Bloomsbury Summer School
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2022 Course timetable
Monday 11 to Friday 15 July
GREATER NUBIA: EXPLORING THE LAND AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE NILE VALLEY
Course Co-Directors: Dr Robert Morkot (Friends of the Petrie Museum) and Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin (University of Exeter)
Monday 11 July
10:45* – 11:00
Students assemble in BSS Common Room or login to Zoom*
11:00 – 11:30
BSS Director’s Welcome Address
11:30 – 13:00
1. Nubia: The region and its significance (Dr Robert Morkot)
Welcome Lunch in BSS Common Room (14:00 Short optional tour of UCL with the Director)
14:30 – 15:45
2. Formation and Transformation of the Nile Civilisations: The role of the climate and environmental changes (Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin)
16:15 – 17:30
3. How Do We Understand Cultures? The role of archaeologists in creating cultural narratives (Dr Robert Morkot)
Tuesday 12 July
10:00 – 11:15
4. Nubia: North and south, east and west (Dr Robert Morkot)
11:45 – 13:00
5. Life Below the Sixth Cataract: The agro-pastoral cemetery of Jebel Moya (Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory)
14:15 – 15:30
6. People of Ancient Nubia: Ethnicity and identity (Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin)
16:00 – 17:15
7. Insights into the Life and Death in the Ancient Middle Nile Valley (Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin)
Wednesday 13 July
10:00 – 11:15
8. Re-ordering the 25th Dynasty Kings: Another bandwagon? (Dr Robert Morkot)
11:45 – 13:00
9. Some Recent Attempts to Understand Meroitic History and the State (Dr Robert Morkot)
14:15 – 15:30
10. Defining What is ‘Kushite’ in Art and Religion (Dr Robert Morkot)
16:00 – 17:15
11. Decline and Fall, or Gradual Transition? The ongoing debate on the end of the Meroitic Kush and Post-Meroitic Nubia (Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin)
Thursday 14 July
10:00 – 11:15
12. Regionalism and Interconnections in Prehistoric Nubia (Dr Maria Carmela Gatto)
11:45 – 13:00
13. Egypt and Africa in the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC: A view from Mersa / Wadi Gawasis and Eastern Sudan (Prof. Andrea Manzo)
14:15 – 15:30
14. Egypt and Nubia: Territories, peoples, cultures (Dr Robert Morkot)
16:00 – 17:15
15. Nilotic Connections in Nubia in the New Kingdom: Trade and innovation in temple towns (Dr Loretta Kilroe)
Friday 15 July
10:00 – 11:15
16. Meroitic North and South: Part 1 (Dr Robert Morkot & Dr Henry Bishop-Wright)
11:45 – 13:00
17. Meroitic North and South: Part 2 (Dr Robert Morkot & Dr Henry Bishop-Wright)
14:15 – 15:30
18. Karanog: Ballana and transition (Dr Robert Morkot)
16:00 – 17:15
19. Summing Up and Closing Remarks
17:15 – 19:00
End-of-Course Drinks Party and Online Social (guests welcome)
* All times are London UK time; Zoom waiting room opens 15 minutes prior to the start.
NB: Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.
