McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site


2008-03-13 13:00: Antiquities in Post-Conflict Somaliland (Sada Mire, Director General, Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Tourism and Culture in Somaliland)

2012-01-06 16:00: Oral Traditions of the Inugguit of North-West Greenland (Dr Stephen Pax Leonard)

2012-03-05 17:00:  The Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages (Ursula Baumgardt and Marie Lorin (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) and Mixed Research Unit (UMR) CNRS, Language, Languages and Cultures of Black Africa (LLACAN)))

2012-06-01 16:30: Script Boxes and Story Boxes: The Material Culture of Oral Narratives in India (Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi))

2022-10-12 17:00: Writing a People's History of the First Intermediate Period: Challenges and Benefits (Wolfram Grajetzki, UCL/Pisa)

2022-11-09 17:00: Power in Place: The Role of Statue Dedication and Other Forms of Display in Ancient Egyptian Social Control (Margaret Maitland, Scotland National Museums)

2022-11-30 17:00: Khufu's Wadi el-Jarf Harbour on the Red Sea – Its Workers and Sailors (Pierre Tallet, Sorbonne Université)

2023-01-25 17:00: Interconnections on the Meroitic Frontier: Griffith’s work at Faras and the legacy of early-20th-century archaeology in Sudan (Henry Bishop-Wright (British Museum))

2023-02-08 17:00: Science in Egyptology: a fundamental tool to understand the past. The cases of 18th Dynasty Nubian kohl and pastes from Third Intermediate Period Thebes (Caterina Zaggia (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-22 17:00: BORDERSCAPE: Egyptian state formation and the changing socio-spatial landscape of the First Nile Cataract region in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE (Maria Carmela Gatto (Polish Academy of Sciences))

2023-10-11 17:00: Recent developments in the research of ancient Egyptian copper metallurgy (Martin Odler (Newcastle University))

2023-10-25 17:00: Looking beyond pharaoh: Legal pluralism and ‘early democracy’ in ancient Egypt (Alexandre Loktionov (Christ's College, Cambridge))

2023-11-08 17:00: Social Interactions in the Funerary Space: Tomb and Remembrance in Egypt in the 3rd millennium BCE (Inês Torres (Universidade Nova de Lisboa))

2024-01-24 16:00: Movie Screening From Sudan to Argentina, followed by dicusssion with producer Ricardo Preve (Ricardo Preve (Preve Films, Virginia, USA))

2024-01-31 17:00: Aspects of colour use in ancient Egyptian funerary manuscripts: Monumentalisation and Intermediality (Marina Sartori (University of Oxford))

2024-02-14 17:00: Dams, Digging, and Dispossession: The History and Politics of Archaeology in Egyptian Nubia (cancelled) (Robert Viggar (University of Pennsylvania))

2024-03-13 17:00: Egypt and Ugarit: Globalization Beyond Connectivities (Federico Zangani (University of Cambridge))

2024-05-08 17:00: The materialization of ritual: Experiencing sacred space and transformation through artefacts (Christina Geisen (Cambridge))

2024-05-15 17:00: Dams, digging, and dispossession: The history and politics of archaeology in Egyptian Nubia (Robert Viggar (University of Pennsylvania))

2024-06-05 17:00: When writing looks back: defining the 'hieroglyphic' in Ancient Egyptian and Classic Maya religion (Jordan Miller (Cambridge))

2024-10-16 17:00: The impact of the war on the Sudan’s heritage: Conflicts and hopes (Dr Shadia Abdo Rabo (National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan))

2024-10-16 17:00: The early Napatan pottery at el- Kurru royal cemetery: A study of cultural continuity and influence (Hanaa Hafiz (Univeristy of Bahri, Sudan))

2024-11-06 17:00: The priestly agreements from Soknopaiou Nesos (Maren Schentuleit (University of Oxford))

2024-11-27 17:00: Material culture in the Second Intermediate Period: Some results and work in progress (Bettina Bader (Austrian Academy of Sciences))

2025-01-29 17:00: Old Kingdom Buhen in Context: Egyptian-Nubian Interactions in the Mid-Third Millennium BCE (Natasha Rai (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-12 17:00: Duplicate or unique? Understanding Funerary Models through a Comparison with wall Scenes (Georgia Barker (British Museum))

2025-03-12 17:00: Unravelling Urban Craft Networks in New Kingdom Egypt: Challenges and Opportunities (Frederik Rademakers (British Museum))