The History of the Peoples of the Eastern
Desert
(between the Red Sea and the Nile in Egypt and Sudan) from Prehistory to the Present Click here for a
printer–friendly version
|
||||||
|
|
|||||
Program | ||||||
|
||||||
|
Tuesday
25 November 2008 |
|||||
8:30–9:00 |
Welcome and
registration |
|||||
|
Morning
session: The Natural
Environment and Prehistory of the Desert Chair: Jennifer Gates-Foster |
|||||
9:00–9:30 |
K. DUISTERMAAT
and H. BARNARD Welcome, Announcements and Introduction |
|||||
9:30–10:00 |
G.L. ANDERSEN Vegetation and Management Regime Continuity in the Eastern Desert |
|||||
10:00–10:30 |
K. PLUSKOTA Bir Nurayet: A Rock Art Gallery in the Red Sea Hills |
|||||
10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
|||||
11:00–11:30 |
P.M.
VERMEERSCH Contributions to the Understanding of the Prehistory of the Egyptian Eastern Desert |
|||||
11:30–12:00 |
F. LANKESTER Rock Art in Egypt's Eastern Desert |
|||||
12:00–12:30 |
D. HUYGE Proto–Bedouin? Eastern Desert Dwellers in the Late Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Periods |
|||||
12:30–13:00 |
Knut
KRZYWINSKI The Eastern Desert Tombs and Continuity in Funerary Cult |
|||||
|
||||||
13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
|||||
Afternoon Session: Development of Research and
the Desert Chair: Michael Jones |
||||||
14:00–14:30 |
Suzan Bakri HASSAN Sustainable Desert Tourism: A Tool for Competition |
|||||
14:30–15:00 | Mohamed AL-AAWAH and C. DE SIMONE The Establishment of a Trans–Boundary Biosphere Reserve in Wadi Allaqi |
|||||
15:00–15:30 |
P. WESCHENFELDER Prolegomena to the Ethnohistory of the Eastern Desert Dwellers |
|||||
15:30–16:00 | Tea break |
|||||
16:00–16:30 |
C. NÄSER Nomads at the Nile: Towards an Archaeology of Interaction |
|||||
16:30–17:00 |
A.–K. RIEGER and Th. VETTER The Desert Dwellers of the Marmarica (Western Desert) as a Case Study for the Eastern Desert |
|||||
17:00–18:00 |
Plenary discussion |
|||||
18:00–20:00 |
Reception |
|||||
Wednesday 26 November 2008 |
||||||
Morning Session: The Graeco–Roman Heyday? Chair: Claudia Näser |
||||||
8:30–9:00 |
J.H.F. DIJKSTRA Blemmyes, Noubades and the Eastern Desert in Late Antiquity |
|||||
9:00–9:30 |
J.L. HAGEN Beside Christian Nubia and Muslim Egypt: The Blemmyes or Beja Around 758–759 CE According to Written Sources from Qasr Ibrim |
|||||
9:30–10:00 |
B. TRATSAERT Wadi Bakariya: A Roman Gold Mine Settlement in the Eastern Desert of Egypt |
|||||
10:00–10:30 |
J. GATES–FOSTER The Ptolemaic Eastern Desert in its Theban Context |
|||||
10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
|||||
11:00–11:30 |
Andreas REICHERT Rock Art in the Sinai and the Eastern Desert: A Methodological Approach |
|||||
11:30–12:00 |
Jonatan KRZYWINSKI The Culture of the Blemmyes: A Graeco–Roman Construct or a Genuine Desert Culture? |
|||||
12:00–12:30 |
Gábor LASSÁNYI On the Archaeology of the Late Antique Population of the Eastern Desert |
|||||
12:30–13:00 |
R.H. PIERCE The Blemmyes, by Any Other Name... |
|||||
13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
|||||
Afternoon Session: Guests in the Desert Chair: Francis Lankester |
||||||
14:00–14:30 | A.D. ESPINEL Gods in the Red Land: Developments of Cults and Pious Activities in the Eastern Desert |
|||||
14:30–15:00 |
Rageh Z. MOHAMED Nabataeans in the Eastern Desert During the Roman Period |
|||||
15:00–15:30 |
T. POWER The Material Culture and Economic Rationale of Sedentary Arabs in the Late Roman Eastern Desert of Egypt |
|||||
15:30–16:00 | Tea break |
|||||
16:00–16:30 |
Monica HANNA, Fatma KISHK and Sarah
ABU BAKR "Sinai:" Another Name for Cultural Exchange in the Mediterranean |
|||||
16:30–17:00 |
K.M. KLEIN To See or Not to See: Invisible Monks, Human Eyes and the Eastern Desert in Late Antique Hagiography |
|||||
17:00–17:30 |
M. JONES Nomadism and Monastic Life in the Eastern Desert of Egypt |
|||||
17:30–18:00 |
Plenary discussion |
|||||
Thursday 27 November 2008 |
||||||
10:00–13:00 |
Discussion with Ma'aza and Ababda
Bedouin |
|||||
18:00–19:00 |
Cleveringa
Lecture by J.L. BINTLIFF, Professor of Classical
Archaeology at Leiden University (the Netherlands): The History of the Peoples in the Eastern Deserts of Egypt and Sudan: Summary and Discussion |
|||||
19:00–21:00 |
Reception |
|||||
|
||||||
Netherlands-Flemish Institute
in Cairo 1, Sharia Dr. Mahmoud Azmi 11211 Zamalek, Cairo Arab Republic of Egypt |
||||||
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
at UCLA PO-Box 951510 Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States of America |
||||||
|
||||||
|