CHALLENGING THE PAST

CRE XIII (reminder)

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I am dropping another reminder: please send your abstract for CRE XIII asap. Deadline is end of this month (i.e. end of October).

SEE THE CFP

CRE XIII (BIRMINGHAM) Second Call for Papers

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The Second Call for Papers of 'Current Research in Egyptology XIII' has now been released.

You can access it here: http://crexiii.co.uk/CREcfp.pdf

ATTENTION: The deadline is in five weeks time.

BBC 'documentary' about Atlantis

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It is called 'public archaeology' and it can even incorporate Hollywood effects or elements of a soap opera. This is a 60 minute BBC video about Atlantis. It is not error free (and it is certainly a bit OTT), but it is still interesting to watch.

CRE XIII (Birmingham)

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Current Research in Egyptology XIII

Only two months until the deadline for submitting abstracts...if anyone has any queries please email the CRE committee at organizingcommittee@crexiii.co.uk.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

CRE XIII official website

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REMINDER: CRE XIII CALL FOR PAPERS

University of Birmingham

27th-30th March 2012

We are pleased to announce that Current Research in Egyptology XIII (CRE XIII) will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK, from 27th-30th March 2012.

We invite papers from postgraduate researchers and independent scholars studying Egypt and the Sudan, from the pre-historic to the Islamic periods. In keeping with last year’s conference, we hope to stimulate discussion on the multidisciplinary nature of Egyptology. Therefore, we also encourage papers from researchers in other disciplines, but whose research relates to the field of Egyptology.

Themes may include, but are not limited to:
• Architecture
• Art History
• Cultural Interaction
• Current Fieldwork
• Material Culture
• Museum Studies and Site Management
• Philology
• Religion
• State development
• Trade and economy

Presentations may be either:
• 20 minute paper
• A0 poster presentation

Abstracts should consist of no more than 200 words and should be submitted by 31st October 2011 to organizingcommittee@crexiii.co.uk. You will receive an email confirming reception of your abstract. Confirmation of whether your paper has been accepted will be sent via email by 1st December 2011.

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Program of the 18th International DAVO Congress, 6 – 8 October

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Programm des 18. Int. DAVO Kongresses, 6. – 8.10.2011 in Berlin Program of the 18th International DAVO Congress, 6 – 8 October

Donnerstag, 6.10. / Thursday, 6 October

13.00 – 15.00: DAVO-Mitgliederversammlung / General Meeting of DAVO Members

15.00 – 15.30 Kaffeepause / Coffee break

15.30 – 17.30 Panels

A. 1. Arabische Revolution 2011 im historischen Vergleich. Revolutionsdynamik, Organisationsbildung

und Klassenkonflikt gestern und heute

Leitung: Sonja Hegasy (Berlin)

Frank Renken (Rabat): Karl Marx‘ Revolutionstheorie, seine Erben und die arabischen Umwälzungen heute:

Ein modernes 1848?

Werner Ruf (Kassel): „Arabellion 2011“: Morgendämmerung für einen Wandel des Internationalen Systems?

Rachid Ouaissa (Marburg): Die Revolten der 1980er Jahren und die heutigen Revolten im Vergleich

Cilja Harders (Berlin): Ein Arabisches 1989?

A. 2. The History of Perestroika in Central Asia: Politics and Memories

Chair: Irina Morozova (Berlin)

Tolganai Umbetalieva (Almaty): The Politics of Perestroika in Kazakhstan. The Rise of Tribal Identities

Gulnara Aitpaeva (Bishkek): From Kirgizia to Kyrgyzstan: The Concepts of Tradition and Spirituality in the

Years of Perestroika

Jigjidijn Boldbaatar (Ulaanbaatar): Political History of Perestroika in Mongolia

Irina Morozova (Berlin): On the Causes of the USSR’s Disintegration: People's Perceptions in Contemporary

Kazakhstan and Mongolia

A. 3. “The Nordic Journey”. Research and Teaching on the Middle East in Scandinavia

Chair: Dietrich Jung (Odense)

Dietrich Jung (Odense): Orientalists and Islamic Reformers: Modern Islam and the Fusion of Cultural Horizons

Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus): Middle East Research and Teaching in Denmark

Hannu Juusola (Helsinki): Middle East Studies in Finland

N.N. Middle East Studies in Norway

N.N. Middle East Studies in Sweden

A. 4. New Islamic Discourses and Definitions

Chair: Jörn Thielmann (Erlangen)

Benjamin Zachariah (Berlin): “Muslims”, “Islam”, and the Ordering of the World

Laura Smith (Oxford): Egyptian Perspectives of Shi‘ism: A Textual Example

Ronen A. Cohen (Ariel/Israel): The Iranian Hojjatiyeh – an Anti-Baha'i Sect – The Real Followers of the

Mahdi

Gerd Marie Adna (Stavanger/Norway): The Fading of Colors in the Carpet of Narratives – Muslim Prophets’

Stories and Spirituality in a New Context

A. 5. Geopolitische Implikationen der Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt

Leitung: Muriel Asseburg (Berlin)

Stephan Roll (Berlin): Ägyptens neue Außenpolitik

Muriel Asseburg (Berlin): Der arabische Frühling und seine Implikationen für den Nahostkonflikt

Wolfram Lacher (Berlin): Regionale Auswirkungen des Konfliktes in Libyen

Walter Posch (Berlin): Der Arabische Frühling: Bestätigung oder Bedrohung der Islamischen Revolution?

A. 6. Controlling Islam – Colonial and Postcolonial Policies Compared

Chair: Chanfi Ahmed / Britta Frede (Berlin)

Chanfi Ahmed (Berlin): Controlling Islamic Teaching in Saudi Arabia. The Beginning of the Wahhabiyya

Teaching in the Hijaz after the Conquest of the Region in 1926 by Ibn Sad.

Michael Provence (San Diego): The Colonial Legacy of Sectarianism in Syria and Lebanon

Thomas Pierret (Edinburgh): The Management of Islam in Post-Colonial Syria: From Institution Building to

“Indirect Rule”

Hauke Feickert (Bonn): Western Interventions in Iraq. The British Iraq-Policy from 1914-1922 and the

American Iraq-Policy from 2003-2009. A Comparison.

A. 7. Der Holocaust als Metapher in Kämpfen um Deutung und Bedeutung

Leitung: Sophie Wagenhofer /Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Berlin) / Diskutant: Thomas Schmidinger (Wien)

Samira Alayan (Braunschweig): The Holocaust in Palestinian and lsraeli Textbooks

Corry Guttstadt (Berlin): Funktionalisierung des Holocaust durch die türkische Propaganda zur Leugnung

des Genozids an den Armeniern

Sophie Wagenhofer (Berlin): Lernen durch den Holocaust: Erinnerungs- und Vermittlungsstrategien in Marokko

Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Berlin): Holocaust-Bezüge in der irakisch-kurdischen Anfal-Debatte

A.8. Perspectives on Practices of Authoritarian ‘Governance’ in Syria

Chair: Erik Mohns (Odense)

Yannick Sudermann (Edinburgh): Gentrification in Authoritarian Syria – A “Facelift” for Old Damascus

Sophia Hoffmann (London): Humanitarian vs. Authoritarian: Techniques of Power on Syrian Territory

Tina Zintl (St Andrews): Researching Syria between ’Authoritarian Upgrading’ and Revolution: Methodological

Approaches and Constraints in Interviews with Foreign-educated Returnees

Janine Budich (Berlin): Environmental Protection in Syria

A. 9. Regionalisation, Nationalism and Group Interests

Chair: Ali Granmayeh (London)

Muhammad Atif Khan (Grenoble): Divided we stand, united we fall: Problems and Obstacles for Meaningful

Regional Integration in the Middle East

Syed Shahnawaz (Padova) / Muhammad Faisal Awan (Karachi): Centrifugal Nationalisms in Sindh:

Sindhi Nationalism, Muhajir Nationalism, and Pakistani Politics

Fouad Gehad Marei (Durham): Consociational Democracy in Crisis. Lebanon: Overlapping Cleavages and

Zu’ama Elite

Francisco Mazzola (Erlangen): Strategic and Confrontational Groups in Lebanon

A.10. Urban Violence in the Middle East: Between Empire and Nation State

Chair: Nora Lafi / Claudia Schröder (Berlin)

Feras Krimsti (Berlin): Topographien der Gewalt im osmanischen Aleppo des späten 18. und frühen 19.

Jahrhunderts

Nora Lafi (Berlin): The Urban Domestication of Factional Violence in Ottoman Aleppo

Florian Riedler (Berlin): Urban Landscapes of Violence in the 1896 Pogrom against Armenians in Istanbul

Claudia Schröder (Berlin): Oil Cities and Violent Unrest in Saudi Arabia, 1953-1967

A.11. Contemporary Social and Political Developments in Yemen

Chair: Marie-Christine Heinze (Bielefeld)

Marieke Brandt (Dägeling): Political Developments in Sa’da, Yemen, since the End of the 6th Sa’da War

Mareike Transfeld (Erlangen): From Friend to Foe: The Development of the Yemeni Congregation for

Reform

Thomas Müller (Darmstadt): AQAP in Yemen and the Arab Spring – “Onward Irrelevance or an Islamic

Emirate Looming?”

Marie-Christine Heinze (Bielefeld): Weapons of the Revolution

18.00: Vortrag von Prof. Gudrun Krämer / Keynote Speech of Prof. Gudrun Krämer

Empfang / Reception

Freitag, 7.10. / Friday, 7 October

8.30 – 10.30 Panels

B. 1. Iraqi Economy in Transition (Part 1)

Chair: efik Alp Bahadir (Erlangen)

Manahel M. A. Al-Omari (Erlangen)/ Intisar M. Ahemed / Suhaila N. Albood: Disguised Unemployment in

Iraq, 1996-2008

Abdulkareem A. Mohammed (Erlangen): The Relationship between Economic Growth and Unemployment

in Iraq

Ahmed Mahmood Habeeb / Oliver Streit (Erlangen): The Impact of Technical Education on Labor Market –

A Case Study in the Governorate of Dohuk

Rainer Neußer (Erlangen): Management of Public Goods: Sanitation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

B. 2. Golfökonomien im Umbruch (Part 1)

Leitung: Christian Steiner, Steffen Wippel, Anja Zorob

Isabel Knoerrich Aldabo (Kota Samarahan, Malaysia): The GCC and the Maghreb – Relation of Politics or

of Economy?

Anja Zorob (Berlin): Der steinige Weg zur GCC-Zollunion: Der Einfluss des Oman-US-Freihandelsabkommens

und andere Hemmnisse

Steffen Wippel (Leipzig/Berlin): Oman und wirtschaftliche Integration im Golfkooperationsrat: Regionalismus

aus Länderperspektive

Marianne Laanatza (Stockholm): Strategies of Economic Development in Saudi Arabia

B. 3. Kifaya 2.0, Revolution und Regimewandel in Ägypten (Teil 1)

Leitung: Thomas Demmelhuber (Erlangen) / Holger Albrecht (Kairo)

Einleitung: Albrecht & Demmelhuber

Christoph Schumann (Erlangen): Revolution oder Revolte? Zur politischen und historischen Verortung der gegenwärtigen Entwicklungen in der arabischen Welt

Thomas Demmelhuber (Erlangen): Der Pharao, das Regime und der Staat: Regime- und Elitenwandel

nach Mubarak

Torsten Matzke (Tübingen): „Pro-Rich Growth“ – Wachstumspolitik für eine reiche Minderheit. Zu den sozioökonomischen Ursachen der ägyptischen Revolution

B. 4. Governing Beyond the Regime – Theoretical and Empirical Insights from Jordan (Part 1)

Chair: Malika Bouziane / Katharina Lenner (Berlin)

Katharina Lenner (Berlin): ‘Helping Nature, Helping People’? Negotiating Local Development,

(Eco-)Tourism and Government in Dana Village, Jordan

Malika Bouziane (Berlin): Revisiting the Formal and Informal of Politics in Rural Jordan

Annemie Vermaelen (Gent): Techno-politics in Concrete: The Red Sea Dead Sea Water Conveyor

B.5. Religion, Ideology and Identity in Israel/Palestine

Chair: N.N. (angefragt: Ahmet Badawi, Berlin)

Samuel J. Kuruvilla (Kerala/Indien): Political Theology in Israel-Palestine: Liberation through Contextualisation

in the Holy Land

Konstantinos Papastathis (Thessaloniki): The Financial Commission of Control and the Ethno-Religious

Question within the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, 1921-1925

Merom Kalie (Toronto): National Uniqueness and Universal Dialogue in the Zionist Thought of Martin Buber

Ido Zelkovitz (Haifa): Student Politics and National Struggle: Some Notes about the Palestinian Student

Movement

B.6. Staatsstreich oder Revolution in den Transformationsländern?

Leitung: Henner Fürtig (Hamburg)

Rachid Ouaissa (Marburg): Tunesien: Der Kleine lehrt die Großen

Annette Büchs (Hamburg): Mubaraks Sturz und der Kampf der Ideen: Delegitimationsstrategien der Opposition und schwache Anpassungsfähigkeit des Regimes

André Bank (Hamburg): Syrien: Protestdynamiken und Regimerepression

B.7. Who is Afraid of the Arab Spring?

Leitung: Hala Kindelberger (Marburg) / Ebtisam Hussein (Berlin)

Hoda Salah (Berlin): Die Revolution überrascht die Wissenschaft und die Politik

Tamar Amar-Dahl (Berlin): Israel und der Arabische Frühling

Hala Kindelberger (Marburg): Die Golfstaaten: Politische Bewegungen oder zukünftige Revolutionen?

B.8. Contentious Politics and Social Movements in the Middle East (Part 1)

Chair: Mahmoud Jaraba (Erlangen) / Imad Al Soos (Berlin)

Imad al Soos (Berlin): Palestinian National Movement in the Context of the "Arab Spring"

Mahmoud Jaraba (Erlangen): Structural Changes and Ideological Transformation: The Egyptian Muslim

Brotherhood and the Turkish Justice and Development Party in a Comparative Perspective

Hassan Jamsheer (Warsaw): Political Thought in Action: Reflections on the Present Arab Revolt

Dimitris Soudias (Erlangen): Negotiating Space: How the Policing of the 2011 Egypt Mass Protests has

Failed

B.9. Locating the Popular in Arab Countries

Chair: Hatsuki Aishima (Osaka) / Bettina Gräf (Berlin)

Bettina Gräf (Berlin): Fatwas in the Making. Reflections on Islam, Muslim Scholars and Popular

Hatsuki Aishima (Osaka): Marketing Sufism for the Educated Public in Contemporary Egypt

Dominic Coldwell (Oxford/Berlin): Situating the “Popular” in Egyptian Oppositional Culture

Vit Sisler (Prag): Digital Heroes: Popular Culture in Arab Video Games

B.10. Iran and its Economic Challenges

Chair: Ali Fathollah-Nejad (Münster/London)

Shirin Shafaie (London): War and its Economic Aftermath in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Miriam Shabafrouz (Duisburg/Essen): Scope and Limits of Economic Reform in Iran

Ali Fathollah-Nejad (Münster/London): Targeted or Crippling? The Iran Sanctions Regime and its Effects on

Broader Economic Development

Maximilian Kuhn (Berlin): European Energy Security and Iran’s Strategic Challenges for its Role as a Supplier

B.11. Some Issues on Turkish Foreigner’s Law and Private International Law

Chair: Bilgin Tiryakiolu (Ankara):

Zehra Özkan (Ankara): Comparative Law’s Role in Turkish Private International Law

Necla Öztürk (Antalya): Recognition and Enforcement of Divorce Decisions Given by German Courts under

Turkish Law

Bilgin Tiryakiolu (Ankara): Deportation under Turkish Law

Neva Öztürk (Ankara): Recent Developments on the Turkish Refugee Law

B.12. Islam im post-kommunistischen Euro-Asiatischen Raum (Teil 1)

Leitung: Swetlana Czerwonnaja (Thorn)

Stephan Theilig (Berlin): Interkulturelle Transformations- und Kommunikationsprozesse zwischen Tataren

und Deutschen von der frühen Neuzeit bis in die Moderne – ein Forschungsprojekt

Mieste Hotopp-Riecke (Berlin): Der gute „homo sovieticus“ versus „reitendem Barbar“. Zum Wandel des

Tatarenbildes nach dem Ende der Blockkonfrontation

Temur Kurshutov (Simferopol): Die Renaissance des Islam auf der Krim in der Periode der Rückkehr der

Krimtataren in ihre Heimat ( 1991-2011)

Ismail Kerimov (Simferopol): Vandalismus auf islamischen Friedhöfen der Krim in der postsozialistischen

Periode

10.30 – 11.00 Kaffeepause / Coffee break

11.00 – 13.00 Panels

C.1. Iraqi Economy in Transition (Part 2)

Chair: efik Alp Bahadir (Erlangen)

Gufran H. A. Al-Juboori / Manahel M. A. Al-Omari (Erlangen): The Analysis of the Relationship between the

Public Budget and Balance of Payments in Iraq, 1991-2008

Adrian Wille (Erlangen): Hyperinflation and Disinflation Policies in Iraq, 2003 – 2010

Ahmed Hamdi A. Al-Husaini (Erlangen): Fluctuations in World Oil Prices and their Impact on the Iraqi

Economy

Leonie Melzer (Erlangen): International Efforts for Economic Reconstruction in Iraq – A Critical Appraisal

C.2. Golfökonomien im Umbruch (Teil 2)

Leitung: Christian Steiner, Steffen Wippel, Anja Zorob

Michael Benz (Leipzig): Musandam – Regionale Verflechtungen einer Exklave im Dreiländereck Oman-

Iran-VAE

Christian Steiner (Frankfurt/M.): Dubai Crisis Revisited – Dubai nach der Krise?

Heba Aziz, Edith Szivas & Lubna Al Mazroei (Muscat): Oil and Tourism: Economic Diversification in the

GCC

C.3. Kifaya 2.0, Revolution und Regimewandel in Ägypten (Teil 2)

Leitung: Thomas Demmelhuber (Erlangen) / Holger Albrecht (Kairo)

Christian Wolff: Web 2.0 und die politische Straße

Irene Weipert (Frankfurt): Die Arbeiter und die Proteste in Ägypten 2011

Ivesa Lübben (Marburg): Rolle und Strategie der Muslimbrüder in der ägyptischen Revolution

Sebastian Elsässer (Kairo): Halbmond und Kreuz wieder vereint? – Revolutionäre Solidarität und religiöse Spannungen während und nach der ägyptischen Revolution

C.4. Governing Beyond the Regime – Theoretical and Empirical Insights from Jordan (Part 2)

Chair: Malika Bouziane / Katharina Lenner (Berlin)

Hanna Al-Taher (Berlin): Refugee Camps in Jordan – Controlled Spaces, or Places of Change?

Marta Pietrobelli (London): The Jordanian State and the Increase of Women’s Political Participation

Luigi Achill (Milan): Does the Political Bore? The Denial and Camouflage of the ‘Political’ in a Palestinian

Refugee Camp in Jordan

C.5. Islamic Authority and Authorities in Muslim Minority Contexts

Chair: Sarah Albrecht (Berlin) / Jens Kutscher (Erlangen)

Jens Kutscher (Erlangen): Fatwa Chaos? How Muftis Shape the Political Attitudes and Behavior of Muslims

Sarah Albrecht (Berlin): Redefining r al-Islm: On Authority and Territoriality in the Discourse on Fiqh al-

Aqalliyyt

Philipp Bruckmayr (Wien): A tale of three Leaders: Religious Authority among the Chams of Cambodia

Johanna Pink (Berlin): Die Mondsichtung in der Diaspora: Religiöse Autorität und Zugehörigkeit

C.6. Regionale Wirkung und Rezeption der politischen Umbrüche

Leitung: Rachid Ouaissa (Marburg)

Henner Fürtig (Hamburg): Iran: Herausforderung für die Selbstlegitimierung der islamischen Führung

Thomas Richter (Hamburg): Arabische Golfstaaten: Irrlichter in einer neuen Welt?

Stephan Rosiny (Hamburg): Libanon: Vorbild, Nachzügler, oder nur Zuschauer?

C.7. Who is afraid of the Arab Spring? (Part 2)

Leitung: Hala Kindelberger (Marburg) / Ebtisam Hussein (Berlin)

Sara Gemeinder (Erlangen): “The Counter-Revolution on Egypt’s Campuses Student Protests in Egypt after

January 25.

Ebtisam Hussein (Berlin): Post-Revolution Politics in Egypt: A Crisis of Legitimacy

Salam Said (Erlangen): Economic Chances and Challenges of the Political Change in Syria

Amilla Maria Anthi Kastrinou Theodorpoulou (Durham): A Different Struggle in Syria: Becoming Young in a

Changing Middle-East

C.8. Contentious Politics and Social Movements in the Middle East

Chair: Mahmoud Jaraba (Erlangen) / Imad Al Soos (Berlin)

Adil Ismail M. Hilal (Qatar): The Egyptian Revolution: A Historical Perspective

Amr Aly Sayed Osman (Kuwait): The People Want to Overthrow the Regime: Mapping the Political and

Intellectual Terrain of Revolutionary Egypt

Dina Hosni (Cairo): Islamists and the Question of Political Opportunity in the 25 January Revolution

Elena Vezzadini (Paris): “I participated in the revolution because we are all Sudanese”: Mobilization Structures

and Political Strategies during the 1924 Revolution in Colonial Sudan

C.9. Wirtschaftliche, soziale und politische Hintergründe der Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt

Leitung: N.N.

Monika Fatima Mühlböck (Wien): Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt: Gesellschaftliche und politische Perspektiven

– ein Überblick

Heiko Schuss (Erlangen): Die Rentierstaatstheorie im Lichte der arabischen Revolutionen

Maria Josua (Tübingen): Jordan is Beautiful: The King’s Advantage in Zeiten des Protests

Jan Asmussen (Flensburg): Die Rolle von Minderheiten für den Arabischen Frühling

C.10. Cultural Exchange and Relations in the MENA Region

Chair: N.N.

Cristina Pallini /Annalisa Scaccabarozzi (Milano): Museums and Reconstruction in Eastern Mediterranean

Ports

Ouafa Gabsi (Paris): Contemporary Artists from South of Mediterranean in the International Circuit of Contemporary

Art. The Issue of “Arab” Cultural Identity

Nafiseh Vaez (Isfahan): The Opportunities and Limitations of Religious Tourism in Iran and Iraq Relations

Charlotte Bank (Berlin): A Space of One’s Own. The Emergence of a Contemporary Art Scene in Syria

C.11. Youth Facing Change (Part 1)

Chair: Sophie Roche (Berlin) / Daniele Cantini (Halle)

Daniele Cantini (Halle): Higher Education Reforms and their Impact on the Everyday Lives of Students in

Jordan

Sophie Roche (Berlin): Redefining Educational Obligations in a Youth Bulge Society. The Parent-Youth-

State-Relation in Tajikistan

Manja Stephan (Berlin): Islamic Education as Career Option for Tajikistan’s Youth?

Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (Berlin): The Influence of Young People as NGO Workers in Kyrgyzstan

C.12. Islam im post-kommunistischen Euro-Asiatischen Raum (Teil 2)

Leitung: Swetlana Czerwonnaja (Thorn)

Swetlana Czerwonnaja (Thorn): Heldenideale und politische Satyr (Zorns- und Verdammnismotive) in der

modernen engagierenden Kunst der islamischen Völker des postkommunistischen Raums

Ildar Kharissov (Berlin): Islamische Komponenten in der Musik aserbaidschanischer und tatarischer Komponisten

nach 1991

Albina Mikhaleva (Perm): Repräsentation des Islams in russischen Regionen: Modelle, Hauptrichtungen

und Ergebnisse

Maria Nazukina (Perm): Islam in the Symbolic Policy of the Russian Regions: The Characteristic of the Basic

Models of Regional Identity

13.00 – 14.00 Mittagspause / Lunch break

14.00 – 16.00 Panels

D.1. Iraqi Economy in Transition (Part 3)

Chair: efik Alp Bahadir (Erlangen)

Mahmood M. A. Barzani (Erlangen): The Legal Framework of Foreign Direct Investment in Kurdistan Region

of Iraq

Fakhrulddin Gawshin Mustafa (Erbil): The Determinant of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Federal Region

of Kurdistan

Rebaz D. I. Shaikhan (Erlangen): Obstacles to Foreign Direct Investment in the Agricultural Sector of the

Erbil Governorate in the Federal Region of Kurdistan, 2006-2011

Emad M. A. Abdullatif (Erlangen): Does the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) Spur the Iraqi Economy on Privatization?

D.2. Golfökonomien im Umbruch (Teil 2)

Leitung: Christian Steiner, Steffen Wippel, Anja Zorob

Ingo Forstenlechner (Abu Dhabi): Improving and Expanding UAE Public Policy: A Framework for Attracting

and Retaining Skilled Expatriates

Philipp Dehne (Berlin): ArbeitsmigrantInnen in Saudi-Arabien zwischen struktureller Gewalt und Selbstorganisation

Torsten Brandenburg (Mainz): Die Globalisierung der Hochschulbildung in den Golfstaaten: Die ökonomischen

Leitmotive der gegenwärtigen Hochschulpolitik in Oman und Katar

D.3. Kifaya 2.0, Revolution und Regimewandel in Ägypten (Teil 3)

Leitung: Thomas Demmelhuber (Erlangen) / Holger Albrecht (Kairo)

Kevin Köhler (San Domenico di Fiesole): Von der Revolution zum Institutionenwandel: Die Reform des

ägyptischen Parteien- und Wahlsystems nach Mubarak und die Parlamentswahlen von 2011

Holger Albrecht (Kairo): ‚Regime-Schmelze‘ und die Rolle des Militärs im Transformationsprozess Ägyptens

Florian Kohstall (Berlin/Kairo): Die ägyptische Revolution als Generationenkonflikt: Studierende auf dem Tahrir und in den Universitäten

Stephan Roll (Berlin): Politischer Umbruch in Kairo: Das Ende der ägyptischen Wirtschaftselite?

D.4. Reason and Islam, a Difficult Relationship. Analysis of the Rational Thought of Some Muslim

Contemporary Authors (Part 1)

Chair: Federica Fedeli, Stefano Minetti, Marco Demichelis

Paolo Luigi Branca (Milan): The Supposed “Rationality” of the Islamist Discourse

Marco Demichelis (Turin): The Reason of Theodicy in Islam as Emancipation from Cultural and Political

“Slavery”. A Twin-Track Investigation Leading from Farid Esack and Hamid Dabashi’s Reflection on Islamic

Liberation Theology

Stefano Minetti (Turin): Muhammad Abid al-Jabri and the Arabic Reason: Theoretical View and Historical

Evolution of his Thought

Federica Fedeli (Halle): Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd between the Qu’ran and Human Rights

D.5. Euro-Mediterranean Relations: Performance and Perspectives from an Egyptian Perspective

Chair: Patricia Bauer (Kairo)

Patricia Bauer (Kairo): Egypt after the Revolution of 2011 – Still a Matter of Democracy versus Stability?

Nairooz Ali Alm El Deen (Kairo): The Challenges of the Egyptian Revolution – Sense of Community and

Citizenship

Hanan Rezk (Kairo): Opportunities and Challenges of Egypt's Integration into the European Research Area

Amir Nasry Armanious (Kairo): The Scrutiny of Sovereign Debt Crisis in EU and MENA

Ehab Shalaby (Kairo): Energy Security and Cooperation for Sustainable Development. Challenges of Harmonizing

Regulatory Frameworks in Developing Countries – The Case of Egypt

D.6. Das Recht Gottes im Wandel

Leitung: Nadjma Yassari (Hamburg)

Nadjma Yassari (Hamburg): Arbeit und Zielsetzung der Forschungsgruppe zum Familien- und Erbrecht

islamischer Länder am Max-Planck Institut Hamburg

Kabeh Rastin-Tehrani (Berlin): Familienrecht in Afghanistan

Nora Alim (Hamburg): Informelle Eheschließungen in Syrien

Lena-Maria Möller (Hamburg): Die neuen Familienrechtskodifikationen in den Golfstaaten Bahrain, Katar

und den VAE

D.7. On the Margins of Zionism and the Jewish State: Exploring Israel’s Other ‘Others’ (Part 1)

Chair: Fiona Wright (Cambridge)

Fiona Wright (Cambridge): ‘Facts on the Ground‘ and the Subversion of the Global in Israeli Activism

Maya Shapiro (Toronto): Permanently Temporary, Tel Aviv's Undocumented Migrants and the Reconfiguration

of Zionist Nationalism

Shelley Harten (Berlin): Conquering Palestine with Watercolours. Alternative Territorialities and Representations

of the Arab in Zionist Visual High Arts 1906-1950s

D.8. Contentious Politics and Social Movements in the Middle East (Part 3)

Leitung: Mahmoud Jaraba (Erlangen) / Imad Al Soos (Berlin)

Ashraf Mahmoud (Cairo): Engineering a Revolution. How Cyber Media Tipped the Balance of Egypt's Contentious

Politics

Abel Poles (Edinburg)/ Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin): The Transnationalisation of Street Protests: How

and why Colour Revolutions "Migrated" from Post-Socialist Countries to North Africa and the Middle East

D.9. Die Türkei und der Nahe Osten (Teil 1)

Leitung: Fahri Türk (Edirne)

Cemal Karaka (Frankfurt): Inwieweit kann die Türkei ein „Modell“ bzw. „Leitbild“ für andere muslimische

Staaten sein? Zur kemalistischen Trinität aus Republikanismus, Nationalismus und Laizismus sowie Aufstieg,

Politik und Wirken der Gerechtigkeits- und Entwicklungspartei (AKP)

Fahri Türk (Edirne): Der Einfluss des Süd-Ost Anatolischen Projektes (GAP) und der Kurdenfrage im Nordirak

auf die türkisch-israelischen Beziehungen

Burak Gümü (Edirne): Über die türkisch-israelische Beziehungen in der AKP-Ära

Mehmet Öcal (Kayseri): Türkei und Irak: eine neue Ära in den Beziehungen?

D.10. Literature and Identity

Chair: N.N.

Dorit Gottesfeld (Jerusalem): Mirrors of Alienation: Contemporary Palestinian Women's Fiction in the West

Bank and the Gaza Strip

Mahmoud Kayyal (Tel Aviv): Language and Identity in Arabic Writings in Israel

Samar Attar (Sydney): Borrowed Imagination: Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner” and the Arabian Nights

Ahmad Mola (Fasa / Iran): Transgressing the Boundaries of Sub-Culturalism: “Tetraglot” Narrative Strategies

in Shahriar Mandanipour

D.11. Youth Facing Change

Chair: Sophie Roche (Berlin) / Daniele Cantini (Halle)

Homeira Heidary (Berlin): Opportunities and Barriers of the Youth in Afghanistan

Hoda Salah (Frankfurt/M.): The Begin of the Revolution in Egypt was the Sexual Liberalization since 2006

Lars Geiser (Alexandria): Frust über ungerechte und entwürdigende Hürden bei der Bewältigung des Alltagslebens

als wesentliche Ursache für den ägyptischen Frühling

Lisa Franke (Leipzig): Akademische Bildung bei jungen irakischen Frauen (Arbeitstitel)

D.12. Meeting of EURAMES Council

16.00 – 16.30 Kaffeepause / Coffee break

16.30 – 18.00 Panels

E.1. Macht oder Mythos: Medien und Soziale Netzwerke

Leitung: Ines Braune (Marburg)

Christina Schachtner (Klagenfurt): Ein Bewusstsein von dem, was sich ändern soll. Der virtuelle Raum als

kritische Öffentlichkeit am Beispiel arabischer Online-Plattformen

Carola Richter (Berlin): Internet-Revolutionen? Liberalisierungsprozesse in arabischen Mediensystemen

und ihre Bedeutung für den politischen Umbruch

Luisa Gandolfo (Durham): (Cyber)Palestine and the Quest for a National Identity

E.2. Sitzung AK Wirtschaft / Meeting of DAVO Working Group Economy

E.3. Islamische Religionswissenschaft und politische Praxis

Leitung: Silvana Becher-Çelik (Mainz)

Waseem Haddad (Wien): Religionswissenschaftliche Ansätze bei islamischen Gelehrten?

Asfa Widiyanto (Marburg): Religiöser Pluralismus und verlagerte religiöse Autorität im zeitgenössischen

indonesischen Islam

Silvana Becher-Çelik (Mainz): Çanakkale geçilmez! Die Dardanellenschlacht in Freitagspredigten der Republik

Türkei

E. 4. Reason and Islam, a Difficult Relationship. Analysis of the Rational Thought of Some Muslim

Contemporary Authors (Part 2)

Chair: Federica Fedeli, Stefano Minetti, Marco Demichelis

Valentine Colombo (Rom): The Role of Women in Contemporary Arab Thought: Activists, Intellectuals and

Religious Reformers

Luay Radhan (Marburg): Saudi Democrat Turki al-Hamad: Politics between Religiously Allowed and Religiously

Forbidden.

Muhammad Ali Nasir (Karachi): Maududi as a Modernist

E.5. Informationspanel für Deutsche Forscher und Studierende zu Forschungs- und Studienmöglichkeiten

in Kairo DAAD Panel

Leitung: Patricia Bauer (DAAD, Kairo)

E.6. Challenges to Judiciary in the Context of National Changes and International Relations

Chair: N.N. (angefragt: Nadjma Yassari)

Ylenia Rocchini (Florenz): Islamic Law in Europe. The Arab Countries’ Islamic Repudiation before European

Countries’ Courts: From the Accommodation to the Convergence of Legislations?

Maaike Voorhoeve (Amsterdam): Transitional Justice and Courts: The Case of Tunisia after the Revolution

of 14 January 2011

E.7. On the Margins of Zionism and the Jewish State: Exploring Israel’s other ‘Others’ (Part 2)

Chair: Fiona Wright (Cambridge)

Filippo Petrucci (Cagliari): Zionism in Northern Africa, 1920-1945

Claudia de Martino (Venice): The Ashdod Port Strikes of 1960s: The Cleavage between Histadrut Workers

and Mizrahi Jews

Alessandra Terenzi (Milan): Settlement Strategies and Urban Discrimination: The Different Jewish Communities

of Israel during the 1950s

E.8. Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Economic Developments in the MENA Region

Chair: N.N. (angefragt: Annette Jünemann)

Mohamed Said Saadi (Casablanca): Will the Arab Uprising Impact the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership?

Ángel García-Ortiz / Rafaela Pizarro-Barceló (Valencia): Does Infrastructure Capital Matter for Economic

Growth in Morocco?

E.9. Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East Region (Part 2)

Chair: Fahri Türk

Caner Tekin (Brüssel): Proactivism of Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Between Utopia and Idealism

Muhammed Hüseyin Mercan (Kayseri): National Interest in Current Turkish-Syrian Relations

E.10. Zur politischen und sozialen Rolle von Literatur und Musik

Leitung: N.N. (angefragt: Monika Mühlböck)

Tobias Mörike (HU/ FU Berlin): Gefangenenliteratur aus Nordafrika und dem Mittleren Osten

Marianus Hundhammer (Bamberg): Transformationen religiöser Traditionen: Die Musik der marokkanischen

Gnwa-Bruderschaft

E.11. Political and Economic Developments in Egypt

Chair: Ahmet Badawi (Berlin)

Adil Ismail M. Hilal (Qatar): The Egyptian Revolution: A Historical Perspective

Sharif Hafez (6th of October City, Egypt): Egypt on the Road to a New Beginning?

Markus Loewe (Bonn): Economic Policies in Egypt und Mubarak – and beyond

19.00 Öffentliche Veranstaltung / Public Event (Panel Discussion related to the current changes in

the Middle East)

Samstag, 8.10. / Saturday 8 October

9.00 – 11.00 Panel

F. 1. Iraqi Economy in Transition (Part 4)

Chair: efik Alp Bahadir (Erlangen)

Huda Al-Sahrawardee (Erlangen): Reforming Agricultural Cooperative Bank of Iraq

Jagarkhin A. M. Saleem (Erlangen): The Compatibility of the Regulatory Framework of the Iraqi Banking

Sector with the Basel Accords

N.N.: (from Iraq)

N.N.: (from Iraq)

F.2. Werkstattgespräche für junge WissenschaftlerInnen (Teil 1)

Leitung: Thomas Demmelhuber (Erlangen), Birgit Krawietz (Berlin), Steffen Wippel (Berlin/Leipzig)

Dörthe Engelcke (Oxford): Policy-Making in autoritären Staaten am Beispiel der Reform des Familienrechts

in Syrien, Jordanien, Algerien und Marokko

Ferdinand Eibl (Oxford): Autoritäre Wohlfahrtsstaaten des Nahen Ostens im interregionalen Vergleich

Mitra Moussa Nabo (München): Die libanesische Krise im Spannungsfeld innergesellschaftlicher Konflikte

und regionaler Ordnungsprozesse

Johannes Becke (Berlin): Historical Institutionalism and Postcolonial State Expansion: The Rise and Fall of

Syrian Rule over Lebanon

F.3. Women in Business (Part 1)

Chair: Anja Zorob (Berlin) / Dalia Abdelhady (Lund)

Anja Zorob / Heba Amr (Berlin): Arab Business Women in the Media – An Overview

Dalia Abdelhady (Lund): State of the Art of Research on Women and Business in the MENA Region

Beverly Dawn Metcalfe (Manchester): Gender, Development and Entrepreneurship in the Arab Gulf

Gabi Kratochwil (Frechen): Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa: Experiences from

the Field

Sharifa al-Yahyai (Muscat): Omani Business Women’s Opportunities and Challenges

F. 4. Reactions of the Iranian Regime towards the Changes in the Middle East

Chair: N.N. (angefragt: Katajun Amirpur)

Ali Granmayeh (London): The Arab Spring and Iran: Democracy or Islamism?

Afshin Shahi (Durham): Iran's New Wave of Social Engineering

Adnan Tabatabai (London): State Security/Security States in the Middle East

Morgane Colleau (Exeter): Beyond Simplistic Understandings of the Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Program: An

Effort to Explore its Narrative and Contextualise its Interests

F.5. Nach dem arabischen Frühling: Neue Handlungslogiken in den Euro-Mediterranen Beziehungen?

(Part 1)

Leitung: Annette Jünemann (Hamburg) / Diskutant

Annette Jünemann (Hamburg): Die Logics of Action in der EU-Reaktion auf den „Arabischen Frühling“

Delf Rothe (Hamburg): Welcome to the Desert: Regionale Integration und Identitätswandel durch eine EUMENA

Energiepartnerschaft?

Peter Seeberg (Odense): Learning to Cope. The Development of Common EU Immigration Policies towards

the Mediterranean Caught between National and Supra-National Narratives

F.6. The Single-Party Rule: Domestic and Foreign Policies of the AKP Government

Chair: Ilhan Uzgel (Ankara)

Elçin Aktoprak (Ankara): The Kurdish Opening as a Litmus Test: The AKP Government and the Democratization

of Turkey

Sarp Balc (Ankara): Mapping the New Pacts in Turkey’s Quest for Democratic Consolidation: The Ergenekon

Investigations

Ersin Embel (Ankara): International Organisations in Turkish Diplomacy: A Tool for Shifting Turkey to a Soft

Power under the Rule of AKP?

Nuri Yeilyurt (Ankara): Turkey and the Arab Spring: Testing the Middle East Policy of the AKP

F.7. Pitfalls of Knowledge Production on Islam in Europe

Chair: Schirin Amir-Moazami, Riem Spielhaus, Anne Schönfeld

Schirin Amir-Moazami (Berlin): Interrogating and Shaping the Muslim Subject: Knowledge Gathering and

Knowledge Prescription in German Citizenship Tests

Claudia Brunner (Klagenfurt): Knowing Suicide Terrorism. Epistemic Violence and Occidentalism in Contemporary

Terrorism Studies

Anne Schönfeld (Berlin): Islamrelevante Wissensproduktion im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Politik

und Öffentlichkeit: Zur Institutionalisierung der Imam-Ausbildung in Deutschland

F.8. Fascism and Nazism in the Arab World

Chair: Götz Nordbruch (Odense) / Didier Monciaud (Paris):

Orit Bashkin (Chikago): From Brown to Red: Resistance to Nazism and Fascism in Iraq, 1933-1945

Leila El Houssi (Florence): Memory/Memories: The Italian Anti-Fascist Voice in Tunisia through Tales

Didier Monciaud (Paris): From Antifascism to Anticolonialism in a Cosmopolitain Milieu in Mid-1930’s Egypt:

The Experiment of the Pacifist League (Ansar al-Salam)

Götz Nordbruch (University of Southern Denmark): “Islam and Nazism – Do They Match?” Religious Critiques

of Fascism and National Socialism, 1922-1945

11.00 – 11.30 Kaffeepause / Coffee break

11.30 – 13.30 Panels

G.1. Working Group Iraqi Economy

Chair: efik Alp Bahadir (Erlangen)

G.2. Werkstattgespräche für junge WissenschaftlerInnen (Teil 2)

Leitung: Thomas Demmelhuber (Erlangen) / Birgit Krawietz (Berlin) / Steffen Wippel (Berlin/Leipzig)

Johannes Becke (Berlin): Historical Institutionalism and Postcolonial State Expansion: The Rise and Fall of

Syrian Rule over Lebanon

Thomas Bonn (Heidelberg): Wasser in Jordanien als Machtmittel – Konflikte, Akteure, Diskurse

Markus Pillmayer (Eichstätt): Internationalisierung der Tourismuswirtschaft im Nahen Osten als Prozessphänomen.

Das Beispiel Jordanien

Jutta Wintermann (Köln): Rostam und Manas: Epische Helden in Iran und Turan

G.3. Women in Business (Part 2)

Chair: Anja Zorob (Berlin) / Dalia Abdelhady (Lund)

Helmi Bassant (Berlin): The Role of the Egyptian Businesswomen Associations after the Revolution

Amira El Saeed Agag / Osama El-Ansary (Kairo): Examining the Impact of Board Gender Diversity in the

Egyptian Publicly Traded Companies

Elias Jammal (Heilbronn): Eros Face Concepts

Sabine Hofman (Berlin): Business Women in the Internet Economy

G.4. Innenpolitische Spannungen im Iran

Leitung: N.N. (angefragt: Katajun Amirpur)

Oliver Borszik (Hamburg): Revolutionärer Ansatz – Konzeptionelle Modifikation: Kontinuität und Wandel im

Führungsanspruch der Islamischen Republik Iran

Arash Sarkohi (Berlin): Jenseits von Grün. Iran und das Phänomen Ahmadinejad

Azadeh Zamirirad (Berlin): Iranischer Frühling oder verwelktes Grün? Perspektiven der iranischen Protestbewegung

David Arn (München): Die iranische Drogenpolitik im Spiegel der iranischen Presse: ein Fallbeispiel für die

diskursive Veränderung der öffentlichen Meinung

G.5. Nach dem arabischen Frühling: Neue Handlungslogiken in den Euro-Mediterranen Beziehungen?

In the Aftermath of the Arab Spring: New Logics of Action in the Euro-Mediterranean Relations?

(Part 2)

Leitung: Annette Jünemann (Hamburg) / Diskutant

Tina Zintl (St. Andrews): Euro-Mediterranean Players par excellence? Conceptionalizing Transnational

Arabs' Logics of Action

Jakob Horst (Hamburg): Freihandel, Entwicklung und Autoritarismus im Rentenstaat: Zielsetzung und Realität

der EU-Handlungslogik in Algerien

Kerstin Fritzsche (Marburg): Akteure oder Zuschauer – Welche Rolle für moderate Islamisten in Marokko?

G.6. Pitfalls of Knowledge Production on Islam in Europe

Chair: Schirin Amir-Moazami, Riem Spielhaus, Anne Schönfeld

Yasemin Shooman (Berlin): Zur Generierung der Figur des „gewalttätigen muslimischen Jugendlichen“ im

Wechselspiel von empirischer Forschung und medialer Inszenierung

Riem Spielhaus (Kopenhagen): Measuring the Muslims: Categories of Religiosity in Quantitative Research

Thijl Sunier: ‘Finding Peace’: The Gülen Movement

Markka Valenta (Amsterdam): States of Anxiety: Framing Muslim Minorities in a Global Political Market

G.7. Benevolent Engagement among Muslims: Triggers, Target Groups, Fields of Action

Chair: Nora Derbal

Ebtisam Hussein (Berlin): Social Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Islamic Political

Discourse

Paula Schrode (Heidelberg): Frameworks and Dynamics of Muslim Ritual Charity in Turkey and Germany

Inken Wiese (Konstanz): Philanthropische Stiftungen in Katar und den VAE

Silvia Martens (Luzern): Motive für wohltätiges Engagement von Muslimen in der Schweiz

2011-08-22T11:43:00.003+01:00

The blog will not be updated (at least regularly) between the 23rd of August and the 15th of September

Job opening: Male Host Investigators for History Channel Series

2011-08-21T11:23:00.001+01:00

A US-based production company is seeking two male Hosts for a series currently in development with the History Channel. Each episode in the series will look at a different milestone event, object, or device. Often, but not always, these will be natural or manmade disasters.

Each program will dissect the event, examining it from different perspectives, angles, and points-of-view. The goal of each episode is to investigate the topic, and by the end of the program, shed new light or understanding on it.

The two Hosts must be Investigators of a sort. They will lead the viewers through the story, breaking down the subject. The Hosts will do their investigating both on a set and in the field. The investigation will have a forensic approach, grounded in engineering.

Host #1 should be an expert in the process of analysis and investigation. A background in investigation or engineering would be helpful but not essential, as long as he has a grasp of basic investigative principles. You must have a passion for history without being too straitlaced. An engaging personality is critical (a sense of humour is welcome!), and must work well with Host #2.

Host #2 should have experience in the digital world. Whereas Host #1 will be familiar with forensic investigation, Host #2 will be familiar with computers and digital technology. Host #2 will bring digital techniques and ideas to the investigation – for example ways of visualizing perspectives inside the event or object that may not be physically possible in the real world.
Host #2 might be (but does not have to be) somewhat younger than Host #1. Being a little bit nerdy wouldn't hurt -- but not at the expense of personality. Host #2 must be a good “sidekick” and partner, but also able to hold his own weight, and must be comfortable working with Host #1.

In the field, Hosts will meet with participants, witnesses, and/or experts in each episode’s subject. They may also consult a CSI-type lab facility for technical assistance. On set, Hosts will interact with a variety of digital imagery relating to that episode’s focus; they must be (or be able to become) comfortable working with greenscreen and objects that are “not there” in real life but will be added later.

Both hosts should be males from North America in the 25 - 50 age range.

If you are interested in becoming one of the Hosts please contact Past Preservers People asap letting us know which position interests you. If you are not currently on our database please complete the online registration form http://tiny.cc/n4ybd (its held on Google docs and is very secure!) and we will also need the following from you to complete the application-

A current CV
Two pictures, one head shot and one full body, please do not embed in your CV or email and please only you in the shot and action pictures work better than formal shots!
A short video audition (3-5 mins MAX), describing you and your work and interests, this doesn’t need to be the next Oscar nominated short, but please thing carefully about the setting and subjects and technical aspects such as sound and lighting. The best way to get this to us this to us is via services such as YouSend it or Dropbox etc or you upload the clip to a video sharing site, such as YouTube or Vimeo and then just send us the link.

Please send all emails to casting@pastpreservers.com and pointing out which Host position best suits you!

For more information about being represented by Past Preservers People please visit http://www.pastpreservers.com/ourpeople.html

Study Day at the University of London

2011-08-20T14:53:00.000+01:00

Study Day at the University of London:
"Excavating Tombs & Graves in Ancient Egypt"

A study day presented by Joyce Filer.
Saturday, October 22, 2011; 11am - 5pm

Hughes-Parry Hall (The Garden Halls), 19-26 Cartwright Gardens,
Bloomsbury, London WC1H 9 EF

costs: GBP 40; booking before October 6

info: study.egypt@virginmedia.com

Nofretete – eine deutsch-französische Affäre

2011-08-20T11:11:00.000+01:00

Eine von der Kunsthistorikerin Bénédicte Savoy aufgefundene und bislang unbekannte Akte führt zu den Wurzeln des Streites um die ägyptische Schönhei.

Es ist noch nicht einmal ein Dreivierteljahr her, dass der damalige Generalsekretär der ägyptischen Altertümerverwaltung in Kairo Zahi Hawass zum wiederholten Male die Rückgabe der weltberühmten Nofretete an sein Land forderte. Und zum wiederholten Male wurde von deutscher Seite das Ansinnen abgewiesen.

Nun hat Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy, Kunsthistorikerin an der TU Berlin, einen Band vorgelegt, der bisher unbekannte historische Fakten und Hintergründe ans Licht bringt in diesem seit fast neunzig Jahren währenden Streit, ob den Deutschen oder den Ägyptern eine der schönsten Frauen der Welt gehört.

In „Nofretete. Eine deutsch-französische Affäre. 1912–1931“, so der Titel des im Böhlau Verlag erschienenen Buches, legt Bénédicte Savoy die geschichtlichen Wurzeln des Streites frei. Diese fußen nach den Forschungen der Kunsthistorikerin in der deutsch-französischen Feindseligkeit während und nach dem 1. Weltkrieg.

Bénédicte Savoy war vor zwei Jahren in den Pariser Archiven auf ein bislang unbekanntes Aktenkonvolut im Nachlass von Pierre Lacau gestoßen. Pierre Lacau leitete von 1914 bis 1936 die unter französischer Hoheit stehende Altertümerverwaltung in Kairo. Er war es, der 1925 als Erster die Deutschen aufforderte, Nofretete an den Nil zurückzubringen. Sein Motiv: ein tiefsitzender Hass auf die Deutschen, der so weit ging, dass er den Deutschen über Jahre die Erlaubnis für weitere Ausgrabungen in Ägypten verweigerte. Ohne die Rolle Lacaus sei nicht zu verstehen, so Savoy, warum die gleiche Behörde im Jahr 1913, allerdings unter der Leitung eines anderen Franzosen, offiziell die Ausfuhr der Büste nach Berlin erlaubt hatte, und warum dies zwölf Jahre später rückgängig gemacht werden sollte

mit der fadenscheinigen Begründung, die französische Altertümerverwaltung sei von dem Ausgräber der Nofretete, dem deutschen Archäologen Ludwig Borchardt, über den wahren Wert des Gips- und Kalksteinkopfes getäuscht worden.

Aber Nofretete ist nicht nur Opfer der historischen Feindschaft zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich, sondern auch der Feindschaft zwischen Briten und Franzosen, wie Savoy anhand der Rivalitäten zwischen der französischen Altertümerverwaltung in Kairo und dem ansonsten unter britischer Militärverwaltung stehenden Ägypten zeigt.

All diese ausgeblendeten Aspekte führten dazu, so Bénédicte Savoy, dass bis heute die Frage nach der (un)möglichen Rückgabe der Nofretete so emotional und sackgassenartig diskutiert wird“. Das Buch versteht sich von daher als Beitrag zur historischen Transparenz und zur Versachlichung einer weitestgehend emotional geführten Diskussion.

Entscheidend für Bénédicte Savoy ist jedoch die Frage nach der Verantwortung Europas im Umgang mit dem im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert erworbenen kulturellen Eigentum fremder Länder beziehungsweise der Restitution dieser Kulturgüter. Für Bénédicte Savoy ist dies eine der großen, zentralen Fragen des 21. Jahrhunderts.

Neben den drei historischen Kapiteln – Teilung der Amarna-Funde 1913, die Folgen des 1. Weltkrieges für die internationale Ägyptologie und die Rezeptionsgeschichte der Nofretete – ist das Kernstück des Buches eine kommentierte deutsch-französische Edition der bisher unberücksichtigten Akte „Tête de Nefertiti. 1925–1931“ der französischen Altertümerverwaltung in Kairo. „Diese Dokumente führen die bisher unterschätzte französische Dimension des deutsch-ägyptischen Disputs um Nofretete eklatant vor Augen“, schreibt Bénédicte Savoy in der Einleitung zu ihrem Buch.

Bénédicte Savoy (Hg.), Nofretete. Eine deutsch-französische Affäre 1912-1931, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar Wien 2011, 229 Seiten, Zahlreiche Abbildungen, 24,90 Euro [D] / 25,60 Euro [A], ISBN 978-3-412-20811-0

Fotomaterial zum Download: www.tu-berlin.de/?id=106266

Weitere Informationen erteilt Ihnen gern: Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik der TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623 Berlin, Tel.: 030/314-2 22 33

(Sekretariat), E-Mail: pressestelle@tu-berlin.de

Make your own mummy

2011-08-15T10:47:00.003+01:00

I hadn't realised I had not posted in a while. Truth is that this is the heart of the summer and I am in vacation mode. Things will speed up from mid September onwards.

First things first, the mummy. An educational flash from chicago university.

Don't miss it!

Visit the flash and make your own mummy

Deirdre of the Sorrows

2011-08-02T15:41:00.002+01:00

'Deirdre of the sorrows' is probably the most well-known pre-Christian Irish (i.e. Celtic) legend.

Deirdre is dead, and Naisi is dead; and if the oaks and stars could die for sorrow, it's a dark sky and a hard and naked earth we'd have this night in Emain.

This is the end of the dramatic story (as written by Edmund John Millington Synge).

You can listen to music inspired from this legend here, here and here.

Read the complete story in the original here.

If your Greek is good, then this is the link of the radio-theatre play of Deirdre of the Sorrows.

Many thanks to the Greek radio-theatre blog for this info.

A visit to Stratford-Upon-Avon

2011-07-30T09:41:00.007+01:00

A trip to William Shakespeare's town, Stratford.

The following pictures include:

pictures 1-38: Hall's Croft, Jacobean home of Shakespeare's daughter.
pictures 44-66: Nash's House (Shakespeare's final home)
pictures 67-end: Shakespeare's Birthplace

I apologise that some of the pictures may be a bit blurry or dark. Flash was not allowed in the houses.

Alternatively, you can see the pictures here (static and numbered).

Exchibition about Egyptian temples in Wuerzburg

2011-07-27T09:11:00.002+01:00

Archaeology and design students will "rebuild" a temple digitally. Artefacts connected to temple life will be displayed.

Ausstellung im Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg (20.10.2011 - 11.02.2012)

address: Residenzplatz 2/Tor A, 97070 Würzburg, Germany

Opening times:
Tues - Sat: 13:30-17:00
Sun: 10:00-13:30

INFO: Erstmals überhaupt macht eine Ausstellung die Welt der ägyptischen Tempel in einem Museum erfahrbar. "KultOrte. Mythen, Wissenschaft und Alltag in den Tempeln Ägyptens" wird durch innovatives Design neue Wege beschreiten. Die Besucher bekommen einen räumlichen Eindruck von einem altägyptischen Heiligtum als Bauwerk. Dekoration und Inschriften veranschaulichen als Photos die Religion der Alten Ägyp...ter. Im Tempel werden altägyptische Kultobjekte und Gerätschaften in ihrem ursprünglichen Zusammenhang gezeigt.

Unter den über 100 Exponaten aus den ägyptischen Sammlungen von Würzburg, Tübingen und Stuttgart sind zahlreiche Objekte erstmalig in der Öffentlichkeit zu sehen.

An der Ausstellung - einem Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitäten Tübingen und Würzburg - sind Studierende und Doktoranden der Universität Würzburg beteiligt, sowie Studierende des Fachbereichs Design der Hochschule Niederrhein.See more

There is an entrance fee for this exhibition.

If you have any questions please email
martin.stadler AT uni-wuerzburg.de

LEARN MORE (FACEBOOK PAGE)

and here.

Oxford University wants help decoding Egyptian papyri

2011-07-27T08:54:00.004+01:00

If you are a fan of identifying galaxies (like the moderator), then you are familiar with zooniverse (Galaxy Zoo). Does it ring a bell?

The Galaxyzoodians have now expanded their research to the Ancient World, and they ask for your help.

See how you can help archaeologists cataloguing and translating ancient Greek texts written on fragments of papyrus found in Egypt. The University of Oxford has set a website for this purpose. No special knowledge is required.

LEARN MORE
TAKE ME TO THE WEBSITE

Faces from the Past

2011-07-20T16:50:00.003+01:00

Beautiful pictures of Faiyum portraits accompanied by the 'reconstructed Egyptian' music of Rafael Pérez Arroyo, Hymn to the Seven Hathor, from 'the Age of the Pyramids'.

"Faces from the Past"
The portraits of Faiyum (Egypt - I th BC - II th AD)

Portraits of FAYUM ...gaze into Eternity
Music:Ross Daly "Bayati" from IRIS

FAYUM-Mummy portraits

Portraits have been found in all parts of Egypt,but are especially common in the Fayum Basin,particularly from Hawara and Antinoopolis.
The portraits covered the faces of bodies that were mummified for burial.Almost all have been detached from the mummies.
In termes of artistic tradition,the images clearly derives more from Greco-Roman traditions than Egyptian ones.
The population of Fayum area was greatly enhanced by a wave of Greek emigrants during the Ptolemaic period,initially by veterans soldiers who settled in the area.
The majority images show a formal portrait of a single figure,facing and looking toward the viewer.
from an angle that is usually slightly turned from full face.
The figures are presented as busts against a monochrome background wich in some instances is decorated.
The individuals are both male and female and range, in age from childhood to old age.

CRE XIII (2012) ~ Birmingham. First call for papers

2011-07-20T13:28:00.007+01:00

University of Birmingham

27th-30th March 2012

We are pleased to announce that Current Research in Egyptology XIII (CRE XIII) will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK, from 27th-30th March 2012.

We invite papers from postgraduate researchers and independent scholars studying Egypt and the Sudan, from the pre-historic to the Islamic periods. In keeping with last year’s conference, we hope to stimulate discussion on the multidisciplinary ...nature of Egyptology. Therefore, we also encourage papers from researchers in other disciplines, but whose research relates to the field of Egyptology.

Themes may include, but are not limited to:
• Architecture
• Art History
• Cultural Interaction
• Current Fieldwork
• Material Culture
• Museum Studies and Site Management
• Philology
• Religion
• State development
• Trade and economy

Presentations may be either:
• 20 minute paper
• A0 poster presentation

Abstracts should consist of no more than 200 words and should be submitted by 31st October 2011 to organizingcommittee@crexiii.co.uk. You will receive an email confirming reception of your abstract. Confirmation of whether your paper has been accepted will be sent via email by 1st December 2011.

For further information please visit our website at www.crexiii.co.uk, or visit us on Facebook (Current Research in Egyptology XIII) or on Twitter (@CREXIII). Alternatively contact us at organizingcommittee@crexiii.co.uk.

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The longest word ever to appear in literature

2011-07-20T00:25:00.003+01:00

In his comedy 'Assemblywomen' (c. 392 BC / alt: Ecclesiazousae) Aristophanes coined the 183-letter word

(wait for it...)

λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων

A fictional food dish consisting of a combination of fish, poultry and other meat (e.g. rabbit). It is cited as the longest ancient Greek word ever written and it is the longest word ever to appear in literature.

a special Minoan Seminar at Chania...

2011-07-18T09:16:00.003+01:00

MINOAN SEMINAR

"Minoan Chania: the Town and the Palace"

Saturday, 30th JULY 2011 @ 10.00

Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki

Head of the General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage

There has been a series of important and exciting finds at Chania in recent years and Dr. Vlazaki has kindly agreed to give the Seminar a guided tour in the old town, combined with a visit to the museum where select related finds will be shown and discussed.

Meet at the ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM as directed above. Please try and inform us in advance by email if you intend to take part:

cfmgr @ her.forthnet.gr OR ypapadatos @ yahoo.gr

Mobile Telephones (if necessary):

6974304145 for Colin Macdonald

6937750271 for Yannis Papadatos)

BEC4 / Fourth British Egyptology Congress

2011-07-16T11:53:00.003+01:00

This is for our 2013 to-do list.

To my question 'when and where BEC4 will take place', the Egypt Exploration Society kindly replied that BEC4 will take place at the Senate House (London), in collaboration with the ICS in September 2013 (provisional and with unconfirmed details). To my knowledge, this info will be also included in the forthcoming EES newsletter.

Useful links: Looking for a job in academia (archaeology and related fields)

2011-07-12T08:46:00.009+01:00

Where should I look for a job?

www.jobs.ac.uk (jobs in the UK)

www.universityjobs.com (jobs in the States)

Check also: The Times Higher Education.

Always read the small letters. The vacancy may be relevant to your field of study... some jobs are advertised with '...or any other area'.

BONUS: Museums... A non-academic job that pays the bills! Would you like to work in museums and art galleries? Check out www.museumjobs.com/uk.

Das Österreichische Archäologische Institut sucht ehestmöglich für seine Zweigstelle in Kairo eine/n Zweigstellenassistenten/in

2011-07-08T15:20:00.001+01:00

Die Anstellung erfolgt nach lokalem (ägyptischen) Arbeitsrecht.

Die Aufgaben des Zweigstellenassistenten (m/w) umfassen:

* Die selbstständige Erledigung von Routinekorrespondenz und Kommunikation mit ägyptischen, österreichischen und ausländischen Institutionen, Kooperationspartnern und Firmen.
* Die selbstständige Abrechnung des laufenden Sach- und Betriebsaufwandes sowie das Führen der Kassabücher der Zweigstelle.
* Die Betreuung und Verwaltung der Zweigstellenbibliothek inkl. Bestellung, Inventarisierung und Abrechnung von Publikationen in Absprache mit der Zweigstellenleitung.
* Die Organisation und Koordination der Grabungskampagnen inkl. der Abwicklung der termingerechten Security-Einreichungen bei der ägyptischen Antikenverwaltung.
* Die Organisation von Veranstaltungen der Zweigstelle Kairo.
* Sprachliches und formales Lektorieren von wissenschaftlichen Artikeln und sonstiger offizieller / amtlicher Korrespondenz der Zweigstellenleitung.

Die Bewerber (m/w) sollten folgende Anforderungen erfüllen:

* Schulabschluss auf Matura-Niveau
* Sehr gute Sprachkenntnisse in Deutsch, Englisch und Arabisch
* Sehr gute Anwenderkenntnisse von Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
* Grundkenntnisse in Photoshop / Illustrator
* Kenntnisse in historischen Geisteswissenschaften wünschenswert
* Berufserfahrung im administrativen Bereich wünschenswert

Möchten Sie sich dieser herausfordernden Aufgabe stellen, richten Sie bitte Ihre Online-Bewerbung inkl. Lebenslauf und Zeugnissen an bewerbung@oeai.at !

Imagine...The Cairo Museum and the Egyptian Revolution

2011-07-05T12:25:00.002+01:00

Imagine presents the story of an historic moment in our times by celebrating the world famous Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Presenter Alan Yentob talks to Omar Sharif about the recent revolution and why the Egyptian Museum has a special place in his heart.
The Egyptian Museum, with its unique treasure trove from the tombs of the Pharaohs, stands on the square in Cairo which was at the heart of the recent revolution – the aptly named Tahrir, or Liberation, Square. During the chaos of the protests the museum was looted by thieves but was protected by a cordon of young revolutionaries. While fighting for a better future, they remained conscious of the need to conserve their past.

(description from the BBC website)

5 JULY 2011: BBC ONE: 22: 35 pm
or catch on i-player.

The Staffordshire Hoard

2011-07-02T12:21:00.003+01:00

This Summer I am getting excited as part of the Staffordshire Hoard will be displayed in my city, at the Lichfield Cathedral.

The exhibition will tour around England, and these are some days for your diary:

Lichfield Cathedral: 30 July to 21 August.
Tamworth Castle: 27 August to 18 of September.

For more events and activities concerning the Staffordshire Hoard see http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/

Call for Volunteers to take Museum Survey

2011-06-29T10:53:00.008+01:00

Louvre, British Museum, Acropolis Museum, Delphi and Olympia Museum

Have you visited any of these Museums?

Are you interested in Ancient Greece?

Participants don't need to have any particular subject knowledge, they just need to have visited one of the galleries.

Laura Snook, a PhD student at the University of Birmingham needs your voluntary assistance for a short Survey on her PhD in Archaeology and Museology; a survey which shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes to do.

These are the forms in Microsoft Word. Please choose one form / your preferred language.

Form in English

Form in German

Form in Danish

Form in French

Form in Italian

The form in Greek is now available here.

The forms can be emailed back to Laura: LXS353 AT adf.bham.ac.uk (replace AT with @) or hard copies can be posted to Laura Snook, IAA, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT.

A talk on Kharga Oasis

2011-06-27T11:17:00.001+01:00

A talk on Kharga Oasis by Dr. Nikos Lazaridis. Today at ECCA - The Egyptian Cultural Centre of Athens

MORE INFO

One day course in archaeology: Sheffield

2011-06-27T09:21:00.001+01:00

Do you want to:
Handle human bones• lay out a complete skeleton• learn to identify the different types of bones• handle animal bones such as sheep and dogs• learn to distinguish between human and animal remains...

Then this course is for you: http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/humanosteologyshortcourse.html
Thursday 15th September 2011 9.30-4.30
Northgate House, the University of Sheffield's Archaeology Department

A photostream for Egyptology enthusiasts

2011-06-25T12:55:00.003+01:00

This morning I discovered Horus's pictures on Flickr. I am impressed!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21169166@N05

The flickr 'channel' of Horus features pictures from Egypt and other archaeology around the world.

11th International Congress of Egyptologists

2011-06-23T08:58:00.001+01:00

DON'T FORGET ICE! The 11th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE) 2012 is held in Cairo, Sept 7-14 2012.

More info here: http://www.iae-egyptology.org/ or here.

Concepts in Decorating Palaces in the Aegean and Near East

2011-06-21T10:19:00.001+01:00

In the Realm of Images: Concepts in Decorating Palaces in the Aegean and Near East from 1900 – 612 BC
Organised by the Graduate Academy “Spaces, Images, Ways of Life in Ancient Civilizations”

July 1 - 2, 2011
Zentrum für Altertumswissenschaften, Marstallhof 2-4, Heidelberg.
For more information: promotionskolleg@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de

Egyptology: Dr Martin Bommas on the Eton Myers Collection

2011-06-20T17:19:00.001+01:00

A documentary about the castle of Chios (Greece)

2011-06-19T09:44:00.001+01:00

Chioscastle's Channel on youtube

IV-TH ICYE IN SOFIA

2011-06-17T09:27:00.003+01:00

I attended the previous ICYE - International Congress for Young Egyptologists - (in Budapest) and I am looking forward to the forthcoming ICYE in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The website was announced yesterday on the EEF forum. The topic is 'cult and belief in Ancient Egypt'.

This is the website:

http://congress.nbu.bg/

Rosetta IAA Issue 10

2011-06-13T13:35:00.004+01:00

Rosetta (the online journal of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham) is now available online (for FREE).

TAKE ME THERE

Any colleagues who study Egyptology may be interested in reading a report from the latest CRE in Durham. There is plenty of material there and a variety of topics ranging from Egyptology to Greek Ancient History, European archaeology, Mediterranean Archaeology, modern history, etc. Follow the link to see the table of contents and read the issue.

Current Research in Egyptology XIII (University of Birmingham)

2011-06-13T09:56:00.001+01:00

CRE XIII in Birmingham / CRE XIII Birmingham 2012

CRE XIII is now on twitter

and on facebook.

This is the web address of the CRE XIII official website (currently under preparation).

Please bookmark these links. Full details and more information will be released soon.

UPDATE: As today, the 6th of July, the CRE website is in the process of receiving an update and the first call for papers is about to come out. Please stay tuned!

Forthcoming Study Days (Egyptology)

2011-06-12T17:49:00.004+01:00

Digging in the City of the Sun: Amarna in Egypt: 18th June, Dillington House (Ilminster, Somerset)
In the Footsteps of Petrie: 25th June, University of Bristol
Living in an Ancient Egyptian Town: 5th July, Dillington House (Ilminster, Somerset)

Alexander the Great in Egypt: 6th September,
Dillington House (Ilminster, Somerset)

MORE INFORMATION: Dillington House / In the footsteps of Petrie

NESTOR (latest issue)

2011-06-12T02:53:00.000+01:00

Available to download for free
http://classics.uc.edu/nestor/

MA in Heritage Management scholarships

2011-06-12T02:41:00.001+01:00

The University of Kent at Canterbury and the Athens University of Economics and Business after 5 years of preparatinons are delighted to announce 2 or more fees only scholarships for the MA in Heritage Management.

The MA in Heritage Management is a unique collaboration between the worlds of Archaeology (University of Kent, Canterbury with leading heritage management projects) and Business (Athens University of Economics and Business with one of the 30 best MBAs internationally). The focus is on the teaching of skills required for the management of heritage sites across the world and how to effectively work with archaeologists, architects, conservators, marketing and education specialists while also fundraising and supervising specific projects. Courses include Education and Archaeology, Site Conservation, Human Resources Management for Cultural organisations, Strategic Planning, Public Archaeology, Tourism Marketing and others. All courses are taught in English, in or next to the archaeological site of Eleusis (home of the most famous mysteries of antiquity) near Athens, Greece. Students at the end of their studies receive two titles one from Kent and one from AUEB. Fees are the same for both EU and non EU students (7500 euros for 18 months).

For more information you can visit the following website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/postgraduate/MA_in_Heritage_Management.html.

I received this info via AEGEANET

Workshop Praxeologie. Praxistheorien als Konzepte interdisziplinären Forschens

2011-06-07T08:33:00.001+01:00

Veranstalter: Friederike Elias/Albrecht Franz/Henning Murmann/Ulrich Weiser, Heidelberger Graduiertenschule für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (HGGS)

Datum, Ort: 02.12.2011-03.12.2011, Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg

Deadline: 15.08.2011

Unter der programmatischen Bezeichnung „Praxeologie“ lässt sich eine bestimmte Richtung soziologisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Theorien zusammenfassen, die sich von einem statisch-strukturalistischen Kulturverständnis abwendet. Einem auf Norm-, Zeichen- oder Sinnsysteme verengten Kulturbegriff soll mit der Praxeologie ein Ansatz gegenübergestellt werden, der die Dynamik, Vieldeutigkeit und Veränderbarkeit kultureller Phänomene in den Blick nimmt. Im Zentrum der praxeologischen Analyse steht dabei der Akteur, dessen Handeln und Deutungsmacht eine zentrale gestalterische Funktion für jede Form von Kultur zugemessen wird. Die in diesem Zusammenhang entwickelten Konzepte und Ansätze stoßen in den geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen auf immer größeres Interesse, sodass gelegentlich sogar schon von der Möglichkeit einer „praxeologischen Wende“ gesprochen wird.

Im Rahmen des Workshops sollen praxeologische Theorien (z.B. die Theorien der soziologischen Klassiker Pierre Bourdieu und Anthony Giddens, die Artefakt-Theorien sowie die Theorien des Performativen) und ihr Potential für die interdisziplinäre Forschung diskutiert werden. Darüber hinaus gilt es, Zugänge zur Operationalisierung praxistheoretischer Ansätze in verschiedenen Disziplinen zu entwerfen und zu diskutieren. Konkrete Untersuchungsfelder praxeologischer Ansätze erschließt beispielsweise die Frage nach Herrschaftspraktiken. Aushandlungsprozesse zwischen konkreten politischen Akteuren lassen sich damit ebenso analysieren wie auch politische Praktiken, die sich in Ritualen und Zeremonien manifestieren. Darüber hinaus ist nach dem analytischen Potential der Praxeologie hinsichtlich derjenigen Personengruppen zu fragen, die als „Beherrschte“ häufig nicht als Akteure in den Blick geraten. Nach diesem Verhältnis von Alltagspraktiken und normativen Erwartungen wäre beispielsweise im Rahmen der Diktatur-, Kriminalitäts- oder Policeygeschichte, aber etwa auch der Unternehmensgeschichte, zu fragen. In einer gesellschaftsgeschichtlichen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektive verweist der praxeologische Ansatz damit auch auf die aktuelle Frage nach der Verbindung von Akteur und Struktur, Mikro- und Makroperspektive. Zu diskutieren wäre die Relevanz praxeologischer Ansätze außerdem für die Körpergeschichte, wie auch für die Frage nach Kulturtechniken. Unter dem Begriff der Materialität verweist die praxeologische Perspektive auch auf den Stellenwert von Artefakten – sei es als Quellen, als Repräsentationen des Sozialen oder als Gegenstand der Vermittlung, etwa im musealen Bereich.

Zu diskutieren sind insbesondere folgende Dimensionen und Anwendungsfelder der Praxeologie:

Panel 1: Akteure und Praktiken

Im Zentrum des ersten Panels stehen Fragen nach den kleinsten „Einheiten“ der Praxeologie, Praktik und Akteur. Die Anwendungsfelder sind hier bestimmt von Begriffen wie Materialität, Artefakte, Körper, Kulturtechnik, Akteur und Subjekt. Ethnographische Herangehensweisen sind hier ebenso denkbar wie die Analyse materieller Kultur oder mikrogeschichtliche Fragestellungen. Unter anderem könnten Arbeiten vorgestellt werden, die sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Dingen und Handlungen auseinandersetzen. Interessant wären für dieses Panel auch Forschungen, die sich mit der Körperlichkeit von Praktiken und Wissen befassen.

Panel 2: Von der Praktik zur Praxis

Das zweite Panel befasst sich mit dem Schritt von der Praktik zur Praxis. Im Zentrum stehen dabei Begriffe wie Wissensordnung, Institution oder Diskurs. Das Panel soll Forschungsarbeiten aufnehmen, die die Makro-Perspektive einnehmen bzw. sich mit Fragestellungen auseinandersetzen, die auf der Meso-Ebene angesiedelt sind. So ist beispielsweise zu fragen, in welchem Verhältnis Praxis und Wissensordnung zueinander stehen, ob Wissensordnungen Teile umfassen, die sich nicht in der Praxis widerspiegeln oder ob der Gegenstandsbereich dieser Begriffe deckungsgleich ist.

Panel 3: Kultur als Prozess

Das dritte Panel widmet sich der Frage nach der Prozessualität von Kultur: Wie kann sie theoretisch und methodisch erfasst werden? Die zu behandelnden Themen orientieren sich hier an Begriffen wie Routine, Stabilität, Instabilität und Diskontinuität. Zu diskutieren wäre, wie es zur Herausbildung von Praktiken und der Praxis insgesamt kommt. Vorgestellt werden könnten auch Ansätze, die sich mit der Konzeptualisierung von Wandel in praxeologischen Theorien auseinandersetzen.

Kontakt:

Albrecht Franz

Heidelberger Graduiertenschule für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (HGGS)

praxeologie@hggs.uni-heidelberg.de

A lecture by Lise Manniche

2011-06-06T17:09:00.001+01:00

The Colossal Statues of Akhenaten from Karnak.
Derby university
11 June · 13:30 - 16:30
THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT EGYPT

Britannic - A Lost Disaster (Virtual Sailor)

2011-06-04T13:14:00.000+01:00

Petrie Summer Lecture

2011-06-01T13:13:00.004+01:00

How to book and more info

On the razor's edge: Aegeans in Egypt and Egyptians in the Aegean (TVAES public lecture by M.Bealby)

2011-05-27T07:51:00.005+01:00

On the razor's edge: Aegeans in Egypt and Egyptians in the Aegean

Saturday
11 June, Oakwood Centre

A lecture organised by Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society: http://www.tvaes.org.uk/

Marsia Bealby is a final year PhD student at the University of Birmingham (bham.academia.edu/MarsiaBealby), examining Aegean - Egyptian relations from c. 1900 to 1400 BC. She has conducted research in Egypt, Greece and Britain and has given public lectures in the UK and abroad. Her PhD research generates a greater understanding of Aegean - Egyptian relations, from the perspective of both Egyptology and Aegean Prehistory.

Marsia's thesis investigates the interactions of Crete and some of the Aegean islands (such as Thera, Kythera, Keos, etc.) with Egypt, through the world system approach and transcultural networking and exchange. Her lecture will concentrate on a topic which generates more questions than answers: a possible Aegean presence in Egypt and an Egyptian one in the Aegean.

more info

Back on the 1st of June

2011-05-16T08:05:00.001+01:00

On holiday. The blog will not be updated between the 15th and the 31st of May. Back on the 1st of June.

"Graeco-Roman Egypt at Manchester"

2011-05-14T17:54:00.000+01:00

This colloquium will discuss and explore the Graeco-Roman
collections held in the Manchester Museum and the John Rylands
Library special collections.
date: Friday, June 10, 2011; 9:45-17:30
place: John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester
costs: no fee (lunch £15), but registartion before May 20 with
roberta.mazza@manchester.ac.uk.
info / programme

Dr Ian Shaw's forthcoming lecture

2011-05-14T08:55:00.000+01:00

May 20, 2011
Lecture at the Poynton Egypt Group: Dr Ian Shaw

Dr Ian Shaw (Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology, SACE, University of Liverpool):
“Gems and jewellery – the archaeology of amethyst, carnelian and emerald in ancient Egypt”
...
http://egyptology-north.co.uk/event/lecture-at-the-poynton-egypt-group-dr-ian-shaw/

Saturday picture

2011-05-14T07:43:00.003+01:00

Xiaohe, a 3,800 year old mummy discovered in 1934 in the deserts of western China, holds (for some) the title of the most beautiful mummy.

Forschungsstipendium für Docs und Postdocs in Innsbruck

2011-05-12T20:42:00.000+01:00

Forschungsplattform Cultural Encounters and Transfers (CEnT), Universität Innsbruck

Bewerbungsschluss: 15/06/2011

Die Forschungsplattform Cultural Encounters and Transfers (CEnT) der Universität Innsbruck schreibt in Kooperation mit der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen und der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät sowie mit Unterstützung des International Relations Office der Universität Innsbruck zwei CEnT-Forschungsstipendien für 2011 aus.

Das Stipendium ermöglicht zwei NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen einen bis zu sechswöchigen Forschungsaufenthalt

in Innsbruck (bevorzugt im September und Oktober 2011). Es werden Reisekosten (innerhalb der EU bis zu 400 €, außerhalb der EU bis zu 800 €) sowie die gesamten Unterkunfts- und Verpflegungskosten für die Dauer des Forschungsaufenthaltes übernommen. Es besteht die Möglichkeit das eigene Projekt am Ende des Aufenthalts in Innsbruck zu präsentieren. Das Stipendium richtet sich an DoktorandInnen und HabilitandInnen, die sich in ihren laufenden Forschungsprojektenmit „Kulturbegegnungen und Kulturtransfers“ auseinandersetzen. Das Ziel der Forschungsplattform CEnT ist die Intensivierung des interdisziplinären Austausches zum Thema „Kulturbegegnungen und Kulturtransfers“ auf Basis einer gemeinsamen CEnT-spezifischen Perspektive. Vorhaben mit interdisziplinärer Ausrichtung sind daher ausdrücklich erwünscht.

Nähere Informationen zu CEnT finden Sie unter:

http://www.uibk.ac.at/cent/ (CEnT-Homepage)

http://www.uibk.ac.at/cent/portraet/centfolder_x3final.pdf (Kurzinformation)

http://www.uibk.ac.at/cent/forschung/kistler_ulf-kultureller-akteurin.pdf

(Paper von Kistler-Ulf mit dem Titel „Kulturelle(r) AkteurIn – die emische Konstruktion von Kultur und

ihre Folgen“).

Voraussetzungen für die Bewerbung um ein Stipendium sind:

- Abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium (Diplomstudium/Master bzw. Doktoratsstudium/PhD)

- Forschungsvorhaben mit CEnT-Bezug

- Deutsch- oder Englischkenntnisse sind wünschenswert

- Unfall- und Krankenversicherung

Folgende Unterlagen sind für die Bewerbung um ein CEnT-Forschungsstipendium einzureichen:

- Exposé zum Forschungsvorhaben auf ca. 5 Seiten, inkl. Stand der Arbeit und Zeitplan

- Erläuterungen zum CEnT-Bezug, inkl. des Mehrwerts eines Aufenthalts in Innsbruck für das

- Forschungsvorhaben sowie Nennung einer möglichen Betreuungsperson in Innsbruck

(potentielle Betreuungspersonen finden Sie unter:

http://www.uibk.ac.at/cent/portraet/mitglieder.html.de

- (Kurz-)Gutachten (letter of recommendation) des akademischen Betreuers

- Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsliste)

- Kopie des Hochschul-Abschlusszeugnisses

Thanks to Lara Weiss.

Durham Seminar: Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt

2011-05-10T07:43:00.001+01:00

11 June · 11:00 - 16:00

Department of Archaeology, University of Durham
South Road

An EES event.

This seminar will explore the notion of self-presentation and the various ways in which the ancient Egyptians presented themselves to their audiences. What messages did the Egyptians want to convey about themselves, and to whom? What were the ways in which this message could be conveyed? And how did this change over time or according to wealth, occupation, or social standing? Our speakers are all specialists on the theme of self-presentation at various periods in Egyptian history:

Professor John Baines (University of Oxford), Women in the Ptolemaic Period
Heba Abd El-Gawad (University of Durham), The king in the Ptolemaic Period
Dr Elizabeth Frood (University of Oxford), Elite representation in the late second, and early first millennium BC
Dr Campbell Price (University of Liverpool), Non-royal individuals in the Late Period

TO BOOK YOUR PLACE PLEASE VISIT http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index/75.html
Tickets: £23 (EES members), £16 (EES student members).

The event advertised on facebook.

'Egypt' in the Metropolitan Museum of New York

2011-05-10T07:08:00.000+01:00

The Metropolitan Museum of New York website needs no introduction.

I provide the link for those who have not visited it yet.

It is incredible what one can find on this website with respect to the history and archaeology of Egypt.

SEE FOR YOURSELF

The collection database contains hundreds of pictures of finds from Egypt (and other neighbouring regions), with a brief description. Visit it here.

You can even search the catalogue!

Like or dislike?

2011-05-09T08:31:00.000+01:00

Egyptomania hits Verdi.
Aida from the Metropolitan Opera House(1989)

Gender Postdocs

2011-05-08T18:53:00.001+01:00

Zwei Post-Doc Stellen als Wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen zum 1.10.2011

mit Vollzeitbeschäftigung EGr. 13 TV-L HU zu besetzen. (Drittmittelfinanzierung befristet für 2 Jahre)

Es werden Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten aus dem In- und Ausland mit überdurchschnittlicher Promotion gesucht.

Der Bewerbung sind folgende Unterlagen beizufügen:
# Darstellung des Forschungsvorhabens auf max. 10 Seiten mit Zeitplan
# Lebenslauf, Zeugnis(kopien)
# Gutachten eines/einer kollegexternen Hochschullehrer/s/in
# Publikationenliste

Bewerbungsvoraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes wissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium sowie Promotion, vertiefte Kenntnisse im Bereich der Geschlechterforschung, Erfahrungen in der Lehre und in der Veranstaltungsorganisation

Bewerbungen richten Sie bitte bis zum 20.05.2011 an die

Sprecherin des Kollegs

Prof. Dr. Christina von Braun

z. Hd. Viola Beckmann

Humboldt-Universität

GK Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie

Sitz: Sophienstr. 22a

10178 Berlin.

Bewerbungsschluss:

20.05.2011 (Es gilt der Poststempel)

Many thanks to Lara Weiss.

Sunday text: Herodotus about prostitition in Naucratis

2011-05-07T20:36:00.002+01:00

Herodotus wrote that the prostitutes of Naucratis were "peculiarly alluring" and briefly narrated the story of Charaxus, who travelled to Naucratis to purchase the freedom of a certain Rhodopis, a Thracian slave and courtesan (See Herodotus Historiae 2,135).

Saturday picture

2011-05-07T07:00:00.000+01:00

Recumbent mouflon, Mature Harappan period, ca. 2600–1900 b.c.
Indus Valley
Marble

L. 11 in. (28 cm)
Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Rogers Fund, 1978 (1978.58)

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Scottish Egyptology / Egyptology Scotland

2011-05-05T15:58:00.006+01:00

Scots have made a major contribution to Egyptology:
James Bruce
David Roberts
Alexander Henry Rhind
Kenneth Kitchen
Angela McDonald
Lionel Masters
Ian Mathieson
Diana Brown
Robert Hay
Janet Gourley
Norman de Garis Davis
...

and many more.
Would you like to join a very enthusiastic team of Egyptologists? Then, this information may be interesting to those of you who live in Scotland. The Scottish Egyptology Society organises regular Egyptological events. They are on this website, and also on facebook.

What's the point of archaeology?

2011-05-05T13:23:00.001+01:00

The answer is here...

The latest 'Pasiphae'

2011-05-02T19:33:00.001+01:00

The latest 'Pasiphae' (Rivista di filologia e antichità egee, vol. IV, 2010) is available online / in print. It is dedicated to Aegean archaeology.

Visit http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=3008&rivista=333

Thanks to J. Weingarten.

A love poem from the Sanskrit

2011-05-02T19:21:00.003+01:00

The moon tries every month in vain
to paint a picture of your face;
and, having failed to catch its grace,
destroys the work, and starts again.

Because she's been compared to you
the proud moon lifts her head on high.
How little she has understood,
my lady with the downcast eyes.

. . .

Dharmakirti

MINOAN SEMINAR - SARO WALLACE - KARFI (event in Athens)

2011-05-02T13:37:00.002+01:00

6 May, 19:00
Archaeological Society
Panepistimiou 22
Athens, Greece

Crisis and complexity c. 1200 BC: Insights from new pilot excavation at the town of Karfi
Κρίση και πολυπλοκότητα το 1200 π.Χ.: Στοιχεία από τη νέα πιλοτική ανασκαφή στην πόλη του Καρφιού.

Lecture will be given in English / Διάλεξη στα Αγγλικά

More info and abstract

List of present and past seminars (Minoan seminar website)

Sunday text

2011-05-01T12:08:00.004+01:00

Ancient Greek: 'κακοῦ κόρακος κακὸν ὠόν'

"From a bad crow, a bad egg"
I.e. like father, like son.

Egyptology North (UK)

2011-04-28T14:10:00.005+01:00

This is how this new Egyptological website is introduced:

'This new website, serving Egyptologists and Egyptological enthusiasts throughout the north of Britain, has been created in order to serve as a hub for the many institutions, museums and societies based in the north. The calendar shows all upcoming events that we’re aware of – obviously this crucial aspect of the site will only be as good as the flow of information allows, so please email information concerning any upcoming events (e.g. lectures, dayschools and exhibitions) to ishaw AT liv.ac.uk'.

Visit the website:

http://egyptology-north.co.uk/

Egyptology North is also on FACEBOOK: Please feel free to join.

EAA 17th Annual meeting: Oslo: September 2011

2011-04-27T11:24:00.002+01:00

The deadline for paper abstract submission for the EAA conference in Oslo, Norway (14th – 18th September 2011) approaches. If you are interested in the following session, please submit your contribution proposal by 30 April
via the EAA online system http://www.eaa2011.no/abstractsubmission.cfm?FuseAction=abstract&pWebprofilfunkid=43998

The conference committee invites papers that address issues such as:

· archaeological sites as theme parks

· the identity that archaeological sites acquire through modern advertising and promotional campaigns

· the identity of archaeology as a leisure activity

· theory of place and landscape identity formation

· theory of tourism in relation to issues of cultural heritage and the imposition of identities through tourism

For more information see http://www.eaa2011.no/abstractsubmission.cfm?FuseAction=abstract&pWebprofilfunkid=43998
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Many thanks to Aegeanet for this post.

Ίδρυμα Αικατερίνης Λασκαρίδη

2011-04-26T12:23:00.000+01:00

Πραξιτέλους 169 & Μπουμπουλίνας, 185 35 Piraeus, Greece.

Το κοινωφελές πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα «Αικατερίνη Λασκαρίδη» συστάθηκε την Άνοιξη του 2007, με Προεδρικό Διάταγμα και τις υπογραφές των Υπουργείων Παιδείας, Πολιτισμού, Οικονομικών και Ναυτιλίας.

Ο Πάνος και η Μαριλένα Λασκαρίδη με επιθυμία να ανελίξουν και να συνεχίσουν την ήδη επιτυχημένη πορεία της Βιβλιοθήκης «ΚΑΙΤΗ ΛΑΣΚΑΡΙΔΗ» και να διευρύνουν τις δραστηριότητές της, εγκατέστησαν το Ίδρυμα σε ιδιόκτητο αναπαλαιωμένο κτήριο στον Πειραιά, γενέτειρα πόλη της Καίτης Λασκαρίδη.

Σε σύντομο χρονικό διάστημα οι δραστηριότητες του Ιδρύματος επεκτάθηκαν σε όλους τους τομείς του πολιτισμού. Διοργανώνει διαλέξεις, εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα για μαθητές και φοιτητές, σεμινάρια, ημερίδες, αφιερώματα, εκθέσεις, τιμητικές και μουσικές εκδηλώσεις, ενώ κάθε χρόνο προκηρύσσει Λογοτεχνικό Διαγωνισμό πρωτόλειου διηγήματος στη μνήμη Καίτης Λασκαρίδη.

Το ίδρυμα συνεργάζεται με το Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, την ευρύτερη πανεπιστημιακή κοινότητα, με φορείς, πανεπιστήμια και επιστημονικά ιδρύματα άλλων ευρωπαϊκών χωρών και με προσωπικότητες από το χώρο της Επιστήμης, των Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών της Ελλάδας και του εξωτερικού.

Σημαντική δραστηριότητα επιδεικνύει το Ίδρυμα και στο χώρο της Ναυτιλίας, διοργανώνοντας σεμινάρια, εκθέσεις και εμπλουτίζοντας συνεχώς το Ναυτικό τμήμα της Βιβλιοθήκης του, που διαθέτει ήδη 3.000 βιβλία, ελληνικής και ξένης βιβλιογραφίας, καθώς και περιοδικά. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό το Ίδρυμα έχει αναλάβει την πλήρη αναπαλαίωση και ανακαίνιση ιστορικών Φάρων της Ελλάδας και τη διοργάνωση αναδρομικής έκθεσης έργων του Κωνσταντίνου Βολανάκη σε συνεργασία με το Ναυτικό Μουσείο Ελλάδος.

Διαθέτει σύγχρονες αίθουσες μελέτης, τμήμα δανεισμού, αρχείο, συλλογή σπάνιων βιβλίων, εκθεσιακό χώρο και αίθουσα διαλέξεων και σεμιναρίων με σύγχρονες οπτικοακουστικές εγκαταστάσεις. Στελεχώνεται από γραμματεία και εκπαιδευμένο προσωπικό για την εξυπηρέτηση του κοινού και τη λειτουργία όλων των προγραμμάτων.

Σε σύντομο χρονικό διάστημα οι δραστηριότητες του Ιδρύματος επεκτάθηκαν σε όλους τους τομείς του πολιτισμού. Διοργανώνει διαλέξεις, εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα για μαθητές και φοιτητές, σεμινάρια, ημερίδες, αφιερώματα, εκθέσεις, τιμητικές και μουσικές εκδηλώσεις, ενώ κάθε χρόνο προκηρύσσει Λογοτεχνικό Διαγωνισμό πρωτόλειου διηγήματος στη μνήμη Καίτης Λασκαρίδη.

Συνεργάζεται με το Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, την ευρύτερη πανεπιστημιακή κοινότητα, με φορείς, πανεπιστήμια και επιστημονικά ιδρύματα άλλων χωρών, κτλ.

Σκοπός:

Η προαγωγή σε ελληνικό και διεθνές επίπεδο του ελληνικού πολιτισμού γενικά και ιδιαίτερα των ελληνικών Γραμμάτων και της Ιστορικής και Ναυτικής Έρευνας, καθώς και η λειτουργία Βιβλιοθήκης με την επωνυμία «ΚΑΙΤΗ ΛΑΣΚΑΡΙΔΗ».

Δημοσιεύσεις:

Ανδρέας Μιαούλης [1769 - 1835]: Από την υπόδουλη ως την ελεύθερη Ελλάδα, ISBN: 960-05-1075-X

Από τα πάθη της ιστορίας στα πάθη της καθημερινής ζωής: Η διαδρομή της ελληνικής πεζογραφίας από το 1945 έως το 2000, ISBN: 980-88420-0-X

Ποιήματα ποιητικής: Διαδρομή στην ποίηση από τον Μεσοπόλεμο στη γενιά του '70, ISBN: 978-960-99142-0-8

Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, ISBN: 978-960-99142-1-5
Email: info@laskaridou.gr
Phone: 210 4297540, -1, -2
Website
http://www.laskaridou.gr

On holiday. The blog will be updated again on the 26th of April.

2011-04-22T17:22:00.000+01:00

New publication

2011-04-22T09:06:00.004+01:00

This is to announce:

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: The Diniacopoulos Collection

edited by Jane E. Francis and George W.M. Harrison
Not yet published - advance orders taken

Article by Chrysikopoulos (collection in Athens), Anderson (Crete and
Egypt in the Bronze Age), Philips (Mycenae and Egypt in the Bronze Age),
and Harrison (Roman Crete and Egypt), among others.

Distributed Oxbow (Europe) and David Brown (North America)

Read more and order (Oxbow)

Aphrodite and Eros (an artistic itinerary)

2011-04-21T15:44:00.003+01:00

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Music by Marios Strofalis (Eros Bolero / European Taxim)
Pictures from the World Wide Web.

congress: CULTURAL HERITAGE Istanbul 2011

2011-04-21T06:46:00.001+01:00

22 November at 09:00 - 25 November at 12:00, Istanbul, Turkey
CULTURAL HERITAGE Istanbul 2011
5th International Congress "Science and Technology for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Basin"
Istanbul, Turkey 22nd-25th November 2011
for more information see the website:
http://www.istanbulcongress2011.com/index.asp

Ανοικτή διάλεξη του Professor Lord Colin Renfrew

2011-04-20T10:41:00.000+01:00

Ανοικτή διάλεξη του Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, με θέμα
«Προστατεύοντας την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά: Η Πρόκληση του Διεθνούς Εμπορίου Αρχαιοτήτων»
την Τετάρτη 11 Μαΐου 2011, 19.00
στο αμφιθέατρο Δρακοπούλου - κεντρικό κτίριο του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (Πανεπιστημίου 30)

Η εκδήλωση οργανώνεται σε συνεργασία με τον Τομέα Αρχαιολογίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών.

Egyptological resources

2011-04-19T07:54:00.003+01:00

If you are a student of Egyptology, DON'T get out of bed before you visit this link:

Egyptology / essential kit

It will take you to a variety of egyptological resources that you NEED to access. These resources are extremely useful for the course of your studies, and you will use them over and over again.

Karnak 3D

2011-04-17T11:48:00.002+01:00

These are some links on digital Karnak. Do visit them to wow! Some excellent job is done!

UCLA's digital Karnak project No intro needed!

Karnak 3D, a must-visit site with great graphics! (English language is forthcoming).

Sunday Text

2011-04-17T10:36:00.000+01:00

'πλέων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον ἐπ’ ἀλλοθρόους ἀνθρώπους'
'while sailing over the wine-dark sea to peoples of strange speech (mentality)'
Ομήρου Οδύσσεια, Ραψωδία Α': 183-184 / Homer's Odyssey, Book I: 183-184

NearEstMed Archaeology group Trinity Term 2011 Seminar series

2011-04-16T10:49:00.001+01:00

The NearEastMed group is based in Oxford University and hosts seminars, lectures and events on aspects of Ancient Near East and East Mediterranean archaeology and material culture, in particular focusing on interconnections in antiquity and cross-regional themes.

rinity Term 2011 Seminar series

The following lunchtime seminars will be held from 1 p.m. on Thursdays. All are welcome. Refreshments will be available after the papers. The seminars are supported by the Department of Classics, Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum.

VENUE: Lecture room, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford. OX1 2PG (next to Ashmolean Museum)

DAVID BLACKMAN, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Thursday 12th May (second week)
Minoan Seafarers, Egypt and the Levant

LINDY CREWE, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Thursday 26th May (fourth week)
Community interaction in Bronze Age Cyprus: global to local, and back again, at Kissonerga

WOLFGANG ZWICKEL, JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITÄT, MAINZ
Thursday 9th June (sixth week)
Ritual iconography in the East Mediterranean: the Iron Age II favissa at Yavneh, Israel

For further enquiries, please contact: antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk.

MORE INFO

Study Day: The Hyksos Legacy: Technology, Arts and Culture in the Age of the Chariot

2011-04-13T08:24:00.005+01:00

London on Saturday May 14th:

Bloomsbery School organises a Study Day titled 'The Hyksos Legacy: Technology, Arts and Culture in the Age of the Chariot' with Dr Stephen Harvey as the principal lecturer.

This study day will examine the legacy of the Hyksos and other foreign influences on Egypt in the developing empire of the New Kingdom. Once seen as mysterious invaders from the East, the Hyksos may now be regarded as important catalysts for technological and cultural change in Egypt. The Hyksos Period in Egypt represents about a century of foreign rule by settlers and occupiers from the Levant (ca. 1650-1525 BCE). Perhaps best known for their apparent introduction of the horse and chariot to Egypt, the Hyksos rulers seem to have been responsible for introducing a wide series of technological innovations, including glass making, metallurgical technologies, and the use of the compound bow, while the Canaanite religion of these people was in part adopted within the Egyptian pantheon. Following the defeat of the Hyksos, Egypt expanded the borders of her empire, and engaged in vigorous international diplomacy, warfare, trade and exchange of ideas, building on the innovations developed in response to Hyksos influence.

For further details: http://www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury/study_days.htm

Study Day: In the Footsteps of Petrie

2011-04-12T08:24:00.005+01:00

Download the booking form

Click on the picture for a larger image, or download the booking form.

3D virtual technology and Archaeology

2011-04-11T08:47:00.003+01:00

72 videos featuring virtual 3D reconstructions of various archaeological monuments around the world. They are all here... Some worthy short documentaries are also included.

University of Cologne, the Faculty of Arts PhD scholarships

2011-04-11T08:09:00.002+01:00

Follow the link for more information. Good luck!

Joyce Filer's lecture

2011-04-10T20:23:00.000+01:00

Diagnosing Disease: the evidence for the health status of Ancient Egyptians

by Joyce Filer, formerly Curator of Human & Animal Remains, BM Dept. Ancient Egypt & Sudan.

30 April · 14:00 - 17:00
Nottingham new mechanics centre

An event organised by SSAE

Thysaurus Linguae Aegyptiae

2011-04-10T20:20:00.002+01:00

A link instead of the usual Sunday text. Whoever is studying Egyptology and has not visited this link yet is missing out.

It will certainly cover your needs in literary studies.

Visit it here

Harappa statuettes

2011-04-09T21:31:00.004+01:00

I spy with my little eye... the web page of Harappa statuettes by Sharri R. Clark (Harvard University)... where you can find over 70 pictures of Harappan figurines! Indus Valley at its best!

TAKE ME THERE

For a description of the figurines check out: http://www.harappa.com/figurines/print.html

Saturday picture

2011-04-09T07:11:00.003+01:00

The ecstasy of Santa Teresa (detail), by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

All things Egyptian Demons

2011-04-08T09:00:00.001+01:00

The Ancient Egyptian Demonology project has a brand new website!

TAKE ME THERE

Σεμινάριο

2011-04-06T08:28:00.001+01:00

Σεμινάριο: Καλλιόπη Φουσέκη (Science Museum) με θέμα «Επίλυση συγκρούσεων και πολιτιστική διαχείριση: ένα μοντέλο διαπραγμάτευσης μέσα από το παράδειγμα του Νέου Μουσείου Ακρόπολης». Πέμπτη 14 Απριλίου 2011, 18.00
Aίθουσα εκδηλώσεων του Μουσείου Μπενάκη
(2ος όροφος, κεντρικό κτήριο, Κουμπάρη 1 & Βασ. Σοφίας).

LECTURE-RE DISOVERING THE PHARAOHS QUARRIES, Dr Elizabeth Bloxam

2011-04-05T08:53:00.000+01:00

Oakwood Centre, Woodley, Reading

14 May · 13:30 - 16:30
Organised by Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society.
Lost and forgotten archaeological landscapes in Egypt: re-discovering the pharaohs ancient quarries

STUDY DAY-ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN THE LAND OF KUSH, Dr Derek Welsby

2011-04-05T08:52:00.000+01:00

16 July · 10:00 - 16:30
Oakwood Centre, Woodley Reading
Organised by Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society
TVAES Fund Raising Study Day for
Sudan Archaeological Research Society

...Archaeological discoveries in the land of Kush

Tutor: Dr Derek Welsby
Day/time: Saturday 10.00am-4.30pm
Location: The Oakwood Centre, Woodley, Reading
Date: 16 JUL 2011
Fee: £30 (Including a buffet lunch)

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The lectures will seek to cover the whole of the periods concerned but will incorporate much data from excavations Dr Welsby and his colleagues from SARS/the BM have been involved in.

The Kingdom of Kush, Pharaonic Egypt's neighbour on the Nile, 2500 – 1450 BC
Kings of Kush and Egypt and the Kushite state , 9th century BC to 4th century AD
The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia, 4th -15th century AD
Film – An Exploratory Trip in the Sudan
Recommended reading:

Adams, W. Y. 1977. Nubia: Corridor To Africa. London - Princeton.
Edwards, D. N. 2004. The Nubian Past. An Archaeology of the Sudan. London and New York.
Morkot, R. G. 2000. The Black Pharaohs, Egypt's Nubian Rulers. London.
Török, L. 1997. The Kingdom of Kush. Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization. Leiden.
Welsby, D. A. 1996. The Kingdom Of Kush, The Napatan And Meroitic Empires. London.
Welsby, D. A. 2002. The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia: Pagans, Christians and Muslims on the Middle Nile. London.
Welsby, D. A. and J. R. Anderson (eds) 2004. Sudan: Ancient Treasures. London.

LECTURE-THE RISE AND FALL OF ANCIENT EGYPT, Dr Toby Wilkinson

2011-04-05T08:50:00.000+01:00

Organised by Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society
11 June · 13:30 - 16:30
Oakwood Centre, Woodley, Reading

To accompany the publication of his major new history of Ancient Egypt, Toby Wilkinson will offer fresh, illuminating insights into some of the better- and lesser-known episodes in the history of the Nile Valley. He will also explain why, despite its many accomplishments, pharaonic civilisation was not quite what we previously thought.

IIHSA Public Lecture in Dublin

2011-04-05T08:46:00.001+01:00

09 May · 19:30 - 22:00
University College Dublin (room to be confirmed)
Organised by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110948872255211

Professor Jack Davis
(Director, American School of Classical
Studies at Athens )

The Ancient Landscape of Illyrian Apollonia: Excavation and Survey

All welcome

STUDY DAY-THE FAUNA OF ANCIENT EGYPT, JOHN WYATT & JACKIE GARNER

2011-04-05T08:44:00.001+01:00

16 April · 10:00 - 16:30
Allen Laboratory, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading
Organised by Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society
Fee £20

This Study Day will examine, by use of the art, artefacts, mummies, bone remains, hieroglyphs and other evidence from Ancient Egypt, what species of mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, amphibians and insects were present from prehistoric times through to the end of the Roman period and whether climate changes, not only desertification, led to the appearance or disappearance of any of these and, if so, when. Painting techniq...ues, religious significances, use and abuse, and what the Ancient Egyptians believed about particular species will also be covered. To help with the identification of some species, the relevant heads will be on display for examination.

Outline Programme

10.00 - 11.15 Wildlife Art Techniques of Ancient Egypt. (Jackie Garner).
11.15 - 11.45 Tea/Coffee
11.45 - 13.00 The Fauna of Pre-Pharaonic Egypt. (John Wyatt).
14.00 - 15.10 The Fauna of the Old to Middle Kingdoms. (John Wyatt).
15.10 - 15.20 Leg Stretch.
15.20 - 16.25 The Fauna of the New Kingdom and Greco-Roman Egypt. (John Wyatt).
!6.25 - 16.30 Closing Comments and End of Study Day.

Recommended reading:

OSBORN, D.J. et al. The Mammals of Ancient Egypt. (Aris and Phillips,1998)
HOULIHAN, P. The Animal World of the Pharaohs. (AUP,1996)
HOULIHAN, P.The Birds of Ancient Egypt. (AUP,1988)
BREWER, D.J. et al. Fish and Fishing in Ancient Egypt. (Aris and Phillips,1989)
IKRAM, S.(ed.) Divine Creatures : Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt. (AUP, 2005)
GERMOND, P. et al. An Egyptian Bestiary : Animals in Life and Religion in the Land of the Pharaohs. (Thames and Hudson, 2001)
ROBINS, G. The Art of Ancient Egypt. (B.M.Press, 2007)

Athens: MINOAN SEMINAR - TODD WHITELAW and ANDONIS VASILAKIS

2011-04-05T08:38:00.001+01:00

Knossos: the long-term dynamics of a prehistoric urban centre
Κνωσός: οι μακροχρόνιες δυναμικές ενός προϊστορικού αστικού κέντρου

08 April · 18:30
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 22 PANEPISITMIOU, ATHENS

What's new: Aegean frescoes from Kabri

2011-04-03T19:37:00.003+01:00

The latest work on Aegean frescoes from Kabri has been published on AJA.

'New Fragments of Aegean-Style Painted Plaster from Tel Kabri, Israel

Eric H. Cline, Assaf Yasur-Landau, and Nurith Goshen'

You can access this article by following this link.

See some pictures of the newly discovered Aegean frescoes from Kabri.

Many thanks to Peggy Ringa and Erik Cline for the info and links.

Sunday text

2011-04-03T19:35:00.000+01:00

'Acta est fabula'
Caesar Augustus's last words. Translation: "So ends the story." or "The story has been completed."

Saturday pictures

2011-04-02T08:40:00.003+01:00

source

One picture may not enough to present Apollo Sauroktonos, i.e. the life-size bronze statue of Apollo trying to kill a lizard (Lizard Slayer), a theme attributed to Greek sculptor Praxiteles... The CMA statue is missing part of the scene (tree, lizard, etc.), but two largely complete Roman marble copies of the work, one in the Louvre, and the other in the Vatican, preserve the composition.

You may wish to see a collection of pictures of this statue on CMA

http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/apollo/html/

Volunteers needed to dig Chedham's Yard in Wellesbourne

2011-04-01T12:58:00.003+01:00

The dig will take place from April until mid-May.

If you would like to learn more or participate visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-12924695

and http://www.chedhamsyard.org.uk/

Roman Elvis from the 2nd Century AD!

2011-03-30T14:37:00.003+01:00

Dear neatorama, I will not take your word for it.

See also the Daily Mail for more info.

Channel 4’s Country House Rescue

2011-03-28T17:41:00.005+01:00

Past Preservers and Channel Four are looking for people who own historic or country houses to take part in a fourth series of ‘Country House Rescue’.

Ruth Watson, stately home owner, successful businesswoman and award winning hotelier has already helped turn around the fortunes of many magnificent country houses, through diversification, business guidance and straight-talking commonsense.

If you, or someone you know, were to take part, the house could be featured exclusively in a one hour episode on primetime Channel 4. The last series was watched by an average of 2.7 million viewers.

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‘Country House Rescue’ is an 8-part series which follows the process of diversification at eight historic houses, as the owners seek appropriate ways of using their homes to generate revenue and ensure the survival of the property into the future.

Each hour-long programme features one house over a six month period. The owners receive tailor-made advice and ideas from renowned businesswoman and trouble-shooter, Ruth Watson. Having successfully stewarded a number of historical houses and businesses in the past - including Hintlesham Hall in Suffolk - Ruth is keen to pass on her wealth of experience.

Eight country houses are needed, who would be interested in finding out more about this new series.

Perhaps you are looking into diversifying for the first time? Or perhaps you have an existing business which needs repointing and reviving? Ruth’s objective is to advise home owners on how to make their home as profitable as it can be.

Owners should be open to the idea of how their home can work as a business and be willing to explore ways to achieve that goal.

If you would like to find out more, please contact

casting@pastpreservers.com

News brought to you by the The Past Preservers Team

www.pastpreservers.com

NARNIA

2011-03-28T08:40:00.002+01:00

Are you interested in the history and archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean? Then you should visit the website of the New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to ancient material studies (NARNIA, www.narnia-itn.eu) for information about the range of fellowships and training courses that have been announced, or will be announced soon.

This is the description of NARNIA, provided on the website above: 'NARNIA is a cross-disciplinary network integrating approaches from a diverse array of research fields for the study of ancient materials from the Eastern Mediterranean. While the prime objective of the project is to train early stage researchers that are just about to embark on PhD research, the training courses and two conferences that will be organised in the four-year duration of the project are open to all interested individuals'.

CRE XIII in Birmingham

2011-03-27T10:39:00.003+01:00

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Birmingham for CRE XIII :) ...and from what I have heard, Durham made an excellent job this year! Congratulations Durham!

Saturday picture

2011-03-26T19:44:00.005Z

A. Evans, D. Mackenzie and Ch. Doll on the steps of 'Villa Ariadne', (next to the palace of Knossos, Crete), picture taken sometime between 1906-1910.

Minoan Archaeology conference

2011-03-25T08:38:00.002Z

You can virtually attend the Minoan Archaeology conference in Heidelberg.

You can even participate and ask your questions as, apart from the live stream, there is the option to chat and network online.

All you have to do is click on the link:

http://www.propylaeum.de/klassische-archaeologie/themenportale/minoan-archaeology-2011/live-conference.html

Hellenic folkloric costumes

2011-03-24T14:09:00.004Z

In post-medieval Greece and until the nineteenth century, clothes had a social meaning. Women used to dress different if they were married, single, widowed, etc. and every singly village had its own characteristic outfit. The following link presents some of these dresses, from different parts of Greece.

http://www.agrino.org/greeklibrary/projects/Greek_costumes/index.html

Art, painting and folklore

2011-03-23T15:38:00.006Z

Graham Willis is a university graduate who lives in the north east of England. Upon graduating from Sunderland university, Graham started researching ancient history and local folklore. In his work as a trained illustrator, Graham combines the present with the past.

You can see some of Graham's work on his personal website. I am sure you will find it interesting and inspiring.

http://www.wix.com/grahamwillis/portfolio#

One of Graham's work: 'Valinor'.

R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor

2011-03-23T13:49:00.003Z

1932-2011The most beautiful Cleopatra of the movies has past away. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12833100

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12833100