The Swansea-Brown excavations on Uronarti: Past, Present and Future
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:00 - 20:30 Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±0)
Tickets (£3) here.
Friends of the Egypt Centre lecture by Christian Knoblauch (Swansea University) on the Swansea-Brown excavations on Uronarti
About this event
Abstract:
2019 and 2020 saw the first two seasons of excavations of the Brown-Swansea Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project in Sudan. The project investigates the imposing fortress built by Senwosret III close to the Semna Border – just one of two major Middle Kingdom monuments in this region to have survived the flooding of Lower Nubia following the completion of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. The talk will introduce the project, its background, results to date and future prospects.
Bio:
Christian Knoblauch is a specialist in the archaeology of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in using material culture to explore broader cultural aspects, for example, colonial relations, shifting perceptions of the dead, or the relationship of material cultural boundaries to social groups within the Egyptian Nile Valley. His research draws on fieldwork projects in Egypt and Sudan. Christian is an assistant director of the University of Michigan Abydos Middle Cemetery Project and co-directs with Laurel Bestock (Brown University) the Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project. Dr. Knoblauch did his undergraduate and postgraduate at Macquarie University in Sydney and got his Ph.D. in 2008 for a thesis completed as a guest at the Freie University in Berlin. Prior to his appointment at Swansea, Christian taught at Sydney University, Macquarie University, Monash University, and the University of Vienna. Most recently, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is currently completing a monograph based on that research titled Material Culture and Society: Abydos Assemblages from the Late Middle Kingdom until the Early New Kingdom.
Tickets:
Tickets for this event cost £3, with proceeds going to support the Egypt Centre. Upon booking, you will receive an automated email from Eventbrite with a link to the Zoom event. If you have not received this within 24 hours of booking, please contact Ken at k.griffin@swansea.ac.uk
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