EES North Launch Event: Landscape Development and Climate Change in Ancient Egypt: the Delta and the Valley
Event Info
Host: EES
Type: Education - Lecture
Time and Place
Start Time: Saturday, 23rd October 2010, 2:00 pm
End Time: Saturday, 23rd October 2010, 7:00 pm
Location: Manchester Conference Centre/Days Inn Hotel, Weston Building
Street: Sackville Street
City/Town: Manchester
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Contact Details
Email: contact@ees.ac.uk
Phone: 0207 242 2268
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Description
The Egypt Exploration Society will be launching EES North in October this year. EES North will run Society events in the north of England at various venues, beginning with a study day and reception in Manchester. The study day will present a series of talks by EES field directors on their recent field work, articulating one of the Society's research areas, landscape development and climate change in Egypt.
2.00pm: Ian Shaw (Chair, EES): Welcome
2.10pm: Penny Wilson (The EES/Durham University Mission to Sais): Fishing, Feasting and Famine: A Guide to Ancient Nile Delta Environments
2.50pm: Tea and Coffee
3.20pm: Angus Graham (The EES Karnak Land- and Waterscapes Survey): Islands, marshes, sloughs and the Nile - Karnak within a Dynamic Theban Floodplain
4.00pm: David Jeffreys/Judith Bunbury (The EES/UCL The Survey of Memphis): A view from the White Walls: New Work at Memphis
5.00pm: Wine Reception