
1st - 3rd September 2008 THE PHARMACY AND MEDICINE IN ANCIENT EGYPT CONFERENCE – UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Details from: www.manchester.ac.uk/egyptology/newsandevents
6th-7th September 2008 AWT CONFERENCE – READING UNIVERSITY Speakers include Barry Kemp, Ted Brock and Lyla Pinch-Brock, Ayman Wahby Taher and Terry Jones. Details from: www.ancient.co.uk ( ) |
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