IoA Annual Conference: Forming Material Egypt
Publication date:
Apr 15, 2013 4:10:26 PM
Start:
May 20, 2013 9:00:00 AM
End:
May 21, 2013 5:00:00 PM
Location:
UCL Institute of Archaeology, Petrie Museum and SOAS
The Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference will take place this year on 20-21 May on the topic of 'Forming Material Egypt' with a gathering of Egyptian and international experts.
Archaeological finds from Egypt have been dispersed worldwide on a
massive scale both through documented excavation and through gifts and
purchases, by museums, archaeologists and others. The distribution of material has played a major role in forming
contemporary attitudes to the Egyptian past.
Preprints of most of the papers are available for download - linked in the program schedule:
Day 1
Morning panels: (Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6) 9.30am
Panel Session 1: Re-connecting with archaeological context: sites and databases
- Richard
Bussmann Re-materialising state formation:
Hierakonpolis 2.0 [ Read paper» ]
- Alexandra Villing Naukratis–ancient and modern
networks: a case study [ Read paper» ]
- Gianluca Miniaci Collecting
Groups: the dispersion of finds from Harageh cemetery across museums [ Read paper»]
- Geoffrey Tassie, Joris van Wetering The History and Research of the
Naqada Settlements Collection [ Read paper» ]
- Chris
Naunton The financial imperative and the EES
excavations at Amarna in the 1920s and 30s [ Read paper» ]
Coffee break, 11am
Panel Session 2: Finds Distribution and Public Archaeology
(Chairs: Maher
Eissa, Chris Naunton)
- Alice Stevenson Between the Field and the Museum:
the idea of archaeological context and the distribution of finds from the Egypt
Exploration Fund 1883–1915 [ Read paper» ]
- Patrizia Piacentini The Antiquities Path: from the Sale
Room of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
(ca 1890-1970), through Dealers, to Private and Public Collections [ Read paper» ]
- Amara Thornton Public Egypt:
London Society, Exhibitions and Lectures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries [ Read paper» ]
- Anna Garnett John Rankin and John
Garstang: Funding Egyptology in a Pioneering Age [ Read paper» ]
- Campbell Price Max Robinow and the Manchester Museum [ Read paper» ]
Lunch
Break, 1pm
Afternoon panels: (Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6) 2pm
Panel Session 3: Archaeological Site Management and Conservation
(Chair: Abdelrazek Elnaggar)
- Lilli Zabrana Abandoned Nubian Villages in Upper Egypt – Material Culture Reviewed by Social Anthropological Field Studies [ Read paper» ]
- David Jeffreys, Ana Tavares Memphis as a
case for material culture study
- Tine Bagh A tomb chapel out of
context - a case study
- Daniela
Picchi The
project Horemheb & Saqqara [ Read paper» ]
- Francis
Lankester Egyptian Rock-Art [ Read paper» ]
Coffee break, 3.30pm
Panel Session 4: Theory and history
- William Carruthers The Planned Past: Policy and (Ancient)
Egypt [ Read paper» ]
- Gabriel Moshenska Mummy wheat: toward a history of the
myth [ Read paper» ]
- Stephen Quirke Find as Theme: re-uniting
'expert' and 'public' agendas in Egyptian collections [ Read paper» ]
- Wendy Doyon Egyptology in the Shadow of
Class, Legacies and Lessons of Museum-Sponsored Collecting and Scientific
Expansionism in Pre-War Egypt
for a Post-Revolution Museology [ Read paper» ]
- Heba Abd el Gawad Dividing what was once inseparable:
Multi-cultural Egypt
between disciplinary boundaries and western typologies [ Read paper» ]
- Paolo Del Vesco Forming and Performing Material Egypt.
Archaeological knowledge production and presentation
Evening reception, 6pm Petrie Museum sponsored by the Friends of the Petrie Museum
Day 2
Visit to the Petrie Museum Object and Archive case-studies
- Visits are timed for 10-11 and 11.30-12.30
Optional visit to the Institute of Archaeology conservation
laboratories
- Visits of up to 10 people per group, at 10 and 11.30
Afternoon panel (SOAS, Khalili
Lecture Theatre) 2pm
Panel Session 5: Accessibility: databases, archiving and digital future
- Tarek Tawfik Challenges & Dangers of
Networking Museums Databases
- Maher Eissa, Louay Mahmoud Museum collecting and Moving
Objects: Concept and approach [ Read paper» ]
- Vincent Razanajao The new developments of the
Topographical Bibliography: Digital Humanities to serve Forming Material Egypt
- Abdelrazek Elnaggar Storage of Egyptian Heritage: risk
assessment, conservation needs and policy planning [ Read paper» ]
- Ibrahim Ibrahim Fayum distribution quest
Coffee break, 3.30pm
Back to
the future: policy and practice
- Final discussion: Okasha El Daly (Chair)
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