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Call for Papers
North East Ancient Egypt Society Student Conference 2025
Title: Landscapes of Meaning: Exploring the Multidimensional Environment of Landscape in Ancient Egypt
Date: Saturday, 1 March 2025
Format: Online via Zoom
Overview: The North East Ancient Egypt Society invites postgraduate students to submit abstracts for the 4th annual postgraduate student conference titled “Landscapes of Meaning: Exploring the Multidimensional Environment of Landscape in Ancient Egypt”. This conference seeks to explore the cultural, economic, and symbolic significance of both the natural and constructed environment in ancient Egypt through a multidisciplinary lens, bringing together archaeologists, art historians, materials scientists, anthropologists, and cultural historians. This event aims to foster a dynamic exchange of ideas, ongoing research findings, and broad perspectives on the ways in which ancient Egyptians understood, interacted with, and transformed their landscape in its multiple manifestations, imbuing their surroundings with meaning.
Conference Themes: We welcome submissions that explore a wide range of topics related to the conference theme, including but not limited to:
Urban and rural landscapes
· Analyze the interrelationship between urban centers, rural environments, and their surrounding hinterlands, focusing on settlement patterns, infrastructure, and social networks.
Craft production: materials, tools and technologies, and the chaîne opératoire
· Examine the stages of production for large-scale landscape modification and resource extraction (e.g. quarries and mines) and more intricate processes (e.g. ceramics, jewellery, textiles, glass) to agricultural innovations and architectural achievements.
Art and Artisans
· Delve into how landscapes were depicted in visual arts, texts, and material culture, examining their stylistic, symbolic, and ideological dimensions.
Landscape and Memory
· Assess how Egyptians reimagined, reused, and memorialized spaces to assert political authority, cultural continuity, or societal change.
Mortuary and Religious landscapes
· Investigate the religious and spiritual significance of landscapes, including mortuary, temple, and pilgrimage sites, as well as their symbolic meanings in myths and cosmology.
Trade and economy
· Explore how the environment shaped and was shaped by trade, transportation, and resource distribution, including industrial and commercial spaces like workshops, ports, and markets.
· Consider interactions between Egyptian landscapes and those of neighboring cultures, addressing cross-cultural influences, trade, and the shared or contested use of space.
Climate and environment
· Investigate the interplay between ancient Egyptians and their environment, including responses to climatic shifts, the manipulation of waterways, and agricultural practices.
Landscape and identity
· Explore how landscapes shaped and reflected individual and collective memory and identities in ancient Egypt, including their role in constructing social hierarchies, cultural traditions, and political ideologies.
Submission Guidelines: We invite postgraduate scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for online presentations that explore the theme of landscape in ancient Egypt from any disciplinary perspective. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words and must include the presentation title, name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), and a short biography of max. 100 words.
Deadline: Please submit your abstracts to neaes.conference@gmail.com by Wednesday, 15 January 2025.
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