The 12th Birmingham Egyptology Symposium will take place Monday 9 June 2025 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.
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Programme
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The Symposium programme:
9:00 Registration
9:30 Opening remarks
9:40 Petrie’s Hoof-prints: Charting the influence of Flinders Petrie on the Interpretation of Predynastic Bovine Iconography using a case study at Naqada by Olivia Kirk (in-person)
10:10 Video Gaming in Classical Education: The Effect of Assassin’s Creed on post-16 recruitment by Claire Johnston-Martin (online)
10:40 Egypt in Buckinghamshire: An Exploration of Documentation relating to the Egyptian Collection at Discover Bucks Museum by Elizabeth Owen (in-person)
11:10 Break
11:30 The Iconography of Akhenaten: Between Tradition and Novelty by Klaudia Kornas (online)
12:00 Yoda Best, Dad: A Father-Son Tomb at Qubbet al-Hawā’ and what it tells us by Reuben Hutchinson-Wong (in-person)
12:30 Iron Skies of Rain: An Astronomical Catalogue of the Pyramid Texts by Elizabeth Leaning (online)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 (Re)thinking through layers of ‘nested’ Middle Kingdom Coffins by Emily Whitehead (in-person)
14.30 What a Pain, Is the Body Perceived in a Different Way? A Psychological and Anthropological Approach to Body Language in New Kingdom Bereavement Scenes by Valentina Santini (online)
15:00 Break
15:10 Khedebneithirtbinet II, a Queen of the 26th or 30th dynasty? by Stuart Silver (in-person)
15.40 “This Rather Meagre Substitute”: The Use and Interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Heart Scarabs by Emma Stone (online)
16:10 Poster session
16:30 Keynote:
- Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras
- Funerary Landscape Archaeology: A Geographical Information System in Thebes
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