Egyptology
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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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