The 13th Birmingham Egyptology Symposium will take place on Thursday 14 May 2026 as a hybrid event. The Symposium takes place at the University of Birmingham.
You can secure your free place by visiting our Eventbrite page.
The Symposium aims to highlight the current works in progress in the field of Egyptology.
Programme
Check out abstracts and presenter bios for the upcoming Symposium
The Symposium programme:
8:30 Registration
9:00 Opening remarks
9:10 From Marginality to Godhood: Human-Animal Relations at the beginning of Egyptian History by Sebastián Francisco Maydana (In-person).
9:40 Knowing Ancient Egypt: The Emic/Etic Binary and its Epistemological Issues by Jake Colloff (In-person).
10:10 Break
10:30 Erased to be seen? A Reassessment of the Epigraphic Interventions on Hatshepsut’s Obelisks at Karnak by Trent Hugler (In-person).
11:00 Reading Queenship: Royal Women and Visual Authority in Egypt and Hatti by Michael Moore (Online).
11:30 Visible Standardisation, Hidden Innovation: The Question of ‘Appropriate’ Variation in Middle Kingdom Coffins by Emily Whitehead (In-person).
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Ancient Egypt in Brazilian Private Collecting: the Yunes and Setúbal Collections by Thaisy Nogueira Palmuti (Online).
13:30 Investigating a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge by Thomas Clarke; Elsbeth Geldhof; Giulia Moretti; Flavia Ravaioli; Helen Strudwick (In-person).
14:00 Orientalism, Capitalism, Colonialism – How Japan has shaped Ancient Egypt and itself anew by Deniz Meral Ardic (Online).
14:30 Break
14:50 Alma Tadema’s Egypt at the Cadbury Research Library by Gemma Blanch Soriano (Online).
15:20 Assemblages of Perception: The Display of Groups of Egyptian Objects in Museums by Lawrence Webb (In-person).
15:50 Break
16:00 Poster Session and Questions
- Posters will be added closer to event for online viewing.
16:30 Closing Remarks
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