All lectures take place in Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31 – 34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, and will also be streamed on Zoom for those unable to attend in-person. Occasionally, and where noted, the event is Zoom only (in which case they will only be accessible over Zoom).
Lectures start at 18:30. All lectures are followed by a drinks reception.
Zoom links are emailed out a day or so ahead of the lectures. If you don’t receive the Zoom links and would like to, please email pmf@friendsofpetrie.org.uk
2023
Friday 13th October, 18:30
Friday 27th October, 18:30
Martin Odler
Why we need to understand ancient Egyptian copper.
Friday 10th November, 18:00 (Please note the earlier start time)
Marlé Hammond
Fatima Rushdi and Aziz Eid: Projecting Egypt on Stage and Screen.
Friday 8th December, 18:30
Summer Austin
Tut on Tour: 30-years of Demand Creation Through Exhibition.
2024
Friday 19th January, 18:30 (Zoom only)
Eid Mertah
Egyptian Polychromed Bronze Osiris Statues from the First Millennium BC.
Friday 23rd February, 18:30
Dan Potter
A “kind of exploration or antiquity-dealing-business”: Egyptian archaeology and the Antiquities Trade 1880-1939
Friday 15th March, 18:30
Margaret Maitland
The ‘Qurna Queen’: Reassessing a 17th Dynasty Intact Royal Burial.
Friday 19th April, 18:30
Eleanor Dobson
Howard Carter and the Case of the Canary: The Tutankhamun Excavations and Cultural Mythmaking.
Friday 17th May, 18:30 (Zoom only)
Kristin Thompson and Marsha Hill
Our Search for the Missing Royal Statues from Amarna
Friday 21st June, 18:30
Marcel Marée
Mapping the Looting and Trafficking of Egypt’s Cultural Heritage
Friday 26th July, 18:30 (Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower St., WC1E 6BT)
Wolfram Grajetzki
Writing a People’s History of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom: Challenges and Benefits.