Egypt Centre/UWICAH Gender Conference

Timetable December 2005

All lectures take place at the Esso Lecture Theatre, Faraday Building.    

                                       Monday  19th December  

08.30 - 09.45            Registration at Egypt Centre

 

Session 1

09.45 - 10.00            Welcome by Carolyn Graves-Brown, Curator of The Egypt Centre 

10.00 - 10.40            Hella Kullmer: Ladies of the House (Nebet per): Desperate             

                                  Housewives in the Old Kingdom 

 10.40 - 11.00            Coffee break 

Session 2 

11.00 –11.40               Deborah Sweeney: Requests and Gender in Ramesside Texts    

11.40 – 12.20              Rosalind Janssen: Being an Old Woman at Deir el-Medina

12.20 - 13.05            Lunch and time to look around Egypt Centre                       

Session 3 

13.05 - 13.45            Richard Parkinson: ‘Rejoicing in Hardness’: Constructions of      

                                  Masculinity 

13.45 - 14.25            Greg Reeder: Queer Egyptologies, Genital Modification and Two 

                                  Tombs of Two "Brothers"

14.25 –15.05             David O’Connor: The Enigmatic Tomb Chapel of Niankh-Khnum  

                                  and Khnumhotep: A New Interpretation

15.05- 15.45             Thomas Dowson: Queering sex and gender in Egyptology

 

15.45 - 16.00  Coffee break 

Session 4

16.00 - 16.40            Hana Navrátilová: The People Vs. Papyrus Turin 55001 

16.40  - 17.20           Renata Landgráfová: Sexual and Erotic Metaphors in the Love Songs

 17.30 -                Taxi for speakers to Guest houses 

19.00 - 19.15        Conference dinner at The New Capriccio, St Helen’s Road. (tickets  

                              pre-ordered  only)

Tuesday 20th December

  08.30 - 09.30            Registration at Egypt Centre 

Session 5

 

09.30 -10.10             Terence DuQuense: Gender and Social role in Provincial New Kingdom 

                                  Egypt.

10.10-10.50              Charlotte Booth: Body Alteration in Ancient Egypt

 

 10.50-11.05            Coffee break 

Session 6

11.05-11.45     Kathlyn Cooney: The Conundrum of Female Rebirth: The Fragmentation of the Female Individual in her Funerary Equipment

11.45-12.25     Racheli Shalomi-Hen: The Bearded Woman and the Queen: The Formation and Transformation of the Female Divine Classifiers

12.25-13.05    Carolyn Routledge: Did Women ‘Do Things’ in Ancient Egypt?

  13.05-14.00            Lunch and time to look around Egypt Centre                     

 

Session 7

14.00-14.40         Daniel Kolos: Ancient Egyptian Coming-of-Age Rituals

14.40-15.20         Cat Lumb: The Nature of Women in Predynastic Egypt

 

15.20-15.35            Coffee break 

Session 8

15.35-16.15     Heather McCarthy: Expressions of Gender Fluidity and Rules of Decorum in the Decorative Program of Tawosret’s Tomb

16.15-16.55     Thomas Schneider: 'She was not of the appearance of human beings!' Conjectures about the herdsman's dangerous encounter. 

 16.55- 17.10     Summing up and Goodbye! 

17.25                 Taxi for speakers to guest houses/railway station