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BSS Provisional Timetables 2010

Please note: Timetable may change slightly before first day of the course.

LIVING IN LAHUN: Private life in ancient Egypt

5-9 July 2010, Course Director: Dr Kasia Szpakowska
(Sessions taught by Kasia Szpakowska unless otherwise stated)

 

Monday 5th 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 teaching room, followed by Lahun: History and Rediscovery
   
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 The Setting: Landscape and Architecture
15:45 – 16:15 Afternoon Tea in BSS Common Room (G09/10)
16:15 – 17:30 Living in a Material World: interpreting “stuff”
   
Tuesday 6th July  
   
10:00 – 11:15 Group A: Object handling: Lahun in the Petrie Museum (Jan Picton)
  Group B: Private Study
11:45 – 13:00 Flora and Fauna
14:15 – 15:30 Fertility and Birth
16:00 – 17:15 Childhood
17:15 – 18:30 Reception in the Petrie Museum
   
Wednesday 7th July  
   
10:00 – 11:15 Group B: Object handling: Lahun in the Petrie Museum (Jan Picton)
   
Group A: Private Study  
11:45 – 13:00 Household Archaeology
14:15 – 15:30 Trades, Crafts, and Arts
16:00 – 17:15 Education and Leisure
   
Thursday 8th July  
   
10:00 – 11:15 Private Study
11:45 – 13:00 Sickness
14:15 – 15:30 Identity and the Individual (Dr Glenn Godenho)
16:00 – 17:15 The Other Side: Death (Dr Glenn Godenho)
17:30 – 18:45 Visit to the British Museum
   
Friday 9th July  
   
10:00 – 11:15 Religion Outside
11:45 – 13:00 Religion Inside
14:15 – 15.30 The Invisble world: Gender and Ethnicity
16:00 -  17.15 Love and Lust
   
17:15 – 19:00 Farewell Drinks Party in the Institute of Archaeology

 

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