EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Notice Board Egypt Exploration Society Events London
Manchester
Cairo
London events are held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Enquiries: Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, LondonWC1N 2PG. Phone: +44 (0)20 7242 1880. E-mail:
EES lectures are held in Lecture Theatre 1, Stopford Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester at 7.00 pm. Enquiries: Rosalie David, KNH Centre of Biomedical Egyptology, School of Biological Sciences,University of Manchester,Manchester M13 9PT. Phone: +44 (0)161 275 2647. E-mail: rosalie.david@man.ac.uk
EES lectures are usually held in the auditorium of the British Council at 7.00 pm. but ongoing construction work means that the venue may have to be changed, or the lectures cancelled. Please confirm dates and venue in advance with the Egypt Exploration Society Cairo Office, c/o British Council, 192 Sharia el-Nil, Agouza, Cairo. Phone: +20 (0)2 3001886. E-mail: ees.
contact@ees.ac.uk
Saturday 17 June 2006. EES Study Day on Astronomy and Ancient Egypt in the Brunei Gallery Theatre, SOAS. The speakers will include both Astronomers (Malcolm Coe and Sarah Symons) and Egyptologists. Full details and a booking form will be sent in the EES spring mailing. Saturday 14 October 2006. EES Study Day in the Brunei Gallery Theatre, SOAS. Full details and a booking form will be sent in the EES summer 2006 mailing. Saturday 9 December, 2006. The EES Annual General Meeting, lecture and reception in the afternoon/early evening in the Khalili Theatre, Main Building, SOAS. Full details and a booking form for the reception in the autumn 2006 mailing.
Bolton
cairo@britishcouncil.org.eg
Thursday 22 June 2006. Kristin Thompson, Amarna Statuary: recent discoveries and rediscoveries. Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent, Bolton. 7.30pm, admission free. ContactTom Hardwick:+44 (0)1204 332212. E-mail: tom.hardwick@bolton.gov.uk
Monday 3 April 2006. A M Farghaly, Veterinary medicine in Islamic manuscripts.
Horncastle, Lincolnshire
Monday 17 April 1006. Hourig Sourouzian, News from the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes.
Saturday 22 April 2006. A joint EES/AEMES Study-Day on current EES fieldwork as part of the AEMES residential weekend. Speakers: Andrew Bednarski, Angus Graham, Paul Nicholson and Pamela Rose.Phone:+44 (0)1754 765341.Website: www.aemes.co.uk
Monday 10 April 2006. Katrin Maurer, The animal necropolis at Tuna el-Gebel: cult installations for sacred baboons.
Please contact the Cairo Office (details above) to confirm the above lectures and for information on further lectures and site visits later in 2006.
NON-EES LECTURES AND OTHER EVENTS Lectures on ancient and modern Egypt, and other cultural events, are held at the Education and Cultural Bureau, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London W1Y 8BR at 6.45 pm. Phone: +44 (0)20 7491 7720. E-mail: egypt.culture@btconnect.com
To 21 April 2006. Exhibition Collective Traces: a response to the Petrie Museum at the Instute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY. Website: www.ucl. ac.uk/archaeology/intro/UCLmap.htm
To 23 April 2006. Exhibition Discovering Ancient Egypt.Wakefield Museum,Wood St, WakefieldWF1 2EW.Phone:+44 (0)1924 305356.Website:+++Û+_µ•›•¶ƒÛ¡Å*Û$µ To 23 April 2006. Exhibition Egypt Revealed. Hancock Museum, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PT. Phone: +44 (0)191 222 7418. Website: www. twmuseums.org.uk/hancock
28-30 April 2006.The 57th Annual Conference of the American Research Center in Egypt will be held in Jersey City, New Jersey. Phone: +1 404-712-9854 Fax: +1 404-712-9849. E-mail: arce@emory.edu Website: www.arce.org
13 May 2006. Bloomsbury Academy spring conference on Tutankhamun. Bloomsbury Theatre, London. Details: Bloomsbury Summer School and Academy, Dept of History, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Phone: +44 (0)207 6793622. Fax: +44 (0)207 4138394.Email: bloomsbury@egyptology-uk.com Website: www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury 16 May 2006. Sudan Archaeological Research Society International Colloquium Recent Archaeological Fieldwork in Sudan at the British Museum, London. Phone +44 (0)20 73238500. E-mail sars@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Website: www.www.sudarchrs.org.uk 22-25 May 2006. Conference Walls of the Ruler: fortifications, police beats and military checkpoints in ancient Egypt. Centre for Egyptology and Mediterranean Archaeology, Swansea University. Phone: +44 (0)1792 295187. Fax: +44 (0)1792 295739.Website: www.swan.ac.uk/ classics/research/cema/conferences.htm
To 3 June 2006. Exhibition Excavating Egypt (loan from the Petrie Museum) at the Albany Institute of History and Art, New York. 10 July - 4 August 2006. Bloomsbury Summer School,UCL,London.Details:as 13 May conference above.
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14-16 July 1006. Conference Egypt: Ancient histories and modern archaeologies.Dept of Archaeology, University of Durham. Phone:+44 (0)191 3341130.Website: www. dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/conferences
18 July 2006. The Annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture In Egyptology, British Museum, London by Laure Pantalacci at 6.00 pm. See below. 19-20 July 2006. British Museum Colloquium, Dakhla and Kharga Oases. Details from March at: www.thebritishmuseum. ac.uk/aes/sackler06.html Tickets for both the Sackler Lecture and the Colloquium will be available after 1 June 2006 Phone: +44 (0)207 3238306.Fax: +44 (0)207 3238303. Email: acameron@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 27 August - 2 September 2006.The 11th International Conference of Nubian Studies. Warsaw University, Warsaw. Website: www.nubia2006.uw.edu.pl
23 October 2006. Bristol University’s Amelia Edwards Memorial Lecture.David Singleton, The Taharqo Wall Painting Rescue Project. 5.15pm. Wills Memorial Building, Queen’s Road, Bristol 8.Website: www.bris. ac.uk/archanth/staff/dodson/esb/esbprog.html