Author: Aidan Dodson

Aidan Dodson is honorary full Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Bristol, was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for the Spring of 2013, and Chair of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. He holds a BA in the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean from the University of Liverpool, and an MPhil in Museum Practice & Archaeology and a PhD in Egyptology from Christ's College, University of Cambridge; he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003.

Programme of the Egypt Society of Bristol

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ESB events are normally held in the Arts Complex, University of Bristol; however, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, all lectures (at least until the end of 2021) will be held on-line via Zoom. Attendance for Members is free, and they will automatically receive links at least a week before each lecture takes place.

All lectures begin at 18:45.

Tickets for non-members (£4.00 per person) will be made available via Eventbrite on the same timescale.

Tue 29 June 2021. Lecture: New Discoveries in the South Temple of Senwosret III at Dahshur

           Dr Adela Oppenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

                            Non-members’ tickets available by clicking HERE

Tue 14 September 2021. Lecture: Beyond Osiris: Abydos and the Military Reconquest of Egypt

          Dr Stephen Harvey, Stoney Brook University, USA

Tue 12 October 2021. Lecture: James Henry Breasted and the Birth of American Egyptology

           Dr Emily Teeter, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Tue 16 November 2021. Lecture: Title TBC

           Professor Stuart Tyson Smith, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

Tue 21 December 2021. Lecture: Two Decades at Kom el-Hetan: revealing the memorial temple of Amenhotep III

          Dr Hourig Sourouzian