BSS Provisional Timetables 2010
Please note: Timetable may change slightly before first day of the course.
ENTREPRENEURS AND EMPIRES: Cyprus in the late Bronze Age
26-30 July 2010, Course Director: Dr Thomas Kiely
| Monday 26th July | |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Students assemble in Room G09/10, Dept. of History, UCL |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Deputy Director's Welcome Address |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Orientation Meeting in teaching room, followed by Ancient Cyprus for Beginners: land, sea and natural resources |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Welcome Lunch in BSS Common Room (G09/10) |
| 14:00 | Short optional tour of UCL (meet in G09/10) |
| 14:30 – 15:45 | Modern Empires and Entrepreneurs: the discovery of the Late Bronze Age on Cyprus in the 19th century AD |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Afternoon Tea in BSS Common Room (G09/10) |
| 16:15 – 17:30 | Introduction to the Cyprus Gallery at the British Museum |
| Tuesday 27th July | |
| 10:00 – 11.15 | The Middle Bronze Age Background |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | Emerging from the Shadows? The beginning of the Late Bronze Age and relations with Egypt and the Levant |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Becoming Late Cypriot: the power of objects |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Mining and Metalworking |
| 17:15 – 18:30 | Reception in the Petrie Museum |
| Wednesday 28th July | |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Group A: Handling Class in the British Museum |
| Group B: | Private Study/Exploring the British Museum |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | Group B: Handling Class in the British Museum |
| Group A: Private Study/Exploring the British Museum | |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Settlements: places and spaces of the living... |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | ...and the dead: burial grounds and funerary practices |
| Thursday 29th July | |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Morning prayers: religion and ritual in Late Bronze Age Cyprus |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | Day trip to Ugarit: Cyprus and its Levantine neighbours |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Cyprus and the Aegean World (British Museum gallery visit |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Writing, Seals and Administration |
| Friday 30th July | |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | The 'Alashiya Question'. Cyprus and the Great Powers |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | The 'Crisis Years' around 1200 BC: invasion, immigration and/or innovation? |
| 14:15 – 15: | New ways of Living and Dying: Late Cypriot III society |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Remembering the past? Foundation legends and the origins of the Iron Age kingdoms of Cyprus |
| 17:15 – 19:00 Farewell Drinks Party in the Institute of Archaeology |
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