Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar) - Oxford Talks

Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Weekly seminars by local and international speakers on Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies topics.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Dr Luigi Prada (University of Oxford) , Eva Miller (University of Oxford)
Timing: Tuesdays at 2.30pm
Web Address: http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/eanes/lectures.html

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - Who’s Who at and around Deir el-Medina: New Insights about the Community of Workmen and Its Service Personnel
Dr Kathrin Gabler (Universität Basel)

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - Life and Labour in the Twin Towns: The View from Old Kingdom Gebelein
Dr Hratch Papazian (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - The Ptolemaic Queens in the Egyptian and Hellenistic Cults
Dr Martina Minas-Nerpel (Swansea University/Prifysgol Abertawe)

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - The Mesopotamian Sublime: Time, Matter, Image in Mesopotamian Antiquity
This lecture is free to students and staff of the University of Oxford. Booking is necessary for members of the public not affiliated with the University and can be made here: http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132
Prof. Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - 'And the Goddess Gave Us the Love of Husband and Wife’: Hittite Kings and Their Queens
Dr Amir Gilan (Tel Aviv University)

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - Shapeshifter: Perception and Symbolism of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Dr Victoria Altmann-Wendling (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Tuesday 11 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - One Hundred Years of the Egyptian Collection at Kyoto University––Past and Future
Prof. Tomoaki Nakano (Chubu University, Japan)

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Editors: Luigi Prada, Eva Miller