Studying Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia at University
A Conference for Sixth-Formers
2019
The fourth edition of the Conference (2019) was held at the Royal Asiatic Society and The British Museum, in London, on Saturday 2nd March 2019.
The event was organised by Nancy Highcock of the Dept of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Download the event poster here.
Programme
Time | Speaker | Topic |
09.30-10.00 | REGISTRATION | |
10.00-10.05 | Nancy Highcock (Cambridge) | Introduction |
10.05-10.20 | Stephen Quirke (UCL) | Relations between Egypt and Sudan |
10.20-10.35 | Jana Matuszak (SOAS) | Sumerian Literature |
10.35-10.50 | Moudhy Al-Rashid (Oxford) | Science in Cuneiform Texts |
10.50-11.05 | George Heath-Whyte (Cambridge) | Making the Poor Man of Nippur |
11.05-11.20 | BREAK | |
11.20-11.35 | Selena Wisnom (Cambridge) | Babylonian Divination and Brexit |
11.35-11.50 | Roland Enmarch (Liverpool) | Prophets, Sages, and Kings: The World of Egyptian Poetry |
11.50-12.05 | Kerrie Myers (Birmingham) | Here Be Demons: Exorcisms in Ancient Mesopotamia |
12.05-12.20 | Alex Loktionov (Cambridge) | Egyptian language: 3000 years of hieroglyphs |
12.20-13.05 | LUNCH | |
13.05-13.20 | Richard Bruce Parkinson (Oxford) | An Archaeology of the Heart: Reading Ancient Egyptian Texts |
13.20-13.35 | Monica Palmero Fernandez (Reading) | Studying ancient Mesopotamia at University |
13.35-13.50 | Ewan Short (Cardiff) | Persia |
13.50-14.05 | Katharina Zinn (UWTSD) | Being hands-on: Ancient Egypt, material culture and heritage |
14.05-14.35 | CAREERS PANEL | With Charlie Draper, Pippa Browne, and Georgia Ramirez. |
14.35-14.45 | ASSEMBLY TIME | |
14.45-15.15 | TRANSIT TO BRITISH MUSEUM | |
15.15-16.00 | Gallery Tour 1 | |
16.00-16.30 | Treasure Hunt | |
16.30-17.15 | Gallery Tour 2 |
The event started and ended in different places (the Royal Asiatic Society, which is near Euston station, and the British Museum, which is a 15 min. walk away)