OC0.04, Oculus Building
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Registration is required for attendance at the conference (in-person or remote via MS Teams). There is a small conference fee of £5 for in-person attendance. A Teams link will be provided to registered online attendees on 24 May. Deadline for registration: Tuesday 23 May at 23.59 BST.
The final panel discussion, ‘Whose Heritage?’ is open to all and does not require registration.
Thursday 25 May
10.00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
Introduction from Guillemette Crouzet (Research Fellow, European University Institute in Florence) and Eva Miller (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, History, UCL)
Welcome by Guido van Meersbergen, Director of GHCC
10.30-12.00 Panel 1, Monuments of the Nation, chair: Eugene Rogan, University of Oxford
Walls and Wonder: Finding and Taking the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in Bodrum
Debbie Challis, The Portico Library, Manchester
Antique Nationalism: Archaeology and the Construction of the Nation in Egypt, Lebanon and Israel
Erin O’Halloran, University of Cambridge
The Iran Bastan Museum between Archaeology and Nationalism
Solmaz Kive, University of Oregon
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-14.30 Panel 2, Texts and Publics, chair: Guillemette Crouzet, Research Fellow, European University Institute in Florence
Austen Henry Layard and the Cadi’s letter: The Multiple Pasts and Futures of 19th-century Mosul
Daniel Foliard, University Paris Cité
Glorious Past, Complicated Present? A German Traveller and His Travelogues
Nora Derbal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Representing Iraqi Antiquities in the Interwar Arabic Press
Laith Shakir, New York University
14.30-15.00 BREAK
15.00-16.30 Panel 3, Authority, chair: Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick
Who is an Archaeologist? Deconstructing Archaeology in Palestine
Nicole Khayat, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Whose Egypt? Centring Egyptian Multivocality in the Making of Egypt’s Heritage
Heba Abd el Gawad, UCL
16.30-17.00 BREAK
17.00-18.15 KEYNOTE
Oxford Intelligence: Archaeological Adventurism in the Middle East
Lynn Meskell, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Eleanor Robson, UCL
Friday 26 May
09.00 COFFEE
09.30-11.00 Panel 4, Identity and the Past, chair: Eva Miller, UCL
Near Eastern Studies in Germany and the Complex Involvement of German Jews with ‘the Orient’
Thomas Gertzen, Freie Universität Berlin
‘We are Phoenician, not Arabs’: Lebanon Between Past and Present
Marwan Kilani, University of Basle
Antiquities for a Mandate: Internationalism, the Emergence of a ‘Regime of Archaeology’ and the Reorganization of the Middle East, c. 1914-1939
Billie Melman, Tel Aviv University
11.00-11.30 BREAK
11.30-13.00 Panel 5, Local and International Knowledge, chair: James Poskett, University of Warwick
Subjects of Destruction: Imperial Economism and Archaeological Site Looting in Upper Egypt (1882-1919)
Amany abd el Hameed, Helwan University, and Robert Vigar, University of Pennsylvania
The Traders: Sending and Selling ‘Antiquités Orientales’ to Paris, 1900–1939
Sarah Griswold, Oklahoma State University
Dismantling Nablus: the Samaritans, Orientalism and the Mandate Department of Antiquities
Sarah Irving, Staffordshire University
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.15 KEYNOTE
Museums, Politics, Empires
Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University
chair: Daniel Branch, University of Warwick
15.15-15.45 BREAK
15.45-17.00 ROUNDTABLE: ‘Whose Heritage? Living with the Legacies of Imperialism, Colonialism, and Nationalism in the Middle East’
Chair: Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick
Moderators: Guillemette Crouzet and Eva Miller
Ammar Azzouz, University of Essex and University of Oxford
Rozhen Mohammed-Amin, Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research
Heba Abd el Gawad, UCL
Mirjam Brusius, German Historical Institute, London
Lynn Meskell, University of Pennsylvania
17.00-18.30 CLOSING DRINKS RECEPTION
