Please join us for the Sixth Annual Birmingham Egyptology Symposium, ‘Belief and Identity in the ancient World’ which will be held in the Murray Learning Centre (Room UG10) at the University of Birmingham. Our free event features a range of presentations from students and academics on ancient Egyptian belief and identity relating to language, art, …
Yesterday, the 1st of April, was the 133rd anniversary of the foundation of the Egypt Exploration Society in 1882, named at the time the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF), by Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole. Amelia Edwards has recently also enjoyed more public interest with the unveiling of an English Heritage Blue Plaque at …
Abstracts for the 10 paper presentations to be given at our Symposium, 20th February, are now available! Please click here to download it in PDF format. If you would like to attend this free event, please email the committee at symposium@birminghamegyptology.co.uk. Space is limited, so contact us soon to book your place Abstracts for the …
On Saturday 29th November the Egypt Exploration Society will be coming to the University of Birmingham for their next study day, which will be about religion in ancient Egypt. The speakers are: Prof. Susanne Bickel, Dr Michela Luiselli, Dr Tony Leahy and Dr Martin Bommas. Full details of the event, including the abstracts for each …
Several societies from the School of History and Cultures at University of Birmingham gathered yesterday (Monday 29th September) as part of a ‘Meet the Societies’ event. It was a chance to find out about the events that will be going on this term and to get involved. We are a group primarily for postgraduates at …
So that the greatest number and range of people can enjoy its events, the Egypt Exploration Society (see link below right) has started arranging events outside of London. On Sunday 1st June 2014 they came to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and here is a brief summary of the day by BE participant and …
On Tuesday 27th May, Edward Mushett Cole presented to the Rosetta Forum (http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/), giving a talk entitled “‘Seven Pious Nonentities’: a reassessment of the later 20th Dynasty kings and their political power”. For those of you unable to attend that event, here is a brief summary of what was a fascinating talk: Edward’s PhD …
The report of the Forum on the 28th February 2014, chaired by Kelee Siat, is available to read on the ‘Last Session’ section of this website (under the Forum tab) for a week or so. Thereafter it will move to the ‘Previous Sessions’ section. We do not normally post on the homepage when new Forum …
On March 21st I attended (what will hopefully become the annual) Birmingham Egyptology Symposium, hosted by postgraduate students at the University of Birmingham. Although I am still a PhD student, currently working 4 days a week means that of late I have felt a little out-of-touch with the current research in the field of Egyptology; …
A brief report about last Friday’s Forum session (31st January) is available in the Forum: Last Sessions tab on this website. Katharina visited Birmingham to present her PhD research so far to members at the Forum. It was an enlightening presentation and Katharina was very willing to answer all our questions. She will be …
