Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference 2013
20-21 May
Day 1
Registration, 9am
Morning panels (UCL-IoA, G6), 9.30am
Panel Session 1. Re-connecting with archaeological context: sites and databases
(Chairs:TarekTawfik, Stephen Quirke)
Richard Bussmann
Re-materialising state formation: Hierakonpolis 2.0
Alexandra Villing
Naukratis – ancient and modern networks: a case study
GianlucaMiniaci
Collecting Groups: dispersion of finds from Harageh cemetery across museums
Geoffrey Tassie,
Joris van Wetering
The History and Research of the Naqada Settlements Collection
Chris Naunton
The financial imperative and the EES excavations at Amarna in the 1920s and 30s
Coffee break, 11am
Panel Session 2. Finds Distribution and Public Archaeology (Chairs: Maher Eissa, Chris Naunton)
Alice Stevenson
Between the Field and the Museum: the idea of archaeological context and the
distribution of finds from the Egypt Exploration Fund 1883–1915
PatriziaPiacentini
The Antiquities Path: from the Sale Room of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (ca
1890-1970), through Dealers, to Private and Public Collections
Amara Thornton
Public Egypt: London Society, Exhibitions and Lectures in the late 19th and early
20th centuries
Anna Garnett
John Rankin and John Garstang: Funding Egyptology in a Pioneering Age
Campbell Price
Max Robinow and the Manchester Museum
Lunch Break, 1pm
Afternoon panels (UCL-IoA, G6), 2pm
Panel Session 3. Archaeological Site Management and Conservation (Chair: AbdelrazekElnaggar)
Lilli Zabrana
Abandoned Nubian Villages in Upper Egypt: Material Culture in social
anthropological field studies
David Jeffreys,
Ana Tavares
Memphis as a case for material culture study
Tine Bagh
A tomb chapel out of context - a case study
Daniela Picchi
The project Horemheb& Saqqara
Francis Lankester
Egyptian Rock-Art
Coffee break, 3.30pm
Panel Session 4. Theory and history (Chairs: Ayman El-Desouky, Richard Bussmann)
William Carruthers
The Planned Past: Policy and (Ancient) Egypt
Gabriel Moshenska
Mummy wheat: toward a history of the myth
Stephen Quirke
Find as Theme: re-uniting 'expert' and 'public' agendas in Egyptian collections
Wendy Doyon
Egyptology in the Shadow of Class, Legacies and Lessons of Museum-Sponsored
Collecting and Scientific Expansionism in Pre-War Egypt for a Post-Revolution
Museology
HebaAbd el Gawad
Dividing what was once inseparable: Multi-cultural Egypt between disciplinary
boundaries and western typologies
Paolo Del Vesco
Forming and Performing Material Egypt. Archaeological knowledge production
and presentation
Evening reception, 6pm
Petrie Museum
sponsored by the Friends of the Petrie Museum
Day 2
Morning: visit to the Petrie Museum, Object and Archive case-studies
visits are timed for 10-11 and 11.30-12.30
option of visit to the Institute of Archaeology conservation laboratories,
up to 10 people per group, at 10 and 11.30
Lunch break, 12.30
Afternoon panel (SOAS), 2pm
Panel Session 5. Accessibility: databases, archiving and digital future (Chair: Stephen Quirke)
TarekTawfik
Challenges & Dangers of Networking Museums Databases
Vincent Razanajao
The new developments of the Topographical Bibliography: Digital Humanities to
serve Forming Material Egypt
AbdelrazekElnaggar
Maher Eissa,
Louay Mahmoud
Ibrahim Ibrahim
Storage of Egyptian Heritage: risk assessment, conservation needs and policy
planning
Museum collecting and Moving Objects: Concept and approach
Fayum distribution quest
Coffee break, 3.30pm
Back to the future: policy and practice
Final discussion
Okasha El Daly (chair)