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BSS Provisional Timetables 2010

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

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE: Expressing an ordered world

12 - 16 July 2010 Course Director: Dr José R. Pérez-Accino
All sessions taught by José

 

Monday 12th 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 A Text is an Ordered Universe
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 I Am Named, Therefore I Exist: The Shabaka Stone
15:45 – 16:15 Afternoon Tea in BSS Common Room (G09/10)
16:15 – 17:30 Farewell to All That: The Maxims of Ptahhotep
   
Tuesday 13th July  
   
10:00 – 11:15 Beyond the Words: The Pyramid Texts
11:45 – 13:00 A Future For All: The Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead
14:15 – 15:30 The Royal Version: The Funerary Texts of the New Kingdom
16:00 – 17:15 The Downside of Order: Texts on Chaos
17:15 – 18:30 Reception in the Petrie Museum
   
Wednesday 14th July  
   
10:00 – 11:15 The King Appears: The Hymn to Senwosret III
11:45 – 13:00 God on Earth: The Hymn to the Aten
14:15 – 15:30 A Glorious Encounter: Poetic Stela of Thutmosis III
16:00 – 17:15 Quid pro quo: Construction Stela Amenhotep III
   
Thursday 15th July  
   
10:00 – 11:15 Signs on the Horizon: The Puimra Stela
11:45 – 13:00 The Man Who Could be King: The Autopresentation of Ankhtyfy
14:15 – 15:30 An Emblematic Place: Herakleopolis as Topos
16:00 – 17:15 Deconstructing Hathor
   
Friday 16th July  
   
10:00 – 11:15 New Kingdom Poetry
11:45 – 13:00 Be a Scribe
14:15 – 15:30 Workshop
16:00 – 17:15 Workshop
   
17:15 – 19:00 Farewell Drinks Party in the Institute of Archaeology


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