Department of Archaeology - Conferences and Workshops


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))

2024-06-19 14:00: 24th Annual Cambridge Heritage Research Centre Symposium Heritage Expertise: Paradigm or Platitude? (Speakers - see below)

2024-06-20 09:30: 24th Annual Cambridge Heritage Research Centre Symposium Heritage Expertise: Paradigm or Platitude? (Speakers - see below)

2024-07-04 09:00: The Transition to Agriculture at the edges of Eurasia ~ Neolithisation in the British Isles and the Jomon-Yayoi transition ~ (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-07-05 09:00: The Transition to Agriculture at the edges of Eurasia ~ Neolithisation in the British Isles and the Jomon-Yayoi transition ~ (Speaker to be confirmed)

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))

2024-10-23 10:00: Envisioning Decolonial Futures Through Archaeology (Speaker to be confirmed)

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))

2025-10-23 09:00: Conference: Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century (Speaker to be confirmed)