Lectures


2009 Lecture Series
• Heather Tunmore, WA Museum Honorary Associate & member Michigan University team Abydos Middle Cemetery project, Digging in Egypt
• Elizabeth Thompson, Senior Research Officer, Australian Centre for Egyptology; PhD Candidate, Macquarie University, Sydney; The Tombs at Tehna: An Egyptian mystery
• Dr Betsy Bryan, Alexander Badawy Professor of Egyptian Art & Archaeology, Johns Hopkins Universiy, Baltimore, USA; 1. The Early Development of the Mut Temple, Karnak. 2. The ‘ABCs’ of Painting in the 18th Dynasty. 3. Cultic Revelries in the 18th Dynasty.


2008 Lecture Series
• Stephen Renton PhD Candidate, Macquarie University, Sydney Hatshepsut’s Divine Birth: Propaganda or Lasting Legacy
• Dr Yvonne Harpur, Oxford Expedition to Egypt, Archaeologists, Travellers and Vandals: the earliest fully decorated tombs of Ancient Egypt (c.2500BC)
• Dr Yvonne Harpur & Paolo Scremin, Oxford Expedition to Egypt, Day School: the Oxford Expedition to Saqqara
• Mr Neil Hicks, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, New Technology – Ancient Lives (CT scanning)


2007 Lecture Series
• Dr Bill Leadbetter, Office of the Minister for Heritage etc., Living and Dying in Ancient Egypt • Dr Michael Schultz, Gottingen University, Germany, 1. The Diseases of our Ancestors and 2. New Results in Palaeopathology of Ancient Egypt
• Heather Tunmore, WA Museum Honorary Associate,1. Gods & Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt; 2. Reading Egyptian Art; 3. temples and Tombs – Ancient Egyptian Architecture; 4. The Cult of the Dead
• Dr Colin Hope, Monash University, Melbourne 1. Ancient Kellis, a Roman village in the Dahkleh Oasis; 2. Mut el-Kharab, an ancient capital in the Dakhleh Oasis


2006 Lecture Series
• Dr Karin Sowada: Sir Charles Nicholson, 19th century Australian collector
• Heather Tunmore, WA Museum, Honorary Associate: Gateway to Eternity, the 5th dynasty tomb of Ptahhotep Saqqara
Dr Alanah Buck, PathWest; forensic anthropologist; Pathology and Disease in Ancient Thebes,

Symposium: Music, Dance and Sexuality in Ancient Egypt:
• Prof Gay Robins, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia: Male bodies and the construction of identity, and The small golden shrine of Tutankhamun.
• Prof Lise Manniche, Copenhagen University: Music in the Amarna Period, and The hidden beginnings of human life

2005 Lecture Series
• Dr Caroline Wilkinson, Manchester University: Reconstructing Faces – Ramesses and others.
• Dr Janet Richards, University of Michigan: Abydos: The Tomb of Weni the Elder, Old Kingdom governor of Egypt.
Dr Stephen P. Harvey, Oriental Institute in Chicago: Excavations of Ahmose’s pyramid temple area, Abydos
Dr Alanah Buck, PathWest: The Tomb of Saroy, an investigation of mummies and bones, work with the Macquarie University Theban team
Dr Karin Sowada, Nicholson Museum: Old Kingdom Foreign Relations [Egyptians objects outside Egypt].

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