BLOOMSBURY SUMMER SCHOOL - 2008 PROGRAMME LAUNCH
We are happy to report that we launched our 2008 programme on 12 December, and have now sent a copy of our new brochure to ALL those on our current mailing lists. Full details are available on our 'Summer School Programme' pages.
You may also order a copy of the brochure by e-mail from bloomsbury@egyptology-uk.com
The cover of this year’s brochure features treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun: gessoed and painted wooden funerary figure; glass inlaid Nekhbet collar of gold; death mask of gold, inlaid with semi-precious stones and glass paste. All photographs used there and on this website are from the picture library of Bob Partridge, Editor, Ancient Egypt Magazine. See 'Contact Us' page for his email and website details.
20th March 2008
BLOOMSBURY SUMMER SCHOOL: BOOKINGS UPDATE
Bookings are going as well as usual, with over a hundred places reserved already. The International Age course is clearly the most popular one and will very soon be full. The next most popular is Ancient Egypt Before the Pyramids, to which, we can now confirm, the distinguished Rock Art specialist, DR DIRK HUYGE, will contribute several lectures. (He rarely lectures on this side of the Channel.) Health, Disease and Medicine occupies third place but enjoys only a small lead over the remaining courses, which stand on more or less equal terms. Thus we expect to welcome as many students as usual in the summer but to find them more evenly spread between classes than in previous years. This is a good thing.
However, there will be NO Sumerian course this year. This year’s course was designed specifically to meet the needs of a small but dedicated cohort of students who had successfully completed two course in this subject at BSS. Unfortunately, illness and other problems have so reduced their number that it is no longer viable for us to stage it. Thus we have cancelled it, with great reluctance, and removed references to it from this website. However, the two Course Directors, Dr Frances Reynolds and Dr Mariana Giovino, have very kindly undertaken to offer in its place a Sumerian reading group, IN OXFORD, starting soon after the conclusion of the BSS programme on 8 August. We will be happy to forward to them the contact details of suitably qualified newcomers who might be interested in joining it.
Regarding the BURSARY SCHEME: somewhat surprisingly, in view of the tenor of virtually every news bulletin from the financial sector, there are fewer names on the bursary lists than usual, though there may well be better chances than usual of gaining a bursary place, in view of the way in which bookings have spread. We would strongly advise those who are qualified already but have not yet applied, to do so at once, as we will be EXTENDING THE OPPORTUNITY to those in the next category of eligibility – that is to say, students who have attended BA Conferences or Study Days – at the end of March.
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2nd February 2008
BLOOMSBURY SUMMER SCHOOL: RELATED EVENTS
Students studying Ancient Egypt Before the Pyramids in Week One (14-18 July) will be ideally prepared to benefit from a wonderful opportunity: to attend the THIRD INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON PREDYNASTIC AND EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT, which is to be held at The British Museum, in association with the Museum’s own ANNUAL EGYPTOLOGICAL COLLOQUIUM, from Sunday 27 July to Friday 1 August. In addition, since this is Week Three of our own programme, students taking BSS courses in this week, will, as usual, be able to attend the SACKLER LECTURE and its related RECEPTION in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, on the evening of Monday 28 July. The lecturer will be Krzysztof Cialowicz and his subject Gold and Ivory in the Delta: Excavations at Tell el Farkha. Details of the combined programme, for which students must register and/or book through the organisers, may be found on two related websites: www.origins3.org.uk and www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk.
There is another splendid opportunity for students visiting London in Weeks One (above) or Two (21-25 July) and prepared to extend their stay a little, as well, of course, for those living in or near London. On Saturday 19 July , Thames Valley AES will be staging a special fund-raising Study Day, at which Professor Gay Robins will be Exploring Amarna Art: In the Age of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. Details are available from honsec@tvaes.org.uk or www.tvaes.org.uk.
There are bound to be more events of interest to serious students of Egyptology during what is, in effect, a summer festival of Egyptian Archaeology, so make sure you visit this website again, from time to time, to find out what they will be.
2nd February 2008
BLOOMSBURY SUMMER SCHOOL: EN PASSANT
We are delighted to announce that the Petrie Museum Friends will be launching their 20th Anniversary Celebrations with a major Conference at the UCL BLOOMSBURY THEATRE on SATURDAY 31 MAY 2008. Its subject will be TUTANKHAMUN: THE MAKING OF A LEGEND, and its principal speaker, who will deliver most of the lectures, will be PROFESSOR DAVID SILVERMAN of the University of Pennsylvania, Curator of the current Tutankhamun Exhibition in Greenwich. Course Directors and other associates of BSS, who were honoured to be guided by him on a private tour of the Exhibition before it opened, would unanimously describe him as a most thoughtful, intelligent and charming speaker, as well as a fine scholar.
Details of the event are unavailable to us at present but they should be mailed to Friends towards the end of March and, of course, posted on their website, whose address is www.ucl.ac.uk/FriendsofPetrie. However, the Theatre’s box office is taking bookings already, by telephone on 020-7388 8822 or on-line on www.thebloomsbury.com/event, where additional information may be found.
18th February 2008
BLOOMSBURY ACADEMY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 2008
Announcement pending.
19th October 2007
ROCK ART TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY (RATS)
As a consequence of the insolvency of the original printer of DESERT RATS, Mike and Maggie Morrow’s invaluable catalogue of rock art sites in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, BSS now intends to seek a new business partner and publish the long-awaited second edition of RATS in the summer of 2008. This will be a significantly enhanced edition of the first one since the book will include new information about Hans Winkler’s recently rediscovered Site 18 AND a CD OF THE COMPLETE VOLUME. This CD will also contain OVER 500 ADDITIONAL PLATES of the most prominent images IN FULL COLOUR. The book and CD will be sold for £45, the CD on its own for £15, with discounts for EES members. As soon as there is a firm publication date, further information will be sent directly to all purchasers of the first edition, all those on the waiting list for the second edition and all those on BSS and BA mailing lists. In addition, progress reports will be published here from time to time.
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