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Faculty of Lifelong Learning

Egyptology Summer School 2008

FFEY053N0 ACS Ancient Egypt: Life, Death and Culture

Monday 23rd June to Friday 27th June 2008 10.00am – 5.00pm, Malet Street

Cost: £185 for the week

This five day summer school will present a series of lectures and presentations on the life courses of the ancient Egyptians, and include a special day on new research.

The lectures themes will range from aspects of the ancient Egyptian life course (pregnancy and birth, education, puberty rituals and marriage, growing old, death and burial rituals) to the origins and developments of Egyptian scripts and language. Daily life will be presented from the perspectives of school-age children, soldiers, farmers’, as well as priests and priestesses. Learn about the ups and downs of relationships and family life, including courtship, love, eroticism, marriage, adultery, domestic violence and divorce. Other topics will deal with clothing and bodily adornment, medicine and magic, feasts and festivals, social care, religious beliefs, ways of dying and the nature of the Egyptian afterlife. This summer school will also include the unique opportunity to enjoy a full day dedicated to presentations by junior UK scholars on the latest research. Tea and coffee will be provided.

Tutors: Carol Andrews, Frances Welsh, Suzanne Lax-Bojtos, Lorna Oakes, Joseph Clayton, Kathryn Piquette, Carol Downer, Rosalind Janssen

Places are limited so early enrolment is advised. To enrol by telephone 020 7631 6651, quoting course code: FFEY053N0 ACS

For a 2008/9 Certificate, Diploma and Short Course Prospectus ring 0845 601 0174.

Other enquiries to: archaeology@fce.bbk.ac.uk or Faculty of Lifelong Learning, Archaeology, 26 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DQ 020 7631 6627.

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Faculty of Lifelong Learning

Egyptology Summer School 2008

Ancient Egypt: Life, Death and Culture

Monday 23rd June to Friday 27th June 2008 10.00am – 5.00pm, Malet Street

Programme

Monday 23rd June

Introduction by Chair

Language and Culture

Pregnancy & Birth

Origins of Scripts

Education (Skills and Knowledge Transmission)

Puberty

Tuesday 24th June

Love and Eroticism,

Marriage, Adultery, Domestic Violence

Bodily Adornment

Middle/Late Egyptian

Soldiers and Farmers

Feasting and Entertaining

Event: Evening Event for Students

Wednesday 25th June

Medicine & Magic

Priests and priestesses

Demotic Language

Houses, Fixtures and Fittings

Old Age

Thursday 26th June

Ways of Dying

The Coptic Language

Death and Burial

The Afterlife and Ancestors

Event: Meet the Tutors session

Friday 27th June

Full day of presentations from scholars on their recent findings from doctoral and post-doctoral research.

Ancient Egypt Quarries

Early Burial Practices

The Subjugation of the Rekhyt People Throughout the Pharaonic Period

Ptolemaic Egypt

Who Was Who in Twenty Fifth Dynasty Thebes

Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art: Continuity and Change

CENTRAL ENROLMENT FORM

Course title: Ancient Egypt: Life, Death and Culture

Course code: FFEY053N0 ACS

Course venue:Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1.

Places are limited, so you are advised to enrol as soon as possible.

By post or in person: Please complete and return this form with your payment to the Executive Officer for Archaeology, Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College, 26 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ.

By phone: Please ring 020 7631 6651 (full fee enrolments only).

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