Bloomsbury Summer School

Fascinated by ancient civilisations?

Monday 21 to Friday 25 July

Course Director: Prof. Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones (Cardiff University)

Monday 21 July

10:30* – 11:00
Students gather in the BSS Common Room / login to Zoom

11:00 – 11:30
BSS Director’s Welcome Address

11:30 – 13:00
1. Introduction: Why Harems?

Welcome Lunch in BSS Common Room (14:00 Short optional tour of UCL with the Director)**

14:30 – 15:45
2. Charles Darwin, Kingship and the Royal Harem

16:15 – 17:30
3. ‘The Harem Within’: A physical space or a concept?

17:45
Non-BSS event: Get together with fellow students for a drink in the Woolf and Whistle Bar on the ground floor of the Tavistock Hotel**

Tuesday 22 July

10:00 – 11:15
4. Harem Palaces in Egypt (1)

11:45 – 13:00
5. Harem Palaces in Egypt (2)

14:15 – 15:30
6. Harems in Mesopotamia

16:00 – 17:15
7. Harems in Persia

17:15 – 18:30
BSS Social on Common Room balcony**

Wednesday 23 July

10:00 – 11:15
8. The King’s Mother: Egypt

11:45 – 13:00
9. The King’s Mother: Mesopotamia and Persia

14:15 – 15:30
10. Queenship at the British Museum I**

16:00 – 17:15
11. Queenship at the British Museum II**

17:30
Non-BSS event: Get together with fellow students for dinner at Poppadom Indian Kitchen in the Tavistock Hotel

Thursday 24 July

10:00 – 11:15
12. The King’s Mother: Hattusa and Judah

11:45 – 13:00
13. The Great Royal Wife in Egypts

14:15 – 15:30
14. Principal Wives in Israel, Judah, and Mesopotamia

16:00 – 17:15
15. Principal Wives in Hattusa and Persia

Friday 25 July

10:00 – 11:15
16. Diplomatic Marriage

11:45 – 13:00
17. Royal sisters, Royal daughters

14:00 – 15:15
18. Concubinage

15:45 – 17:15
19. Disputes, Succession Struggles, and Murder

17:15 – 19:00
End-of-Course Drinks and Online Social(you are welcome to invite guests)

*All times are London UK time; **In-person participants only.

NB: Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.