Disciplinary Measures? Histories of Egyptology in Multi-Disciplinary Context.
Disciplinary Measures? Histories of Egyptology in Multi-Disciplinary Context.
June 10-12, 2010. London.
Programme and registration details available at:
http://www.ees.ac.uk/userfiles/file/Disc_Meas_Prov_Programme(3).pdf
A joint conference, sponsored by:
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES).
The School of Oriental and African Studies - Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (SOAS CCLPS).
University College London (UCL) Institute of Archaeology - Heritage Studies Research Group.
‘Disciplinary Measures?’ aims to provide a discussion forum for the increasing number of people working on the history (or histories) of the discipline of Egyptology. The conference is not limited to Egyptologists. Rather, it seeks to set the multiple histories of Egyptology in the broader, multi-disciplinary context of recent studies such as Whose Pharaohs? by Donald Reid, Conflicted Antiquities by Elliott Colla and Wondrous Curiosities by Stephanie Moser. The conference aims to stimulate critique and constructive dialogue between those from various disciplines.
The conference is sponsored by three diverse London institutions, the combination of whose separate goals embodies its aims. The SOAS CCLPS provides the research environment for discussing colonial past, neo-colonial practice and postcolonial potential of Egyptian archaeology. With the involvement of the EES, Britain’s learned society for Egyptology, such debates can be immeasurably strengthened by the involvement of professional Egyptologists. The broader EES membership and the founding public mission of the Society require specialists to take note of the exceptional popular appeal of Egyptology; the third day of the conference will therefore be a study day with guest speakers, sponsored by the EES and open to the public. At UCL, the strength of the Institute of Archaeology in the field of Heritage Studies adds a further element, allowing for a fuller understanding of Egyptology’s place within current heritage discourse. UCL also offers an ideal setting for considered critical reflection on disciplinary history, as the place where, in 1892, Flinders Petrie became the first Professor of Egyptian archaeology in Britain.
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Many thanks,
William Carruthers
June 10-12, 2010. London.
Programme and registration details available at:
http://www.ees.ac.uk/userfiles/file/Disc_Meas_Prov_Programme(3).pdf
A joint conference, sponsored by:
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES).
The School of Oriental and African Studies - Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (SOAS CCLPS).
University College London (UCL) Institute of Archaeology - Heritage Studies Research Group.
‘Disciplinary Measures?’ aims to provide a discussion forum for the increasing number of people working on the history (or histories) of the discipline of Egyptology. The conference is not limited to Egyptologists. Rather, it seeks to set the multiple histories of Egyptology in the broader, multi-disciplinary context of recent studies such as Whose Pharaohs? by Donald Reid, Conflicted Antiquities by Elliott Colla and Wondrous Curiosities by Stephanie Moser. The conference aims to stimulate critique and constructive dialogue between those from various disciplines.
The conference is sponsored by three diverse London institutions, the combination of whose separate goals embodies its aims. The SOAS CCLPS provides the research environment for discussing colonial past, neo-colonial practice and postcolonial potential of Egyptian archaeology. With the involvement of the EES, Britain’s learned society for Egyptology, such debates can be immeasurably strengthened by the involvement of professional Egyptologists. The broader EES membership and the founding public mission of the Society require specialists to take note of the exceptional popular appeal of Egyptology; the third day of the conference will therefore be a study day with guest speakers, sponsored by the EES and open to the public. At UCL, the strength of the Institute of Archaeology in the field of Heritage Studies adds a further element, allowing for a fuller understanding of Egyptology’s place within current heritage discourse. UCL also offers an ideal setting for considered critical reflection on disciplinary history, as the place where, in 1892, Flinders Petrie became the first Professor of Egyptian archaeology in Britain.
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Many thanks,
William Carruthers