Events Calendar
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Tori Finlayson: “The Funerary Assemblages of the Royal Women of Mentuhotep II”
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Tori Finlayson is an archaeologist and Egyptologist. She earned her BA from University of British Columbia in History and Archaeology of Classical Greece, Rome, and the Near East, and an MA in Egyptology from Leiden University. She has participated in archaeological excavations in Egypt, Sudan, and Jordan, including work at the Temple of Tausret and the Mut Precinct at Karnak.
Finlayson has held research positions at the University of Arizona and in the office of Dr. Zahi Hawass. She is currently a PhD candidate in Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University and serves as Director of the Middle Kingdom Royal Women Project, overseeing research in the tomb of Queen Neferu (TT319).
Julien Cooper: "Prehistoric Eastern Sudan: The Atbai Enclosure Burial phenomenon"
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Prehistoric Eastern Sudan: The Atbai Enclosure Burial phenomenon: The archaeology of Eastern Sudan, the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, is still in its infancy. The cultures of the region have yet to be formally described with the same resolution as the Nile Valley, and whole regions are proverbial blanks on the map from the perspective of archaeology. For prehistory, the archaeological corollary of the A-Group or Naqada is missing from the Atbai (the Fourth Millennium BCE).
Undertaking extensive remote sensing prospections across the region, we have identified a new and widespread funerary tradition across the desert, "Atbai Enclosure Burials". These are large communal burials for people and livestock, extending from the border of Eritrea to the deserts of Upper Egypt. This presentation will give an insight into the satellite remote sensing of desert environments, and elucidate how this burial type defines the prehistory of this under-studied region.
Julien Cooper is an Egyptologist, Nubiologist and archaeologist, with a focus on the archaeology of the Eastern Desert (Atbai) and the history of its nomadic peoples. He is the director of the 'Atbai Survey Project', a fieldwork program surveying the vast deserts between the Nile and the Red Sea. These surveys aim to shed new light on the varied heritage of this desert, from neolithic rock art to ancient Egyptian trade routes and medieval goldmines. Julien is recently a recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship "Rescuing Pharaoh’s Gold Mines: Archaeological conservation in Eastern Sudan".
Time zone conversion:
London - 9:00 am BST
Rome - 10:00 am CEST
Melbourne - 6:00 pm AEST
New York - 4:00 am EDT
Morgan Moroney: "Figural Forms: An Investigation of Brooklyn 49.53 and 61.9"
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Morgan Moroney is an Egyptologist and art historian, currently serving as the Assistant Curator, Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art, Brooklyn Museum.
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London - 5:00 pm BST
Rome - 6:00 pm CEST
New York -12:00 noon EDT
Los Angeles - 9:00 am PDT
Melbourne - Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 2:00 am AEST
Beatriz Noria-Serrano: “Middle Kingdom Theban Project: Recent Fieldwork + Findings”
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We are pleased to welcome Beatriz Noria Serrano as a guest lecturer to share insights and recent fieldwork findings from the Middle Kingdom Theban Project, where is she is the Deputy Director.
Beatriz studied history at the University of Seville and received a master’s degree in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. She currently holds a doctorate at the University of Alcalá, which focuses on the role of women during the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period, based on the contrails and inscriptions of these periods.
Beatriz participated in the excavation of the “Villa Romana del Casale” (Piazza Armerina, Sicily) in 2014. In 2019 she received a scholarship from the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid under the supervision of Dr. Jose Manuel Galán.There, she studied the administration of the end of the seventeenth dynasty, especially the officers under the command of Queen Mother Ahhotep and King Ahmose.
Beatriz received a scholarship from the Government of Spain to carry out her doctoral thesis at the University of Alcalá under the supervision of Dr. Antonio Morales and she continued to work at Alcalá since July 2019. Her primary field of study is the administration of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period as well as gender and family studies, combining Egyptological, archaeological and anthropological methodology.
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London - 4:00 pm BST
Rome - 5:00 pm CEST
New York - 11:00 am EDT
Los Angeles - 8:00 am PDT
Melbourne - 1:00 am AEST
Raúl Sánchez Casado: “Reconstructing Old Kingdom Society through the Necropolis: The Invisible Networks Project”
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We are pleased to welcome Raúl Sánchez Casado, who is ‘Ramón y Cajal’ postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Seville. His main field of research focuses on the study of the funerary cult in the Old Kingdom from an eminently social point of view, analyzing who the officiants of these cults were, what their socio-economic status was and what relationships of interdependence were established between these officiants and the patrons they served.
His main interest is to understand the impact that the establishment and management of the funerary cult had on the people who maintained it. Recent publications include “Two Remarkable Censing Scenes from the Tomb of Kaemneferet at Giza (G 8538)” (Chronique d’Ègypte, 2023), The overseer of linen (jmj-r sSrw) in the Old Kingdom, (Journal of Egyptian History 16, 2023 with Jonatan Ortiz), Priestly officiants in the Old Kingdom mortuary cult, (Monografías de Oriente Antiguo 3, Universidad de Alcalá 2022, edited with Antonio Morales), El servidor del ka en el Reino Antiguo: funciones y espacios de actuación (BAR Intemational Series, Oxford, 2020).
As for fieldwork in Egypt Raúl is Deputy director of Middle Kingdom Theban Project and epigrapher in the Qaw el-Kebir Expedition. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Project Invisible Networks: Patronage in Old Kingdom Funerary Cult, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Union.
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London - 5:00 pm BST
Rome - 6:00 pm CEST
New York - 12:00 noon EDT
Los Angeles - 9:00 am PDT
Melbourne - 2:00 am AEST
So Miyagawa: “Large Language Models Meet Ancient Languages: Challenges and Possibilities for Egyptology and Beyond”
Mark your calendars for Sunday, May 10! Time zone conversions below. More details to follow…
London - 11:00 am BST
Rome - 12:00 noon CEST
Tokyo - 7:00 pm JST
Melbourne - 8:00 pm AEST
New York - 6:00 am EDT
Los Angeles - 3:00 am PDT
Josh Roberson: “Creating the World through Mind and Speech: New Research on the Shabaqo Stone”
This lecture will begin at 5PM BST (London)/12PM EST (New York). Additional time zone conversions can be found below. The lecture will be via Zoom; as a reminder, it will not be recorded.
Joshua Aaron Roberson serves currently as tenured Associate Professor of Art History and Egyptian Language at the University of Memphis and as Assistant Director of the Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology.
MEAA Spring Summit 2026
We will be hosting a Summit for alumni and community members to present their research and topics of interest.