Nile Scribes made it to Prague this week to attend the 2018 Current Research in Egyptology conference. Held in the “Golden City” this year, the conference attracts graduate students in Egyptology and related fields as well as early career researchers from mainland Europe and around the world. What began as a post-graduate conference in the UK…
Category: Lectures
Lecture: “Maces and Daggers from the ROM’s Egyptian Collection”
The Nile Scribes are pleased to host another guest blogger on our site to give us a summary of her research on Egyptian weapons at the Royal Ontario Museum. Carla Mesa Guzzo presented some of her findings at a talk in January of this year for the Toronto Chapter of the SSEA.
Aegyptus: Egypt under Roman Rule Symposium Highlights
The Nile Scribes are pleased to host our first guest blogger to bring you the highlights of the SSEA’s 42nd Symposium Aegyptus: Egypt under Roman Rule.
Lecture: “Wet and Wild: the Nilotic Mosaic at Praeneste”
This past Wednesday, Steven Shubert gave an intriguing talk on Egyptianising elements in the famous second century BC Nilotic Mosaic at a lecture event hosted by the Toronto Chapter of the SSEA. Speakers for their summer programme this year have explored sites not as well-known outside of academic circles. The final talk of this series took the audience across the Mediterranean to the Italian site of Palestrina (ancient Praeneste).
Lecture: “Tanis: the Second-hand Capital and its Untouched Royal Tombs”
In this SSEA Summer lecture, Gayle Gibson spoke on “Tanis: the Second-hand Capital and its Untouched Royal Tombs” focussing on the reuse of the site and its royal tombs.
Lecture: “Meroë: Capital of Kush”
This past Wednesday, Annissa Malvoisin presented Meroë: Capital of Kush at a lecture event hosted by the Toronto Chapter of the SSEA. Annissa is a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Toronto in the department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. She is interested in Egyptian-Nubian relations as well as ceramic typologies and plans on writing her dissertation on Meroitic ceramic cultures.