HAPY's Lecture programme
03 – Attitudes to the Brain in Ancient Egypt
Lecturer: Sophia Aziz – Biomedical Egyptologist, author and broadcaster
Date & Time: Saturday June 7th starting at 4:15pm
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
Sophia Aziz is the author of The Human Brain in Ancient Egypt, which examines what the ancient Egyptian physicians understood about the workings of the brain. Her research provides new insights on mummification methods and medicine of the time. Her methods include CT scanning and the examination of medical papyri.
For tickets please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or visit the Cooper Art Gallery gift shop in Church St, Barnsley, S70 2AH
Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members
The cost includes a buffet after the lecture with tea and coffee
04 – Disability in Ancient Egypt
Lecturer: Kyle Jordan – Egyptologist and curator
Date & Time: Saturday September 6th starting at 4:15pm
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
Kyle Jordan is passionate about improving knowledge and understanding of disability in ancient Egypt and wider antiquity and has given many talks and papers on the subject. He has also had experience volunteering with museums, in particular the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology and the British Museum.
His displays are loud, proud, thought-provoking, sometimes funny, often moving. The tight community that he created with his co-curators at the Pitt Rivers Museum was incredibly impressive, binding together as it did a really diverse group that included a university professor and a young woman with Down’s syndrome.
For tickets please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or visit the Cooper Art Gallery gift shop in Church St, Barnsley, S70 2AH
Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members
The cost includes a buffet after the lecture with tea and coffee
05 – The Metallurgy of Ancient Egypt
Lecturer: Martin Odler – Egyptologist and postdoctoral researcher at Newcastle University
Date & Time: Saturday October 11th starting at 4:15pm
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
Dr Martin Odler is currently working on a project called EgypToolWear – Metalwork Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Tools. This is a groundbreaking analysis of the function and uses of metal craft tools from late Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Egypt (c 3500-1070 BC). It is hoped that it will further understanding of how copper-alloy tools were used in early Egypt, for what crafts, and with what bodily gestures and engagements.
He has also worked for more than 10 years at the site of Abusir in Egypt as an archaeologist and surveyor. In Prague, he has studied, besides Egyptology, Prehistoric and Early Mediaeval Archaeology, and Classical Archaeology
For tickets please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or visit the Cooper Art Gallery gift shop in Church St, Barnsley, S70 2AH
Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members
The cost includes a buffet after the lecture with tea and coffee
06 – 2024 The Egyptian Labyrinth: The Middle Kingdom and the Faiyum Region
Lecturer: Chris Naunton – Egyptologist, writer and broadcaster
Date & Time: Saturday November 22nd starting at 4:15pm
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
The Faiyum oasis is a basin 62 miles south of Cairo. It seems to have been particularly significant during the Middle Kingdom, when the new capital city, Ity-Tawy, was established nearby, and in the Ptolemaic Period when it was extensively cultivated. Several Twelfth Dynasty kings built pyramids in the region, including Amenemhat III, whose vast mortuary complex appears to have inspired the much later legend of a labyrinth.
Dr Naunton has mad two television documentaries: The Man Who Discovered Egypt (BBC4) and Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burned Mummy (Channel 4).
For tickets please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or visit the Cooper Art Gallery gift shop in Church St, Barnsley, S70 2AH
Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members
The cost includes a buffet after the lecture with tea and coffee
